IDAL, represented by its Chairman Eng. Nabil Itani, participated at the OECD conference on “Making Investment Promotion Work for Sustainable Development: Trends and Practices in the Mediterranean”, held on 22 and 23 October in Paris. Eng. Itani tackled the role of IPAs in attracting new qualitative investments, positively impacting the society in terms of reducing unemployment and alleviating poverty.

IDAL, represented by its Chairman, Eng. Nabil Itani, participated at the "World Investment Forum - Investment in Sustainable Development" organized by UNCTAD in Geneva between 22 and 26 October.

Eng. Itani highlighted the promising investment opportunities in many sectors, especially health tourism, pharmaceuticals, ICT, and food industries.

Lebanon won the first prize at Gitex Future Stars for Startups. Spike, a diabetes intended application, won the Supernova Champion Competition, which amounts for USD 100,000. Maj Solution also won the Best Female Led Startup category amounting USD 10,000 financing. The application seeks to move the construction towards digitalization. Also, Slidr.com won the first prize for Automatic Placement through Fintech Hive`s Investor`s Day for its innovative application that enables lower price detection of the latest products, electronics and accessories.
Spike also won the challenge of innovation in health care.

IDAL participated at GITEX 2018, held in Dubai between 14 and 18 October, supporting the 21 Lebanese companies in two distinct pavilions: the first sponsored by Lebanon Softshore Cluster dedicated to small and medium-sized enterprises; and the second sponsored by Speed@BDD dedicated to the Startups.

IDAL`s Chairman Nabil Itani declared that the ICT sector in Lebanon has grown at a cumulative rate of 7% in the latest years. The expected growth would reach 9.7 % by 2019. He stressed the need of supporting this sector and enhancing its role in founding the knowledge economy and keeping pace with the ongoing technological developments.