Falak Unreasonable Thinking Summit kicks off

Under the patronage of Minister of Oil Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, The Falak Unreasonable Thinking Summit on innovation, disruption and out-of-the-box thinking kick-started yesterday.  Inaugurated by Oil Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, the summit aimed to educate and inspire the Bahraini Business Community, especially start-up entrepreneurs, and to show the Kingdom of Bahrain in a positive light and help position it as a centre for creativity, innovation and excellence.

The two-day event  which is organised by Falak Consulting in cooperation with the National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA), and supported by a number of national and international companies witnessed the participation of a high-level group of experts and students from local and international universities in order to enrich the participants’ experience and enable them to build a better future for the Kingdom. 

“This is a great effort to attract many creative minds from different countries to present different models of development experiences in different fields, which aims at building stronger economies through the exchange of information, experiences and practices and to transform this information and ideas into successful investment opportunities in the Kingdom of Bahrain.” “The world today is the world of modern digital technologies, which are rapidly evolving and changes where these digital changes should be kept up-to-date and that they should be prepared for everything new in the world arena to invest in establishing several projects that affect the improvement of the standard of living and the national economy in Bahrain.

“Moreover, innovation is a driving force for global economic growth and it is important in attracting and creating creative and innovative human cadres capable of applying modern technology to reach innovative solutions in eliminating the many problems faced by different industries. Including the oil sector, which is one of the most important sectors in the world. “The NOGA is always striving to strengthen its current and future oil projects by training its employees and empowering them in leadership positions through which they can take the appropriate decisions in developing the oil sector and provide specialised researches to develop oil services and products,” Shaikh Mohammed stated. 

Suhail Al Gosaibi, CEO of Falak Consultancy and organiser of the event further told Tribune, “I would really thank the Minister of Oil for sponsoring the event for the third time as most people think the oil industry is an old industry but they don’t realise that the oil industry is a very high and modern industry and the amount of technology required and the efforts put to develop new technology is incredible. “I would thank all the inspiring innovative pioneers from all over the world who spoke at the conference.

“Moreover, I am delighted at the response we received from the people where we had a wide variety of speakers address the audience speak on innovation, disruption and unreasonable thinking, thus we made sure we brought people from different fields, where we had entrepreneurs, inventors, along with having a Member of Parliament, India, Dr Shashi Tharoor, speak at the event where the whole point was to inspire the Bahrain Community.” 

“Moreover, the highlight was when we asked the young participants what their feedback was and they said the conference has expanded their horizon which means that the event was a 100 per cent success,” he added.