BUSINESS FORUM

Business Forum 2017 Report

Business Forum 2017 has been held on January 22, 2017 at Cambodia Japan Corporation Centre (CJCC) and lead by Project chairman ‘Mr.KONG Kirivann’. However, the opening remark of the Forum is given a speech by Mr. Casey Barnett the president of CamEd Business School; that was such a great honored for the whole event. It was very successful which there are around 400 participants who attended in this event. Otherwise, the purpose of this Forum is to make sure that all the participants experienced the reality of the international business, grow their mindset as well as to generate and root the entrepreneurship concept that is the priority factor in the global business nowadays. Most importance thing, as we noticed, the event was caught the deep attention by the audiences that is huge success for the event.    

     I.         Body

a.    Purpose of forum

“Business Forum 2017” is an annual workshop where we focus on the emerging of young entrepreneurs into the business world and empowering young university students to discover their own vision of business. “Business Forum 2017” is promised to be held on the 22nd of January 2017, from 1:00 to 5:00 PM at CJCC. It is involving around 500 participants from different universities in Cambodia. Our vision for this workshop is “to achieve creative young minds and innovative ideas that connect each individual in Cambodia”. However, in order to achieve this vision for Cambodia, we kindly need your support. We would kindly like to offer you this opportunity to expand your business and be our partner to develop youths for a better Cambodia. We hope you would support us and work collaboratively together to reach success.

A. Theme

                                              i.     Mindset of changes

“Mindset of Change”, the first interesting topic which was presented by Mr. Kim Channa, CEO of Mindbooks. This theme talks about the 4 sources of income, ESBI- E stands for “employee”, S stands for “self-employed”, B stands for “business owner”, and I stands for “ investor”. This topic helps people to decide which categories they want to be, among these four sources.

                                             ii.     Trending

The second exciting theme, which captured audiences’ attention, is “Trending”. This hot topic that every entrepreneur always been curious and talk about, has been presented by Mr. Chy Sila, CEO of Sabay Digital Corporation. Mr. Chy Sila talked about how to identify global trend, which is very important for every businessman. He also included common 4FIT- Food, Fun, Fashion, Finance, and IT (information technology); the healthy tips for entrepreneur to note down.

                                           iii.     How to start up?

People who want to open a business usually lack of idea how to start up and don’t know what obstacles they will face. Mr. Kong Soliya, CEO of Joonaak Delivery, is here to present about “How to start up?”  He said, “Running a business is not an easy task to do, there are many risks and problems that you will face unevenly with family and yourself.” To solve the problems, first, you need to ask questions by getting help from others or find a mentor to guide you. Second, don’t drool- find a way to solve it, take a break, and get in the mindset. Lastly, stay focus- don’t multitasking, just focus on one thing that you are doing.

                                           iv.     Branding

          The last and attractive theme is “Branding”, which was presented by Mr. Soum Sambath, CEO of Cam-Paint Manufacturing. Most people, who just started a business, always wonder how to make their brands become famous. Mr. Soum Sambath raised 5 points, called the art of building brands, to make our brands become well known. They are quality, design and packaging, positioning and re-positioning, your team and customer relationship management, and timing.

                     B. Sponsor

                                              i.     Major Cineplex

Our event can run smoothly, thanks to our silver sponsor, Major Cineplex, that sponsored many gifts for us such as 4DX tickets and Blue O. In this event, our team used these gifts to create an activity during event by sticking 20 of Blue O tickets under audiences’ chairs and 5 4DX tickets as lucky draw. Our participants are very excited to get these gifts. Furthermore, our team set up the X-stand and backdrop of Major Cineplex to help promote about Major Cineplex.

                                             ii.     Cam-Paint

Mr. Soum Sambath is the most attractive guest speaker who has grabbed audiences’ attention by his meaningful speech and also our silver sponsor. IBC members prepared a promotional booth of Cam-Paint with a big area, which is easy for customers to see.

  

                                          iii.     Huawei

Our in-kind sponsor, Huawei, kindly provided us many lovely Huawei gifts such as 10 steel cups, 10 bags, and 5 power banks. Our team used these adorable gifts as lucky draw for our audiences. Our participants were very glad to get these beautiful presents.

                                           iv.     Vital

Our in-kind sponsor, Vital, has sponsored 550 bottles of Vital water for our event. Our team used this water for our audiences during the event. The number of participants in this event is around 400, so there is 150 bottles of water left. We will use the left over for our up-coming charity trip.

                                            v.     Health Time Magazine

Health Time Magazine, has sponsored us a media partner and 300 magazines which covered very useful health tips for our audiences to acknowledged more about how to live in healthy lifestyle.

                                           vi.     We du Share

We du share is our media partners and bring us a supportive from youth during the pre-event, during event and after event.

                                         vii.     Brilliant Advertise

Such as nice opportunity Brilliant Advertise has provide us a in kind sponsor with a string bag and lovely key chain to business forum 2017 as a gift to the 400 participant during the event.

                                        viii.     Mindbooks

As the In kind sponsor Mindbooks has offer us a Robert Kiyosaki book during the event and the pre-event Mindbooks has do the promotion with the book which is as a in kind sponsor and partner in distributed the ticket.

Conclusion

To sum up, the Business Forum 2017 were gone smoothly by all the support from our four honourable guest speakers as well as all companies who sponsored for our event and the participants. However, all the participants really interested in the topic which given a speech by guest speakers that make them stay in the event from the start until the end of the forum. Most importance thing is audiences really enjoy with all kind of gift, lucky draw, and refreshment (water) which are given by our sponsor partners. All in all, this forum could not be happened successfully without all your support. Without sponsor, the event will not survive.   

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