EMCEE Welcome & Opening

[Music] in partnership with Hub 71 let's start this morning with a bit of a round of applause bring in some energy GA a few people around us my name is Flo EB and I'm absolutely delighted to be hosting this stage for the second year again I am a presenter who gets to be involved in several entrepreneurship formats around the world world and it is very very amazing to be part of a community that makes a difference what I want to take a moment for is of course to introduce hub71 the Venture stage is a partnership with hub71 so therefore I would like to say a few words hub71 is more than just a platform hub71 is a catalyst propelling over 260 startups to new heights and since it's incep with the startups it has been raising over 5.1 billion dram what an achievement and they have together Revenue get a revenue of 3.5 billion as of Q3 2023 and together they have also created more than a thousand jobs that's the impact that hub71 has and these startups operate in more than 21 sectors and of course climate Tech and sustainability projects are a large Focus because technology can significantly accelerate the transition to Net Zero Hub 71 is building a thriving Global Tech ecosystem out of Abu Dhabi and we're going to explore a lot more of the H 71 story over the next four days here