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The First Innovation Summit

Is Held in Egypt

The first annual of Innovation Summit in Egypt was or- The summit hosted 64 inventors pro- The international jury composed of the in-
ganized by the Egyptian Council for Creativity, Innova- viding 94 inventions, ideas and novel ternational representatives of 6 countries
tion and Intellectual Property Protection (ECCIPP) in research in different fields like tech- namely Georgia, UK, Italy, USA, Ireland, and
partnership with the October 6 University. It was Sup- nology, engineering, medicine, sci- Egypt. The Jury awarded the inventors for
ported by the International Federation of Inventors’ ence, and education from 12 countries their inventions with gold, silver and bronze
Associations (IFIA) and powered by The World Fund for including UK, India, USA, Georgia, KSA, medals as well as certificates of appreciation.
Development and Planning (WFDP) which is affiliated Netherlands, Italy, Canada, Germany, Also, the keynote guests were appreciated
to the United Nations. The event was held in the Octo- Egypt, Indonesia, and Malaysia. More for their presence.
ber 6-University library during the period from 15 to than 600 visitors visited the summit
17 September 2017. The Summit was sponsored by 25 including students, university staff, in-
academic institutes, industry, NGOs and other parties in vestors, families & others.
Egypt & worldwide.

The summit helped inventors through lec-
tures on patent protection, intellectual
property and innovation in scientific fields,
workshops on entrepreneurship and devel-
opment of inventions. The most important
workshop was “New Product Development
Workshop” by Ms. Margot Sandy, a product
development engineer and Amazon best-
selling author. This workshop was supported
by both IFIA and In the Now LLC. Ms. Margot
Sandy, a World Traveler provided a fun, inter-
active experience to help entrepreneurs and
business owners create physical products
and help them thrive! Participants received
Certificate of Completion.

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