{"id":14035,"date":"2020-03-10T11:25:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T11:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbbforum.org\/?p=14035"},"modified":"2020-06-21T07:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T07:24:21","slug":"growing-bahrains-startup-ecosystem-discussed-at-bahrain-british-business-forum-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/growing-bahrains-startup-ecosystem-discussed-at-bahrain-british-business-forum-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Bahrain\u2019s Startup Ecosystem discussed at Bahrain British Business Forum meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbbforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2.-Dr.-Galpin-addressing-the-forum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/bbbforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2.-Dr.-Galpin-addressing-the-forum-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2. Dr. Galpin addressing the forum\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbbforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3.-Selection-of-the-audience.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/bbbforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3.-Selection-of-the-audience-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"3. Selection of the audience\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Manama, Bahrain \u2013 19 February 2020: <\/strong>Bahrain British Business Forum (BBBF) held its monthly business networking lunch yesterday at the Diplomat Radisson Blu Hotel. The meeting was chaired by the BBBF Chairman Mr. Khalid Al Zayani OBE, who welcomed the keynote speaker Dr. Simon Galpin, Bahrain EDB\u2019s Senior Advisor on Investment Promotion, to the meeting. \u00a0The meeting was also attended by Mr. Stuart Summers, Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Bahrain and more than 80 BBBF members and their guests.<\/p>\n<p>In his address, Dr. Galpin outlined the EDB\u2019s approach to supporting and growing Bahrain\u2019s Startup Ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Galpin commented: \u201cThe Kingdom offers a growing opportunity for interested investors, including highly competitive operating costs, one of the region\u2019s most skilled local workforces, and easy access to the Gulf\u2019s largest market. At the EDB, we focus on attracting investment that helps further diversify our economy and generate jobs in the local market, working closely with potential investors to capitalise on the opportunities available to them in this $1.5 trillion Gulf market\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the BBBF\u2019s core objectives is to assist and introduce new trade and investments to both countries that can benefit and enhance the common economic interests of our member companies. Therefore, providing support to new startups is important to the BBBF,\u201d said Mr. Khalid Al Zayani OBE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manama, Bahrain \u2013 19 February 2020: Bahrain British Business Forum (BBBF) held its monthly business networking lunch yesterday at the Diplomat Radisson Blu Hotel. The meeting was chaired by the BBBF Chairman Mr. Khalid Al Zayani OBE, who welcomed the keynote speaker Dr. Simon Galpin, Bahrain EDB\u2019s Senior Advisor on Investment Promotion, to the meeting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,29,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbbf","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14044,"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions\/14044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}