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AXA Egypt is part of the AXA Group, multiline insurance company providing General Insurance, Life and Protection Insurance, Health Insurance and Micro-insurance plans.
AXA Group is a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, with 160,000 employees serving 100 million clients in 60 countries.
Today, AXA Egypt has more than 750 employees serving more than a million customer nationwide. AXA’s strategy in the Egyptian market is to offer a one-stop-shop; where it provides all insurance solutions to all customers through various distribution channels. AXA’s staff focuses on moving from being a mere payer to true partner to its customers. Driven by innovation, AXA plays an active role in the start-up scene by encouraging ideas and offering expert mentorship to the ecosystem, enabling entrepreneurs’ disruptive services and business models to accommodate customer pain points in different field.

Since its launch in 2006, Crédit Agricole Egypt has succeeded to become a strong player on the economic scene, positioning itself as the Reference European Bank in Egypt. Aiming to become a leading innovation-driven sustainable bank, Crédit Agricole Egypt is committed to bring its international expertise to the local market to serve its clients and community.
With a universal customer-focused model, Crédit Agricole Egypt is “a whole bank just for you” serving the entire spectrum of customers: individuals, SMEs, enterprises, Corporate and public sector. Crédit Agricole Egypt presents an extensive range of services, tailored financial solutions and the sound advice. Awarded most innovative bank in Egypt, convenience and distinguished customer experience is Crédit Agricole Egypt’s endeavor to attain its customers’ satisfaction throughout its nationwide network of branches and its state-of-the-art fully-fledged platform of digital services. Furthermore, Crédit Agricole Egypt encourages and implements an innovative environment to exceed its customers’ expectations.

Orange Egypt, the leading provider of integrated telecommunications services, always strives to support Egyptian startups as an essential part of its Corporate Social Responsibility strategy to achieve the aspirations and the dreams of young people.
Orange supports young people’s creative ideas financially and practically to turn their ideas into real projects.
Orange also conducts and supports many trainings and competitions to empower Egyptian youth and to sustain their projects to enable them to strongly compete in the Egyptian market.
Orange is participating in the initiative between the French and the Egyptian governments to strengthen their cooperation to empower the Egyptian youth and the startups through launching the “French Egyptian Startup Competition”. This cooperation will contribute in achieving Orange’s goal to transform our society from a consumer society to a productive society that support the Egyptian economy.

At Schneider, we believe access to energy and digital is a basic human right. We empower all to make the most of their energy and resources, ensuring Life Is On everywhere, for everyone, at every moment.
We provide energy and automation digital solutions for efficiency and sustainability. We combine world-leading energy technologies, real-time automation, software and services into integrated solutions for Homes, Buildings, Data Centers, Infrastructure and Industries.
We are committed to unleash the infinite possibilities of an open, global, innovative community that is passionate about our Meaningful Purpose,Inclusive and Empowered values.

Danone Egypt is a subsidiary of Danone company with headquarters in Cairo with two main categories: essential dairy (Danone Yogurt, Danette, Activia, DanUp and Dango) and early life nutrition (Bebelac and Aptamil). As a leading global food and beverage company, Danone has defined a set of long-term goals — inspired by its ‘One Planet. One Health’ vision — which contribute to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Through the 2030 Goals, Danone commits amongst others to grow in an inclusive way, empowering young entrepreneurs and working with partners to create and share sustainable value. Fulfilling one of Danone’s strategic goals, Danone is the first company in Egypt to receive the B CorpTM Certification, making it the largest B CorpTM in Africa and Middle East. This certification offers international recognition of compliance with the highest standards of social and environmental performance. Danone is proud to make a positive contribution to Egypt with great tasting, healthier and top-quality products for infants, children and families; and services which support healthy lifestyles for all Egyptians. Danone Egypt has a plant in Obour and a world class dairy farm in Nubariya, the second largest in Egypt.

Sanofi is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe.
Sanofi in Egypt is amongst the top three pharmaceutical companies in the market and we are in a leading position in therapeutic areas like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, rare diseases and neurology diseases. We also have a prevention portfolio, based on vaccines, we cover some acute diseases and we have consumer healthcare products.
As an innovative healthcare leader, we embrace the innovation ecosystem through start-ups. Our aim is to identify and support the best start-ups in their desire to invent tomorrow’s solutions in the health sector. Our commitment is to contribute locally by supporting the most daring and innovative entrepreneurs in the realization of their projects.
We believe that it is our responsibility to continuously seek out and encourage the most innovative and adapted approaches to improve access to healthcare for the Egyptian people. Also, to accompany, develop and shed light on these talented entrepreneurs. We trust in their capabilities to develop and showcase what will spark change in healthcare to empower patients’ journeys.

Founded in 2005, Valeo Egypt is the largest automotive R&D center in Egypt today and Valeo Group’s main software development center. It harbors over 2,000 skilled software engineers.
The center became a key player for Valeo Group as it currently develops 50% of the Group’s software production worldwide, hence exporting 100% of its services.
Valeo Egypt’s main focus is to design, develop, and maintain embedded software modules & systems for the automotive industry. Its open innovation ecosystem is built on numerous collaborations with universities, laboratories, start-ups, major industrial groups, as well as the creation of joint ventures or targeted acquisitions.
Since 2015, Valeo Egypt has been actively contributing to Valeo’s global software innovation activities through locally developed patents, publications, and new product development and has since then introduced an Innovation CarLab in Cairo that delivers advanced automotive technology proofs of concept.

AfricInvest was founded in Tunis in 1994 and is today among the leading private equity and VC firms in Africa with $1.5 billion of assets under management. With 19 PE funds across four strategies, AfricInvest is sponsored by prestigious DFIs, private and institutional investors from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. AfricInvest funds have dedicated teams covering the African continent and France for growth capital and LBO transactions related to small, mid and large caps companies, financial sector institutions and VC. AfricInvest has also a dedicated team providing private debt to SMEs in Africa. AfricInvest relies on a team of 75 highly skilled investment professionals, representing 15 nationalities, operating out of ten offices in Abidjan, Algiers, Cairo, Casablanca, Dubai, Lagos, Nairobi, Paris, Port Louis and Tunis. AfricInvest is a co-founder of the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (www.avca-africa.org), and the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (www.empea.org) as well as different PE country and regional associations in Africa and in France.

Air Liquide is a world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health. Air Liquide started its operation in 1902 and today, the Group is operating in 80 countries with 65000 employees and serving more than 3.5 million customers and patients worldwide
Safety is a core value at Air Liquide and we take pride in applying the highest safety standards when it comes to our customers, employees & operations
Air Liquide Group has been operating in Egypt since 2002. Today Air Liquide in Egypt employs more than 450 employees and operates 22 plants located at 14 different sites at Alexandria, Sadat, Beni Suef, October, Soukhna, Portsaid and with our Head Office located in New Cairo.
Our continuous development and investments makes Air Liquide in Egypt the leading provider of industrial and medical gases such as nitrogen, oxygen, argon & argon mixtures, helium, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, specialty gases, gas mixtures and related services that are used in a variety of applications in industry and healthcare. We serve a large portfolio of customers and operate in different sectors such as metals, glass, chemicals and petrochemicals, food and beverage, environment, automotive and metal fabrication, laboratories and research, oil and gas, etc
In the Healthcare Sector, Air Liquide in Egypt is the main provider of medical gases and homecare services. We provide hospitals with medical gases networks and medical oxygen. For patients suffering from respiratory diseases, we provide them with home medical care devices.

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE® Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported. Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve the real world. The group brings value to over 250,000 customers of all sizes in all industries in more than 140 countries.
Among its different brands, SOLIDWORKS is the leader in 3D CAD technology, empowering product design teams, entrepreneurs, Fab Labs, makers and students with intuitive, high performance software that is easy to use, and provides the freedom to design products that set you apart.
For more information, visit www.solidworks.com.

Gide Loyrette Nouel is the first international law firm of French origin. Founded in Paris in 1920, the firm now has 12 offices worldwide – in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and North America.
Gide is a multidisciplinary law firm that brings together 550 lawyers and jurists, including around 100 partners, of 35 different nationalities, representing 41 bar associations, and who are recognized as some of the best specialists in each of the branches of national and international business law. In each of its offices, particularly in Cairo, Gide offers its clients its exceptional knowledge of local markets, its regional expertise and the resources of an international firm.
The Gide Venture offer for start-ups means the firm now has a leading practice in venture capital and development capital, which enables us to support our clients in all their development processes. Gide is proud to be linked with the French Egyptian Startup Competition organised by the French Embassy in Cairo and to be able to participate in the establishment of an ecosystem favourable to the development of startups in Egypt.

IDEMIA is the global leader in trusted identities for an increasingly digital world, with the ambition to empower citizens and consumers alike to interact, pay, connect, travel and vote in ways that are now possible in a connected environment.
Securing our identity has become mission critical in the world we live in today. By standing for Augmented Identity, we reinvent the way we think, produce, use and protect this asset, whether for individuals or for objects. We ensure privacy and trust as well as guarantee secure, authenticated and verifiable transactions for international clients from Tablets, Border Control, Access control terminals, Telecom, Identity, Smart universal card, Traffic, ITS solutions, Passport/National ID, Transportation, Security and Banking we combine this technology knowledge to produce secure unique solutions.

NAOS MARKETING IS AN EXPERT IN MANAGING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE.
NAOS Marketing is an Egypt-based company founded in 2007. Originally launched as a small in-house contact center supporting a marketing consulting firm, NAOS Marketing has forged itself a path the highly competitive contact center environment.
While strengthening its core activity and becoming a recognized expert in Customer Experience with a team of 1,500 contact center agents; NAOS Marketing successfully diversified its offering of services.
NAOS Marketing is now the only company in the Middle East who delivers an outstanding customer experience in the following business lines:
• 360º Marketing Services (market surveys, consulting in strategy, brand building, marketing digital and advertising, commercial development, contact center)
• HR Management Services (recruitment, insourcing, training, payroll management),
• Companies Incubator Services.

Servier is an international pharmaceutical company governed by a non-profit foundation, with headquarters in Suresnes, France. With a strong international presence in 149 countries and a turnover of € 4.2 billion in 2018, Servier employs 22.000 people worldwide. Entirely independent, Servier reinvests 25% of its revenue (excluding generic drugs) in research and development and uses all its profits for development. Corporate growth is driven by Servier’s constant search for innovation in five areas of excellence – cardiovascular, immuno-inflammatory, and neuropsychiatric diseases, cancer, and diabetes – and by its high-quality generic drugs. Servier Group launched WeHealth in November 2016, its eHealth business unit which aims to identifies and support startups focused on providing an effective response to emerging healthcare market demand for digital health solutions.
Servier celebrated its 40th anniversary in Egypt in 2017. It is operating two production sites in Egypt (manufacturing and packaging) providing patients with 22 millions of pack annually while also serving Middle Eastern and African patients.

The people we all rely on to make the world go round – they rely on Thales. In a world that is increasingly fast moving, unpredictable – and full of opportunities, they come to us with big ambitions: to make life better, to keep us safer. Combining a unique diversity of expertise, talents and cultures, our architects design and deliver extraordinary high technology solutions. Solutions that make tomorrow possible, today. From the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace, we help our customers think smarter and act faster – mastering ever greater complexity and every decisive moment along the way. Whatever it takes.
Collective intelligence for a safer world. Whenever a critical decision needs to be made, Thales has a role to play. Our solutions help customers to make the right decisions at the right time and act accordingly in challenging environments. To help create a safer world, we serve five keys sectors: Aerospace, Space, Ground Transportation, Digital Identity & Security, Defense & Security.
World-class technology, the combined expertise of 80,000 employees and operations in 68 countries have made Thales a key player in keeping the public safe and secure, guarding vital infrastructure and protecting the national security interests of countries around the globe. We are proud of the role we play in a world that is increasingly mobile, interconnected, interdependent and dangerous.
Thales is established in Egypt since 1973 with major references in Defense, Security, Air Traffic Control, Space, Ground Transportation (Urban Rail and Main Lines). It has established two major Industrial Partnerships with Arab International Optronic and Benha Electronics. As history shows strong ties with the Egyptian customer, THALES sees promising future in Egypt through localizing and expanding our industrial footprint.