Where and how can you meet people to make business in Dubai? Let’s find it out!
You are new in Dubai and you want to get the most from this city. For sure, one of the reasons you moved here is the ability to know people and to make business here. However, where can you meet people to make business in Dubai?
We all know that business is done by knowing people. The ability to network is one of the main skill of a successful entrepreneur. Knowing people give you the ability not only to expand you business opportunities, but also to understand different mindsets and ecosystems.
Especially in Dubai, a lot of different people get together and share their insides and experience. The city offers a vibrant ecosystem to expand your horizons and to maximise your business.
You can meet with people and entrepreneurs from every side of the world in Dubai.
In fact, Dubai offers the perfect basis to conduct a successful business. It is built around the idea of facilitating business. Bureaucracy is as easy as possible and the government is really betting on the digital transformation to make things as easy as possible. We all know that dealing with bureaucracy is extremely annoying and complex.
Moreover, in terms of conducting a successful business, Dubai, through its freezones and tax system, offers one of the most appealing condition to setup a business in the emirates.
In fact, you can create a company in a few clicks in Dubai. You can get a VISA for living in the city. You can run your business with zero or a really low taxation.
Moreover, one if the best opportunity the city offers, is the ability to connect really interesting people. Especially because, the people who come to Dubai are usually extremely valuable. (Check our article in when to start looking for a place in dubai here).Thinking about the city, there is a cost to move here. Therefore, who comes to Dubai are either successful entrepreneurs or managers relocated here by their company. If the second is the case, the manager to be relocates is probably really good and a valuable asset for the company to invest on.
The Dubai ecosystem is therefore populated by really interesting people. Everywhere you go you can meet someone that might change you day!
We have not answered our question yet. Being new in the city and knowing zero, where can you go to meet people to make business in dubai?
You are ideally looking for someone that has done already what you did. Someone probably from your country and someone who has been in your shoes in the past and can guide you know.
A lot of countries offer, through their consulates or through their chamber of commerce an opportunity to meet. There are as well Business Councils created exactly with this scope.
You can search online for the business council of your home country. There are so many established in the city. For example there is the Italian, the Swiss, the SouthAfrian, the Pakistani, the Saudi business councils.
The scope of a business council is to connect people from the same country and help them in facilitating their business in Dubai.
Moreover, the business councils are often organising events and occasions to meet and discuss different topics. A really nice occasion for you to meet people to make business in dubai.
Contact the business council you would like to join and ask them to be invited to the next event!