In Alignment with UAE Vision 2021 National Innovation Strategy to become global hub for research, innovation and entrepreneurship.

1. GLOBAL ADVISORY PANEL | 2017

2. The Science and Innovation Park (SIP) was launched as part of UAEU
strategic plan 2017-2021 in alignment with the UAE Vision 2021
national agenda and the National Innovation Strategy to become a
global hub for research, innovation and entrepreneurship to foster
the transitioning of the UAE economy towards a Knowledge
Economy.
UAEU SCIENCE AND INNOVATION PARK

3. To bridge tradition and future for a new Arab renaissance and
new forms of dialogue between nations.
UAEU SCIENCE AND INNOVATION PARK
VISION
MISSION
The Science and Innovation Park is a global hub to support
innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership.
Developed within a mature community of values and an
open society model, the SIP stimulates a new quality of
growth based on sustainability and inclusiveness.

4. SIP Goals
To achieve its mission, the SIP brings together the preconditions to build an ecosystem
that promotes a new quality of growth:
1. (NQG) Support innovation to solve significant global challenges, foster
inclusiveness, sustainability and build a brighter future for youth at large scale;
2. (KH) Extend the university research capacities and stimulate R&D
transfer;
3. (KH) Create a global network of like-minded talents, attract nomad
innovators and entrepreneurs, industries, NGOs, Government agencies to be
part of the Science & Innovation Park tribes;
4. (CM) Offer programs to instill entrepreneurship and innovation culture,
engage and train change-makers and leaders, up-skill researchers, promote
entrepreneurial scientists and support startup capacity building;
5. (C) Create, govern and report on a special revolving fund with public and
private contribution;
6. (IAR) Build a think tank to map the entrepreneurship ecosystem, conduct
impact-assessment and produce information for evidence-based policy-making
to support ecosystem conditions improvement.
Know How
Capital
Change Mindset
Information &
Awareness Raising
(KH) (CM)
(C) (IAR)
A
NEW QUALITY
OF GROWTH

5. The SIP creates space and desire to innovate: It creates space, because it is the
oasis of minds that connects ecosystem conditions to maintain a healthy habitat for
its tribes. It creates desire because, drawing on the UAE values of peace, tolerance,
giving and inclusiveness, the SIP trains the new generation of innovators,
entrepreneurs, and change-makers to increase their ingenuity and aspiration to meet
big challenges.
The SIP is a cluster of collaborative platforms (tribes) for positive-risk taking, safe
innovation and R&D transfer.
Through serving as test bed, facilitating higher level of knowledge creation,
absorption and dissemination, cross funding, giving and sharing between researchers,
students, businesses, government agencies, global nomad entrepreneurs and
innovators, the SIP oasis of minds unlocks competitive advantages to the benefit of
the tribes. The enabling habitat will help the tribes engage in social and needs-driven
innovation and address the region 100 million challenges at large scale for a new
quality of growth based on inclusiveness and wellbeing.
The SIP would like to develop the following major tribes:
(Water Tribe); (Genomics Tribe); (Space Tribe); (100 Million Stars Tribe).
SIP: Cluster of collaborative platforms (tribes)

6. Tribe
Products
Think Tank
SpecialRevolvingFund
Services
Test Bed
Market
Programs &
Linkage
SIPImpactAssessmentProgram
Tribe
Tribe
Tribe
Tribe
Tribe
Tribe
INNOVATION
CHAMPIONS
• Partners
• Students
• Startups
• Hosted Companies
• Research Centers
Processes
SIP Structure

7. Engines for growth E4GEngines for Growth E4G
Global advisory panel
Engines for growth E4GDiscovery D
Engines for growth E4GIdeas to prototypes I2P
Young Changemakers
Engines for growth E4GChallenge for Innovation C4I
Engines for growth E4GGrowth and Scaling
Engines for growth E4GPrototypes to market P2M
Engines for growth E4GUS Campus Programs
E4G graduates
Challenge non-winners
P2M grads and startups
Growth startup leaders
To create Startups
Not ready for Incubator yet
Researchers
Commercialization
Challenge winners
Strategic partners
SIP Programs – a catalyst for change

8. Composed of committed and talented Entrepreneurs in
Residence [EiRs] with significant entrepreneurial
experience from public and private sector UAE
organizations, partner incubators, and international
universities and renown entrepreneurial networks.
The GAP is a significant pool of resources the SIP put in
place for its fellows to receive guidance, support and
mentorship to successfully develop and grow their ventures.
The SIP Global Advisory Panel offers insights to
participants using smart technologies and soon
through an IT collaborative platform.
Global Advisory Panel

9. Dr. Ali Abdul
Babson College
Mr. Ahmed Abdulwahab
Next Arabia
Mrs. Shira Abel
Hunter & Bard
Mrs. Sadaffe Abid
INSEAD
Dr. Haithem Adouani
ESI Group
Dr. Yehya Al Marzouqi
Tawazun
Dr. Modar Alaoui
Eyeris
USA UAE USA UAE
France UAE USA
Global Advisory Panel
Mr. Filippo Addarii
Plusvalue
UK

10. Mr. Hany Amin
Serial Entrepreneur Egypt
Prof. Michele Andreaus
University of Trento
Prof. Guler Aras
Yildiz Technical University
Mr. Philip Bahoshy
MAGNiTT
Prof. Djamel Belaid
Telecom-SudParis
Mr. Heythem Ben Salem
Mobily KSA
Prof. Imed Boughzala
Institut Telecom France
Egypt Italy Turkey
UAE France KSA France
Global Advisory Panel
Dr. Mustafa Alper
TRangels Business Angels Network
Turkey

11. Mrs. Rama Chakaki
VIP Fund
Mr. Hamza Chraibi
Arab Excellence
Mr. Hatim Chraibi
SPIRE Bioventures
Mr. Jim Cooper
Braidtheory
Dr. Nabyla Daidj
Institut Telecom France
Mrs. Kia Davies
GrowMe
Dr. Jean-Luc Dormoy
EDF
USA Morocco USA
USA France UAE France
Global Advisory Panel
Prof. Nihel Chabrak
UAEU
UAE

12. Dr. Sharif El Badawi
500 Startups
Dr. Ounsi El Daif
Eedama
Dr. Olivier Epinette
Telecom Ecole de Management
Mrs. Marie Frochen
FrenchTechHub
Dr. Amir Gabr
United States Organic Science-
Research Triangle Park
Mr. Scott Gillespie
Jigsaw Group
Mr. Tarek Hajjirri
Dubai International Financial Center
USA UAE France France
USA
UAE UAE
Mr. Andreas Heincke
Dialogue Social Enterprise GmbH
Germany
Global Advisory Panel

13. Mrs. Heather Henyon
Dubai Angel Investors
Mrs. Catherine Hughes
Plusvalue
Mr. Tommy Katzenellenbogen
CRON Systems
Mrs. Shainoor Khoja
Roshan Corporate Social Responsibility
Mr. Torsten Kolind
YouNoodle
Mr. Iskren Krusteff
United Arab Emirates University
Prof. Pascal le Masson
Mines Paris Tech
Mr. Eric Quon Lee
Visa Performance Solutions
UAE UK USA UAE
USA UAE France USA
Global Advisory Panel

14. Mrs. Fiorenza Lipparini
Plusvalue
Mr. Klaus Miserra
GrowMe
Dr. Shiraz Rashid Mosbah
University of Bahrain
Mr. Omar Obeidat
Al Tamimi
Dr. Miguel Palacios
ESCP Europe
Mrs. Maria Pearson
GrowMe
Dr. Inaki Pena
Deusto Business School
Dr. James Piecowye
Zayed University
UK UAE Bahrain UAE
Spain UAE Spain UAE
Global Advisory Panel

15. Mr. Bill Reichert
Garage Technology Ventures
Mr. Roland Schatz
Media Tenor International
Mr. Shashi Kumar
SK Telecom Americas | Ventures
Mr. Jorge Soto
Freedeo
Mrs. Sabriye Tenberken
Braille Without Borders
Mr. Christopher Tholstrup
Venturexcel
Dr. Constance van Horne
Independent Scholar
Prof. Rodrigo Varela Villegas
Universidad Icesi
USA Switzerland USA USA
India USA Canada Colombia
Global Advisory Panel

16. Mr. Lisheng Wang
Propelx
Mr. Xavier Wartelle
FrenchTechHub
Mrs. Willow Williamson
International Development and Communications
Mr. Bruno Wong
Orchard
Mr. Everett Young
iChampsports
USA USA UAE USA
USA
Global Advisory Panel

17. Mentoring & Coaching in P2M Program
Mentors will help entrepreneurs develop their
business model, their product, customer
validation, their strategy to go to market and to
raise funds
The purpose of the mentoring and coaching program is to support participants in their progress throughout
the P2M program.
The mentoring and coaching program is crucial to avoid mistakes that could cripple the startup if the team
was trying to go its own way.
Coaching is more focused on helping
entrepreneurs make and develop their product /
service.
It is the process by which the SIP ensures
knowledge dissemination and R&D transfer
from its research centers to its startups
MENTORING COACHING

18. Mentoring
3 WEBINARS for sharing
experience across the teams
in the mentoring program
2 Cycles of Mentorship
1st: April –August(8 bi-weekly sessions) |1 EiR per team
2nd:Oc. –Dec.(6 bi-weekly sessions)| 2 EiR per team
1 bi-weekly mentoring hour for
advice and follow ups to support
the participants achieve program
milestones

19. Sharing experience
3 WEBINARS for sharing experience across the teams in the mentoring program
Before Silicon
Valey
to share visual identity, sales
video and websites and the
second pitch for Silicon valley
Before
Demo Day
share progress on company
executive summary and the
pitch for demo day
May August October
2017
Webinar 1 Webinar 2 Webinar 3
Share
takeways
to share takeaways from
participation in GITEX and
other events and how to
have greater exposure)

20. .
1 mentor assigned to each team
Matching processMarch 16 2017
End of March 2017
1st Cycle
April –August
(8 bi-weekly
sessions)
1 EiR per team
2nd Cycle
Oc. –Dec.
(6 bi-weekly
sessions)
2 EiR per team
Pitch Day
April 2017
MILESTONES DELIVERABLES
Mentors are required to allocate 1 bi-weekly
mentoring hour for advice and follow ups to support
the participants achieve program milestones
First draft of pitch deck, clear value proposition and revenue model
September 2017 2 mentors are assigned to each team after matching
process, based on the pitch in San Francisco.
2 mentoring hours:
Business modeling phase 1 1
May 2017 Prototype or proof of concept, company executive summary2 mentoring hours:
Business modeling phase 2 2
June-July 2017 MVP, customer interviews
2 mentoring hours:
Product development & customer validation 3
August 2017
Product or service, second draft of pitch deck, visual identity, sales
video and online presence
2 mentoring hours:
Product development and Go To Market
4
October 2017
Application for competitions, exhibitions, proof of exposure and
media coverage
2 mentoring hours * 2 mentors:
Fund Raising 5
November 2017
First pilot customer, proof of attendance to national pitch and other
entrepreneurial events
2 mentoring hours * 2 mentors:
Customer acquisition
6
December 2017
Fundraising documents and final pitch deck ready with second pilot
customer or first sales, proof of collaboration with UAEU research
centers and other stakeholders in the UAEU SIP ecosystem)
2 mentoring hours * 2 mentors:
investor pitch deck and diligence documents 7
Mentoring Cycles and Milestones

21. Coaching
Coaching program will be offered monthly in the SIP making space or the colleges labs
7 two-hour sessions from April to December
(excluding June and July)
MVP
Develop a
Prototype
April May December
2017
1st Milestone 2nd Milestone 3rd Milestone
Product/
Service

22. Impact Assessment
MENTORING IMPACT ASSESSMENT
At the end of each mentoring cycle, a comprehensive
assessment is completed:
• MENTORS provide the SIP programs committee with
feedback on the team progress with regard to the milestones;
they provide
1. self-assessment of their mentoring service,
2. assessment of the mentoring program, and
3. of their experience as mentors;
• TEAMS provide the SIP programs committee with
1. assessment of the mentoring program,
2. self-assessment of their achievement of the milestones, and
3. assessment of their experience with the mentors.
COACHING IMPACT ASSESSMENT
At the end of the coaching program, a comprehensive
assessment is completed:
• COACHES provide the SIP programs committee with
feedback on the team progress with regard to the
milestones; they provide
1. self- assessment of their coaching service,
2. assessment of the coaching program, and
3. of their experience as coaches;
• TEAMS provide the SIP programs committee with
• assessment of the coaching program,
• self- assessment of their achievement of the milestones, and
• assessment of their experience with the coaches.

23. Budget
A mentoring or a coaching hour is paid 1,000 AED.

24. Thank You!