SAN FRANCISCO, –AMPA, the Association of Moroccan Professionals will be organizing the 7th Edition of Moroccan American Bridges (MAB2013). The event will be held in Casablanca, Morocco on June 21, 2013. This year’s edition will focus on “Entrepreneurship: Morocco’s Engine for Growth”. MAB 2013 will bring together entrepreneurs, investors and executives from the US and Morocco.
The program includes sessions on building and financing start-ups, identifying cross-Atlantic business opportunities and achieving career growth in Morocco. In addition, the speakers will address new business models and industry trends that can be imported and tailored to the Moroccan market. Finally, the event will also feature a startup competition and a career fair for companies looking to hire U.S-based or US-trained Moroccan professionals.
The conference will feature speakers with line-up to be announced soon. In past editions, MAB hosted foremost speakers like Mohamed Elmandjra, ex-CEO at Meditelecom in Casablanca and ex-President at Massimo corp. in Los Angeles and Othman Laraki, VP of Growth & International at Twitter in San Francisco.
The conference panellists will offer attendees first-hand experience and coaching from a wide range of topics like creating the right framework for startup success including process and resources available to startup building and financing, career growth trends and opportunities and new business models for emerging sectors like financial services, ecommerce, business process outsourcing and sustainable energy.
The conference will also host an entrepreneurship competition that aims to foster the spirit of enterprise by offering support in coaching and networking to promising Moroccan start-ups.
Finally, the event will host an all-day career fair with employers seeking professionals with expertise in the fields of finance, information technology and engineering.
Yassir Abousselham, AMPA president commented “Our standing in the Moroccan American professionals’ community has never been stronger and 2013 Moroccan-American Bridges conference promises to be an outstanding event which will help expand and further strengthen the bridges between Morocco and the United States”.
