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This conference will focus on bi-lateral investment opportunities in Communication and Information Technology (CIT), as well as to promote business between Scotland and Egypt as two primary CIT hubs in Europe and the Middle East. The event will include opportunities for private meetings with the speakers to explore future business co-operation. Please see attached the draft agenda below including keynote speakers. Organised by The Egyptian-British Chamber of Commerce (EBCC) in co-operation with the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce (ECC) and Scottish Chambers International (SCI) supported by ITIDA and ITEC. If you are currently trading in Egypt or have an interest in working with Egyptian companies, then this conference will be of great interest!

Date: Tuesday 23rd February 2010

Time: 9.30am (for registration) – 4.00pm (approx.)

Location: The Merchant’s Hall, 22 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

To book your place(s) please email events@edinburghchamber.co.uk confirming the following details for each person attending: Company Name, Name, Job Title, Email Address, Telephone Number or call 0131 221 2972

Edinburgh, Scotland 12 November 2009

The Egyptian-British Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with Scottish Chambers International & the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, will organise a seminar on the investment climate and business opportunities for Scotland and Egypt. The objective of this seminar will be to highlight bi-lateral invest-ment opportunities, as well as to promote business between Scot-land and Egypt as two primary financial hubs in Europe and the Middle East. The seminar will focus on exploring the investment climate in Egypt and Scotland, financial markets investment op-portunities and business potential for Scottish and Egyptian finan-cial enterprises in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Scheme.

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To book, please contact wendywilsonwatt@edinburghchamber.co.uk

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Contact marlene@middleeastbusinessclub.com regarding the possibility of a hot-desk on the 25th floor in Al Shatha Tower, Dubai Media City.   As information, our Abu Dhabi hot-desking facility will be available from October 2009 !

Ewan Ramsay and the team from MEBC exhibited at the SCDI Global Ambitions Conference at Murrayfield, Edinburgh on 1st Sept.

This went very well, and Ewan Ramsay commented “We were delighted to have the opportunity to take part in this SCDI event, and to work with the event partners such as SDI and VisitScotland.”

Scottish Training Consultants, the Newburgh based firm providing customised, motivational and unusually innovative training courses to amongst others the Oil and Gas sector, have just completed company registration formalities in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE.  STC have already worked in the region before however an ever increasing enquiry rate prompted them to establish a base in the capital.  www.stcglobal.net

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The MEBC are pleased to announce that an Abu Dhabi specific route-to-market channel has been established in the capital.  This commercial avenue is available to MEBC members who are looking mainly, but not exclusively, at the Oilfield, Gas, Renewable Energy, Heavy / Light Industrial and Construction related sectors.  It will enable members to bid / tender for contracts and work in all the above sectors from even very early days of joining the MEBC.  As further information, the company also have an operational office in Dubai.

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The MEBC Edinburgh office enjoyed a visit on 13^th August 2009 by Frank Henderson from the MEBC in Dubai.  Frank had several one-to-one meetings booked with both members and also companies who wished to explore the possibility of operating or opening an office in the UAE or indeed another GCC State.  Companies from the Construction, Retail, Software, Leisure, Renewable Energy and Tourism Sectors were all represented.

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The MEBC will be one of the guest speakers at the Emirates Festival Day Forum that is being hosted by the Al-Maktoum Institute. The Festival has been created by the events arm of the Native Agency for the Al-Maktoum to celebrate the business, cultural and educational links between Scotland and the UAE. Principal Malory Nye of the Institute commented “ I am delighted to have the support of a number of organisations including the Dubai Government, Emirates Airlines, Mackays of Carnoustie, Highland Spring, Leisurecorp, the City of Dundee and the Native Agency.

The 16th Annual World Islamic Banking Conference (WIBC 2009) will for the first time feature a fully-fledged Bahrain Pavilion, further highlighting the Kingdom’s increasingly important role as a leading global hub for the international Islamic banking and finance industry.

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