Head of Customer Engineering for Middle East, Turkey and Africa Google Cloud United Arab Emirates Googler, Tech Leader, Innovation Catalyst, Head of Cloud Customer Engineers for META region

Head of Gulf Region OurCrowd United Arab Emirates

Contemporary Artist and ‘The Pioneer of Magical Realism’ Sacha Jafri holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest painting and the second-most expensive painting by a living artist with a price tag of $62 million.

Director of the Center for Future Studies, University of Dubai, and Chairman of Smart World Department of Digital Ajman United Arab Emirates

Director In5 Innovation Centers United Arab Emirates

Senior Vice President Digital Industries Strategy Huawei Middle East United Arab Emirates Recognized industry thought leader promoting innovative use of technology to drive business outcomes

CEO Smokescreen Technologies

Chief Data Scientist, Global Premium Services Google United States Super-brains behind Google’s empowering AI initiatives to make the tech accessible to all

Chief Technology Officer Du United Arab Emirates Responsible for driving the company’s transformative network strategy into the digital age, Saleem built one of the first IMS infrastructures in the region, and accelerated the roll out of du’s mobile and fixed network across the UAE

Innovation Strategist - World Bank Adj. Professor Entrepreneurship & Design Thinking - The Johns Hopkins University United States Led a startup education program through an Upwork-WeWork partnership to help businesses hire and manage remote teams online; At the age of 21, launched Brazil's largest and top-rated language schools

Group Product Manager Borealis AI (Royal Bank of Canada) Canada Deployed supervised, unsupervised, generative and reinforcement learning algorithms in capital markets across equity & commodity algo trading, high-frequency relative-return predictions and sensitivity calculations of complex derivative contracts.

Manager Zoom Video Communications – MENA

CEO of She is Arab & Advisor to Chairman & Board Member Farm Food for Industries LLC Listed in the Arab Power List 2021 of Arabian Business magazine, is a key knowledge partner on gender inequality and women’s related issues across the Arab world for major corporations and organisations

Global GM (Smart Cities and Transportation) Intel United States Leading deployment of solutions for the development of smart cities around the world

Customer Experience Specialist Dubai Police United Arab Emirates

Founder BrioFIVE United States Host of the Podcast Life in Focus

Founder & Chief Bestie bestinsurance.ae

Ex VP of Ebay's AI team, Technical Advisor to the AI Medicine division of Cedars Sinai & Chief Technology Officer InVision Over 40+ global patents mega and scale architectures like Distributed Commerce, Windows 8 Telemetry, Natural User Interface Platform; Customer Assistance Platform; MSN Search, Open Design Distributed P2P/CS Platform

Consulting Leader - Government & Public Sector IBM United Arab Emirates Led complex projects for IBM across 23 Countries in Europe, Middle East & Africa. 

Co-Founder Aleksma United Arab Emirates The Emirati Serial Entrepreneur, fashion designer and Instagram celebrity has teamed up with veterans from McLaren, Lotus, Aston Martin and Rimac to build a hypercar of the likes the world has never seen before, from its design, materials and functionality. All assembled in the UAE.

Founder & CEO Sprii United Arab Emirates From financier to founder who raised $8.1. million in Series A, reduced customer acquisition costs by 20 times, while increasing reach and click-through rate by 10 times each.

Director of Operations and Strategy Quill Communications United Arab Emirates Communicate’s top 15 women to watch in the GCC

MD & Chief Data Scientist Officer Halliburton United States One of the top 50 leaders as movers and shakers in Data and Analytics in US Canada Corinium Global Intelligence)

General Manager - Enterprise Business Unit STC (Saudi Telecom Company)

Co-Founder and CEO Seafood Souq

Attorney General State of Utah United States Former Partner at Accelerate Ventures, GC for a tech company”, and founder of Regulator Tech Summit in San Jose. Current and past chair of several national committees on innovation and regulation.

Vice President/Internet of Things and Digital Payments Etisalat Digital United Arab Emirates CTO, Advisor, Executive Board Member, Global Blockchain Association

Director of Developer Experience Red Hat United States Sebastien Blanc Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat is a Passion-Driven Developer with one primary goal: share his passion by giving talks that are pragmatic, fun, and focused on live coding.

EVP Global E-Commerce Checkout.com United States Founded in 2012, Checkout.com bootstrapped until its record-breaking $230M Series A in May 2019 and catapulted to nearly $2B valuation and represented Europe’s largest Series A fundraise ever and the third largest Series A globally

Digital Training Manager PWC Training Academy

Director Customer & Consumer Experience Michelin United Arab Emirates is An award-winning global marketer, a digital evangelist

Senior Marketing Manager - MENA Guinness World Record United Arab Emirates One of the highest mall based activations done in 2020

Head of Governments and Cities Segment – MEA Nokia United Arab Emirates Tech & innovation enthusiast, a startup investor, empowering the digital transformation of cities and government agencies

Head Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund  United Arab Emirates Head of non-profit UAE Government backed innovation enabler that seeks to collaborate with those who tackle the world’s biggest challenges

Co-Founder & CEO Edutech Middle East / Edutech India

Senior Director of AI Astra Zeneca (USA) Voted in the top 100 AI leaders by Deep Knowledge Analytics & the top 100 leading pioneers in drug development using AI, as per Forbes. Currently leveraging petabytes of enterprise-scale data to develop and deliver solutions that help in human disease biology, clinical genomics, and precision medicine.

Founder and Executive Director Chil (Community Healthcare Innovation) AI Lab Uganda First Ugandan named Forbes Africa 30 under 30

Founding Partner Shorooq Partners United Arab Emirates Forbes 30 Under 30, Kauffman Fellows, Founding Partner at Shorooq Partners, Shane spearheads the firm along with Partners Mahmoud Adi and Kunal Savjani

Founding Partner Shorooq Partners United Arab Emirates CTF: A Forbes 30 Under 30 and Kauffman Fellows, early backer of numerous successful startups including Sarwa, MunchOn, SmartCrowd, Nymcard and Clara.

Vice President ‑ Tryano, SAKS & The Deal Chalhoub Group

Principle NFX Israel

Senior Manager DIFC FinTech Hive United Arab Emirates

Group CEO Mohamed and Obaid Al Mulla Group of Cos, American Hospital United Arab Emirates Launched the first AI research centre in the region to leverage it’s electronic health records, EHR, data along with its clinical AI and advanced data analytics tools

Founder & Global CEO The Marketing Academy United Kingdom Runs one of the most sought after scholarship programs in Sydney and New York funded by Salesforce, Facebook, KFC, Mars, Google, Accenture etc

Chief Solutions Architect SPIRE SOLUTIONS United Arab Emirates

Global Executive Director - AI & Machine Learning Standard Chartered Bank (India) India The AI expert who built supervised and unsupervised ML models by using tools like randomForests, logistic regression, clustering and neural networks

Head of Business Development Point Blanc United Arab Emirates

SVP & CMO Avaya United Kingdom Not only a Karate blackbelt but also behind the triple digit growth in Avaya Space collaboration app since its launch in January 2020 corrected CTF

Global Head Nvidia AI Technology Centre, Nvidia Singapore Heavily leveraging AI to make Singapore and cities in China smarter across its key projects, an important contributor to the development of Cambridge 1, the world's fastest supercomputer

Head of Managed Cyber Security Services Help AG United Arab Emirates One of his professional highlights has been spearheading the successful transition from build to operations of ICT security infrastructure for a $2.5B all-digital hospital

Co-Founder Bridges Fund Management Ltd Israel

Former Miss Korea 2018, Content Creator & Broadcast Host The Hankookilbo Korea, Republic of Miss Korea 2018, Mecenat New Year Concert Host for Vietnam, a vocal critic of beauty standards and body-shaming culture, an inspiration for design of AI algorithms in the luxury and beauty sectors.

CEO The Marketing Society United Kingdom Author of ‘Superfast: Lead at Speed’, shortlisted in the Business Book Awards & reached No.1 on Amazon Business Book Bestsellers in Change Management.

CMO IBM MEA United Arab Emirates Before moving to MEA in Q3 of 2020, smashed P&L targets in IBM France managing a technical team of over 600 people and a winner of the prestigious Gerstner award

MEPRA Strategy Board Member & VP Corporate Communications Tabreed United Arab Emirates Oversees the strategic positioning of Tabreed, implementing the communication strategies, programs, initiatives, media events planning, employee engagement events, CSR campaigns, coordinating with external PR, events management agencies.

Information Security Specialist MIG Holdings United Arab Emirates A certified ethical hacker and ISO 27001 lead auditor, Sreedevi manages security operations for MIG holdings, one of the UAE’s leading insurance groups including ACE and DAMANA insurance

Founder and CEO CAKE

CEO Malta Digital Innovation Authority Malta Launched the world's first AI certification programme focussing on AI ethics that put Malta on the 10th rank in the global AI index by Tortoise Media.

Director Digital Inception United Arab Emirates Multi-award-winning educator and the first person to host professional development inside VR

Co-Founder & Joint CEO Puch United Kingdom Instrumental in Push winning more Google awards than any other EMEA Premier Partner, and regularly features at key industry events at Google's offices internationally.

VP - Product Management & Strategic Alliances Help AG United Arab Emirates Founding member of Etisalat Digital’s foray into cyber security, played a key role in the successful Etisalat Digital - Help AG Integration, to build Help AG’s future foundation as the de facto Cyber security player in the region

CEO, Middle East Book My Show United Arab Emirates Launched the longest running live streaming show getting 60,000 visitors a week

Co-Founder & CEO QNu Labs India Founder of India's first & only quantum cybersecurity products startup

Regional Head of Global Trade & Receivables Finance, Middle East, North Africa & Turkey HSBC

Former Global Brand & Communications Director, Jetex Official Member, Forbes Communication Council United Arab Emirates Behind placement of the first life-sized private jet mock-up inside Dubai Mall giving Jetex and HondaJet over 23M digital impressions

Business Unit Head Spire Solutions

President The Marketing Society United Kingdom WFA’s top 5 Global CMOs, Forbes 50 Most Influential CMOs, Ad Age’s Women to Watch, Marketing Week’s Vision 100 and Campaign’s Power 100