BEIRUT: As part of its annual efforts and in keeping with Arab Thought Foundation’s goals of excellence in all its endeavors, the ATF’s eighth annual conference (FIKR8) has organized its annual brainstorming discussion in Beirut.
The ATF has gathered some of the best minds in the Arab region for a deep and meaningful exchange of ideas that will help identify the most pressing issues challenging Arab businesses and society nowadays in order to ensure the most suitable agenda for the next conference.
The primary focus will be to promote the unique value and culture of Arab people, encourage youth programs and entrepreneurial spirit in business practices and to foster understanding of the Arab Thought leadership.
Therefore, in order to generate new ideas and determine the most relevant and constructive topics to be discussed and included in Fikr8 conference agenda, the executive committee held yesterday its first brainstorming session to suggest relevant themes and topics for FIKR8 agenda, shaping the discussion that will drive the success of this signature event.
Soliman Abdel-Moniem, the ATF’s secretary-general, Hamad Al-Ammari, FIKR conferences’ executive director and both assistants secretary-general of the ATF, Ali Moussa and Monera Al-Nahedh, along with the ATF president’s adviser Ahmad Al-Ghoz, sat together with a number of Arab intellectuals and thinkers who were invited to bring their opinions and insights to the program and agenda.
As its previous annual conferences, which discussed various issues such as the Arab culture, education, media, globalization and transformation, FIKR8 seeks to respond to the undercurrents of change and meet the new demands through generating new comprehensive forward-looking ideas and content — a content that will comply with the economic and geopolitical changes arising in the Arab world.
The assembled thinkers will be asked therefore, to nominate well-known, Arab and non-Arab speakers, to be invited to FIKR8 conference; speakers able to provide new values and new relationships, fostering information exchange and creating the right environment conductive to active interaction and networking among panelists and participants, so that participants are eager to be included in the conference.
FIKR conferences’ executive committee is headed by Prince Bandar bin Khaled Al-Faisal, founder and member of ATF’s board of directors.
