Amid an inspirational atmosphere, the Greek Campus in Downtown Cairo stood witness to the fierce Empowering Egyptian Young Women Entrepreneurs competition for an entire day on October 10. With a surge of optimistic and creative minds that gathered 143 young women entrepreneurs from all over Egypt, the competitors arrived to the capital city in hopes of pitching their future start-up ideas amidst a wide presence of potential investors. The competition, organized by Hudson Egypt, which took place as part of the Young Woman Entrepreneur Development Program (YWED-P), saw an impressive initial application flux of 1,800, out of whom, only 143 proceeded to the competition. Passing through several pitching rounds, during which judges and attendees voted for the ideas, three winners were selected. “The program aims at encouraging ambitious young female entrepreneurs nationwide, especially those in rural areas in a number of governorates and in Upper Egypt, who have ideas for future start-up projects in various fields,” said Abd el-Aziz Salah el-Deen, CEO of Hudson Egypt. “These fields include education, marketing, management, health, culture, fashion and renewable energy,” he added. According to Walid el-Gendy, program project manager, the competition succeeded at…
