Many events in Dubai this week occupied the minds of Twitter users. Arabs from around the world shared their observations from the Arab Health Congress in Dubai. While news events kept people buzzing, local talks and exhibition really had users engaged.
Initiative Talks
“Stand Out Content” was this year’s hot topic for discussion at Initiative Talks, a leadership conference in Dubai attended by media industry experts, marketers and content producers.
Marwan @CreativeJab thanked the crowd: “thank you and congrats on a wonderful Initiative Talks event. Well done.”
Wisam @Wedghaim shared his experience at the event by tweeting: “Great day at Initiative Talk.”
Benjamin @bampen sent a thank-you note to the organisers: “Huge thanks to Initiative Talks audience and panel. Feel like the action on the Twitter behind us was also pretty interesting.”
Alex @Alex_de_Smet tweeted: “Enrich your kids’ artistic nature and what they can offer. This is the age of creativity.”
Rizk @rizkhaddad shared another quote by organiser Ali Jaber: “The Arab world will emerge in a larger local drama production era as the next big thing.”
Abdul Aziz @Muzaini tweeted: “TV people still think that online is not a good platform for long format series. Obviously they never heard of House of Cards.”
User @Sha3teely quoted Fadi Ismael: “The audience is not always right. Sometimes they don’t know what works. Leadership sometimes needed!”
Zizi @zizizgheib shared her thoughts on branding “when you pay someone to promote a message, it’s not authentic any more, it’s not natural branding.”
Tony @TonyKayouka summed up the event with, “that was easy, everyone is creating content as we speak”.
Dubai tour
Dubai Cycle Tour kicks off on February 3 at Dubai International Marine Club, with riders like Bradley Wiggins and last year’s winner Mark Cavendish providing the star attractions to a growing local audience.
Official user @DubaiSC shared a photo and commented: “Our heroes race on the 2nd day of Mini #DubaiTour to reach the finish line and award the top 3 winners.”
Noura @nhawilo was excited for “another race day” in Dubai.
User @SprSportsEvents applauded the initiative: “A great initiative by the Dubai Sports Council as part of the Dubai Tour. A superb opportunity.”
Jason @JasonSmart152 commented: “Dubai: one of the countries I visit in my Arabian adventure.”
And user @ISAS_Dubai sent congratulations “to our girl cyclists for taking 4th & 5th place in Mini Dubai tour 2016”.
Health expo
The Arab Health Exhibition and Congress is the largest event of its type in the Middle East and this year it got people talking about healthy living among other things.
Shuja @ShujaRabbani shared what she thought was an important topic needing discussion: “child obesity and lack of insurance post-retirement in the region.” Dina @dinamired highlighted major challenges facing the medical industry: “Financial barriers, lack of psychological care and lack of patient rights are also considered to be some of the major challenges of our time.”
Bindu @BinduRai thought about ways to take advantage of the many doctors around her at the exhibition, “with so many doctors around me, I really must find one to treat me for conference stress”.
Sarah Khamis is The National’s social media editor
On Twitter: @SarahKhamisUAE
