According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs, “acceleration room” is an opportunity to present ideas and receive counseling and short-term, compressed and applicable monitoring, where startups must present their ideas quickly and a short duration exclusively for a mentor and receive counseling for eliminating the problems of their startups.

Mentors participating in this event have played significant roles in the formation and development of large and valid businesses. In addition, they are experienced counselors, meeting with whom is not easy for everyone.

This event is a unique, and maybe an unrepeatable, opportunity for startups and owners of new businesses in East Azerbaijan Province, so that in a face-to-face environment, they could benefit from the experiences of skilled counselors, founders and mentors in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Iran and use their guidance in improving their business.

Counseling areas of “acceleration room” include idea making and evaluation of ideas, discovering the current needs of the market, team making and teamwork, establishment of startups, accelerating startups, development of business, negotiation with investors and attracting invests.

In “acceleration room” each team can use the counseling of six mentors during 60 minutes in a monitoring cycle. In total, four cycles of acceleration room will be held during the Rabe Rashidi exhibition of Tabriz.

In each mentoring cycle, each mentor is from a specific field. Therefore, various areas can be covered in one hour. However, it depends on the team members of a startup how to maximize the benefits of this hour.

The “acceleration room” was held November 11^th-12^th, 2017 along with the fifth innovation and technology exhibition of Rabe Rashidi at the location of international exhibitions of Tabriz.

The fifth exhibition and festival of new and advanced technologies of Rabe Rashidi is held November 11^th-15^th, 2017 at the location of international exhibitions of Tabriz with the support of the knowledge-based economy, technology and science development headquarter.