Kuwait City, August 7: Warba Bank announced its sponsorship of the National Cultural Challenge Electronic Games Program ‘Game Jam’, which begins on August 7 and continues for 4 days at the Ishbeliya Public Library.

Commenting on this event, Ayman Salem Al-Mutairi, Director Marketing and Corporate Communications at Warba Bank, said: “We are pleased to sponsor this program as it is an important step in Warba Bank’s strategy to enhance the shared vision with the public sector and contribute positively to the strategic transformation of sustainable development through the National Challenge Program for E-Culture.”

Al-Mutairi highlighted Warba Bank’s keenness to sponsor such events to achieve institutional flexibility and create an environment that stimulates creativity through the continuous change and development program that Warba Bank implements, which supports the changing methodology to enhance institutional capacity to improve the cultural scene in Kuwait.

Al-Mutairi stated that at Warba Bank, we are always proud to be the most attractive to national manpower, providing them the capabilities to hone their skills and work on developing them, in addition to spreading the culture of technological investment among Kuwaiti youth, which contributes to enhancing development and growth in technology and innovation among them.

He pointed out that Warba Bank is considered one of the most important banks that ambitious Kuwaiti youth place in their career priorities due to the work environment that the Bank provides for more creativity, innovation and encroaching the youth.

Al-Mutairi concluded his statement by saying that Warba Bank has designed a prepaid card to target e-sports enthusiasts, which carries many exclusive advantages and discounts matching the needs and requirements of this segment, noting that the card was launched after the Warba Bank team noticed the increasing global and local interest in e-sports, and the Bank's desire to expand in providing many banking services and offers to e-sports enthusiasts.

For her part, the official spokesperson for the Public Authority for Youth, Asrar Zakaria Al-Ansari, confirmed that partnerships and cooperation between the public and private sectors contribute to achieving sustainable development through projects that serve the youth community and meet its needs, in addition to achieving integration by combining the expertise and resources of the two sectors in a way that serves the progress and excellence of Kuwaiti youth and develops their strategic skills.

Al-Ansari explained that the Authority's support for the National Cultural Challenge Electronic Games Program ‘Game Jam’ is the result of the memorandum of understanding that the Authority signed months ago with the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters regarding building a joint strategic partnership to enhance the creative economy among Kuwaiti youth, expressing her thanks to Warba Bank for their sponsorship of Game Jam, which expresses their belief in the importance of investing in the talents of Kuwaiti youth in technical fields.

She added that such events encourage national talents in the fields of game development and design and enhance the local electronic games industry, as well as contribute to building a local electronic games community of players and developers, which stimulates digital sports activity and develops the infrastructure for the electronic games.

For her part, the Director of the Nation al Cultural Challenge Electronic Games Program ‘Game Jam’, Omaima Ahmed Al-Saad, thanked Warba Bank for sponsoring this program as the leading bank in adopting solutions to develop and accelerate the work mechanism by addressing the best standards and tools of creativity and innovation to raise the level of performance and improve the institutional work system in addition to controlling the quality of service.

Al-Saad explained that the program aims in its first season to enhance cultural innovation, teamwork and technical skills while providing a platform for emerging game developers to showcase their talents through an intensive and creative competition in which participants create an electronic game within 48 hours based on a specific cultural topic.

Regarding the conditions for registration in the program, Al-Saad explained that the contestant must have one of the following skills: programmer/game developer/2D/3D graphic designer/story or game content writer, and the contestant's age must range between 16 and 35 years.

She added that among the conditions is that the submitted work must not have been done previously, and that work on the game must be done during the competition period. It is also prohibited for members of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters or members of Warba Bank and the Public Authority for Youth, and academics participating in preparing for the event or members of the arbitration committee or mentors in charge of the challenge to participate in this competition/challenge as a contestant.

Warba Bank is one of the banks that has achieved great successes in a short period, as it occupied a leadership position in the field of Islamic digital banking services for individuals, and it is one of the largest local banks in the number of shareholders, and these are among the most prominent components that make the Bank close to all members of society.