As I will be blogging for the NRG Battle World Edition taking place in Kuala Lumpur from the 4th of June to the 8th, I will be sharing some of my posts in my Blog so that a wider audience accesses them.
For more info on the event, check: http://www.nrgbattle.com/
The NRG Battle World Edition, as described by its organisors:
"NRG Battle – World edition
The NRG Battle – World Edition is a competition
organized during the World Gas Conference in Kuala Lumpur where 100 global top
talents work, for four days in multidisciplinary teams of five, on challenging
cases provided by companies. At the end of the four days, each team presents
their idea in a 3-minute pitch to an expert jury, consisting of CEO’s and
Directors from the energy sector. The jury nominates three teams that will
pitch their idea once more to 5000 delegates at the World Gas Conference, who will
then choose the winner of the NRG Battle - World
edition.
Top Talents
Companies are constantly looking for talents, one
of the main reasons why companies participate in the NRG Battle is to find and
recruit new top talent. Therefore this is your chance to get in touch with
these companies and present yourself. What better start can you imagine!?
Since 2009 we have successfully organized the NRG
Battle – Europe Edition each year, over 1000 participants and 53 nationalities
have joined the battle so far. We recruit students from the bestuniversities all over the world through
ambassadors, these are participants from previous years who act as ambassadors
(promoters) for the NRG Battle and promote the battle in their country. In
addition, a global promotion campaign via Internet and social media is launched
in order to attract new top talent for the NRG Battle – World Edition.
Students who sign up for the NRG Battle – World
Edition enter an online Global Talent Pool. Only participating companies have
access to this pool, they will select their teams based on the talents they
need for the case. That is why you will take a personality test (Big Five), we can test what added
value you have for companies. The big five personality test shows the five
broad domains or dimensions of personality that are used to describe human
personality.
Multidisciplinary Teams
Twenty teams will meet, compete and innovate
during the NRG Battle at the World Gas Conference in Kuala Lumpur. Every team
consists out of five talents that will be selected by the companies according
to their needs and skills for solving the case. During the battle each team is
allowed to use whatever they feel like is necessary to win the battle. Be creative!
At the World Conference twitter can be used to
find experts that can help you to crack your case! There will also be case
instructors of the companies to help you."
This being
said, follows a quick and short introductory post before I tackle this new task
which, hopefully, will keep me busy for the next couple of weeks!
Dilemma for some, opportunity for others:
Morocco and Norway, different economies, different models
The Arab
culture, as prominently seen, and to some extent on true basis, disregards the
consequences of energy usage and shortage. The fact that most of our Arab
countries rely on oil as primary source of energy and as sole source of income
puts us in a difficult dilemma: either to choose to be environmentally friendly
and to divert parts of the budget expenditure towards alternative and renewable
sources of energy with what follows of economic and financial loss for other
sectors, or disregard ethical implications of our oil usage and prioritize
financial profit over any other environmental considerations.
This
dilemma has been bypassed efficiently, as I noticed and later came to know, by
both Norway to the perfection and Morocco to a less degree. As a member of the worlds’
privileged oil exporters elite, Norway is renowned for its intelligent and
responsible usage of oil income where the financial benefits are directed
towards a sovereign fund recognized as the biggest in the world. Instead of
subsidizing its oil products nationally, Norway is imposing higher costs for
its citizens’ purchases of fuel while investing heavily the shares of the 570
billion $ of the oil fund in alternative energy exploration and development.
Same with Morocco which, though deprived from oil blessings, is planning colossal
investments in wind and solar projects propelling the country in the forefront
of alternative energy development with billions of $ already on the table for
the construction of solar panel fields spread throughout the Sahara. Different
nations, different economies and different approaches to the energy sector:
Plenty of models to develop, monetize and to learn from!
Coming Soon on http://aminebelarbi.blogspot.com/: "Revolutionary Energy sectors for a New World Order!"
Mohamed Amine Belarbi
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