EMCEE Welcome & Opening

[Music] welcome to Abu Dhabi Finance week welcome to the Venture stage we'll just adjust the volume levels and do that again welcome everybody to Abu Dhabi Finance week day three here at the Venture stage in partnership with Hub 71 let's start this morning with a bit of a a round of applause a bit of energy it's great to see all of you here we had a really fantastic day yesterday with a few highlights that really stuck with me we had a bit of inspiration with the CEO of sagard Paul demare III we had the unicorn masterclass with the Tabby co-founder hosam Arab and we also had deep insights into the world of crypto with finance and a lot more and today is going to be nothing less than spectacular we've got speakers experts thought leaders here that will talk about a wide range of topics that really have an impact on the future our future and this morning we'll start right away with a few really interesting sessions but before I introduce the first session let me just tease you what's going to happen after the networking break today we have this afternoon not one highlight but two highlights for you we've got a live recording here on this very stage with the one and only Tim Draper meet the Drapers is going to shoot the Abu Dhabi episode of the seventh season of Meet the rapers that is going to be a highlight and we also have the deed book launch with a keynote by his Excellency Rashid Abdul Karim Al baloshi the under Secretary of the Department of Economic Development in Abu Dhabi so you see this morning and this afternoon is going to be really exciting and let's dive right into the first session the F first session this morning tackles a critical And Timely topic navigating Fint Tech funding the great VC reset and to talk about this topic we're honored to have found three experts that are just right we have Adam fesi who is the co-founder and CEO of page he serves as a board director for multiple companies in portas Investment Portfolio and he's also a managing partner and a member of the management committee at sagard next we have safe ammer who is the co-founder and CEO of thunder and thunder is is a digital investment platform that is designed to simplify investing Thunder facilitates access to the right tools and the right resources that can Empower investors which means to ultimately Achieve Financial Freedom and this conversation is moderated by the one and only LOD Robin head of value creation at AO so please give them all a warm welcome