‘Not everybody can be an entrepreneur’

Omar Christidis is the founder and chief executive officer of ArabNet, the leading space for debating digital growth in the Middle East. The organization’s annual Beirut conference on 20-22 March is expected to be the largest gathering of digital professionals in the region, with over 1,200 expected attendees. Christidis spoke to Executive about Lebanon’s answer to Silicon Valley, Windows 8 and why there may be too many digital entrepreneurs.   What should we look out for at ArabNet 2013? The event this year is more focused on the digital creative sectors and on Lebanon and the Levant more broadly as hubs for production in the digital sector. What I mean by production is development, design and creation — this is where we have a tremendous amount of talent and relatively affordable labor. [The Levant] is where we see a lot of companies are locating their production hub — whether it is