Hundreds of franchises will gather at the IFRA 2018 event

By : Ahmad Fadli And Aldi Firhand. A | Tuesday, June 26 2018 - 23:00 IWST

The International Franchise, License & Business Concept Expo & Conference 2018 (IFRA) will be held again on 20 July 22, 2018 at the Jakarta Convention Center.

INDUSTRY.co.id - Jakarta - International franchise exhibition or International Franchise, License & Business Concept Expo & Conference 2018 (IFRA) will be held again on 20 - 22 July 2018 at Jakarta Convention Center.

Entering the 16th time, IFRA has the theme of "Creating Franchise Entrepreneurial Behavior with Continous Innovation", with the aim to move franchise business behavior to continue to innovate new and fresh business.

In this digital era for example, franchise businessmen use technology to market their products on a digital platform or by developing it through applications on smartphones.

AFI Chairman, Anang Sukandar conveyed, "Franchise business is expected to continue to innovate tehadap business. Because this franchise needs to always innovate and deepen its knowledge to maintain and improve its business. "

In line with that, IFRA 2018 also set up a series of support programs for franchise businessmen such as the International Franchise Talkshow, Community Gathering Forum, CEO Business Forum, and other knowledge sharing activities with selected resource persons.

In addition, The 3rd IFRAPreneur Business Concept Competition (IFBCC) has been implemented as a series of IFRA 2018 pre-event. IFBCC is a competition business strategy development activity for students. The series of IFBCC has visited 11 universities in Jakarta and surrounding areas, such as: Swiss-German University, PPM School of Management, University of Indonesia, State Polytechnic of Jakarta, Multimedia Nusantara University, IPMI International Business School, Bina Nusantara University, STMI Polytechnic Jakarta, Universitas Paramadina , Univ. Prof. Dr.Moestopo and Kalbis Institute.

The activities of IFBCC present competent speakers in franchise and business field, Mr. Rofian Akbar as the General Director of Franchise Indonesia Magazine, Mr. Pietra Sarosa as Managing Director of Sarosa Consulting Group & Commissioner of Certification and Accreditation Association of Franchise Indonesia, and also Bije Widjajanto as Senior Consultant, Founder & CEO Ben WarG Consulting.

These experts and resource persons participated to provide knowledge and motivation to students as young entrepreneurs in order not to hesitate to start a business early, because the franchise business is a business that is easy to apply.