Forbes CEO Forum Middle East
As usual this Forum was an extraordinary experience, businesswise, culturally and by networking opportunities.Steve Forbes and his team was in the usual top shape to set the scene for discussing the business opportunities in the Middle East, the new Silk Road across from Asia and the energy situation as a whole.
The host was the Emir of Qatar and the Foreign Minister bid us welcome in this extraordinary country. Small, like a city-state with about 850t inhabitants, maybe only 200.000 Qataris. Richest in the Middle East and the business life booming as never before. And this s not only about oil. The strategies are diversified and the future Energy City of Qatar hosts science within many energy solutions. On behalf of a questions of mine on the scope of sustainable energy ambitions, the Danish Oil and Natural Gas – DONG - immediately got a special invitation from the Energy City to participate in the development – I will take that home to DONG.
My impression of the Qatari business delegates that I met was top-professional extremely well educated and all perfectly fluent in Engligsh. I decided to do business here and I already started. I will tell you all about that in a special blog edition later.
One of the great moderators and leading editors of Forbes is Bruce Upin who is an expert within Innovation and has followed the energy industry in this perspective. Bruce is always a joy to be with and we had a coffee and a chat on the energy challenges of the world as well as innovation in general. bruce.mp3