Ray Dargham is the Co-Founder and CEO of ‘Step’ (https://stepconference.com/)), a media firm with a set of digital and in-person occasions, podcasts, and newsletters; headquartered in Dubai, UAE.
Initially from Lebanon, Ray had his first expertise of managing a enterprise throughout his senior 12 months in highschool; when he took half in a programme run by Junior Achievement Worldwide; “it was a three-month lengthy programme the place as college students, we created an organization utilizing actual cash and created an actual product, offered it and made a enterprise out of it”, he explains.
This expertise had left its mark in Ray to an prolong that when he reached his last 12 months in college, and it was time to start out searching for a job, he discovered himself in ideas; questioning what kind of a life he needed to recollect when he would look again at it in his 60s; “the reply was to have lived an fascinating story”, he recollects.
The trail to that fascinating story for Ray was to start out his personal firm.
After graduating, Ray moved to Dubai to place his plans in motion; nevertheless, apart from his brother, he didn't know many individuals on the town. “If you find yourself first beginning something, together with an organization, no one is aware of you”, he says. Having attended this system in highschool and hosted workshops throughout his college years, Ray had already witnessed the facility of bringing like minded individuals collectively. “So I made a decision, the very best factor I can provide is to supply a platform for individuals to make significant connections and assist develop their companies”.
That concept led Ray to host the primary Step Convention in 2012 in Dubai, which was a 100 individuals occasion and the beginning of a decade lengthy journey of a number of profitable occasions that introduced hundreds of attendees and exhibitors collectively which performed a key function within the growth of Dubai’s multi-billion greenback start-up ecosystem at the moment.
“To me that's a very powerful half; the affect we make in others’ lives. ‘Step’ (https://www.linkedin.com/firm/step-conference/) has helped a whole lot of entrepreneurs of their journey to constructing their profitable companies; who at the moment present jobs, services and products to hundreds of people”.
‘Step’ (https://www.instagram.com/stepconference/?hl=en) celebrated its tenth anniversary in March 2022, by internet hosting its first in-person occasion in Dubai since Covid-19 outbreak. “It blew me away; we had much more individuals, much more pleasure, much more engagement; individuals missed 'Step”.
Ray and his staff have been increasing their product portfolio and reaching to the broader area by internet hosting their occasions by way of their base of operation in Dubai.
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