EMCEE Welcome & Opening

[Music] good morning and welcome to Abu Dhabi Finance week welcome to the ventur stage in partnership with hub71 gather around because we have a lot prepared for you this very morning an exciting program right here on this stage we've got top level speakers that will discuss all the trending topics that focus on this year's theme Abu dhabi's Finance week theme is investing into the era of transition and today we take you on a journey we'll take you onto a journey where we talk about unicorns we will go and look at AI we will talk about value based investment strategies and all the way to cryptocurrencies and that's not all at the end of the day we have the Hub 71 fundraising Road Show which is going to be a spectacular much awaited event on this stage where you will have 12 startups pitching their services and their Solutions in front of worldwide investors so you see it's going to be an action-packed day and this is also how we're going to start I want to tell you a little story to get started it was round about the 1st of November when I opened the national the national online and I found this news that recently the uee had five unicorns but it changed around that date of the 1 of November any ideas why well we got another unicorn yes it was around that time that tabby was achieving an evaluation of one billion US Dollars which is giving us that it the Unicorn status a truly exciting moment in the history of a company and we are proud and excited to have today the co-founder and CEO of tabby here who will share with us the makings of a fintech unicorn he was also the co-founder and CEO of Nami a very prominent fashion destination that was fully acquired by Amar Ms in 2019 and he's now giving a master class in funding ftech and the Falcon economy which is led by another exciting profile gorov Dar he's a second generation fintech entrepreneur so I had to ask him what does that exactly mean and you know what he told me their family business has been for 40 years in the fintech space and they were amongst the first or the first that were providing payment devices here in the Middle East so you see we have just the right people for this morning on the stage