{"id":625057,"date":"2018-09-26T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/09\/26\/what-were-tracking-on-26-september-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T04:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T04:19:00","slug":"what-were-tracking-on-26-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/09\/26\/what-were-tracking-on-26-september-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re tracking on 26 September 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Conference season is really picking up<\/strong>, with three gatherings of note taking place this morning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecommsummit.co\/\"><strong>E-Commerce Summit in Egypt<\/strong><\/a> bills itself as the first gathering of its kind of the emerging industry, which faces the prospect of new regulation during the fall sitting of the House of Representatives;<\/li>\n<li>Gearheads will want to make their way to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.automech-formula.com\/en\/home.html\"><strong>2018 Automech Formula<\/strong><\/a> car expo, which runs through Sunday at the Cairo International Convention Center;<\/li>\n<li>The Egyptian Factoring Association (EFA) will host a workshop on <strong>factoring as a tool for financing SMEs <\/strong>at the Nile Ritz-Carlton. 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The post was advertised in the print edition of the Financial Times, among other places. <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2018\/09\/12\/what-were-tracking-on-12-september-2018\/\">You can see the advert here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference season is really picking up, with three gatherings of note taking place this morning: The E-Commerce Summit in Egypt bills itself as the first gathering of its kind of the emerging industry, which faces the prospect of new regulation during the fall sitting of the House of Representatives; Gearheads will want to make their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7204],"tags":[72,74],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-625057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-were-tracking-today","tag-enterpriseam","tag-what-were-tracking-today","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"605a3b04-cf1e-4a72-8647-c997a001484c","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[625055],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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