Archive for the 'Conferences' Category

Shifting gears in Jordan.. Let’s talk entrepreneurship!

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Going to the opening of the Global Entrepreneurship Week tonight was like going to group therapy. My partner Razan and I had just had an “afternoon from hell” dealing with extremely lame financial reporting issues at the office. It’s the stuff that makes one curse the day he or she decided to be entrepreneurial and [...]

A video from 2004.. I can’t believe half a decade passed!

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

While doing some searching on the web, I chanced upon a very low budget (no budget!) video that I created for the Immedia 2004 conference. This is something I even blogged about in the early days of 360east.

I watched the video with amusement. A number of familiar faces are featured. [...]

Are you a young creative: Make an ad.. Go to Cannes this June

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Just received this announcement from a loyal 360east reader (hi Dina!) about a competition by the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival that will take the winner to attend this prestigious ad event and compete in the Young Lions Film Competition.

MAKE AN AD

At midnight on 15 May (GMT), YouTube will release a brief on
www.youtube.com/canneslions for a 60-second [...]

Imagining The Dubai-ification of Baghdad

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Monocle’s Tyler Brule shares a thought on the Invest Iraq conference held in London a couple of days ago:

FT.com / Columnists / Tyler Brûlé – Between Iraq and a marketplace:
I couldn’t see any indication of where the Iraqi leadership was heading next, but I imagine their global tour has quite a bit to do with [...]

Amman Centennial Forum: Youth and Mayor Omar Maani talk about the city

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

On Saturday 21 February 2009, from 5 to 8 pm, Amman’s youth are invited to attend an open Amman Centennial Forum with the Mayor of Amman Omar Maani, to discuss Amman’s vision, at Al Al Hussein Cultural Center in Ras Al Ein. Check out the event’s Facebook page.

This forum is being held by the Amman [...]

360east Exclusive: First ever demo of Amman’s GPS map on a Nokia device

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Yes you read it right. Amman is finally getting a navigable GPS map. And that’s thanks to Nokia, who will be providing it for free for its Nseries and Eseries devices. I got a private demonstration of the map by Nokia today (see video below). This is the first time it has ever been shown [...]

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic ships in the UAE, Jordan and Saudi Arabia in December ‘08

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

I had my first chance to touch the Nokia XpressMusic at the Nokia Dead Sea MENA event. I will try to share my experience with it later on. But it has just been announced that device will make its way to the stores in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and, yes, Jordan, in December. The original [...]