An introduction to Making It, by one of our hosts Patrick, Enterprise's editor-in-chief and co-founder.

An introduction to Making It, by one of our hosts Patrick, Enterprise's editor-in-chief and co-founder.

Six days a week, we help top executives make sense of the Arab world’s companies and economies — and every Thursday, our editor-in-chief, Patrick, talks shop with the people who run them. 

Making It is an hour where the founders, CEOs, investors, and policymakers making the biggest decisions in our region show their work and talk about what’s next. 

From EnterpriseAM, the Arab world’s business daily.

Six days a week, we help top executives make sense of the Arab world&rsquo;s companies and economies &mdash; and every Thursday, our editor-in-chief, Patrick, talks shop with the people who run them.&nbsp;
Making It is an hour where the founders, CEOs, investors, and policymakers making the biggest decisions in our region show their work and talk about what&rsquo;s next.&nbsp;
From EnterpriseAM, the Arab world&rsquo;s business daily.

A show where we talk shop with the people who run the biggest companies in the Arab world.

Making It

Enterprise is venturing into new territory with our very first podcast, Making It, and we thought it was time to take you a little more in depth. Patrick, Enterprise’s editor-in-chief and co-founder, tells our origin story, how Enterprise came to be, and how it all led to Making It.

Making It: The Introduction

What should we be teaching our kids in the age of AI? What should we be changing on the policy-level nationwide, and where do we start? 

On this episode of Making It, Professor Sherif Kamel joins Patrick for another AI deep dive, zooming into how the technology is taking shape in our classrooms. 

Sherif is the Dean of the Onsi Sawiris School of Business at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He sits on the board of the Central Bank of Egypt, and he's served on boards including CIB and the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund.

As someone who’s witnessed and led Egypt’s adoption of the personal computer, the internet, and the mobile internet, Sherif has a unique outlook on the AI-fueled moment we’re living in. We discuss the acceleration of tech, how humans have always been central to its development, how AI is used in education today — particularly at AUC — and the trade-off we have to make when we adopt AI as a thinking tool. 

He also shares his views on what governing AI on the state-level could look like, the affordability of these tools, and how, given everything, learning institutions should instill the future generation with the skills that will enhance their “complex problem-solving, ambition, curiosity, forward-thinking, communication.” 

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What should we be teaching our kids in the age of AI? What should we be changing on the policy-level nationwide, and where do we start?&nbsp;
On this episode of Making It, Professor Sherif Kamel joins Patrick for another AI deep dive, zooming into how the technology is taking shape in our classrooms.&nbsp;
Sherif is the Dean of the Onsi Sawiris School of Business at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He sits on the board of the Central Bank of Egypt, and he's served on boards including CIB and the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund.
As someone who&rsquo;s witnessed and led Egypt&rsquo;s adoption of the personal computer, the internet, and the mobile internet, Sherif has a unique outlook on the AI-fueled moment we&rsquo;re living in. We discuss the acceleration of tech, how humans have always been central to its development, how AI is used in education today &mdash; particularly at AUC &mdash; and the trade-off we have to make when we adopt AI as a thinking tool.&nbsp;
He also shares his views on what governing AI on the state-level could look like, the affordability of these tools, and how, given everything, learning institutions should instill the future generation with the skills that will enhance their &ldquo;complex problem-solving, ambition, curiosity, forward-thinking, communication.&rdquo;&nbsp;
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What should we be teaching our kids in the age of AI? What should we be changing on the policy-level nationwide, and where do we start? 

The human factor in AI with Prof. Sherif Kamel

How do you help build a brand as successful as Gourmet without really knowing much about food?

On this episode of Making It, Patrick talks shop with Dalia Sultan, Chief Innovation Officer at Gourmet Egypt, and the force behind the "Handcrafted by Gourmet” label.

A banker by trade, Dalia was thrust into the business of food by chance. She starts off by talking about her early days at Gourmet, moving from marketing to product to ushering the company’s leap into manufacturing, alongside her brother Amgad.

She speaks about where she gets inspiration for recipes, how ideas reach the shelf, what it takes to control quality, the struggle that comes with training a team that many in the industry want to poach, and how she sees robots in a not-so-distant kitchen.

Dalia also opens up about the challenges of working with her partner for several years, how they overcame the hard stuff, and what the next steps are for both the company and her family.

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How do you help build a brand as successful as Gourmet without really knowing much about food?
On this episode of Making It, Patrick talks shop with Dalia Sultan, Chief Innovation Officer at Gourmet Egypt, and the force behind the "Handcrafted by Gourmet&rdquo; label.
A banker by trade, Dalia was thrust into the business of food by chance. She starts off by talking about her early days at Gourmet, moving from marketing to product to ushering the company&rsquo;s leap into manufacturing, alongside her brother Amgad.
She speaks about where she gets inspiration for recipes, how ideas reach the shelf, what it takes to control quality, the struggle that comes with training a team that many in the industry want to poach, and how she sees robots in a not-so-distant kitchen.
Dalia also opens up about the challenges of working with her partner for several years, how they overcame the hard stuff, and what the next steps are for both the company and her family.
Sign up to our <a href="https://enterpriseam.com/egypt/makingit/">newsletter</a> to get Making It in your inbox every Thursday.

How do you help build a brand as successful as Gourmet without really knowing much about food? 

Gourmet’s Dalia Sultan built a one-of-a-kind kitchen, how does it work?

Banque du Caire is going public in a landmark IPO. 

On this episode of Making It, Hussein Abaza, the CEO of Banque du Caire, joins Patrick to take us through the strategy behind the sale.

Hussein is a legend in the banking community; he’s the former CEO of CIB and has long been a spokesperson for Egypt among international investors.

In the first half of the episode, Hussein tells us about how BdC moved away from the typical state-owned lender model to an institution that he believes now operates as a private bank. We then get into the IPO itself: why now, how it’s structured, his pitch to international investors, how BdC makes money, and the indispensable value of its nationwide network of 200+ branches.

Abaza also makes the case for treating NBFIs as partners, not competitors. And finally, he offers sound insight into what the next generation of bankers should prioritize.

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Banque du Caire is going public in a landmark IPO.&nbsp;
On this episode of Making It, Hussein Abaza, the CEO of Banque du Caire, joins Patrick to take us through the strategy behind the sale.
Hussein is a legend in the banking community; he&rsquo;s the former CEO of CIB and has long been a spokesperson for Egypt among international investors.
In the first half of the episode, Hussein tells us about how BdC moved away from the typical state-owned lender model to an institution that he believes now operates as a private bank. We then get into the IPO itself: why now, how it&rsquo;s structured, his pitch to international investors, how BdC makes money, and the indispensable value of its nationwide network of 200+ branches.
Abaza also makes the case for treating NBFIs as partners, not competitors. And finally, he offers sound insight into what the next generation of bankers should prioritize.
Sign up to our <a href="https://enterpriseam.com/egypt/makingit/">newsletter</a> to get Making It in your inbox every Thursday.

After almost two decades of talk of going public, last week Banque du Caire announced its intention to float a 30% stake on the EGX.

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