CREATING A BOLDER DIGITAL FUTURE TOGETHER - AI ...

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CREATINGA BOLDER DIGITAL FUTURE TOGETHER

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Digital Cities x AITelecom 5G

Future Mobility

Fintech& Blockchain

Marketing Mania

Energy & Utilities HealthcareEducation

AI Workshops

Cybersecurity & Security

Blue Stage (Hall 8)

Green Stage(Zabeel Hall 3)

Dark Stage (Hall 1)

The Exchange (Zabeel Hall 4)

Yellow Stage (Zabeel Hall 6)

GITEX Global Leaders Vision

Startups

10X Stage (Zabeel Hall 6)

GITEX Global Leaders Vision

(Trade Centre Arena)

CodeInfinityLeaders in Data ScienceLe Wagon (Python) &

She Loves DataPython Talks

Data Economy Stage (Sheikh Rashid Hall)CONFERENCE STAGES

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CYBERSECURITY

DIGITAL CITIES x Ai

HEALTHCARE

CYBERSECURITY

DIGITAL CITIES x Ai

EDUCATION

CYBERSECURITY

TELECOM 5G

AI WORKSHOPS

CYBERSECURITY

FUTURE MOBILITY

FINTECH FINTECH BLOCKCHAIN BLOCKCHAIN

STARTUPS STARTUPS TIE WOMEN PITCH COMPETITION SUPERNOVA

MARKETING MARKETING MARKETING MARKETING

GITEX Global 2021 will combine six shows in one. These six shows include GITEX Global, GITEX Future Stars, Ai Everything, Future Blockchain Summit, Fintech Surge, and Marketing Mania. The conference has combined all shows, and been split into sector tracks. The following are the tracks that are

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Marking the UAE’s Golden Jubilee, GITEX Global mobilises the pioneering tech visions, initiatives and collaborations of government leaderships across the Middle East and African continent. Our inaugural Visions programme will drive and expand on the emergence of fiercely innovative economies across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Africa.

VISIONS - AFRICAVISIONS – KINGDOM OF SAUDI

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MY The data revolution that has altered business, society and the world as we know it moves ahead will decisive pace at GITEX 2021. Sharing

insights into data scientism, coding, development along with lives hacks, Data Economy will run across four days at the show, and run the following programmes:

PYTHON TALKSCODEINFINITY LEADERS IN DATA SCIENCE

Blue Stage, Hall 8

Dark Stage, Hall 1

Green Stage, Zabeel Hall 3

The Exchange, Zabeel Hall 4

10X Stage, Zabeel Hall 6

Yellow Stage, Zabeel Hall 6

GITEX Global Leaders Vision, Trade Centre Arena

Data Economy Stage, Sheikh Rashid Hall

LE WAGON (PYTHON) & SHE LOVES DATA

20 Oct, Wednesday

11:00 – 17:00

17 Oct, Sunday

13:00 – 17:00

18 Oct, Monday

11:00 – 17:0019 Oct, Tuesday

11:00 – 17:00DWTC Venue

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CREATING A BOLDERDIGITAL FUTURE

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D I G I TA L C I T I E S x A I S P E A K E R S 17 - 18 OCT | 11:00 – 17:00 | ZABEEL HALL 3 – GREEN STAGETHO MAS DE BAS S

MD & Chief Partnerships

Officer, US Dept of State

USA

WEI LI

VP & GM of ML Performance,

Intel Corporation

USA

DR. SIMON SEE

Global Head – Nvidia AI

Technology Centre, Nvidia

Singapore

DR. SETH DOBRIN

Global Chief AI Officer , IBM

USA

DR. DANIELA RUS

Director of Computer

Science & Artificial

Intelligence Laboratory,

Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (MIT) USA

CESAR LOPEZ

CEO, Datumcon

UAEAHME D AL HUJ AI RY

Senior Board Advisor, Bahrain

Technologies Companies Society

Bahrain

ELENA SINEL

Founder & CEO

Teens in AI

UK

DR. MIHAILO JOVANOVIC,

CIO, Government of the

Republic of Serbia

Serbia

PIERO PELIZZARO Chief

Resilience Officer, City of Milan

Italy

FRANCESCO FERRERO

Director, Luxembourg Institute

of Science and Technology

(LIST)

LUXEMBOURG

DALAL BUHEJI

Executive Director,

Investment Origination,

Bahrain Economic

Development Board

BAHRAIN

TANNYA JALAL

Tech Evangelist, Futurist &

Author, Expert Technology

Contributor, Forbes Middle

East

UAE

OTT VELSBERG

Government Chief Data Officer,

Estonian Ministry of Economic

Affairs & Communications

ESTONIA

PROF. ERIC XING

President, Mohamed bin

Zayed University of

Artificial Intelligence

(MBZUAI)

UAE

ANA CHUBINIDZE

Social Scientist & Founder, AI

Governance International &

Founder & CEO of Adalan AI

Germany

HIS EXCELLENCY OMAR

SULTAN AL OLAMA

Minister of State for Artificial

Intelligence, Digital Economy &

Remote Work Applications

UAE

SAFDER NAZIR

Senior VP – Digital Industries,

Huawei

UAE

GEORGE BOU MITRIPresident and General

Manager, Honeywell Building

Technologies, Middle East,

Turkey and Africa

UAE

MARTA A. TO MO V S KA

Director for Public Administration

Reform and eGovernment, Office

of the Prime Minister

Serbia

DR. HENDRIK

WITT

Chief Product Officer,

TeamViewer

GERMANY

DR. GUY DIEDRICH

Global Innovation Officer,

CISCO

USA

SIMON HARRISON

SVP & CMO, Avaya

FARHAN SYED

Partner and Head of

Advisory, KPMG

MESA and Lower

Gulf (UAE)

UAE

SHERIF KINAWY

Head of Network

Design and

Optimization, Ericsson

UAE

HIREN AMIN

Lead Partner for

Data & Analytics at

KPMG Lower GulfUAE

NOOR ALNAHHAS

CEO, Nybl

UAE

JENNIFER BELISSENT

Principal Data Strategist, Snowflake

FRANCE

ANTONIO BOCIGAS

EMEA Telco Director

Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions

Group

SPAIN

FLAVIO DEVIDE’

OEM Sales Director – Global

Accounts,

Lenovo Intelligent Solutions

Devices Group

ITALY

JESPER FREDRICK

GOTTLIEB

Vice President, Nuuday

DENMARK

NATASHA

D’SOUZA

Journalist &

Contributing Writer,

Harvard Business

Review

UAE

D I G I TA L C I T I E S x A I S P E A K E R S 17 - 18 OCT | 11:00 – 17:00 | ZABEEL HALL 3 – GREEN STAGE

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Strategy & Innovation Advisor,

U.S. Special Operations

Command (USSOCOM), SVP

Emerging Tech Insights, KnowBe4

USA

KEIRIN LEE

Partner, AT

Kearney

UAE

JULIEN

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Azure Business

Lead for Middle

East and Africa

UAE

Thomas Debass

MD & Chief Partnerships Officer, US Dept of State (USA)Promoter of public private partnerships as a tool for advancing foreign policy and development objectives

Daniela Rus

Director of computer science & artificial intelligence laboratory MIT (USA)

Forbes 2017 “Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research” list, ground-breaking

work in creating drone swarms that mimic human behaviours

Dr. Seth Dobrin

Global Chief Ai Officer, IBM (USA)

Creator of the IBM Data Science Elite team, featured by Forbes, that has successfully

executed, operationalized & scaled AI, has also led the globally acclaimed digital

transformation of IBM's Cloud and Cognitive Software business as Chief Data Officer

Prof. Eric Xing

President, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) (UAE)

Leads the world's first graduate-level, research-based artificial intelligence (AI)

university, Developer of the Petuum framework for distributed machine learning

Moderator: Tannya Jajal

Tech Evangelist, Futurist & Author, Expert Technology Contributor, Forbes Middle East

(UAE)

UAE Chapter Lead - Women in Tech, Winner of WomenTech Network “Rising Star in

STEM”, AI Expert at the AI Policy Exchange

13.50

15.10

DIGITAL C I T I E S x A I A G E N D A 17 OCT, SUNDAY |13:00 – 17:00 | ZABEEL HALL 3 – GREEN STAGE

14.10

14.50

14.30

Safder Nazir

Senior VP – Digital Industries, Huawei (UAE)

Advisory Board Member for several Smart City & National Digital Transformation Programs

15.30

15.50

Dr. Guy Diedrich

VP & Global Innovation Officer CISCO (USA)

Drives the Country Digital Acceleration Program for over 40 countries globally,

FIRESIDE PROVOCATIVE TALK AI singularity: Are we creating human race’s greatest and last accomplishment?

Keynote: Moving towards a 21st century government workforce using AI

Antonio Bocigas EMEA Telco Director, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group

(Spain)

An expert to develop IoT, Cloud, NFV projects to achieve digital transformation

Flavio Devide’ OEM Sales Director – Global Accounts, Lenovo Intelligent Solutions

Devices Group (Italy)

An expert across safety & security, manufacturing and retail

Is smart sustainable?

AI for industrial facilities: How does computer vision enhance HSE

Edge transforming to cloud: Business outcomes at the edge

Accelerating AI transformation for digital and cognitive cities

Dr. Simon See

Global Head – Nvidia Ai Technology Centre (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

Daniela Rus

Director of Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT (USA)

2017 “Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research” list, ground-breaking work in creating

drone swarms that mimic human behaviours

Empowering Digital Cities with Robots and AI : Opportunities and Perils13.30

13.00

Cesar Lopez

CEO, Datumcon (UAE)Winner of MIT 35 award, deployed over 8000 UAV sensor flights across 30 locations in South America

16.25 End of day

Overcoming bias in AI: A step towards building truly inclusive communities

MC & CHAIRPERSON’S REMARKS

Stage moderator - Tannya Jajal

Tech Evangelist, Futurist & Author, Expert Technology Contributor, Forbes Middle East

(UAE)

UAE Chapter Lead - Women in Tech, Winner of WomenTech Network “Rising Star in

STEM”, AI Expert at the AI Policy Exchange

Audience moderator - Lydia Kostopoulous

Strategy & Innovation Advisor, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), SVP

Emerging Tech Insights, KnowBe4 (USA)

Works with military organizations, diplomatic entities, multi-national organizations and

universities to help them understand emerging technologies, manage risk and

strategize on a future roadmap to thrive in changing times. She also has her own

fashion label Empowering Workwear and makes art about artificial intelligence

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OPENING WELCOME NOTE

His Excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama

Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy & Remote Work

Applications (UAE)

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Wei LiVP & GM of ML Performance, Intel Corporation (USA)

His efforts are instrumental in Intel’s multi $Billion AI revenue growth

11.00

.Farhan Syed Partner and Head of Advisory, KPMG MESA and Lower Gulf (UAE)

Is deeply involved with KPMG Lighthouse, KPMG’s Center of Excellence for data-driven technology, which strives

to take a business-first approach to advise companies on digitalization and transformation

Marta A. TomovskaDirector for Public Administration Reform and eGovernment, Office of the Prime Minister of Serbia (Serbia)

Certified by the UN’s ITU for building national digital innovation ecosystems, is now advising governments,

organizations and corporations on digital transformation and innovation

11.20

13.10 NETWORKING LUNCH

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12.50

Dr. Hendrik WittChief Product Officer, TeamViewer (Germany)

One of the co-founders of Ubimax that innovated augmented reality in the world

Ana ChubinidzeSocial Scientist & Founder , AI Governance International & Founder & CEO of Adalan AI (Germany)

Member of the European AI Alliance, by European Commission that influences its AI ethics guidelines

Jennifer BelissentPrincipal Data Strategist, Snowflake (France)

Data Economy Evangelist, Data Literacy Advocate and Former Forrester Analyst helping organizations deliver value from data

Julien BertinAzure Business Lead for Middle East and Africa, Microsoft MEA

Ahmed Al HujarySenior Board Advisor, Bahrain Technologies Companies Society (Bahrain)Founder and Secretary General of the Arab ICT Union

Hiren AminPartner and Head of Data and Analytics, KPMG Lower Gulf

Specializes in assisting private sector CFO’s and CIO’s to deliver large, complex Analytics projects to improve enterprise performance

Moderated by: Elena SinelFounder, Teens in AI (UK)

50 Computer Weekly most influential women in UK technology 2019

15.50

Serbian case study: Proactive AI and not provocative AI: Bypassing governance inefficiencies

AI for good: Only when its scalable 15.10 Panel discussion: AI for peace and prosperity of digital cities: Are multiple AI frameworks our biggest challenge ahead?

11.40

12.00 Panel discussion: Overcoming hurdles to transform into cognitive cities

Dr. Mihailo JovanovicCIO, Government of the Republic of Serbia

Award winning technology and digital transformation expert

Piero PelizzaroChief Resilience Office, City of Milan (Italy)

Global urban resilience specialist of leading Italian Smart City projects

Sherif Kinawy Head of Network Design and Optimization

Ericsson

The man who established the Analytics and AI Hub in MMEA

Moderator - Natasha D’SouzaJournalist & Contributing Writer, Harvard Business Review (UAE)

A journalist a speaker, a firebrand. This former corporate warrior spent over 10 years working with the top brass in

business, media, healthcare and government in three countries across three continents, is a sought-after

international conference chair and moderator.

12.30

Simon Harrison SVP & CMO, Avaya

Jesper Frederik Gottlieb Vice President, Nuuday, Denmark

Leading Nuuday’s CX strategy for the YouSee brand, aiming to transform the customer experience by

providing a 24/7 conversational UI infused world class customer service and sales experience

Augmenting your Frontline Workforce: Optimize Efficiency Potentials Using AR, AI, and IoT

Democratization of AI: The future of smart cities with AI applications

Noor AlnahhasCEO, Nybl (UAE)

An expert who delivers a science-based ML platform that turns mountains of underutilized data into

actionable intelligence

14.30

Dalal BuhejjiExecutive Director, Investment Origination, Bahrain Economic Development Board

Heads the responsibility of sourcing and attracting high value investments into the Kingdom of

Bahrain from Europe and the Americas

In conversation withModerated by: Natasha D’SouzaJournalist & Contributing Writer, Harvard Business Review (UAE)

A journalist a speaker, a firebrand. This former corporate warrior spent over 10 years working with the top

brass in business, media, healthcare and government in three countries across three continents, is a

sought-after international conference chair and moderator.

Fireside chat: Unveiling the era of innovation for digital economies to thrive

The Luxembourg case study: Making the entire nation a digital test-bed

Francesco FerreroDirector, IT for Innovation Services Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

(Luxembourg) Leads the team that is building the first digital twin of an entire nation

George Bou Mitri, President and General Manager, Honeywell Building Technologies, Middle East,

Turkey and Africa

Actively oversees the overall HBT operations concerning Honeywell’s Internet of Things (IoT) enabled hardware

and software solutions for buildings

16.10

SMART CITY CASE STUDY: NEW CAIRO CITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Fireside chat: AI powered experiences everywhere

The evolution to AI: A path to a smarter future

10.55

16.30 End of day

14.50

WELCOME NOTES BY MC & CHAIRPERSON

Stage moderator - Natasha D’SouzaJournalist & Contributing Writer, Harvard Business Review (UAE)

A journalist a speaker, a firebrand. This former corporate warrior spent over 10 years working with the top brass

in business, media, healthcare and government in three countries across three continents, is a sought-after

international conference chair and moderator.

Audience moderator - Lydia KostopoulousStrategy & Innovation Advisor, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), SVP Emerging Tech

Insights, KnowBe4 (USA)

Works with military organizations, diplomatic entities, multi-national organizations and universities to help

them understand emerging technologies, manage risk and strategize on a future roadmap to thrive in

changing times. She also has her own fashion label Empowering Workwear and makes art about artificial

intelligence

Keirin LeePartner, AT Kearney (UAE)

Ott VelsbergGovernment Chief Data Officer, Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs & Communications (Estonia)

Managing data for Estonian e citizenship, for citizen from 165 countries including e-citizenship of Barrack

Obama

AI ethics: Balacing the potential and ethical implications

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DIGITAL C I T I E S x A I A G E N D A 18 OCT, MONDAY |11:00 – 17:00 | ZABEEL HALL 3 – GREEN STAGE

ALEX SOTO BUENO

Director of Developer Experience, Red

Hat

USA

SEBASTIEN BLANC

Director of Developer Experience, Red

Hat

FRANCE

CODEINFINITY 17 OCT SUNDAY|13:00 – 17:00 | RASHID HALL – DATA ECONOMY STAGE

ALEX COSERU

VP of Engineering, Ocean Protocol

SINGAPORE

ADIR RON

Cloud Application & Innovation

Lead for Middle East & Africa,

Microsoft

ISRAEL

GUILLERMO RUIZ

Head of DevRel, Oracle

SPAIN

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Connection Science Fellow, MIT

Connection Science

USA

Guillermo Ruiz

Head of DevRel, Oracle (Spain)Guillermo is Head of DevRel at Oracle, aka Chief Trouble Making Officer. G loves breaking things and finding new ways of doing stuff.

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Adir Ron

Cloud Application & Innovation Lead for Middle East & Africa, Microsoft (Israel)

Adir Ron is the Cloud Application & Innovation Lead for Middle East & Africa in Microsoft. In his role, Adir is responsible for leading the Cloud Native strategy for Microsoft in Middle East and Africa, cultivate key partnerships across Azure Application Platform & GitHub and drive innovation practices for developers, entrepreneurs, startups and open source communities in the region.

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13.00

Alex Soto Bueno

Director of Developer Experience, Red Hat (USA)

Co-author of the books Testing Java Microservices and Quarkus Cookbook and contributor to several open

source projects

Sebastian Blanc

Director of Developer Experience, Red Hat (France)

Developer with one primary goal: share his passion by giving talks that are pragmatic, fun, and focused on

live coding

16.00

15.00

Alex Coseru

VP of Engineering, Ocean Protocol (Singapore)

Engineering a marketplace that enables intuitive publishing and consumption of data, with a user-friendly UI to help with onboarding

OCEAN PROTOCOL: BLOCKCHAIN DEVOPS

RED HAT: CLOUD DEVOPS

MODERATOR REMARKS11.45

ORACLE: Using Microservices in Behavioral Economics and User Sentiment Analysis

MICROSOFT: DEVELOPER CLOUD

CODEINFINITY AGENDA 17 OCT SUNDAY|13:00 – 17:00 | RASHID HALL – DATA ECONOMY STAGE

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Joel Dietz

Connection Science Fellow, MIT Connection Science (USA)

TALA HAMMASH

Director of Admissions & Enrollment,

New York University of Abu Dhabi

UAE

DR. SHAMEER KHADER

Senior Director of AI, Astra Zeneca

USA

DR WAFAE BAKKALI

Senior AI & Data Scientist, Groupe

Credit Agricole

FRANCE

OTT VELSBERG

Government Chief Data Officer,

Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs

& Communications

ESTONIA

BRUCE PON

Co-Founder & Board Member,

Ocean Protocol

SINGAPORE

KOO PING SHUNG

President, AI Professionals

Association

SINGAPORE

WILLIAM THOMPSON

Chief Strategy Officer, Forbes Ignite

USA

DATA ECONOMY – LEADERS IN DATA SCIENCE - S P E A K E R S 18 OCT|11:00 – 17:30 | RASHID HALL – DATA ECONOMY STAGE

DR. SETH DOBRIN

Global Chief AI Officer , IBM

USA

ANDREA GALLEGO

BCG GAMMA CTO; Managing

Director & Partner, Boston

Consulting Group

USA

RAJA BAZ

Deputy CTO, Anghami

UAE

ALEXANDER

WILLIAMS

Director of Future Economy,

Department of Economic

Development Dubai

UAE

DINA MOHAMMAD

LAITY

Independent Data Advisor and ex

Director of Data Science, Talabat

UAE

HIS EXCELLENCY

YOUNUS AL NASSER

Assistant Director General Digital

Dubai & CEO, Dubai Data

Establishment

UAE

YASSER ALTOWIM

Assistant Director of the National

Data Bank, National Information

Center (NIC)

SAUDI ARABIA

DALAL BUHEJI

Executive Director, Investment

Origination, Bahrain Economic

Development Board

BAHRAIN

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HIS EXCELLENCY OMAR

SULTAN AL OLAMA

Minister of State for Artificial

Intelligence, Digital Economy &

Remote Work Applications

UAE

NUNO AMARAL DE

FREITAS

Ex Director of Strategy & Analytics,

Kitch & CEO & Founder, Dotlas

USA

SIMON HARRISON

SVP & CMO, Avaya

TAMER

ABDELFATTAH

Head of IoT & AI Division,

Ingram Micro Middle East,

Turkey, and Africa

UAE

MASSIMO CANNIZZO

CEO & Co-Founder, Gellify Middle

East

UAE

JENNIFER BELISSENT

Principal Data Strategist, Snowflake

FRANCE

VISHAL SONI

Data Evangelist, Alteryx

UAE


NICOLE CACAL

Professor at Parsons School of

Design & Founder & CEO, Forbes

Ignite

USA

SACHIN KUMAR

Senior Data Scientist, Emirates

UAE

NIKET DOSHI

Senior Data Scientist, Emirates

UAE

NAVEED MEMON

Program Director, Emirates

UAE

HOSEB DERMANILIAN

Global Head of AI & Analytics,

NetApp

USA

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Global AI Lead and Solicitor

Advocate, Simmons & Simmons

and Chair of Society for Computers

and Law (SCL) AI Group

UK

His Excellency Younus Al Nasser

Assistant Director General Digital Dubai & CEO, Dubai Data Establishment (UAE)

Launched Dubai Pulse; the first fully-integrated platform considered as the backbone of smart digital transformation

in Dubai

Dr. Shameer KhaderSenior Director of AI, Astra Zeneca(USA)

Voted in the top 100 AI leaders in drug development using AI, as per Forbes

Tala HammashDirector of Admissions & Enrollment, New York University of Abu Dhabi (UAE)

Responsible for digital transformation of the programming portfolio for admissions at NYU

Hoseb DermanilianGlobal Head of AI & Analytics, NetApp (USA)

Responsible of leading NetApp’s AI and Digital Transformation business globally

Moderated by: William Thompson Chief Strategy Officer, Forbes Insight (USA)

Driving initiatives for Purposeful AI and key advisor to Global 2000 corporations and venture backed start ups on

communicating to C level executives about digital technologies and transformation

Dr. Wafae BakkaliSenior AI & Data Scientist , Groupe Credit Agricole (France)

Developing data and AI use cases and activities for the largest retail and agriculture funding banks from

France

11.15

11.30

Fireside chat: Data analytics with cross sector applications

11.45

12.05

12.25

13.15 NETWORKING LUNCH

14.00

14.30

Ott VelsbergGovernment Chief Data Officer, Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs & Communications (Estonia)

Managing data for Estonian e citizenship, for citizen from 165 countries including e-citizenship of Barrack

Obama

Estonian case study: Proactive use of machine learning and data analytics with cross sector applications

Panel discussion: Tackling AI bias: How is data interpreted across departments?

Bruce PonCo-Founder & Board Member, Ocean Protocol (Singapore)

A pioneer of the Web3 Data Economy & expert that helped build 20 banks globally for Mercedes Benz,

Volkswagen, Mitsubishi & Jaguar Land Rover

How ocean advances AI, research and the data economy14.50

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Simon HarrisonSVP & CMO, Avaya

The evolution of the AI & data scientist job

Keynote: The future of Dubai’s data eco-system

How snowflake data cloud is helping Emirates in recovering from covid, faster than their competition

Dr. Seth DobrinGlobal Chief Ai Officer, IBM (USA)

Creator of the IBM Data Science Elite team, featured by Forbes, that has successfully executed, operationalized &

scaled AI, has also led the globally acclaimed digital transformation of IBM's Cloud and Cognitive Software business

as Chief Data Officer

Keynote: AI is human centered

Low or no code: How Great Cities Will Reimagine the Work Experience

10:50 Chairperson’s and MCs opening remarks Tamer AbdelFattahHead of IoT & AI Division, Ingram Micro Middle East, Turkey, and Africa

Leads the AI and IoT business, managing business of mainstream and emerging technologies

Yasser AltowimAssistant Director of the National Data Bank, National Information Center (NIC) (Saudi Arabia)

An expert in the domains of big data, data quality, and social media analysis

Massimo CannizzoCEO, Co-founder, Gellify, Middle East

A digital strategy advisor to the C-suite and a technology innovation entrepreneur


12.55

Raja Baz Deputy CTO, Anghami (UAE)

Anghami’s AI and ML algorithms currently process 56 million data points each day

Recommender systems for the Arab world

Stage moderator - William Thompson Chief Strategy Officer, Forbes Insight (USA)



Audience moderator - Nicole Cacal

Professor at Parsons School of Design & Founder & CEO, Forbes Ignite



Naveed MemonProgram Director, Emirates (UAE)

Leader of the Data and Analytics program at Emirates

Sachin KumarSenior Data Scientist, Emirates (UAE)

Passionate about building, scaling and productionizing AI/ML software’s

Niket DoshiSenior Data Scientist, Emirates (UAE)

Experienced data scientist with a great track record of putting scalable machine learning solutions

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11.00 WELCOME ADDRESS

Moderated by: Andrea GallegoBCG GAMMA CTO; Managing Director & Partner, Boston Consulting Group, (USA) Named by Forbes in the list of Top Women defining AI in the 21st century

Minesh TannaGlobal AI Lead and Solicitor Advocate, Simmons & Simmons and Chair of Society for Computers and

Law (SCL) AI Group

Invited to Chair inaugural SCL AI Group and regular speaker on AI-related legal, regulatory and ethical

AI issues (including on behalf of United Nations)

His Excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama

Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy & Remote Work

Applications (UAE)

Dina Mohammad Laity Independent Data Advisor & ex Talabat Director of Data Science, (UAE)

While at Talabat, used AI and data science to become the region's largest food and grocery delivery app with a network of 24800

restaurants and 44,675 branches delivering in less than 30 minutes

Nuno Amral De Freitas Ex Director of Strategy & Analytics, Kitch & CEO & Founder, Dotlas

An ex Global Head of Analytics for Careem, was responsible for transforming the F&B industry with the concept kitchens on the cloud,

secured $15 million investment in 2021 to expand in UAE and Saudi Arabia

Jennifer BelissentPrincipal Data Strategist, Snowflake (France)

Data Economy Evangelist, Data Literacy Advocate and Former Forrester Analyst helping organizations deliver value from data

Vishal SoniData Evangelist, Alteryx (UAE)

Helps guide digital transformation and help organisations with their data strategies

Moderator: William Thompson Chief Strategy Officer, Forbes Insight (USA)

Driving initiatives for Purposeful AI and key advisor to Global 2000 corporations and venture backed start ups on communicating to C

level executives about digital technologies and transformation

16:00 – 16:30 PANEL DISCUSSION ON DATA-DRIVEN ECONOMIC REASONING15.30

Koo Ping ShungPresident, AI Professionals Association (Singapore)

Co founder of DataScience.Sg , a 10,000 strong AI and data scientists community in Singapore, building general

AI to continue developing a smart nation

Alexander WilliamsDirector of Future Economy, Department of Economic Development Dubai (UAE)

deep experience and expertise in future sense making, technology start-ups & SME development, lifecycle

dynamics of firm growth, and economic, industrial & skills development policies for national development

Moderated by:

Dalal BuhejjiExecutive Director, Investment Origination, Bahrain Economic Development Board

Heads the responsibility of sourcing and attracting high value investments into the Kingdom of Bahrain from

Europe and the Americas

Fireside chat: Making nations data-centric


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Data Analytics with PythonDescription:

In this workshop, you will discover the basics of programming with Python and

will be quickly immersed in the daily life of a Data Analyst through concrete

business cases using datasets from the real world.

Who is it for?

Any industry or jobs, beginner programmers and tech enthusiasts

Key takeaways:

• Learn to make your data speak with Python

• Determine how to code your own data applications to advance your career

• Learn programming in Python, how to work with Jupyter Notebook and to use

powerful Python libraries like Pandas and NumPy to explore and analyze big

data sets

Duration: 2h

Level: intermediate-advanced levels in Python.

Le Wagon is the world’s most acclaimed coding bootcamp, with an average grade of 4.98/5 according to 1900+ student reviews on Switchup. Le Wagon helps students re-invent their career with technology, through immersive bootcamps in Web Development and Data Science.

CERTIFIED WORKSHOP

Tarig Bouazzati, Teacher, Le Wagon (Belgium)

Passionate about high end technologies, he has always been willing to understand and build tools that solve real life problems. Since graduating from le Wagon in November 2018, he is relentlessly working towards achieving that goal. Being a Teacher allows him to share this passion and knowledge with others. The launch of his AI application in sales coaching AMDA pi (amdapi.com) pushes him to apply that knowledge and have an impact at a very large scale!

WORKSHOP LEADER

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STAGE

Pavel

Bulowski

Co-Founder, She

Loves Data; Co-

Founder and CMO,

Meiro CDP

SINGAPORE

Rola Abu

Maneh,

CEO, Standard

Chartered Bank

UAE

Raja Al

Mazrouei, Executive Vice President,

DIFC FinTech Hive

UAE

Emma

Johnson

Head of Responsible

AI, Standard Chartered

Bank

UAE

Begum

Saygecitli

Middle East Chapter

Co-Lead, She Loves

Data, Azure

Infrastructure Lead at

Microsoft MEA

Qatar

Althea

Davis

Managing Partner

and CDO, Turn

Key Technologies

UAE

Anna

Roberts

CEO, AchievHer

UAE

Shradha

Dhupar

Talent Strategy

and Learning

Lead, Accenture

UAE

Komal

Kaundal

Middle East

Chapter Co-Lead,

She Loves Data,

Director, Digital

Client Solution

Sales at Standard

Chartered Bank

UAE

Xavier

Anglada

MD & Innovation Lead

Middle East,

Accenture

UAE

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GM, Reprise Digital

UAE

14.00

14.30

DATA ECONOMY – WOMEN IN DATA & AI BY SHE LOVES DATA Agenda 19 OCT|14:00–17:00 | RASHID HALL–DATA ECONOMY

STAGE

WELCOME & KEYNOTE SPEECH

Pavel Bulowski

Co-Founder, She Loves Data; Co-Founder and CMO, Meiro CDP (Singapore)

A champion of bringing more diversity into data analytics and IT by offering volunteer driven, free of charge courses for women; Winner of the “Male Ally of the Year” at Women in IT 2020 Asia Awards

Rola Abu Maneh

CEO, Standard Chartered Bank (UAE)

Forbes Middle East's Top 10 most successful Emirati Power Businesswomen; Forbes Middle East’s 100 Power Businesswomen

Raja Al Mazrouei

Executive Vice President, DIFC FinTech Hive (UAE)

Forbes list of top 100 Women in FinTech, the 50 Most Influential Women in Middle East Finance, and the top 100 Power Businesswomen in The Middle East; Influenced over 200 FinTech, RegTech, and InsurTech startups to begin operating in UAE

Xavier Anglada

MD & Innovation Lead Middle East, Accenture

Leads strategy, consulting and innovation for Accenture in the region.

Moderator: Emma Johnson

Head of Responsible AI, Standard Chartered Bank (UAE)

Oversee the deployment of responsible AI in the region

13.00 – 13.45 LAUNCH PRESS CONFERENCE: SHE LOVES DATA PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE TECH LEADERSHIP GAP

15.15 SPEED NETWORKING

16.00 PANEL DISCUSSION: THE TECH SKILLS GAP

16.30 – 17.00 SPEED NETWORKING

Sponsored by DWTC the press conference will officially kick-off the launch of She

Loves Data in the Middle East

Pavel Bulowski

Co-Founder, She Loves Data; Co-Founder and CMO, Meiro CDP (Singapore)

A champion of bringing more diversity into data analytics and IT by offering volunteer driven, free of charge courses for women

Begum Saygecitli

Middle East Chapter Co-Lead, She Loves Data, Azure Infrastructure Lead at Microsoft MEA (Qatar)

Specialized in Customer Insights, CRM, Enterprise Architecture and Analytics with extensive delivery and business development experience

Komal Kaundal

Middle East Chapter Co-Lead, She Loves Data, Director, Digital Client Solution Sales at Standard Chartered

Bank (UAE)

At the forefront of digital banking transformation for several large multinationals

Komal Kaundal

Middle East Chapter Co-Lead, She Loves Data (UAE)


Anna Roberts

CEO, AchieveHer (UAE)

An award winning TV and radio host, has worked with UN Women, the Cherie Blair Foundation, 100 Women in Finance etc

15.30 INTERACTIVE MINI-WORKSHOP ON TECH COMMUNICATION

Stuart McKay

GM, Reprise Digital (UAE)

Delivered complex digital transformation projects across Media, Public Sector, Finance, Retail, Telecoms and Travel

Althea Davis

Managing Partner and CDO, Turn Key Technologies (UAE)

Launched the world's first Chief Data Officer led Data Management Consultancy

Shradha Dhupar

Talent Strategy and Learning Lead , Accenture

Work with the leadership team to develop the Human Capital Strategy for the region

Begum Saygecitli

Middle East Chapter Co-Lead, Azure Infrastructure Lead at Microsoft MEA, She Loves Data


Begum Saygecitli

Middle East Chapter Co-Lead, Azure Infrastructure Lead at Microsoft MEA She Loves

Data


Komal Kaundal

Middle East Chapter Co-Lead, She Loves Data, Director, Digital Client Solution Sales at

Standard Chartered Bank (UAE)


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Senior Data Scientist at

Archipelo, & DS

lecturer, Middlesex

University Dubai

UAE

DATA ECONOMY – Python Talks - S P E A K E R S 20 OCT|11:00 – 16:30 | RASHID HALL – DATA ECONOMY STAGE

DIMITRIY DOVGAN

Head of Data Science, Al

Futtaim Group

UAE

DIMITRIY

DENISOV

Senior Data

Scientist,

Careem

UAE

OLEKSII

REUTOV

Data Science

Engineering

Manager, SoftServe

UKRAINE

SEBASTIAN

RAMIREZ MONTANO

Creator, FastAPI

GERMANY

DAVID MERTZ

Keynote speaker for PyCon

events & Senior Python

Trainer, KDM Training

USA

SHILPA KARKERAA

CEO & Founder, Myra

Technologies

SINGAPORE

AMIT ANDRE

CEO & Founder, Data

Tech Labs

INDIA

Supported by

MOHAMMED

RAGAB

Head of Network &

Security, Sharjah

Economic

Development

UAE

MICHAEL FOORD

Python Trainer, Consultant

& Contractor Agile

Abstractions

UK

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David Mertz

Keynote speaker for PyCon events & Senior Python trainer, KDM Training (USA)A regular keynote speaker at PyCon events globally, his My _Charming Python_ column was the mostly widely read discussion of the Python programming language worldwide for a number of years

11.25

11.50

LUNCH

11.00 Generative adversarial networks with Python

DATA ECONOMY – Python Talks Agenda 20 OCT 11:00 – 16:30 RASHID HALL – DATA ECONOMY STAGE

Multi-label Classification through Hierarchical Clustering

Dr. Ivan Reznikov

Senior Data Scientist at Archipelo USA, & DS lecturer, Middlesex University DubaiA Python coding expert with numerous data science projects

13.05

10.50 WELCOME REMARKS BY MC & EVENT CHAIRPERSON

Space Science with Python & Natural Language Processing

12.15

Dmitriy Denisov

Senior Data Scientist,

Careem (UAE)Expert in fraud prevention using machine learning and deep learning

Python: Dangerous Pickle

12.40 The pitfalls of time-series forecasting in retail using Python

Dmitriy Dovgan

Head of Data Science,

Al Futtaim Group (UAE)An expert in data-driven solutions through utilizing cloud technologies and advanced techniques to deliver ML products

14.50 Leverage Python in the healthcare sector with AI & blockchain

Shilpa Karkeraa

CEO & Founder, Myraa Technologies (Singapore)Global top 20 Goldman Sachs Growth Fellow 2021, Linked 300 open source projects in healthcare using Python for clinical trials and patient profiles; PyCon APAC keynote speaker

15.40 –

16:00

CLOSING REMARKS AND SUMMARY FOR THE DAY, PLANS FOR 2022

14.00 AI for inventory management in 2 months: Tips and tricks

Okseii Reutov

Data Science Engineering Manager, SoftServe (Ukraine)Lead the delivery of the project "Tuned application for customer-centricity in retail“ in a major Dubai based conglomerate

Building recommender engine using Python14.25

15.15Modern Python through FastAPI and friends

Sebastián Ramírez Montaño

Creator, FastAPI (Germany)

Creator of the FastAPI used by Netflix and Uber & was rated as the third most loved web framework in StackOverflow 2021 Developer Survey

Dr. Amit Andre

CEO & Founder, Data Tech LabsA regular keynote speaker at PyCon events globally, his My _Charming Best innovation award 2017 for efficiently developing leadership summit with world’s thinker 50 speakers

Mohammed Ragab

Head of Network & Security, Sharjah Economic Development Department (UAE)

Implemented and done tens of projects that have saved time and efforts and boosted the digital transformation journey of SEDD

Michael Foord

Python Trainer, Consultant & Contractor, Agile AbstractionsOne of the most revered Python trainers in the world, is developing free and open source software, used by members of the Python and open source communities; Regular speaker at PyCon, EuroPython and PyCon UK

Michael Foord

Python Trainer, Consultant & Contractor, Agile AbstractionsOne of the most revered Python trainers in the world, is developing free and open source software, used by members of the Python and open source communities; Regular speaker at PyCon, EuroPython and PyCon UK

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FUTURE TOGETHER

ANTO NI O

S AN F I L I P P O

Chief Scientist & Program

Director, Qatar

Foundation

QATAR

DR SATYAM

P RI YADARS H Y

MD & Chief Data Scientist

Officer, Halliburton

USA

S HACKY T I MBURWA

Chief Executive Officer,

Energy Plus Group,

ZIMBABWE

DR. ABE D

BE NAI CHO UCHE

Chief Technology

Officer, AIQ (JV

between ADNOC &

Group 42)

UAE

J ALAL ZAI TO O NI

Regional Director,

Aljoodi Technologies

UAE

ENERGY & UTIL IT IES - SPEAKERS 17 OCT, SUNDAY | 13:00 – 17:00 | HALL 8 BLUE STAGE

O G UTU O KUDO

Country Manager,

SpringRock Group,

KENYA

AME L CHADLI

Vice President Strategy &

Digital Energy for Middle

East & Africa, Schneider

Electric

UAE

NAS RI

NAS S E RE DDI NE

Regional Director,

Government, Energy &

Utilities, Software AG

UAE

KHALE D AL BLO O S HI

VP Digital Projects &

Innovation, ADNOC Group,

UAE

Forbes Africa 30 under 30


ANGELO RIGILLO

Head of Enel Innovation

Governance Intelligence and

Partnerships

Enel Group, Italy

CHARLO TTE S AVAG E

Founder, HaiLA

Technologies

CANADA

Forbes 30 under 30 2021

DAYAPARAN IYER

Director Of Information

Technology, Emarat -

Emirates General

Petroleum Corporation

UAE

CHARLOTTE

SKANSTAD

Head of Technologies

and New Businesses,

Middle East and

Africa, Ericsson

George Eapen

Group Chief Information

Officer, Petrofac

E NG R. BE TTY

UG O NA

Chief Innovation Officer,

Research Technology &

Innovation

Nigerian National

Petroleum Corporation

(NNPC), Nigeria

AHMED AL-JESHI

Regional Director,

HPC & AI - Middle

East, Turkey, & Africa

Intel, Saudi Arabia

ANTONI O

ANTO NUCCI O

Dig i t a l

Tra n s f o rma t i on

D i re c t o r,

I n ja za t Da ta

S ys te m s

EKATERINA SOLNTSEVA

Chief Digital Officer, CDO

Rosatom State Atomic

Energy Corporation,

Russia

BAS I L AL DO S S ARY

Ch ie f E xe cu t i ve

O f f i ce r

ATI NUM

12.50

13:20

14.05

14:45

Engr. Betty Ugona, Chief Innovation Officer, Research Technology & Innovation,

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)

Basil Al Dossary, Chief Executive Officer. ATINUM

Shacky Timburwa, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Plus Group, ZIMBABWE


Charlotte Savage, Founder, HaiLA Technologies, CANADA

Forbes 30 under 30

Antonio Antonuccio, Digital Transformation Director, Injazat Data Systems

Moderator Dr Satyam Priyadarshy, MD & Chief Data Scientist Officer, Halliburton USA

One of the top 50 leaders listed movers and shakers in Data and Analytics in US and

Canada (Corinium Global Intelligence.

ENERGY & UTIL IT IES 17 OCT, SUNDAY | 13:00 – 17:00 | HALL 8 – BLUE STAGE

Ogutu Okudo, Country Manager, SpringRock Group, KENYA

Advisor to President of Kenya, Former Advisor to Ministry of Energy


Khaled Al Blooshi, Vice President, Digital Projects & Innovation, Digital

Projects & Innovation Division, ADNOC Group, UAE

Khaled is leading ADNOC’s Digital Transformation program, has led the

development of Panorama, ADNOC's Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Center, the

Digital Twin modeling tool that helped ADNOC to successfully handle the Covid 19

pandemic.

Moderator

Nasri Nassereddine, Regional Director, Government, Energy & Utilities,

Software AG .UAE

Heads regional Sales for the second largest software vendor in Germany, and the

seventh largest in Europe

Leveraging AI for Effective Management of Renewable Energy Assets

Antonio Sanfilippo, Chief Scientist & Program Director, Qatar Foundation

Dr. Sanfilippo is applying AI and other emerging technologies in energy management to

help Qatar achieve its renewable energy adoption targets

.

Augmented AI: The Critical Aspect for The Energy Sector

Dr Satyam Priyadarshi, MD & Chief Data Scientist Officer, Halliburton USA

One of the top 50 leaders listed movers and shakers in Data and Analytics in US and

Canada (Corinium Global Intelligence)

Electricity 4.0: Promoting Sustainability and Efficiency Through Smart Grid

Technology

Amel Chadli, Vice President Strategy & Digital Energy Middle East & Africa,

Schneider Electric UAE

13.45

Innovate or fade away. Innovate to be sustainable

Angelo Rigillo, Head of Enel Innovation Governance Intelligence and Partnerships

, Enel Group, Italy

One of the Top five companies of Fortune magazine’s “Change the World” list 2021

14.25

Presentation: Energy Management & Savings

Opening Remarks by Conference Chairperson Charlotte Savage, Founder, HaiLA Technologies, CANADA

Fire Side Chat: Digital twinning is winning

Global Spotlight: Innovate or Perish

Showcase: Augmented AI

15:00

Presentation 13:00

Presentation: Future of AI

The Future of AI : How to better save energy in Commercial Buildings

Jalal Zaitooni, Regional Director, Aljoodi Technologies (UAE)

Pioneered Brainbox AI, a plug-and-play intelligent AI powered HVAC automation system

saving 25-30% of energy month-on-month for major commercial buildings globally

15:50

Hard Talk with the Innovators: Looking at the Brighter Picture with Smart Everything in Energy

Case Study

15:30 Case Study

From Digitization of the nyclear industry to development of digital solutions for

production sectors, cities & nations in partnership with leading IT companies

Ekaterina Solntseva, Chief Digital Officer, CDO Rosatom State Atomic Energy

Corporation, Russia

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The Action Agenda for the Energy Leaders: The Road to Revenue, Returns &

Green Recovery through technology

Dr. Abed Benaichouche, Chief Technology Officer, AIQ (JV between ADNOC &

Group 42), UAE

Spearheads the development of AI applications targeting for the technology and energy

industry

Dayaparan Iyer. Director Of Information Technology, Emarat - Emirates General

Petroleum Corporation, UAE

Leading the digital transformation at Emarat, a Federal Government Corporation

Charlotte Skanstad, Head of Technologies and New Businesses, Middle East and

Africa, Ericsson

George Eapen, Group Chief Information Officer, Petrofac, UAE

Moderator: Ahmed Al-jeshi, Regional Director, HPC & AI - Middle East, Turkey,

& Africa, Intel, Saudi Arabia

17:00

16:10

Closing Remarks by the Conference Chairperson

16:40

Powering Up Energy with Digital

Charlotte Savage, Founder, HaiLA Technologies, CANADA

Forbes 30 under 30

Power Presentation

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HEA LTHCARE - SPEAKERS 18 OCT, MONDAY | 11:00 – 17:00 | HALL 8 BLUE STAGE

AYESHA AL HO S ANI

Team Leader Business Solutions ,

Abu Dhabi Investment Council

(Mubadala Investment Company)

UAE

HRH S AYYI DA BASMA AL

SAIDWhispers of Serenity ClinicOmanOwner and Founder of the

first mental health center in

Oman

DR. S HRI YA SRINIVASAN

Biomedical Engineering Researcher,

MI T, US A

MIT 35 innovators under 35

DR. SHAMEER KHADE R

Senior Director of AI,

AstraZeneca, USA

J O S E P E DRO ALME I DA

Data Intelligence Director, Unilabs

Portugal

PORTUGAL

KONRAD DOBSCHUETZ

Head of Customer Solutions

(Digital) Health Innovation &

BIOME Lead, Novartis

UK

LI G I A KO RNO W S KA

Managing Director, Polish

Hospital Federation

Poland

ENG. AHLAM ALS ARHEE D

Executive Director of Information

Technology, King Fahad Medical City,

Saudi Arabia

V E NE E TH

P URUS HO TAM AN

Group Chief Information

Officer, Aster DM

Healthcare

UAE

DR. N I KO LAS

MAS TRO YI ANNO

P O ULO S

Chief Scientist,

Research and

Innovation

Republic of Cyprus

Dr. RUCHI DANA

Partner & Executive Board Member

DANA Group

UAE

Forbes Middle East Top 50 Power

Businesswomen 2020

P RAN AV V E MPATI

CEO, Makers Hive

India

Forbes Asia 100 to watch

Forbes Asia 30 under 30

DR. PAUL AOUN Chief of Governance,

American Hospital

Dubai

KHALI D ALO DH AI B I

CIO, Medical Services

Department – Ministry of

Defense, Saudi Arabia

DR. HAME D AL

HAS HE MI

Executive Director Strategic

Affairs, Department of Health,

Abu Dhabi

UAE

AS S AAD YAZBE CK

He a l t h ca re & E d u ca t i o n

L e a d , Ava ya

H. E DR. MARYAM MO HD

FATMA MATAR

Fo u n der & Ch a i rpe rson

UAE G e ne t i c D i s e a ses

As s oc i a t i on (UAE G DA)

ATIF CHAUGHTAI

Glo b a l He a l t h ca re

Ma rke t L e a d e r,

Re d Ha t

AHMAD MOURAD

EMEA Sen io r D i rec to r,

S t ra teg ic So lu t ions

Expe r imen ta t ion

Med ica l Dev ices

Johnson & Johnson

SAMIR HAWA

Head of Healthcare,

Middle East & North

Africa (MENA)

Amazon Web Services

(AWS)

PAUL EPPING

Co-Founder and

Chairman Xponential

Conference

Chairperson

Dr. KHALIL RAMADI

Direc tor o f the Labora tory

f o r Advanced

Neuroeng ineer ing and

T rans la t iona l Medic ine

New York Universi ty

(NYU) & Research Fe l low

a t the Massachuset ts

Inst i tute of Technology

(MIT)

MARC -ANTO I NE

ZO RA

G e n e ra l Ma n a ger

& D is t r i c t L e a der

He a l t h sys t e m s -

G u l f & L e va n t

P h i l i ps

AL E J AN D R O

S AU N D E R S

Health & Wellbeing Fellow for

Google for Startups, Co

Founder & Chief Scientific

Officer, uMore

UK

H.E. DR. AMIN AL

AMIRI,

Assistant Undersecretary

Public Health Policy and

Licensing Sector,

Ministry of Health, UAE

Sam Tayan

Head of MENA ,

Zoom, US

Abu Dhabi Digital Health Transformation Roadmap

Dr. Hamed Al Hashemi, Executive Director Strategic Affairs, Department of Health,

Abu Dhabi, UAE

The power of technology is now in the hands of the patients, this shift will make

healthcare predictive, personalized and preventive. Data will help us get rid of the

unknown, through continuous health monitoring, let’s find out how?

His Excellency Dr. Amin Al Amiri, Assistant Undersecretary - Public

Health Policy and Licensing Sector, Ministry of Health

Eng. Ahlam AlSarheed, Executive Director of Information Technology, King Fahad

Medical City, Saudi Arabia

Leads technology innovation for one of largest medical cities in the Middle East

Samir Hawa, Head of Healthcare, Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Amazon Web

Services (AWS)

Atif Chaughtai, Global Healthcare Market Leader, Red Hat

Ligia Kornowska, Managing Director, Polish Hospital Federation, Poland

Moderator: Paul Epping, Co-Founder and Chairman Xponential

Dr. Shriya Srinivasan, Biomedical Engineering Researcher, MIT, US

MIT 35 innovators under 35

10:50

11.40

14:40

12:40

12:10

15.00

HEA LTHCARE 18 OCTOBER, MONDAY|11:00 – 17:00 | HALL 8 – BLUE STAGE

Konrad Dobschuetz, Head of Customer Solutions, (Digital) Health

Innovation and Biome Lead Uk Novartis , UK

A tech and healthcare system innovator, featuring all treats of the Innovators DNA

and connecting ideas with the reality of healthcare globally in peril

The pandemic effect: How COVID 19 has accelerated smarter healthcare

H.E DR. Maryam Mohd Fatma Matar, Founder & Chairperson, UAE Genetic

Diseases Association (UAEGDA) and Deputy Chairperson, Dubai Cares

Khalid Alodhaibi, CIO, Medical Services Department, Ministry of Defense ,

Saudi Arabia

Marc-Antoine Zora, General Manager & District Leader Health systems - Gulf

& Levant, Philips

Sam Tayan, Head of MENA , Zoom, US

Opening remarks by the Conference Chairperson

In Conversation with the Experts: The pandemic effect: How COVID 19 has accelerated smarter healthcare

The Interface between Man and Machine: Neural

interfaces for sensory feedbackSpark Talk: From the Tech heads who call the shots: A 10-point action agenda

11:20

Fire Side Chat: We are better when we work together: Tackling the Big Data & Interoperability Challenge

Engaging Life Sciences

Break

11:00 Opening Presentation: We are in midst of a revolution, a data-driven healthcare revolution

Dr. Paul Aoun Chief of Governance, American Hospital Dubai

Veneeth Purushotaman , Group Chief Information Officer Aster DM Healthcare,

UAE

Forbes India Fortune 500 company

Ligia Kornowska, Managing Director, Polish Hospital Federation, Poland

Holds the accolade of Forbes"25 under 25”, MD of the largest hospital organization in

Poland

Ahmad Mourad, EMEA Senior Director, Strategic Solutions Experimentation

Medical Devices, Johnson & Johnson, UAE

Dr. Ruchi Dana, Partner & Executive Board Member, DANA Group, UAE

Moderator:

Assaad Yazbeck, Healthcare & Education Lead – Dubai & Northern Emirates,

Avaya

Using Machine Learning for Personalizing Health Tech

Dr. Shameer Khader, Sr. AI Director, AstraZeneca, USAVoted in the top 100 AI in drug development using AI as per Forbes

Pranav Vempati , CEO, Makers Hive, India, Forbes Asia 100 to watch ,

Forbes Asia 30 under 30

Moderator: Dr. Khalil Ramadi, Director of the Laboratory for Advanced

Neuroengineering and Translational Medicine, New York University (NYU) &

Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), UAE

Jose Pedro Almeida, Data Intelligence Director, Unilabs, Portugal

Top 20 Portuguese World Changer & World’s Top 70 Health AI Brains by Medicine

AI, Jose is leveraging AI, DL & ML to operate a 1200 healthcare diagnostic centers

14:00Case Study : Data and AI-Driven Healthcare: Harnessing data intelligence into medical diagnostics

Showcase14:20

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Council (Mubadala Investment Company) UAE

Using Evolutionary Algorithms, this Emirati woman is developing and delivering new

projects that intends to transform decision making processes for enterprises

15:40

16.40

HEA LTHCARE 18 OCTOBER, MONDAY|11:00 – 17:00 | HALL 8 – BLUE STAGE

Value-based Profit: What Can AI Learn From Biology?

16:00

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Fact Check: Interview

Mental Health, The pandemic and What’s on the horizon for Digital Mental Health

HRH Sayyida Basma Al Said, Whispers of Serenity Clinic, Oman

Owner and Founder of the first mental health center in Oman

Moderator

Alejandro Serrano Saunders, Health & Wellbeing Fellow for Google for Startups,

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, uMore, UKWinner of Techstars UK -National COVID 19 Startup Weekend; uses ML & digital phenotyping to raise

investment from Facebook’s former Head of Growth

15.20 Interview

Better Health outcome for everyone: How Genomics will make health care more

targeted, personalized and proactive

Dr. Nikolas Mastroyiannopoulos, Chief Scientist, Research and Innovation,

Republic of CyprusAppointed Chief Scientist of Research and Innovation by H.E. the President of the Republic of Cyprus

Moderator

Dr. Khalil Ramadi, Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Neuroengineering

and Translational Medicine, New York University (NYU) & Research Fellow at

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), UAE

The emerging of digital health and data ecosystem, amplifying value for

patients and stakeholders

Ahmad Mourad, EMEA Senior Director, Strategic Solutions Experimentation

Medical Devices, Johnson & Johnson

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MATTHIAS S C H R A N NE R

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Switzerland

MARY JO DE LEEUW

Advisory Board Member Womentech

Network and Coding Girls, Cofounder &

Vice President of Women in Cyber

Security & Founder, Internet of Toys

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CYBER SECURITY 17 OCT|13:00 – 17:00 | 18-20 OCT I 11:00 – 17:00 I HALL 1 – DARK STAGE

H.E DR.MOHAMED AL-KUWAITI

Head of Cyber Security

United Arab Emirates Government

MAJED ALSHODARI

Chief Cyber Security Officer, SALAMA Cooperative Insurance Company, Saudi Arabia

JELENA MATONE

CISO

European Investment Bank

VIKTOR POLICCISO & Head of Information Security and Assurance Services, ILO,Switzerland

ALOYSIUS CHEANGChief Security OfficerHuawei UAE

Nathan Swain, Former Security Advisor, UK Government UK

Chris Kubecka, Distinguished Chair, Middle East Institute's Cyber Program, Netherlands

Hila Meller, Vice President BT Security EMEA and APAC, British Telecom, Italy

Harrison Nnaji, Group Chief Information Security Officer (GCISO), FirstBank Group(Nigeria)

Abdulla Bader Al Sayari, Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Health -Abu Dhabi

Endorsed by

H.E. Thuraya Mohammed Al-HashimiExecutive DirectorDigital Data Enabling SectorFederal Competitiveness & Statistics Centre (FCSC)

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Francisco Z. GasparLead CyberSecurityArchitect, TelefónicaGermany

Abdul-Hakeem AjijolaChair, African Union Cyber Security Expert Group , Nigeria

Bahi Hour, Director of Systems Engineering – META region,Attivo Networks

Syed Abdul QadirDirector (Technology Consulting & Cyber Risk)(PwC Pakistan)

Illyas Kooliyankal, CISO, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank(ADIB) (UAE)

Roland Daccache, Systems Engineering Manager, MEA, CrowdStrike

Endorsed by

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Rami Efrati, Founding member and former Head the Civilian Division of the Israel National Cyber Bureau in the Prime Minister's Office (Israel)

Talal Alasmi, CISO, Ministry of Education, Oman

Ben Seri, VP of Research, Armis Security

Hesham Saad Sr. Regional Cybersecurity Technical Specialist , Microsoft, UAE

Dr. Lopa Mudraa BasuuVP ISM CyberSecurity & Technology Controls (APAC & EMEA), India


Amal AlblooshiUAE Digital Wellbeing Program LeaderPrime Minister's Office -UAE

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Darren GuccioneCEO & Co-FounderKeeper Security Inc, USA

Mark CravottaChief Revenue OfficerKeeper Security Inc, USA

Prof. Ernesto DamianiFull Professor Università degli Studi di Milano, UAE

Paula JanuszkiewiczCEO and Founder, CQURE Inc. and CQURE Academy, Poland

Eric Eifert Executive Director, Defense and Cyber Business Unit, Beacon Red, UAE

Mike Heredia, VP EMEA and APACXM CYBER, UK

James SpiteriPrincipal Product Marketing ManagerElastic Security, Malta


Abdulrahman Ahmed Altamimi, Director of the Child Protection CenterMinistry of Interior, UAE

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Muath AlHomoud,Advisory Board Member for CCISO, EC- Council, Saudi Arabia


Prof Luigi Martino, Associate Research Fellow CybersecurityUniversità degli Studi di Firenze (University of Florence), Italy

Marc DacierProfessor of Computer Science (CS), King Abdullah University of Sciences and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Kevin MurckoFounder & CEO, CoinMetro, Estonia

Ibrahim Al ShamranieCSO, Huawei Saudi Arabia

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Chairman’s Opening Remarks, Nathan Swain, Former Trusted Security Advisor, UK Government , CISO, DEX

Cybersecurity is a business, not an IT issue! Topic TBCWhat is the real danger of cyber threats? How can businesses, individuals and, governments prepare themselves in an increasingly digitized world? Which innovative technologies are helping us protect ourselves against cyber threats? What are organizations’ main security challenges & priorities for the next two years?

H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al-Kuwaiti, Head of Cyber Security United Arab Emirates Government

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13.50 INNOVATION SHOWCASE

Harmony in motionAs we enter a new era where everything will be connected and intelligent, but is the consumer experience ready for the new era? In this session, Aloysius shares how lack of a seamless user experience hinders IoT uptake and how the team is enhancing the mutual connectivity, communication and integration of IoT devices in a convenient way through their latest initiatives.Aloysius Cheang, Chief Security Officer, Huawei UAE

SPOTLIGHT PANEL

Cybersecurity has been a perennial mainstay as one of the top systemic risks facing business and government leadership, as assessed by the World Economic Forum.

In a hyperconnected world, digital resilience is foundational to trust and growth; and a $150.4 billion industry on its own right. A recent Gartner report asserts that, by 2023, 30% of CISOs’ effectiveness will be directly measured on their role’s ability to create value for the business.

Meanwhile, McKinsey’s 2021 survey on cybersecurity revealed that aside from some in the banking and healthcare industries, there remains significant room for improvement by organizations across industries in safeguarding their digital assets.

INNOVATION SHOWCASE

INNOVATION SHOWCASE

15.20

Empowering Women in Cybersecurity• What are the Challenges women face in the field of cybersecurity• What changes need to be made in order to support retention and inclusivity.• Discussing current initiatives, future plans, and areas for growth across all sectors and entities• How mentorships, inclusive cultures, and building strong networks contribute to successH.E. Thuraya Mohammed Al-Hashimi, Executive Director, Digital Data Enabling SectorFederal Competitiveness & Statistics Centre (FCSC)Dr. Lopa Mudraa Basuu , VP ISM CyberSecurity & Technology Controls (APAC & EMEA)Jelena Matone, CISO, European Investment Bank Hila Meller, Vice President, BT Security EMEA & APAC Eman Al Awadhi, V.P. Cyber Security & Resilience - Innovation and Future Technologies, Expo2020 Dubai

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POLICY PANEL14:30

Cyber Resilience• Is IT more resilient than OT?• Can we find ways to measure the security of newer IOT systems?• How often is risk assessment validated as adequate?• Is there a liability for serious blame if our new shiny Enterprise of Things gets

hacked and we cannot demonstrate appropriate and proportionate risk management?

Ben Seri, VP of Research, Armis Security

Expo 2020: Innovation & Security Framework Eman Al Awadhi Vice-President, Cyber Security and ResilienceExpo 2020 Dubai, UAE

INTERVIEW

16:00

Securing your critical assets and safeguarding OT environment

Kiran Zachariah , VP -Digital Security, Sectrio

Policies, Strategies and Cybersecurity guidelines: Creating an effective cybersecurity framework The session will explore Lifecycle, principles and good practices of cybersecurity strategy development and implementation while emphasizing on the need for unified cybersecurity standards

Amal Alblooshi, UAE Digital Wellbeing Program Leader, Prime Minister's Office – UAESam Tayan, Head of MENA , Zoom, USTalal Alasmi, CISO, Ministry of Education, Oman

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You cannot just keep security in the basement anymore!This powerful panel session discusses the dynamics of the CISO’srelationship across the organization and highlights the vital role of CISO inthe security of an entire organization. Global CISOs in the panel paint thecomplete picture of what organizations are up against in the cyberwar.

Majed M. AlShodari, Chief Cyber Security Officer, SALAMA Cooperative Insurance Company (Saudi Arabia)Arab CISO Award & Power list CISO 2020

Harrison Nnaji, Group Chief Information Security Officer (GCISO), FirstBank Group (Nigeria)Award winning CISO of one of the top five banks in Nigeria

Jelena Matone, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), European Investment Bank (Luxembourg)

Abdulla Bader Al Sayari, Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Health – Abu Dhabi

Moderator: Nathan Swain, Former Trusted Security Advisor, UK Government , CISO, DEX

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11:40 SPOTLIGHT

Hottest Cybersecurity trend that will support over half of digital access control requestsby 2025! )Most digital assets, identities, and devices today exist outside of the enterprise. Gartnerpredicts cybersecurity mesh will support more than 50% of IAM requests and enable amore explicit, mobile, and adaptive unified access management modelIllyas Kooliyankal, CISO, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) (UAE)Visionary, multi-award winner, IDC CISO of the year, cybersecurity transformation leader & Author

14.00 INNOVATION SHOWPIECE

12.40

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Prevent, protect, respond and recover using AIWith the right combination of facial and image recognition, managing crime scenes and detecting criminal behaviors can be done by writing a set of algorithms that benefit policing and emergency response teams. At the same time, an effective data analytical management system integrated with border agencies can optmise the efforts to prevent crime.How can AI integrated a seamless prevention and response mechanism?• Monitoring activity: Security, financial fraud, cyberDesigning early warning systems for a more proactive based response toemergency situations

Mary Jo De LeeuwAdvisory board member – Womentech Netwrok and Coding Girls, Cofounder & Vice President of women in cyber security & founder, Internet of Toys

Europe’s 20 influential women in tech 2021; #10 by IFSEC as a global cyber security influencer,a pioneer of finding breaches in digitally connected toys

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INNOVATION SHOWCASE

INNOVATION SHOWCASE

You can't avoid the attack. You will be attacked

Never underestimate Cyber Attacks and be prepared to negotiate• Set up a negotiation team• Get a proof from a cybercriminal• Set boundaries and prepare payment • Prepare and commence negotiation Matthias Schranner, Founder & CEO, Schranner Negotiation Institute, SwitzerlandFormer FBI trained hostage negotiator, undercover drugs enforcement agent, author. Schranner advises corporate and government leaders in more than 40 countries on difficult negotiations

HEADLINER14:40

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Identity Detection and Response (IDR), The new Paradigm Slowing down the CyberThreat attacks inside the corporate networks

Identity as the new security paradigm and protecting IT assets and especially Active Directory from identity and credential based attacksProtecting Cloud resources from excess access entitlement(s)

Bahi Hour, Director of Systems Engineering – META region, Attivo Networks

INNOVATION SHOWCASE

14.20

AAMEN – Abu Dhabi’s Healthcare Information & Cyber

Security ProgrammeAbdulla Bader Al Sayari, Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Health – Abu Dhabi

How Ransomware Attacks Impact Organizations?

• Identify the most common causes of ransomware attacks.

• Understand what's involved in recovering from a ransomware incident and

how the process impacts an organization's internal operations.

• Explain the relationship between stolen or compromised user credentials

and ransomware attacks.

• Identify proactive security measures for preventing ransomware attacks.

Darren Guccione, CEO & Co-Founder, Keeper Security Inc.USA

SIEM or XDR — Why not both?James Spiteri, Principal Product Marketing ManagerElastic Security

Connected Ecosystem - Security Challenges IoT Cloud & Mobility IoT Cloud Convergence has elevated the Connected Ecosystem boosted byMobility. With enhanced experience, Security challenges have increasedmanifold. Striking a balance between risks & user experience becomes themost challenging ball game. Secure Cloud capabilities can be strategically usedto address technology risks

Dr. Lopa Mudraa Basuu VP ISM CyberSecurity & Technology Controls (APAC & EMEA), India

15:00 HIGHLIGHT

Cyber security and AI Artificial intelligence (AI) has the ability to profoundly change every industry and every organization. However, while bringing substantial opportunities and benefits, this new general-purpose technology also faces significant challenges in security and privacy protection. The healthy development of AI relies on the governance of AI security and privacy protection. This is an invitation to thinking ahead on how AI can enable cyber security and how to assure the cyber security and safety of AI.Ibrahim Al Shamranie, CSO, Huawei Saudi Arabia

SPOTLIGHT CASE STUDY

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Emerging Cyber Security Threats: An African Perspective

Abdul-Hakeem AjijolaChair, African Union Cyber Security Expert Group , Nigeria

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11.20

Teaming Humans and Machine Learning to Detect Cyber ThreatsSolutions to cybersecurity challenges require, not only technological innovation, butchanges in the roles and processes involved in security operations. This sessionfeatures scenarios that enable the “citizen data scientist” to create machine learningmodels to hunt for threats and pinpoint cyber-attacks that can otherwise not bedetected.Brig. Gen. (Res.) Rami Efrati, Founding member and former Head the Civilian Division of the IsraelNational Cyber Bureau in the Prime Minister's Office

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"5G and Beyond"6G: From Connected Things to Connected Intelligence

Dr Mérouane Debbah, Chief Researcher – AI & Telecommunication Systems Research Centre, TII

NEXT 10

What to Do if You Fall Victim to a Ransomware Attack?As per market predictions, in 2021 businesses will fall victim to a ransomware

attack every 11 seconds. An estimated cost of over $20 billion – 57 times morethan in 2015, will make ransomware the fastest growing type of cybercrime. Inthis panel security experts will discuss best practices to avoid a ransomwareattack, including adapting the Zero Trust model. What are the strategies tomitigate the damage caused by an attack, and how to recover?

MAJED ALSHODARI, Chief Cyber Security Officer, SALAMA Cooperative Insurance Company (Saudi Arabia)Theme: Zero Trust, Ransomware

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Enterprise Security Architecture: A Journey towards Cyber Resilience

Muath AlHomoud, Advisory Board Member for CCISO, EC- Council

SHOWPIECE

Securing a City’s IoT worldThere are approximately 22 billion networked devices across the world and IoT devices arethe weakest link in the chain of smart cities. How do we ensure cyber resilient digital urbanservices? Global cybersecurity spending to exceed $1 trillion from 2017 to 2021, thevolume of cyber threats too shall increase in proportion. Smart cities need sophisticatedsurveillance now than ever before!Hila Meller, Vice President, BT Security EMEA & APAC Syed Abdul Qadir, Director (Technology Consulting & Cyber Risk), PWC, PakistanMark Cravotta, CRO, Keeper Security Inc. Prof. Ernesto Damian iFull Professor, Università degli Studi di MilanoBrig. Gen. (Res.) Rami Efrati, Founding member and former Head the Civilian Division of the Israel National Cyber Bureau in the Prime Minister's OfficeMatthias Nehls, CEO, DGC Germany

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Cybersecurity education: Addressing cybersecurity needs for Industry 5.0“Industry 5.0”, according to the European Union definition, complements the

existing "Industry 4.0" approach by specifically putting research and innovationat the service of the transition to a sustainable, human-centric, and resilientEuropean industry. Cybersecurity, as a cross-functional process, has been alreadyfacing education related challenges in “Industry 4.0” globally. Some challengesare at national level, some at regional levels. In this presentation we will reviewsome lessons learned that could be applied at all levels. The focus will be aboutbuilding academic centers of excellence for cyber security based on existingmodels. The models, such as the one defined by the Association for ComputingMachinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS). The Association forInformation Systems Special Interest Group on Information Security and Privacy(AIS SIGSEC), and the International Federation for Information ProcessingTechnical Committee on Information Security Education (IFIP WG 11.8) in the USand the model defined by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity. Thespeaker is adjunct professor of computer science and cybersecurity at WebsterUniversity, recognized by the NSA as a Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) inCyber Security, and a CISO at the International Labour Organization, a specializedagency of United Nations.

Viktor Polic, CISO, Head of Information Security and Assurance Services, ILO (Switzerland)Trailblazer CISO journey spanning across multilateral financial, humanitarian, standardization & development public sector organizations

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INNOVATION SHOWCASE

INNOVATION SHOWCASE

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Demystifying, Simplifying and Adopting a Zero-Trust Architecture• Understanding and removing complexity out of zero-trust deployments• Embarking today on the zero-trust framework adoption and

implementation• Fortifying the pillars of identity, device and cloud workload security

posture• Detecting and eradicating advanced external and internal threat actors

out of the environmentRoland Daccache, Systems Engineering Manager, MEA, CrowdStrike

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“Human Factor”The ”human factor” has been often neglected in every company, most often is the weakest link in safe and secure environments – but human ingenuity may also be the solution in thwarting many cyber threats and attacks.Francisco Z. Gaspar, Lead CyberSecurity Architect, Telefónica Germany

Breaking the critical points of the ransomware attack chain

Mike Heredia, VP EMEA and APAC, XM CYBER, UK

SHOWPIECE

Stephen Bereaux, Deputy to the BDT Director, ITU

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Online Child Protection — how can we protect children from digital threats?

The Internet has opened unrivaled educational opportunities for children, providingwholesale access to information and entertainment. However, there is also the otherside of the coin — cyberthreats. Children are particularly vulnerable. They are moretrustful and often fall victims to phishing and social engineering, encounter onlineharassment or are exposed to inappropriate content.How to protect children against online abuse? Can the problem be addressedthrough state regulation on child safety? How can cooperation between providersand regulators protect children against digital threats?

Amal Alblooshi, UAE Digital Wellbeing Program Leader, Prime Minister's Office, UAE

Abdulrahman Ahmed Altamimi, Director of the Child Protection Center, Ministry of Interior, UAE

Prof Luigi Martino, Professor of ICT Policies and Cyber Security, University of Florence, Director of the Center for Cyber Security and International Relations Studies

Talal Alasmi, CISO, Ministry of Education, Oman

Moderator: Orhan Osmani , Senior Cybersecurity Coordinator, Telecommunications Development Bureau of International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

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Investor loss due to cyber-attack Cyber breaches can incur enormous economic and business damages. This session highlights what proactive approach to cybersecurity do investors need to take when considering investing, including understanding the cyber risk exposure.

Hila Meller, Vice President BT Security EMEA and APAC, British Telecom, Italy

Theme: Cyber risk

14.05 SHOWPIECE

Secure Systems” Zero trust secure autonomous systems

Dr Shreekant (Ticky) Thakkar, Chief Researcher – Secure Systems Research Centre, TII

SPOTLIGHT PANEL

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Protecting African Banks from Cyber Threats

Harrison Nnaji, Group Chief Information Security Officer (GCISO), FirstBank Group (Nigeria)

12:10 SHOWPIECE

Hackers at the Gates: 6 Techniques to Have Your Infrastructure Prepared for a BattleThe remote workforce has become a very common practice. It is not only perceived as anecessity, but also as an improvement of work-life balance, which could increaseflexibility. Unfortunately, at the same time working remotely introduces various risks.There are lots of attacks and threats that could happen every day with a great impact onyour organization, starting from devastating incidents, advanced malware, well-designedphishing, different ways to run malicious code on the workstation, ending up with VPNpivoting, other infrastructure attacks and also… dangerous carelessness with unknownconsequences. During this session, Paula would like to gather the whole 2021 experienceand present the most up-to-date security solutions, which help you to avoid being a partof hacker’s paradise!

Paula Januszkiewicz, CEO and Founder, CQURE Inc. and CQURE AcademyHesham Saad , Sr. Regional Cybersecurity Technical Specialist , Microsoft

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Moving from individual to collective cyber resilienceCybersecurity is one of the most systemically important issues facing the world today. Information sharing can continue to be an enabler of the strategic driver of the global cybersecurity community, but how?

Viktor Polic, CISO, Head of Information Security and Assurance Services, ILO (Switzerland)Marc Dacier, Professor of Computer Science (CS), King Abdullah University of Sciences and Technology, Saudi Arabia.Francisco Z. Gaspar, Lead CyberSecurity Architect, Telefónica Germany

Moderator: Nathan Swain, Former Trusted Security Advisor, UK Government , CISO, DEX

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The challenges of information security in Education of the fourth industrial revolutionTalal Alasmi, CISO, Ministry of Education, Oman


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SPOTLIGHT

Crowd Sourced Vulnerability Disclosure and Bug Bounty Programs

Eric Eifert, Executive Director, Defense and Cyber Business Unit, Beacon Red, UAE

15.05 PRESENTATION

• The move from infrastructure security to data security”Enterprise infrastructure (devices, applications, networks, people) is moving away from the control of the enterprise

• Methods to protect the infrastructure are necessary, but not sufficient

• Security that starts with, and follows the data, is the only option for the enterprise

Vishal Gupta , Founder and CEO, Seclore, India

KAREEM AYYAD

CEO

Cerebian

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CLAIRE MATUKA

Co Founder of AI Centre of Excellence (AICE) &

Data Scientist Ada LabsAfrica

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JOHN KAMARA

Director of Machine Learning Institute of

Africa & Co Founder, Ada Labs Africa

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DOMINIC WRIGHT

Co Founder, Generation 3D

UAE

DR. LYDIA KOSTOPOULOS

Strategy & Innovation Advisor, U.S. Special

Operations Command (USSOCOM), SVP

Emerging Tech Insights, KnowBe4

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JIMMY JARJOURA

Senior Research And Development

Engineer - AI Team , Anghami

UAE

MARY JO DE LEEUW

Advisory Board Member Womentech Network

and Coding Girls, Cofounder & Vice

President of Women in Cyber Security &

Founder, Internet of Toys

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THIMMAVAJJALLAExecutive Director - AI & Machine Learning,

Standard Chartered Global Business Services

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ANA CHUBINIDZE

Social Scientist & Founder, AI

Governance International,

CEO of Adalan AI

Germany

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Jimmy JarjouraSenior Research And Development Engineer - AI Team

Anghami

Currently working on deep learning for audio, personalization of recommender systems, and different engineering

frameworks and architectures for machine learning

John KamaraDirector of Machine Learning Institute of Africa & Co Founder , Ada Labs Africa (Tanzania)

Developing one of the largest AI startup hubs across East and West Africa

Claire MatukaCo Founder of AI Centre of Excellence (AICE) & Data Scientist Ada LabsAfrica (Kenya)

An AI youth champion from Africa; A founder at the age of 23, is now working on an ambitious plan to train

young engineers in Africa in AI and ML

Dominic Wright Co Founder , Generation 3D (UAE)

A world record holder of 3D printing, one of the founding members of Dubai Future Foundation, now leveraging

AI for additive manufacturing & fabrication

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Kareem AyyadCEO, Cerebian Canada

NASA Space App Challenge winner, creator of the world’s first dream recorder that communicates silently

and type/talk to Siri using brain signals

Dr. Lydia KostopouloisStrategy & Innovation Advisor, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Strategy & Innovation

Advisor, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), SVP Emerging Tech Insights, KnowBe4 (USA)

(USA)

Launched # ArtAboutAI , an initiative to make AI more accessible and to inform civic debate, through a

medium that transcends language and culture art.

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Ana ChubindzeSocial Scientist & Founder, AI Governance International (Germany)

Member of the European AI Alliance, by European Commission that influences its AI ethics guidelines

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Siddhartha ThimmavajjallaExecutive Director - AI & Machine Learning, Standard Chartered Global Business Services (India)

The AI and data expert who built supervised and unsupervised ML models by using tools like randomForests,

logistic regression, clustering and neural networks

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Mary Jo De Leeuw Advisory Board Member Womentech Network and Coding Girls, Cofounder & Vice President of Women

in Cyber Security & Founder, Internet of Toys (Netherlands)

Europe’s 20 influential women in tech 2021; #10 by IFSEC as a global cyber security influencer, a pioneer of

finding breaches in digitally connected toys

How does anthropomorphic language create

algorithmic liability?

3D PRINTING

LESSONS FROM TECH, SPORTS, GAMING AND MARKETING

AI FOR UNSTRUCTURED DATA

AI for personalisation: Simple Re-Ranker For Personalized music recommendation

ETHICS OF DATA, ALGORITHMS AND USAGE

THE INTERNET OF TOYS FOR A DIGITAL GENERATION

Stage moderator - Dr. Lydia KostopouloisStrategy & Innovation Advisor, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Strategy & Innovation Advisor, U.S.

Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), SVP Emerging Tech Insights, KnowBe4 (USA)

Launched # ArtAboutAI , an initiative to make AI more accessible and to inform civic debate, through a medium that

transcends language and culture art.

Audience moderator - Mary Jo De Leeuw Advisory Board Member Womentech Network and Coding Girls, Cofounder & Vice President of Women in Cyber

Security & Founder, Internet of Toys (Netherlands)

Europe’s 20 influential women in tech 2021; #10 by IFSEC as a global cyber security influencer, a pioneer of finding breachesin digitally connected toys

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EDUC ATION - SPEAKERS 19 OCT, TUESDAY 11:00 – 17:00 HALL 8 – BLUE STAGE

PROF. CHRISTOPHER ABRAHAM

CEO & Head Dubai Campus, Sr Vice President

Institutional Development, Professor of Leadership,

Design Thinking & Organizational Behaviour , SP Jain

Global School of Management

UAE

ALEX WONG

Chief of Special Initiatives,

Telecommunicaitons Development

Bureau

ITU

SWITZERLAND

BERNARD GHANEM

Associate Professor & Lead of AI

Initiative, King Abdullah

University of Science and

Technology (KAUST)

SAUDI ARABIA

ELENA SINEL

Founder & CEO

Teens in AI

UK

HUGO ARÉVALOCo-Founder & Executive Chairman

PowerMBA

SPAIN

LACHLAN MCKINNON

Principal, Cambridge International School Dubai

UAE

ADAM EL RAFEY11-year-old public speaker, innovator, learning

enthusiast, and thought leader

UAE

H.E. TARIQ AL GURG

Chief Executive Officer and Vice

Chairman, Dubai Cares

UAE

NADIM ABDULRAHIM

Global Government Industry Expert, Enterprise

Business Group, HUAWEI

UAE

AHMED AMEEN ASHOUR

Regional Education Director, Microsoft

UAE

HIND AL MUALLA

Chief of Happiness and Innovation, KHDA

UAE

MOAZA AL SHUKAIRIDigital Training Specialist, Telecommunications and

Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA)

UAE

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Principal, Founder & CEO, SHERO Solutions and

pupil at GEMS Cambridge International School Dubai

UAE

ANUBHA MANESHWAR

Founding Executive Director, GirlScript Technologies

& Foundation

INDIA

DR. MOHIT GAMBHIRInnovation Director, Ministry of Education's Innovation

Cell, Government of India

INDIA

VANDANA MAHAJAN

Founder, Futures Abroad

CANADA/UAE

AMAN MERCHANT

Chief Provocateur, Radicle

UK/UAE

DR. ALI NADAF

Head of Data Science and Research, Alef Education

UAE

DR. RENATA MORAIS

Assistant Professor Multimedia Design,

Dubai Institue of Design and Innovation

UAE

GWEN COBLEExecutive Director of Smart Solutions, EMEA,

Lenovo

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VALENTINA PRIMOFounder & CEO

Startups Without Borders

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Founding executive, Futurist-in-Chief and Chief of

Global Affairs at Dubai Future Foundation, Founding

executive, Museum of the Future

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ABBEY PALMER

Educational Content Research and Development

Lead at the XR Hub, University of Oxford

UK

DARA LATINWO

One Young World Ambassador, Deloitte

UAE

PROF. DR. REGIANE RELVA ROMANO

Advisor, Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovaton &

Communication; Head Innovation and Head of 5G Smart

Campus Facens

BRAZIL

TANNYA JAJAL

Futurist & author, expert technology contributor

Forbes Middle East

UAE

HELEN AL UZAIZI

Director of Center of Excellence for Entrepreneurship

and Youth Start Up, Innovation & Social Impact,

GEMS Education

UAE

RONALD MENZEL

Co-founder & Chief Strategy

Officer

Dreamscape Immersive

SWITZERLAND

ARC. UCHEBDY WOGUDirector, Executive Secretary’s Office, TETFund

(Tertiary Education Fund)

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ASHNA MAHTANI

Learning Architect, School of Humanity

UAE

JUMANA SALEMVP Education Tech, Injazat

UAE

ASSAAD YAZBECKAccount Manager, AVAYA

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EDUC ATION 19 OCT, TUESDAY 11:00 – 17:00 HALL 8 – BLUE STAGE

Smarter learning – enabling education experience for future innovation

OPENING ADDRESS

ACCELERATING THE DIGITAL JOURNEY OF EDUCATION WITH LEADING ICT

Gwen Coble, Executive Director of Smart Solutions, EMEA, Lenovo (Switzerland)Leading Smart collaboration and impactful solutions. Previous roles at multiple Fortune 500 technology companies.Experience in start-up and high-growth innovation.

12.15 PANEL: DISRUPTION AND POWERING-UP LEARNING LEVERAGING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Moderator:Vandana Mahajan, Founder, Futures Abroad (UAE/Canada)Panelists:Hugo Arevalo, Arévalo, Co-founder & Executive Chairman, PowerMBA (Spain)Co-Founder of Power MBA, The fastest growing business school in Europe. Serial entrepreneur, investor and advisor in distruptive technology companies across sectors including mobility, retail, logistics and EdTech.Anubha Maneshwar, Founding Executive Director, GirlScript Technologies & Foundation (India)Forbes 30 under 30, TEDx speaker, Technology Playmaker Awards Laureate. Mozilla Open Leaders, Learn IT Girl mentor. Her initiatives have impacted over 100 000 learners.Ahmed Ameen Ashour, Regional Education Director, Microsoft (UAE)20 years’ experience. Leading Microsoft’s mission to empower every student through future-ready skills education covering public & private across the GCC Assaad Yazbeck, Account Manager, AVAYA (UAE)Extensive experience in communications solutions that help education organizations accelerate introduction of new digital technologies to create memorable teaching experiencesAshna Mahtani, Learning Architect, School of Humanity (UAE)Developping curriculums with EdTech start-ups shaping the future of learning, published researcher on alternative teaching and learning models in formal education

Nadim Abdulrahim, Global Government Industry Expert, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei (UAE)Over 30 years’ experience in ICT leading projects for multinational organisations, government, even royalty. Also leads public safety at Huawei for Middle East.

•Smart education campus with AI to enable university digital transformation•Agile and fully connected network for ubiquitous learning and simplified O&M•Smart classroom bring immersive learning experience for future education

Moderator:Aman Merchant, Chief Provocateur, Radicle (UK/UAE)Co-curating RewirEd and managed a Global Grand Challenges program for Expo2020. Curated Abundance 360 Dubai (Singularity University). Co-founded Impact Hub DubaiSpeakers:H.E. Dr. Tariq Al Gurg, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman, Dubai Cares (UAE)Put Dubai Cares on international stage. Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean Award, Save the Children “change-maker”, Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize partipant, UNESCO recognized.Alex Wong, Chief of Special Initiatives, ITU Telecommunications Development Bureau (Switzerland)Leader of the Giga Initiative. Formerly with the WEF heading the Future of the Digital Economy & Society initiative; the IT & Telecoms, Media & Entertainment industry teams

11.10 Enabling education across the globe: Connecting schools through the Giga initiative

Hind AL Mualla Chief of Happiness and Innovation, Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA)

10:50 CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKSOpening remarksTannya Jajal, Futurist & author, expert technology contributor Forbes Middle East Futurist and author, UAE Chapter Lead - Women in Tech Lean In Circle, co-producer - Adjacent Possible podcast on what’s possible & preferable in education, Head of Partnerships at Awecademy

13.00 LUNCH BREAK11.55

13.45 RESERVED FOR SPONSOR (AWS) – CLOUD COMPUTING IN EDUCATION

- How cloud computing technologies are bolstering education advancements and equality globallySenior representative, AWS tbc

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EDUC ATION 19 OCT, TUESDAY 11:00 – 17:00 HALL 8 – BLUE STAGE

Moderator:Dr. Renata Morais, Assistant Professor Multimedia Design, Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation (UAE)Part of the Complex Human Data Hub research center, investigating the psychological implications of current innovations in data gathering devices and wearablesPanelists:Prof. Christopher Abraham, CEO & head of Dubai Campus, SVP of Institutional development, Professor of Leadership, Design Thinking & Organisational Behaviour, SP Jain Global School of Management (UAE)Forbes Top 10, Economist & FT Top 100 ranked Business School. Winner of Education Leadership Award. 2x winner of “Outstanding Professional of the Year Award”. Honorary Fellow – Leaders Excellence at Harvard Square. Global Advisory Board Member, World CMO CouncilDr. Bernard Ghanem, Associate Professor & Lead of the AI Initiative, King Abdullah University of Schience and Technology (KUAST) (Saudi Arabia) A winner of the Shoman Award for Arab Researchers for ML and big data for 2020, has three issued patentsDr. Ali Nadaf, Head of Data Science and Research, Alef EducationFormer United Nations and former PayPal, multi-award-winning post-doctoral machine learning fellowshipsAbbey Palmer, Educational Content Research and Development Lead at the XR Hub, University of Oxford (UK)Pioneering research and development of VR in primary and secondary schools and distant learning at the #1 University in the World (World University Rankings)Jumana Salem, VP Education Tech, InjazatExperienced founder and business leader in education technology having worked at numerous edtechcompanies in the US and UAE.

15.25 PREPARING THE NEXT GENERATION FOR INDUSTRY 4.0

PANEL: KIDS IN TECH– DRIVING STEM EDUCATION, INSPIRING AND CULTIVATING TOMORROW’S DIGITAL LEADERS

PRESENTATION & FIRESIDE CHAT: LEARNING THROUGH IMMERSION AND EXPERIENCE TO THRIVE IN A TECH DOMINATED WORLD

15.00 PANEL: AI, XR & EMERGING TECH - REVOLUTIONISING EDUCATION END-TO-END

Speakers:Ronald Menzel, Chief Strategy Officer, Dreamscape Immersive (Switzerland)Serial entrepreneur now focused on appliying Hollywood storytelling to education and other contexts. Co-founder of several conservation NGOs including under the patronage of UNESCO. Dr. Noah Raford, Founding executive, Futurist-in-Chief and Chief of Global Affairs at Dubai Future Foundation, Founding executive, Museum of the Future Responsible for: 1st functional 3D building, first blockchain strategy in MENA, Courts of the Future Forum, Dubai Future Academy… Affiliate at world-class universities - University of Oxford Said Business School, LSE, UCL…

Elena Sinel, Founder & CEO, Teens in AI (UK)Member of the UK All-party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence, GLOMO Awards winner 2020

16:40 CHAIR’S WRAP UP AND END OF EDUCATION CONFERENCE

•Smart education campus with AI to enable university digital transformation•Agile and fully connected network for ubiquitous learning and simplified O&M•Smart classroom bring immersive learning experience for future education

14:25 PANEL: ENABLING AND DRIVING EDTECH INNOVATION AND ADOPTION

Moderator:Dara Latinwo Manager, Digital Transformation & Innovation, Deloitte (UAE)One Young World (OYW) ambassador. Consultant, thought leader and public speaker on digital transformation, innovation, the future of work & youth empowerment.

Introduction:H.E. Dr. Tariq Al Gurg, CEO, Dubai Cares (UAE)Turned Dubai Cares into a global leader in the international education arena. Accolades include recognition from the former director of UNESCO, recipient of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean Award, name a “change-maker” by Save the Children and involved in the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize. Panelists:Valentina Primo, Founder & CEO, Startups Without Borders (Italy)Launched the first digital platform focused on startups in the Arab world. Founded Startups Without Borders to help build the ecosystem for migrant entrepreneurs. Latest initiative is the launch of a Middle East EdTech specific startup competition.Prof. Dr. Regiane Relva Romano, Advisor, Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovaton & Communication Brazil; Head Innovation and Head of 5G Smart Campus Facens (Brazil)Former Special Adviser, Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation, Brazil. Head of award-winning research and general coordinator of Smart Campus FACENS. International speaker & lecturer. Uchendu Wogu, Director, Executive Secretary’s Office, TETFUND (Nigeria)Licensed architect. Leads administration of Exec. Secretary’s office. Motivational speaker and volunteer. Member of Nigerian Institute of Management.

Moderator:Helen Al Uzaizi, Director of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Social Impact, GEMS EducationFounder of Future Entrepreneurs and CEO for BizWorld UAE, Jordan, and Egypt. Led community development with Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan’s Jordan River Foundation. Panelists: Aastha Das, Founder & CEO, SHERO solutions and pupil at GEMS Cambridge International School Dubai (UAE)Singularity University Global Summit pitcher and initiator or Dubai Young Start-Up Fund (DYSF)also Director of the start up incubater programme at her schoolAdam El Rafey, 11-year-old public speaker, innovator, learning enthusiast, and thought leader (UAE)One of the youngest TEDX speakers, youngest ever Alumnus at The Knowledge Society’s global virtual program. Science/tech.space entrepreneur. Education change advocate.Lachlan McKinnon, Principal, Cambridge International School (UAE)25 years in education in Australia, UK, MEA. Former Teacher Training Project Director - VarkeyFoundation. Engaged speaker at UNESCO, Oppi, Dubai Cares… education conferencesMoaza Al Shukairi, Digital Training Specialist, Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA)

Dr. Mohit Gambhir - Innovation Director, Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell, Government of India (India)Serial entrepreneur, techno-legal expert on Intellectual Property. Currently charged with fostering innovation culture in all higher education institutions across India.

LIFELONG LEARNING: EDUCATION AND UPSKILLING BEYOND FORMAL EDUCATIONAL INSITITUTIONS

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CEO, Mobilium

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SONIA JORGEExecutive Director, Alliance for Affordable

Internet, Head of Digital Inclusion Program

Web Foundation

USA

TELECOM SPEAKERS 19 OCT 11:00 – 17:00 ZABEEL HALL 3 – GREEN STAGE

AYHEM ALZAAIM

CEMEA Telco Sales Director, Red Hat

USA

DR. BILEL JAMOUSSI

Chief of the Study Groups Department

ITU

Switzerland

STEPHEN DOUGLAS

Advisory member / Working Group

UK5G

UK

CHRISTOPHER IVORY

Chief Commercial Officer, AST &

Science

USA

Irene-Marie

Founder & CEO, AnamXR

USA

YASSER ALOBAIDAN

Founder & CEO, Jawraa

Saudi Arabia

George FraserVice President, Africa

AmDocs

South Africa

ANTONIO BOCIGASEMEA Telco Director - Infrastructure Solutions

Group

Lenovo

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HADIF AL MUHAIRI Director Communication & Competitive

Analysis Technology & IT Strategy

du (EITC)

UAE

DAISY ZHUVP of Wireless Marketing

Huawei

China

Rob Van Dale Partner

AT Kearney

Nethelands

Moderator:

Ralph Simon, CEO, Mobilium

Panelists:

Daisy Zhu, VP of Wireless Marketing, Huawei

Irene-Marie Seelig, Co-Founder & CEO, AnamXR

Jack McCauley, Co-Founder, Oculus VR

Robert Gryn, Founder & CEO, Metahero

11.00

11.05

Moderator:

Sonia Jorge, Executive Director, Alliance for Affordable Internet, Head of Digital

Inclusion, Web Foundation

Panelists:

Ryan Johnson, Senior Director - Global Market Access & Government Affairs Lead for

Latin America, VIASAT

Chris Ivory, Chief Commercial Officer, AST & Science

Fuad Siddiqui, Senior Partner and Vice President, Nokia Bell Labs

Hadif AL Muhairi, Director Communication & Competitive Analysis -Strategy, du

13.30

Opening Address

5G Driving Entertainment Innovation: Reaching New Audiences in VR and AR

11.45

Daisy Zhu, VP of Wireless Marketing, Huawei

Space Based Networks: Complement or Extraterrestrial Option to 5G Expansion?

12.00

Moderator: Ralph Simon, CEO, Mobilium

John Lillywhite, Google Research Fellow, Mohammed Bin Rashid School of

Government

Dr. Bilel Jamoussi, Chief of the Study Groups Department, ITU

Onica Nonhlanhla Makwakwa, Head of Africa, A4AI Web Foundation

Jawad Abbassi, Head of MENA, GSMA

Forging A Collaborative Leadership Between Government Regulators, Industry And The Public For A Holistic Digital Transformation

12:30 LUNCH

TELECOM 19 OCT 11:00 – 17:00 ZABEEL HALL 3 – GREEN STAGE

5G Lighting up the Future

Menny Konorty, Head of OSS and Open Network Solutions, Amdocs


14.00 Next Gen OSS- Laying the Foundation for 5G Monetization

and Operations

15.40


Panelists:

Mathew Yarger, Head of Smart Mobility, IOTA

Stephen Douglas, Advisory member / Security Working Group, UK5G

Samir Moussa, Vice President – Middle East, Amdocs

Rob Van Dale, Partner, Kearney

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14.45 AI As a New Distributor Within

Yasser Alobaidan, Founder & CEO, Jawraa

15.00 5G and the New Digital Era


Panelists:

Hatem Dowidar, CEO, Etisalat

Fadi Pharaon, Senior Vice President and Head of Market Area

Middle East & Africa, Ericsson

15.30 Leveraging AI to Transform and Optimize 5G Networks

5G Powering Enterprise, Industry and Smart

Cities


Panelists:

Dr. Ayman Elnashar, PhD VP and Head - Technology Architecture, Research and

Development, du

Ayhem Alzaaim, CEMEA Telco Sales Director, Red Hat

Antonio Bocigas, EMEA Telco Director, LENOVO

Ignacio Astilleros Díez, Global Account Director Telecommunications MEA Intel

Corporation

14.15 Cloud X Open Ran = Greater than the Sum of its Parts?

JACK MCCAULEY

Co-Founder, Oculus VR

USA

DR. SEBASTIAN GRABOWSKI Senior Executive

Domestic Cloud Operator

POLAND

DR. ANATOLI UNITSKYGeneral Designer, Unitsky String Technologies, Inc

BELARUS

Tim WilkinsonExecutive Director, Global Strategy and

Growth,

Virgin Hyperloop

UK

FUTURE MOBILITY SPEAKERS 20 OCT 11:00 – 17:00 ZABEEL HALL 3 – GREEN STAGE

SARA AL MADANICo-Founder, Aleksma

UAE

CHARLOTTE SKANSTAD Head of New Technologies – MEA

Ericsson

Sweden

GARY WESTManaging Director – Future Mobility,

General Motors

UAE

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Derq Inc.

(UAE)

KARL JEANBART Co-Founder & COO

Derq Inc.

(UAE)

FIRDOSH SHEIKHCo-founder & CEO

Drife

Wilhelm HedbergFounder

ekar

BASSEL AL-NAHLAOUI Managing Director

Careem

Omar KandilSenior Public Affairs Manager

Lime

(UAE)

CEZANNE MAHERALI, Head of Policy Middle East and Africa

Uber

CHRISTIAN BAHOOHead of Government Affairs and

Communications, Middle East

BMW Group

(Germany)

Sara Al Madani, Co-Founder, AleksmaThe 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..

Dr. Anatoli Unitsky, Chairman of the board of directors, General designer,

Unitsky String Technologies, Inc.

11.00 13.30

11.40

Jack Mccauley, Co-Founder, Oculus VR Jack is an American engineer, hardware designer, inventor, video game developer and

philanthropist. Jack is best known for designing the guitars and drums for the Guitar Hero video

game series

14.15

12.20

13.00

FUTURE MOBILITY 20 OCT 11:00 – 17:00 ZABEEL HALL 3 – GREEN STAGE

Testing the accuracy and reliability of GPS receivers in drones and autonomous vehicles”

Optimising planetary mobility for the future

LUNCH

The use of in-vehicle AI-based logic controllers and the use of additive manufacturing (AM) in auto production

Foresighting The C|A|S|E Of Mobility To Fuel Future Economic Growth

Helal Ismail, Head of Technology, CAFU

Tim Wilkinson, Executive Director, Global Strategy and Growth, Virgin

Hyperloop

Alexandar Williams Director, Future Economy, Department of Economic

Development, Government of Dubai

Cezanne Maherali, Head of Policy Middle East and Africa, Uber

Gary West, Managing Director – Future Mobility, General Motors

14.30 Harmonizing Technology, Innovation and Urbansation for a Zero Emission Society

Wilhelm Hedberg, Founder, ekar

Bassel Al-Nahlaoui, Managing Director, Careem

Firdosh Sheikh, Co-founder & CEO, Drife

Omar Kandil, Senior Public Affairs Manager, Lime

15.00 Ride Hail vs Self Drive vs Micro Mobility

15.30 UAE in the Race to Build the World’s Fastest yper car

Alexandar Williams Director, Future Economy, Department of Economic Development,

Government of Dubai

James Cater, VP, Spire

11.20 The Future of Smart Cities - a Common Communication Standard Based on Blockchain. A Case Study of Mass Adoption

13.40 Future of Self-Driving

Victor Dalmau, Managing Director, Volkswagen Middle East

Dr. Sebastian Grabowski, Senior Executive, Domestic Cloud Operator

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Connected cars – a disruption in the automotive market

Charlotte Skanstad, Head of Technologies and New Businesses (MEA),

Ericsson

Karl Jeanbart Co-Founder & COO, Derq Inc.

Dr. Georges Aoude, Co-Founder & CEO, Derq Inc.

15.45 Deployments of Smart Infrastructure for Autonomous

Vehicles in the US and UAE: An update from Derq

14.00 RE:THINK, RE:DUCE, RE:USE, RE:CYCLE

Christian Bahoo, Head of Government Affairs and Communications, Middle

East, BMW Group

DR. JUERGEN RAHMEL

Chief Digital Officer, AI & ML Advisor, HSBC

GERMANY

FINTECH & DeFi SPEAKERS 18 OCT 11:00 – 17:00 ZABEEL HALL 4 – THE EXCHANGE STAGE

JAMIE BROADBENTHead of Dig i ta l , Innovat ion & Des ign,

RBS Internat ional (Royal Bank o f

Scot land)

UK

KRISTINA LUCREZIA CORNÉREdi tor - in-Chief , Cointe legraph

ITALY

TATIANA KOFFMANMoney & Markets Columnis t , Forbes

USA

OLEKSANDR BORNYAKOVDeputy Minister of Digital Transformation,

Republic of Ukraine

UKRAINE

NICK SPANOSBitcoin Pioneer

USA

NITIN GAURDirector , IBM F inanc ia l Sc iences and

Dig i ta l Assets , IBM

USA

Talal TabbaaChairman & Co-Founder

CoinMENA

UAE

Ivan Zhiznevskiy, CEO

3S Money

Raja Al MazroueiExecutive Vice President

DIFC – Fintech Hive

UAE

Stefan Kimmel

Chief Operating Officer,Commercial Bank

of Dubai

UAE

Masood Khan Managing Director

UAE

Abdulmajeed AlsukhanCo-founder and CEO

Tamara

Saudi Arabia

Florian GrummesFounder

Midas Touch Consulting

SALMAN ARIF

Group Product Manager, Borealis AI

CANADA

SALMAN Jaffrey Chief Business Development Officer,

DIFC

UAE

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SALMAN ARIF

Group Product Manager, Borealis AI

CANADA

Dina Saman

Co-Founder & Managing Director

CoinMENA

UAE

POOJA SINGH

CFA, International Organisations

Expert, Securities and Commodities

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UAE

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BLOCKCHAIN SPEAKERS SPEAKERS 18 OCT 11:00 – 17:00 ZABEEL HALL 4 – THE EXCHANGE STAGE

JOSEF HOLMFounding Partner, Draper Goren Holm

UAE

ABDULLA AL ASHRAMGroup CEO, Emirates Post Group

UAE

ANNA TUTOVACEO, Coinstelegram

UKRAINE

ELIAS AHONENAuthor of Blockland

ALY MADHAVJISenior Blockchain Fellow, INSEAD

SINGAPORE

VESACryptosrtist

FINLAND

JOHN LILLYWHITEGoogle Research Associate,

Mohammed Bin Rashid School of

Government

UAE

ANTHEM

BLANCHARDCo-Founder & CEO, Herasoft

USA

SHEREZ AHMEDHead of Bus iness Development ,

Swiss Crypto Val ley Assoc iat ion

SWITZERLAND

JEETU KATARIAFounding Di rec tor , DIFX

UAE

GABRIEL ABEDAmbassador to the UAE. Barbados

BARBADOS

HAMAD AL MUTAIRIDirector Of The Archives

Department, National Archives of

the UAE

UAE

TONE VAYSAnalyst, Derivates Trader and

YouTube Host with 100K

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USA

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SWITZERLAND

IRINA HEAVER

Crypto Lawyer

JOEL DIETZConnect ion Sc ience Fel low, MIT

Connect ion Sc ience

USA

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Welcoming Address: Future Blockchain Innovation in Industry

and Finance Today

Mitigating Risk and Fraud in the World of Crypto

Crypto, Taxes and the Law: Where do You Stand,

Where Best to Go?

14.30

Moderator:

David Lin, Anchor, KITCO

Panelists:

Nitin Gaur, Director, IBM Financial Sciences and Digital Assets, IBM

Daniel Santos, CEO & Founder, Woonkly

James Bernard, Regional Representative – Europe, DMCC

Farzam Kamalabadi, Global Executive Chairman, HOO Exchange

14.00 Institutional Crypto Going Mainstream?

Conference Moderator:

Kristina Lucrezia Corner, Editor-in-Chief, Cointelegraph

Tarek Mohammed, Head Section - Virtual Assets Crime, Dubai Police HQ

Ola


FUTURE TOGETHER

13.40 The Evolving Global Crypto Regulatory Landscape -

An International and Regional Perspective

Dina Saman, Founder & Managing Director, CoinMENA

Nick Spanos, Bitcoin Pioneer

Metahero as a Vessel into the Metaverse and Mass

Adoption of Crypto

16.20

The Storm that is Shifting the Sands of Geoeconomics15.20


Gaurav Dubey, CEO, TDeFi Accelerator

Moderator: Kristina Lucrezia Corner, Editor-in-Chief, Cointelegraph

13.50 Building a Super App with Blockchain to Integrate Day-to-

Day Services from Payments, e-commerce and Travel

Booking

Arif Ansari, COO, LYOPAY

Moderator: Tatiana Koffman, Money & Markets Columnist, Forbes

Igneus Terrenus, Head of Communications, Bybit

Yehia Badawy, Co-Founder, Rain

Abbas Bandali, Managing Director, Bitjeem

TDeFi Bizthon – Come in an Idea and Walk Out as a

Fully Funded Startup

15.00

Moderator: David Lin, Anchor, KITCO

Florian Grummes, Founder, Midas Touch Consulting

Gareth Soloway, President & CFO, Chief Market Strategist, InTheMoneyStocks.com

The Case for Cryptocurrency as an Investable Asset

Class in a Diversified Portfolio

16.00

Gareth Soloway, President & CFO, Chief Market Strategist, InTheMoneyStocks.com

The Federal Reserve Demise and Future Of Crypto15.40

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WELCOME ADDRESS

Decentralised Ecosystems United in a Global

Blockchain Movement

11.45

Josef Holm, Founding Partner, Draper Goren Holm

Moderator:


Moderator: Tatiana Koffman, Money & Markets Columnist, Forbes

Jake Nguyen, CTO, Omanee Corporation


Pranav Sharma, Managing Partner, Woodstock Fund

Crypto Exchanges and the Digital Assets Ecosystem: Technology Infrastructure as a Competitive Edge

15.50 The Secret Ingredients in Making a Global

Crypto Capital

Moderator: Kristina Lucrezia Corner, Editor-in-Chief, Cointelegraph

Panelists:

Jeetu Kataria, Founding Director, DIFX

Talal Tabbaa, Co-Founder & Chairman, CoinMENA

Fraser Gordon, CEO, Onboard

Omar Rahim, Director MENA, Binance

Igneus Terrenus, Head of Communications, Bybit

12.00 Institutional Trends in Crypto

15.30 NFTs in Bollywood and the World of Entertainment, an

amazing opportunity unfolds.


FUTURE TOGETHER

14.45 The Potential (and perils) of Decentralized Finance

(DeFi)

Ralf Glabischnig, Founder & Board Member, CV VC

Dr. Marwan Al Zahrouni, CEO, Dubai Blockchain Center

Philipp Rösler, Former Vice-Chancellor of Germany

Moderator:


Conference Moderators:



11.05 A Blockchain Ecosystem Overview

Ralf Glabischnig, Founder & Board Member, CV VC & CV Labs

Christophe de la Celle, Director - Institutional Business, EU, Binance

12.30

Transforming the Financial Eco-system to Align with

Digital Currencies


Tatiana Koffman, Money & Markets Columnist, Forbes


Dr. Jane Thomason, Co-Founder, British Blockchain & Frontier Tech Association

Hesham Ghandour, Co-Founder, Dapi

Talal Tabbaa, Co-Founder & Chairman, CoinMENA

13.45 Crypto and the Biggest Transfer of Wealth in Human history

Moderator: Jimmy Nguyen, Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Panelists:

Sherez Ahmed, Head of Business Development, Swiss Crypto Valley

Association

Niko De Jonghe, President. Blockchain Valley

Anna Tutova, CEO, Coinstelegram

Prateek Rao, Co-Founder, Decentralized Global

H.E. Gabriel Abed, Barbados Ambassador to the UAE – Government of

Barbados, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade

Neeraj G Roy, Founder & CEO, Hungama Digital Media

Entertainment

Moderator: Ralph Simon, CEO, Mobilum

Dr. Abdalla Kablan, Technology Entrepreneur, Investor & Chairman, Wyzer

15.15 A brain on a chip? Neuromorphic Computing and the Future of Decentralisation

Fraser Gordon, CEO, Onboard

Caitlin Walker, Marketing Director, Onboard

Crypto Uncomplicated: Unlocking The Blockchain for

Everyone

12.10 Fireside Chat: How Big and how Fast can and will

the Crypto Market Grow?

Changpeng Zhao, CEO, Binance

H.E. Gabriel Abed, Barbados Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates

Ian Khan, Documentary Filmmaker and Futurist

16.15 World Premiere of the Documentary ‘The Bitcoin

Dilemma’

Onstage Interview and Audience Q&A about Investing in

Blockchain

11.40

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DIGITAL BANKING (FINTECH SURGE) 19 OCT 11:00 – 17:00 ZABEEL HALL 4 – THE EXCHANGE

Welcome Address by DIFC

Raja Al Mazrouei, EVP - FinTech Hive, DIFC

Forbes list of top 100 Women in FinTech, the 50 Most Influential Women in Middle East Finance, and the top 100 Power Businesswomen in The Middle East; Influenced over 200 FinTech, RegTech, and InsurTech startups to begin operating in UAE

11.10

Kunal Choitram, Middle East and North Africa Partnerships, StripeOmar Kassim Chief Executive Officer, NOMOD

11.40

Moderator: Ken Rutkowski, Founder, M.E.T.A.L

Panelists:

Petr Klimeš, Global Head of Marketing and Head of Digital Business, ADIB - Abu

Dhabi Islamic Bank

Stefan Kimmel, COO, Commercial Bank of Dubai Imane Elmajdoubi, Director - Financial Services Industry - UAE, Microsoft

Nasir Zubairi, CEO, LhoFT

Olivier Crespin, Co-Founder & CEO, Zand

Embedded Finance: Unlocking Exponential Growth

and Efficiency

Banking without banks. Long live the Banks

12.10

Moderator: Ken Rutkowski, Founder, M.E.T.A.L

Jamie Broadbent, Head of Digital, Innovation & Design, RBS International

Ivan Zhiznevskiy, CEO, 3S Money

Masood Khan, General Manager, YAP UAE

Madiha Sattar, Senior Director for Strategy and Partnerships, Careem Pay

Salmaan Jaffery, Chief Business Development Officer, DIFC

Digital Drag Race: Incumbent Banks, Fintechs and Big

tech in a Mix of Disruptive Synergies to Benefit All?

12.40

Eric Osiakwan, Managing Partner, Chanzo Capital

Africa Focus: Accelerating Digital Banking for

Business Efficiency and Financial Inclusion

13.20 LUNCH

14.00 Panel: Open Banking Innovation: The Path to

the Great Unbundling

14.30 Regtech Unleashed: Capitalising on Making

Regulatory Compliance Easier, Faster and More Cost Effective

15.00 Fintech at the Intersection of Retail &

Ecommerce: What Merchants need to Know to Stay Ahead of the Competition

Abdulmajeed Alsukhan, Co-founder and CEO, Tamara

Shonam Khaitan, Head of Startup and Venture Capital Ecosytem Emerging

Markets EMEA, Amazon Web Services

Paul Carrey, Executive Vice President, Al-Futtaim Digital Payment Services

Hosam Arab, CEO and Co-founder, Tabby


FUTURE TOGETHER

15.30

Joy Ajlouny, Co-Founder, Fetchr

SME Banking: What Makes the Perfect Power-Couple? Conference Moderator: Ken Rutkowski, Founder, M.E.T.A.L

Pedro Coelho, Chairman, AFIP – Insurtech and Fintech Portugal

Gabrielle Inzirillo, Head of Market Development, Financial Services Regulatory

Authority, Abu Dhabi Global Market

Monica Sasso, EMEA Chief Technologist, Red Hat

Ken Coghill, Director, Innovation and Technology Risk, DFSA

Pooja Singh, CFA, International Organisations Expert, Securities and

Commodities Authority

Joseph Cleetus, Business Transformation Manager, LuLu International Exchange

Hisham Al-Falih, Co-Founder & CEO, Lean

Grant Niven, Head of Group Digital, Banque Saudi Fransi

13.00 One-on-One: Negotiating Tactics with Chris Voss

11.30

Philip King, Global Head of Retail Banking, Private Banking and Brokerage,

ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank

Perfecting the Hybrid Branch Model

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Future Blockchain Summit 20 OCT 11:00 – 17:00 ZABEEL HALL 4 – THE EXCHANGE

WELCOME ADDRESS


11.05 Innovation Guaranteeing Secure and

Tamperproof Product Traceability

13.30

Yulia Parkhomenko, Head of the Department of the Development of Virtual

Assets Market, Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation

Building a Virtual Asset Framework: Lessons from

Ukraine

14.00

Alex Blagriev, Deputy CEO, Sensorium Corporation

14.15

John Lillywhite, Google Research Associate, MBRSG

Abdulla Mohammed Al Ashram, Group CEO, Emirates Post Group

Hamad Al Mutairi, Director Of The Archives Department, National

Archives of the UAE

Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO & Co-founder, BTP

Discovering the Real Value of Blockchain in the

Public Realm

The Shift to the Metaverse Accelerated by Blockchain

14.45 Gaming X Blockchain X Metaverse: A Conversation

with an American Technology Legend

15.30 Building a Gaming Empire with Blockchain

Nalla Karunanithy, Chief Digital Officer, Carrefour (Majid Al Futtaim)

Saqr Ereiqat, Managing Partner, Riddermark

12.45 LUNCH

Moderator: Angus MacCormick, Head of IoT, Software AG

Dr. Alexandra Mikityuk, Founder & CEO, STAEX

Dr. Andreas Dittrich, Head of Blockchain Solutions Center (T-Systems MMS –

Digital Integrity Solutions), Deutsche Telekom

Mathew Yarger, Head of Smart Mobility, IOTA Foundation, IOTA Foundation

Adir Ron, Cloud Application & Innovation Lead for Middle East & Africa, Microsoft

12.10 What Happens when Blockchain and IoT

Collide?

Moderator: Lauren Bissell, Founder & CEO, Immutable Industries

Panelists:

Nithin Palavalli, CEO & Founder, RubiX Network

Matthew Van Niekerk, Co-Founder & CEO, SettleMint

11.30 Blockchain Green Initiatives

12.00

Dr. Andreas Dittrich, Head of Blockchain Solutions Center (T-Systems MMS –

Digital Integrity Solutions), Deutsche Telekom

Beyond the Hype - How Decentralisation is

Creating Opportunities

Bartek Sibiga, Co-Founder, Fanadise

Fraser Gordon, CEO, Quantum Works

Ritam Gupta, Founder & CEO, DeFi11

John Lillywhite, Google Research Associate, MBRSG

Moderator:

Aly Madhavji, Managing Partner, Blockchain Founders Fund Senior Blockchain

Fellow, INSEAD

Jakub Chmielniak, Co-Founder, Fanadise

15.10 How Fanadise Sold Digital Love NFT and Started Scanning Influencers Directly into the Metaverse

Ashu Gupta

Fraser Gordon, CEO, Quantum Works

Magnus Stone, Principal Designer, Quantum Works

15.20 AAA Gaming meets Crypto: The Future of

Mainstream Gaming

Jack McCauley, Founder, Oculus VR

Moderator: John Lillywhite, Google Research Associate,

Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (MBRSG)

MARKETING MANIA - S P E A K E R S 18 - 20 OCT |11:00 – 17:00 | ZA’ABEEL HALL 6 – YELLOW STAGE

ULI REESE

Author of 101 Great Minds & Global

CMO, Amp

Germany

PIERRE D’ARBOST

GM EMEA, American Eagle

UAE

TOMAS KELLNER

Chief Storyteller, GE

USA

MIMI NICKLIN

Bestselling Author, Creative

CEO, Freedm

UAE

RITCHIE MEHTA

Learn Et Al & School of

Marketing

UK

ANNA BERTOLDINI

Global Employer Branding

Manager, Glovo

SPAIN

MARK EVANS

Mark Evans, MD – Marketing

& Digital, Direct Line Group

UK

MARIAH IDRISSI

Model & Official Ambassador,

Formula E

UK

MONICA

BOTEZ

CMO, Ocean Protocol

SINGAPORE

JAMES DENTON

CLARK

Chief Client Officer

Karmarama & MD

UK

DR. SAKET KUMAR

Chief Data Scientist – Global

Premium Services, Google

USA

THOMAS DEBASS

MD & Chief Partnerships Officer,

US Dept of State

USA

MARIA DE

FREITAS

Co-Founder & CEO, uMore

UAE

MATTHEW

HOROBIN

Head of Corporate Affaris,

Abu Dhabi Airports Company

UAE

MARWAN

REMMAN

Head of CX, Arabian

Automobiles

UAE

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VP – Campaigns Marketing,

EXPO 2020 UAE

MARKETING MANIA - S P E A K E R S 18-20 OCT|11:00 – 17:00 | ZA’ABEEL HALL 6 – YELLOW STAGE

ASMA QUORRICH

Senior Vice President Marketing,

Jumeirah Group

UAE

MIKE FAIRBURN

GM, Sony Music

Entertainment Middle East

UAE

SARAH MOHAMMED

Group Account Director –

Technology Practice,

Hill+Knowlton Strategies

UAE

CRISTINA PON

Co-Founder, Ocean Protocol

SINGAPORE

KHALED ISMAIL

Vice President Communications,

Tetra Pak Europe, Central Asia,

ME and Africa

UAE

ANJA PETROVSKI

Marketing Director, Audi

Volkswagen Middle East

UAE

DR. PAUL HOPKINSON

Associate Head of Edinburgh

Business School, Heriot Watt

University

UAE

MOHAMED TAREK

FAHMY

Director of Growth & Martech,

Careem

UAE

MARTIN ALAMRI

Head of Sales CEEMEA &

Managing Director DACH, Talkwalker

LUXEMBOURG

PETER DEBENEDICTIS

Chief Marketing Officer, Microsoft ME

UAE

MELVIN GEORGE

CEO, Lagado Watches

UAE

COLIN LEWIS

Marketing Week Columnist,

Author eCommerce Best

Practice, Educator and

Speaker

IRELAND

LEOPOLDO

BOADO LAMA

SVP Applications CEE, CIS &

MEA, Oracle

SPAIN

RAMY AL KADHI

Commercial Director, Anghami

UAE

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UAE

Dr. CHRIS

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the S P Jain School of

Global Management

UAE

MARKETING MANIA - S P E A K E R S 18-20 OCT|11:00 – 17:00 | ZA’ABEEL HALL 6 – YELLOW STAGE

MO MAGIC

MC, Entertainer, Magician

SOUTH AFRICA

MANDIP DULAY

CEO, Impact Group &

Founder, COO Network

UAE

ALEX MALOUF

Corporate Communiations

Director MEA, Schneider

Electric

UAE

JOSEPH JOHN

NALLOOR

Program Coordinator – Media

& Communications, Murdoch

University Dubai

UAE

JULIETTE

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Regional Chief, Advocacy

& Communications for the

Middle East & North

Africa, UNICEF

JORDAN

MALEK SHATA

Business Director,

American Eagle

UAE

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MARKETING MANIA – REMAP by MEPRA – S P E A K E R S 17 OCT|14:00 – 17:00 | ZA’ABEEL HALL 6 – YELLOW STAGE

ADAM BROTMAN

CEO, Brightloom

USA

AHMED AL

MARZOOQI

Finance, Economy & Statistics

Influencer, @ahmedmhm

UAE

MIKE ALNAJI

Director of Content Creators

& Brand Partnerships, New

Media Academy

UAE

DR. JEREMY

WILLIAMS

Globally recognised NFT

expert, NFTeach Podcast

Host

USA

AVERY AKKINENI

President, Vayner NFT

USA

NICK BARRON

Deputy CEO, HP+Mischief,

PRovoke’s UK Agency of the Year

2021

UK

STEVE BAMBURY

Education Strategy and

AR/VR Specialist, New Media

Academy

UAE

RASHID AL

AWADHI

MEPRA Vice Chair & CEO,

New Media Academy

UAE

TREVOR JAMES

The Food Ranger, Travel

Vlogger & Youtuber with 18

million+ subscribers

CANADA

SARA MADANI

Emirati entrepreneur, advocate for women,

fashion designer, brand ambassador, social

media personality and board member of the

UAE Ministry of Economy’s SME Council

USA

GHADEER EL KHUTUB

Head of Social & Social Lead Buy your time

with IKEA campaign, Memac Ogilvy Dubai

UAE

ALAA NOUR

Account Lead for the Buy your

time with IKEA campaign,

Memac Ogilvy Dubai

UAE

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MARKETING MANIA - T H E M A R K E T I N G S O C I E T Y 20 OCT|10:00 – 15:30 | ZA’ABEEL HALL 6 – YELLOW STAGE

KHALED ISMAIL

Vice President Communications,

Tetra Pak Europe, Central Asia,

ME and Africa

UAE

MOHAMMED ISMAEEL

HAMEEDALDIN

Senior Vice President Marketing

(CEMEA), Visa

UAE

ROB

BESWICK

MD, Virgin Mobile

UAE

UAE

SOPHIE

DEVONSHIRE

CEO, The Marketing

Society

UK

PRIYA SARMAExternal affairs manager

MENA, Unilever & Un-

Stereotype Alliance UAE

representativeUnilever

UAE

MARK EVANS

Mark Evans, MD – Marketing

& Digital, Direct Line Group

UK

LIZZY

JOHNSON

CMO, Ghassan

Aboud Group (GAG)

UAE

CHARLES

AWAD

Chief Customer Officer,

Majid Al Futtaim

UAE

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Head of Business

Marketing, TikTok

METAP

UAE

MIMI

NICKLIN

Bestselling Author,

Creative CEO,

Freedm

UAE

ASMA QUORRICH

Senior Vice President Marketing,

Jumeirah Group

UAE

MARIAH IDRISSI

Model & Official Ambassador,

Formula E

UK

18 OCT, MONDAY ZA’ABEEL HALL 6MARKETING MANIA

Rashid Al Awadhi MEPRA Vice Chair & CEO, New Media Academy

The 40 Most Influential Emiratis Under 40; Forbes 50 Impactful Marketing and Communications Professionals In The Middle East

14.00

11 :00 -17 :00 IMARKETING MANIA – REMAP BY MEPRA 17 OCT SUNDAY|14:00 – 17:00 | ZABEEL HALL 6 – YELLOW STAGE

WELCOME REMARKS & MC

Nick Barron Deputy CEO, MHP+Mischief, PRovoke’s UK Agency of the Year 2021

Has been an advisor for Manchester City FC, DP World, Unilever, Coca-Cola and the UK Government’s Department for International Trade

Steve Bambury Education Strategy and AR/VR Specialist, New Media Academy

Co-hosted the world’s first global lesson inside VR alongside Pixar co-founder Loren Carpenter

Purpose Pathfinder: Storytelling in a polarised world14.15

14.45

Avery Akkineni President, Vayner NFT (USA)

An ex-Googler, was awarded SEA Independent Agency of the Year at VaynerMedia

Adam Brotman CEO, Brightloom

100 Most Creative People by Fast Company, CDO of the Year by the CDO Club

Moderator: Dr Jeremy Williams Globally recognised NFT expert & NFTeach Podcast Host

Launched the first school sanctioned Esports team in the UAE

15.20

Mike Alnaji Director of Content Creators & Brand Partnerships, New Media Academy

Holds the record for smashing million-dollar influencer campaigns for global brands such as Nestle, IKEA, Mercedes-Benz, PlayStation and Samsung

Ahmed AlMarzooqi, Finance, Economy and Statistics Influencer @ahmedmhm

300K followers on Facebook & 100K followers on Tiktok

Trevor James The Food Ranger, Travel vlogger and YouTuber with 18 million+ subscribers

The global influencer with over 18 million + subscribers

Sara Al Madani Emirati entrepreneur, advocate for women & fashion designer,

Brand ambassador, social media personality and board member of the UAE Ministry of Economy’s SME Council

AWARD WINNING VIRTUAL REALITY PIONNER: MARKETING IN A METAVERSE

Storytelling through blockchain

15.45 INFLUENCING THE INFLUENCER

16.25 Transcending Borders: How Local Campaigns Go Global

Ghadeer Al Khub Head of Social & Social Lead for Buy Your Time with IKEA campaign, Memac Ogilvy Dubai

Multi-award winner, worked on the region’s first Facebook Car Configurator

Alaa Nour Account Lead for the Buy your time with IKEA campaign, Memac Ogilvy Dubai

Worked with Nestle, ADNOC, Unilever, DTCM and IKEA

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18 OCT, MONDAY ZA’ABEEL HALL 6MARKETING MANIA

Uli Reese Author of 101 Great Minds & Global CMO, Amp

The brains driving audio branding for Star Trek & Disney Classics apart from the likes of Nike, BMW, Reebok, Sony,

Coca-Cola, Mercedes etc

11.00

11.30

Tomas Kellner Chief Storyteller, GE

One of the top brand editors of the world, leads the AI storytelling of GE globally hailed as one of the most effective

examples of machine nirvana

11 :00 -17 :00 I

12.00

Dr. Paul Hopkinson Associate Head of Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University

Designed, built and lead the sales organization for the largest in-venue Social Display Network in the marketplace

12.20 THE MARTECH PANEL

Milvin George CEO, Lagado Watches (UAE)

Top 100 CEOs in the Middle East by Forbes as the only leader representing the watch industry

Malek Shata Business Director, American Eagle (UAE)

Serving 3000+ multi-sector clients daily, leads the innovation hub and eco-system of 200+ partner platforms and tech service providers in the digital space

Moderated by: Pierre D'Arbost GM EMEA, American Eagle

Serving 3000+ multi-sector clients daily, leads the innovation hub and eco-system of 200+ partner platforms and tech service providers in the digital space

14.00 FIRESIDE CHAT REAL TIME DATA INTELLIGENCE

Mohamed Tarek Fahmy Director of Growth & Martech, Careem

Creating data and network planning products that enable and accelerate efficient growth using AI and data

analytics

Martin Alamri Head of Sales CEEMEA & Managing Director DACH, Talkwalker

Deployed an AI-powered conversational intelligence platform enabling customer-centric companies to drive

revenue, increase retention and reduce costs

Moderated by - Mimi Nicklin International bestselling author & an Empathy Advocate, Creative Director

Internationally bestselling author and founder and CEO of the worlds most ‘free’ advertising agency, Freedm

14.30 PANEL: INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION & MARKETING

Alex Malouf Corporate Communications Director MEA, Schneider Electric (UAE)

Rxpertise spans communications and media, public relations and marketing for both multinationals in the energy,

technology and FMCG space as well as several Gulf-based government institutions

Joseph John Nalloor - Program Coordinator, Media & Communications, Murdoch University Dubai (UAE)

Responsible for several tie-ups with the Dubai Press Club, Emirates Literature Festival, Sharjah International Book Fair,

Dubai International Film Festival

Juliette Touma, Chief, Advocacy & Communications for the Middle East & North Africa, UNICEF (Jordan)

Spokesperson for the Middle East and North Africa including conflict countries like Syria, Palestine, Sudan, Yemen

Moderated by:

Mandip Dulay, CEO of Impact Group & Founder of COO Network (UAE)

Executive Leader for IMPACT2030 UAE Council, and a founder of two consumer brands which are in stealth mode and

due to launch in Jan 2022

MARKETING MANIA 18 OCT MONDAY|11:00 – 17:00 | ZABEEL HALL 6 – YELLOW STAGE

MUSICAL SOUND OF TECH!

MASTER OF DATA AND STORYTELLING

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS

LUNCH13:10

15.10GLOVO CASE STUDY

Ana Bertoldini Global Employer Branding Manager, Glovo

Transformed a loss-making startup agency on empathy-based marketing techniques with a 98%

pitch conversion rate

12.50

15.30 INFLUENCER INSIGHTS & SOCIAL COMMERCE

Mariah Idrissi Model & Official Ambassador, Formula E

World’s first hijab wearing model, a leading authority in ‘modest fashion’ and the official ambassador of

Formula E

10.55 MC & EVENT CHAIRPERSON’S REMARKS

Mimi Nicklin Bestselling Author, Creative CEO, Freedm


DIGITAL EXCELLENCE AND SCALING UP

Mark Evans MD – Marketing & Digital, Direct Line Group

As a side hustle created the “Sprintathon” charity event in 2016 which has so far raised £750k for cancer research via

mass participation marathons (fastest time 1:46:26!)


Internationally bestselling author and founder and CEO of the worlds most ‘free’ advertising

agency, Freedm

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19 OCT, TUESDAY ZA’ABEEL HALL 6MARKETING MANIA

Moderated by: Jay Dalvi, General Manager - META, CleverTap

Matthew Horobin, Head of Corporate Affairs, Abu Dhabi Airports Company

Mohamed Tarek Fahmy Director of Growth & Martech, Careem

11.00 Fireside chat: Digital First leaders and their winning strategies to boost retention and unlock growth

11.30

11.50 MEANINGFUL CONTENT WITH LOW BUDGETS



11 :00 -17 :00 I

12.10

THE FUTURE SOUNDS GOOD

Ramy Al Kadhi Commercial Director, Anghami (UAE)

Ramy's role is to monetise Anghami's free users, via ad solutions

14.30 INSPIRATIONAL GOVERNMENT MARKETING

James Denton-Clark Chief Client Officer Karmarama & MD, Accenture Interactive

Ran a campaign for the British Army by leveraging data science analytics which was a remarkable turnaround in terms of

recruitment; current clients include BT, EDF Energy & Ministry of Defence

14.00 SOFT POWER NARRATIVES

Thomas Debass MD & Chief Partnerships Officer, US Dept of State

Promoter of public private partnerships as a tool for advancing foreign policy and development objectives

Ramzi Haddad VP – Campaigns Marketing, EXPO 2020

Responsible for delivering all 360 degree campaigns regionally and globally to promote Expo 2020 Dubai

Moderated by: Sarah Mohamed Group Account Director – Technology Practice, Hill+Knowlton Strategies

Communicate’s top 15 women to watch in the GCC

MARKETING MANIA 19 OCT TUESDAY|11:00 – 17:00 | ZA’ABEEL HALL 6 – YELLOW STAGE

15.30

CONVERGENCE OF MARTECH & ADTECH

Monica Botez CMO, Ocean Protocol

Using a decentralized protocol to unlock data for monetization that aims to give people back control over their data

Cristina Pon Co-Founder, Ocean Protocol

Using a decentralized data exchange protocol that unlocks data for AI, helping to build the new data economy

14.50 UNLOCKING DATA SILOS

Dr. Saket Kumar Chief Data Scientist – Global Premium Services, Google (USA)

Leads a data science team focused on measuring & optimizing the marketing ROI for Google’s largest clients

AI AND ML TECHNIQUES FOR DIGITAL VIDEO

12.40

Leopoldo Boado Lama SVP Applications CEE, CIS & MEA, Oracle

Marwan Remman Head of CX, Arabian Automobiles

10.55 MC & EVENT CHAIRPERSON’S REMARKS

Colin Lewis Marketing Week Columnist, Author eCommerce Best Practice, Educator and Speaker

One of UK’s top 100 CMOs, ran his first e-Commerce website in 2006 turning over $100 million

NETWORKING LUNCH13.00 15.10

VOLKSWAGEN CASE STUDY ON BRAND PARTNERSHIPS

Anja Petrovski Marketing Director at Audi Volkswagen Middle East

Oversees multidisciplinary agencies working with the brand to drive strategies on communication, branding and

social media

Ritchie Mehta Founder, Learn Et Al & School of Marketing

UK’s largest Gen Z mentoring programme initiative, to help young people aged 16 to 28 find a route into the

marketing industry

MC & EVENT CHAIRPERSON’S REMARKS13.55

SPECIAL SESSION: MENTAL HEALTH TRACKING OF MARKETERS

Maria de Freitas Co-Founder & CEO, uMore

A master of growth marketing & winner of TechStars Startup Weekend UK COVID Edition; Uses ML & digital phenotyping

raising investment from Facebook’s former Head of Growth

Ritchie Mehta Founder, Learn Et Al & School of Marketing

UK’s largest Gen Z mentoring programme initiative, to help young people

aged 16 to 28 find a route into the marketing industry

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19 OCT, TUESDAY ZA’ABEEL HALL 6MARKETING MANIA

Khaled Ismail Vice President Communications – Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and Africa, Tetra

Pak & Chair, The Marketing Society

A legend marketer, serial investor in start-ups and published author

UAE CHANGEMAKERS UNITE CONFERENCE 2021 #WeAreTheChangemakers

11 :00 -17 :00 IMARKETING MANIA - THE MARKETING SOCIETY 20 OCT TUESDAY|11:00 – 17:00 | ZA’ABEEL HALL 6 – YELLOW STAGE

10.35 WELCOME

Sophie Devonshire CEO, The Marketing Society Lizzy Johnson CMO, Ghassan Aboud Group (GAG)

A recognised leader in brand-building, working for many iconic brands

Moderated by: Mimi Nicklin Bestselling Author, Creative CEO, Freedm

Internationally bestselling author and founder and CEO of the worlds most ‘free’ advertising agency,

Freedm

10.45

The road to a sustainable future: A story about proactive action

Sami Moutran Head of Business Marketing at TikTok METAP

A collaborative leader who excels in motivating teams

Moderated by Mimi Nicklin Bestselling Author, Creative CEO, Freedm

Internationally bestselling author and founder and CEO of the worlds most ‘free’

advertising agency, Freedm

11.10

Exploring the benefits of marketing on brand building for the long term not just short-term solutions. Moving

away from cookies-based targeting strategies, how can AI improve your Marketing ROI?

Charles Awad Chief Customer Officer, Majid Al Futtaim

Over 25 years’ experience in building and growing profitable brands



Freedm

11.40

12.05 LUNCH

1.00 Impact and power of content marketing

Mohammed Ismaeel Senior Vice President Marketing (CEMEA), Visa

Passionate about helping the next generation of marketers flourish



Freedm

1.25

Rob Beswick Managing Director, Virgin Mobile UAE

Currently leading the first fully digital mobile brand, pioneering digital-innovation



Freedm

2.00 Break

2.10

Mark Evans Managing Director Marketing & Digital, Direct Line (Neurodiversity)

As a side hustle created the “Sprintathon” charity event in 2016 which has so far raised £750k for cancer

research via mass participation marathons (fastest time 1:46:26!)

Priya Sarma External affairs manager MENA, Unilever & Un-Stereotype Alliance UAE representative

A communication professional responsible for leading sustainability across the region



Freedm

Khaled Ismail VIice President Communications – Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and Africa,

Tetra Pak & Chair, The Marketing Society

3.30 CLOSING REMARKS

Power of Successful Sponsorship

Leaders: Evolving marketing strategies

The Day Ahead

How a diverse and empowered team will make you more

successful

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Asmaa Quorrich, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Jumeriah Group



Creating impactful, successful and engaging brands

Khaled Ismail Vice President Communications – Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and Africa, Tetra

Pak & Chair, The Marketing Society

Make a new friend2.05

2.35 Building excellent and engaging customer experiences

Meet the leaders driving change

3.25

Mariah Idrissi Model & Official Ambassador, Formula E

World’s first hijab wearing model, a leading authority in ‘modest fashion’ and the official ambassador of

Formula E



Key highlights of the day

3.00




ZA’ABEEL HALL 5 & 6MARKETING MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME & WORKSHOPS

The Marketing Mania Mentoring Sessions

The Marketing Mania conference is a special moment in time for Mentoring Gen Z as we will be launching the programme across the region to help young people across the Middle

East. The sessions will run across the two days, each with a range of highly prominent marketers sharing their journey and ca reer advice to a live audience. It’s going to be an

open conversation, led by two of the industry's most acclaimed individuals, Ritchie Mehta and Mark Evans, where the mentors will have the opportunity to share some of their key

lessons learnt along their career journey.

12.00 – 13:30

THE MENTORING GEN Z PROGRAMME

17TH OCTOBER 19TH OCTOBER

MARKETING MANIA WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL MARKETING

Brands & brains: Making digital marketing effective through neuroscience

Workshop leader

Prof. Dr. Chris Abraham CEO & Sr. Vice President at the S P Jain School of Global Management

A TEDx speaker, is an expert in connecting AI, neuroscience & behavioural science and is a sought-after

expert by World Bank, Dubai Executive Council, Emirates Airlines, DHL, SEWA, Reckitt Benkiser, P&G

etc

17TH OCTOBER11:00 – 12:30

11:00 – 12:30

UK’s largest marketing mentorship programme now in Dubai

19TH OCTOBER

MARKETING MANIA WORKSHOP ON BRAND EVALUATION10:00 – 11:00

Asmaa Quorrich, Senior Vice President Marketing, Jumeirah Group (UAE)

Mike Fairburn, GM, Sony Music Entertainment Middle East

Khaled Ismail, Vice President Communications, Tetra Pak Europe, Central Asia, ME and Africa

Ritchie Mehta, Founder, Learn Et Al & School of Marketing (UK)

Peter DeBenedictis, Chief Marketing Officer, Microsoft ME

Mark Evans, MD – Marketing & Digital, Direct Line Group (UK)

Ritchie Mehta, Founder, Learn Et Al & School of Marketing (UK)

ZABEEL HALL 6

ZABEEL HALL 5

- MENTORSHIP STAGE

ZABEEL HALL 6

Why Brands and Brand Valuation matter to businesses in the Middle East in the Post-

Covid Era

Workshop leader

Andrew Campbell MD Middle East, Brand Finance (UAE)

Working with major businesses across the region in TMT, Banking, Energy, Airlines & Logistics to grow the contribution

of their brands to business performance

YELLOW STAGE

YELLOW STAGE

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STARTUPS - S P E A K E R S 17-20 OCT 11:00 – 17:00 ZABEEL HALL 6 - 10X STAGE

KENNETH RUKOWSKI

Founder, METAL International

USA

NENAD PAUNOVIC

Director, Delivery Unit - Team for IT and

Entrepreneurship

Office of the Prime Minister, Government of

the Republic of Serbia

SERBIA

SIMON SHARP

Principal, Global Ventures

UAE

HASAN HAIDER

Managing Partner, PLUS.VC

BAHRAIN

NOURI ALENEZI

Co-Founder & Managing

Partner, JustClean

KUWAIT

KAYLA ISABELLE

CEO, Startup Canada

CANADA

JAY SAMIT

Author of the Bestsellers

‘Disrupt Yourself’ and ‘Future

Proofing You’

USA

IMAD HAMMAD

Founder & CEO, CarSwitch

SHANE SHIN

Co-Founding Partner,

Shorooq Partners

UAE

RALPH SIMON

CEO, Mobilium

USA

SKY KURTZ

Founder & CEO, Pure Harvest

UAE

Lee Trink

CEO

FaZe Clan

USA

Rob GrynFounder

Metahero

KENNY ARONOFF

The Most Famous Drummer you’ve

Never Heard of (Esquire Magazine)

USA

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TAREK KABRIT

Founder & CEO, Seez

UAE

SEBASTIAN STEFAN

CEO, Load-Me

CHRIS VOSS

FBI’s former Hostage Negotiation Lead,

Author of ‘Never Split the Difference,

teacher on Masterclass.com

USA

Ken Rutkowski, Founder, METAL International

13.00 Conference Chairman’’ Opening Remarks

13. 05 CHANGE MAKERS : Letting Your Work Speak for Itself

14.00ECOSYSTEM CORNER : Engineering a world-class

environment for innovation and high-growth firms

Nadimeh Mehra Vice President, District 2020 – Transition Unit Responsible for the commercial development of the post-Expo site – District 2020 - supporting its transition into a mixed-use community and innovation-focused ecosystem. In this role, she oversees Business Development, Sales and Partnership Management. This includes driving commercial strategy, business and financial planning, ecosystem development and global business engagement, with the aim of supporting the creation of a sustainable legacy and long-term economic opportunities.

Kayla Isabelle, CEO, Startup Canada

Nenad Paunovic, Director, Delivery Unit - Team for IT and Entrepreneurship

Office of the Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of Serbia

Andrew Lombard, Executive VP Innovation, Venture Development & Small

Business, Arizona Commerce Authority

Gunilla Nordlöf, Director General, Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional

Growth

13.30 DISRUPTOR’S VOICE : Changing the desert with high-

tech solutions

STARTUPS 17 OCT 13:00 – 17:00 ZABEEL HALL 6 - 10X STAGE

Sky Kurtz, Founder & CEO, Pure Harvest

14.30 ECOSYSTEM CORNER : How can we protect our startup

ecosystems from disruption?

Elliott Denham, Senior Associate Manager of Startup Programs, Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Campus (Dtec) Faisal Al Hawi, Head of Accelerator and Incubators, Dubai Future Foundation

Senior Representative, Microsoft

Maryam Hassani, Innovation Specialist, Early Childhood Authority

Marco R. Majer, Head of Ecosystems, 5-HT Digital Hub for Chemistry & Health

(Program with Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs)

Shaker Zainal, Business Finance Director, Emirates Development Bank (EDB)

Mas Watad, Chief Nutrition Officer, Co-Founder & President, Dawsat

Dina Osama El-Shenoufy, CIO, Flat6Labs

Sophie Smith, Founder & CEO, Nabta Health

How to get your investors queuing up: 15 questions VCs will ask before investing

15.00

15.30

Cinar Kurra, CEO, Catalyst (Masdar – BP Initiative)

Kai Ling Ting, Head of Innovation, Etihad Aviation Group

Dr. Samyr Mezzour, Chief Innovation Officer – HITS (A Generali Company)

Bernard Laurendeau, Managing Partner, Laurendeau & Associates

Romain Laliere, Head of Design & Innovation – Middle East, Thales

Jose L Lopez Villen, Director of Open Innovation & Partnerships Ecosystem, Etisalat

Yee Lee, Vice President of Growth, Terraformation

Yacin Bahi, Vice President of Forrest Tech, Terraformation

1345DISRUPTOR’S VOICE: From tech to trees: how Silicon Valley

offers solutions to global reforestation

Unleashing the Synergies of Growth and Disruption

Adam Morse, Actor & Filmmaker

Director of the feature film Lucid featuring Billy Zane and currently acting in the

APPLE TV+ series See (2021) starring Jason Momoa.

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Ken Rutkowski, Founder, METAL International

10.55 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

11.00 Building Reebok: The Shoemaker’s Story of

Triumphing Against the Odds

11.30 The state of venture capital in the Middle East – How

can we mature to heights of the US and Asia?

Moderator: Ken Rutkowski, Founder, METAL International

Shane Shin, Co-Founding Partner, Shorooq Partners

John M Thomas, CEO, Kerala Startup Mission

Anurag Agarwal, Investment Director, Oman Technology Fund

Hasan Haider, Managing Partner, PLUS.VC

12.00 Negotiating Beyond the Price: Lessons from a Hostage Negotiator

STARTUPS 18 OCT 11:00 – 17:00 ZABEEL HALL 6 – 10X STAGE

14.30


Panelists:

Nouri Alenezi, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, JustClean

Imad Hammad, Founder & CEO, CarSwitch

Sebastian Stefan, CEO, Load-Me

Chris VossFBI’s former Hostage Negotiation Lead, Author of ‘Never Split the Difference, teacher on Masterclass.com


Joe Foster, Co-Founder, ReebokStarted Reebok from a terrace house in Bolton as a humble family business and built it to become

one of the best known and respected sports brands in history. 13.30 A Conversation with the Creator of Pictionary: Harnessing

Innovation and Intuition to create a more Successful

Business

The region’s most funded-startups’: Challenges of

scaling up in MENA

Rob Angel, President, Angel Games

(The Creator of Pictionary)



Magieda Abaza, Co-founder & Head of Operations, Yanzo


Talal Tabbaa, Co-Founder, CoinMENA

THE FUNDING GAME: Alternatives to Funding: From P2P

and Crowd to Crypto 15.00

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Jack McCauley, Co-Founder, Oculous VRJack is one of the inventors of modern gaming, as the father of Time Crisis and Guitar Hero, while also

putting his mark to commercial and entertainment use cases of Virtual Reality, being one of the co-

founders of Oculus.

Conversation with an American Inventor and Entrepreneur15.30

12.30 LUNCH

13.00 Accelerating the UAE’s internet economy: Infrastructure

and Ecosystem Effects in Building a Tech Hub

Moderator: Nameer Khan, Founder, MENA Fintech Association

Edouard de La Jonquière, Global Partnership, MEA Expansion, Stripe

Joy Ajlouny, Co-Founder, FETCR

Simon Sharp, Principal, Global Ventures

14.00 Lessons from a VC-preneur

Tarek Kabrit, Founder & CEO, Seez

14.20

Enrique Ortega, Managing Director, GELLIFY

A Steep Climb from Startups to Corporates:

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Data Economy: Rashid Hal l – The Data Science Workshops (Capaci ty Approximately 30 seats) (The Data Labs Stage) 17 OCTOBER


FUTURE TOGETHER

12.00 - 13:00 AI & Sustainable Business Transformation

Technologies like machine learning make it possible, for the first time

in history, for companies to be more profitable because they're more

sustainable and create a positive social impact. This idea, which we

call sustainable business transformation, is the successor to digital

transformation and will upend business models and industries in the

same way over the coming years. Since the corporate superpowers

of the next century will be data-driven, AI-led sustainable

superpower, Forbes Ignite is hosting a short workshop to help C-

level leaders plot their competitive edge in this world. During the

workshop, we'll review the Forbes Ignite AI Canvas from our

upcoming book, "What's Your AI Strategy" and the sustainable

innovation flywheel created with some of the most significant

organizations on the planet.

Who should attend:

• C-level and SVP equivalent leaders in IT, strategy, data science,

sustainability, social impact and innovation who want to understand

how AI and sustainability will drive their growth strategies in the next

decade and beyond.

• Director+ data science practitioners who want to understand the

business and strategy context behind the sustainable, AI-driven

business models of the future

Workshop Leaders: Will Thompson, Chief Strategy Officer,

Forbes Ignite

Nicole Cacal, Founder & CEO, Forbes Ignite

14:00 - 14:45Self-Driving Cars Are Coming

The digitization of practically everything coupled with advanced robotics

promises a future with extensive use of robots in our transportation systems.

Self-driving cars have the potential to increase the safety and efficiency of our

transportation systems and enhance the driving experience. In this talk I will

address recent developments in self-driving cars. I will describe the state of the

art in developing autonomous cars and mobility on demand with self-driving

cars. I will focus on the software architecture, sim-to-real training, and

performance evaluation.

Key takeaways:

We will discuss the autonomy pipeline

The role of maps and machine learning in building situational awareness

Solutions to risk-aware decision making for robot cars

Credential - Certificates of attendance

Workshop Leader:

Dr. Daniela Rus, Director of Computer Science & AI, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology (MIT)

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11:00 - 13:00 Demystifying NextGen AI Adoption

In today’s data driven business world, catchphrases like data analytics, data

science (DS), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep

learning (DL) are terms swirling around boardroom discussions. These digital

concepts are increasingly becoming imperative for CIOs and IT leaders in

critical decision-making process. Often times these terminologies are loosely or

interchangeably referred, without deciphering the real meaning and how

individually and collectively they impact businesses. In order to exploit the true

potential of these technologies, it is critical for companies to demystify the

ambiguity surrounding them.

In this session, we attempt to demystify the terminologies, explain the

comprehensiveness of what data science and data analytics is, what artificial

intelligence (AI) embodies, and how technologies like Machine Leaning (ML)

and Deep Learning (DL) are evolving fast, stimulating AI adoption on a broader

scale. Here, we take you briefly through the natural evolution of these

technologies spanning over decades, how we could distinguish one from

another in our business conversations and how today they interact and

correlate with each other to digitally transform the current business landscape.

Workshop Leader:

Dr. Amit Andre, CEO & Founder, Data Tech Labs

14:00 - 14:30

Workshop Leader: Jesus Ibanez-Parra, Program Manager, Al-Futtaim Group (UAE)

14:30 - 15:00

Learning Analytics: AI in Education

Workshop Leader: Dr. Imran Zualkernan, Professor, American University of Sharjah (UAE)

Data Science guide for AI product delivery in the enterprise: Tweaks and Hints

15:00 - 15:30

Workshop Leader: Anatoliy Vuets, Head of Analytics, Letyshops (Ukraine)

A/B testing for e-commerce: From basic concepts to advanced techniques

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11:00 - 13:00 KPMG sponsored workshop: AI for smart city governance and policy

How can AI Innovation be used in setting up policies for smart governance. There are a lot of issue of data privacy, sharing, ethics and competition around it.

Workshop Leader: Prof. Pulak Ghosh, Faculty of Decision Sciences and Center of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (India)

13:00 - 14:00 Sponsored workshop by Phillips: Using AI to enable healthcare providers to meet the quadruple aim

How can AI Innovation be used in setting up policies for smart governance. There are a lot of issue of data privacy, sharing, ethics and competition around it.

Workshop Leaders:Marc-Antoine Zora, General Manager & District Leader Health systems, Philips (UAE)Ali Nairat, Business Marketing Manager, Philips (UAE)Michael Perkuhn, Business Category Leader Precision DiagnosisPhilips Innovative Technologies

Sponsored workshop by HikVision: Intelligent Traffic System Improves the Urban Security

14:00 – 15:00

Workshop Leader: Robert Wong, Technical Director, Hikvision

15:00 – 16:00Sponsored workshop by AT Kearney

Workshop Leaders: To be announced

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Data Economy: Rashid Hal l – The Data Science Workshop (Capaci ty Approximately 30 seats) (The Data X Stage) 17 -20 OCTOBER


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DAY 1 - 17th / 19th

9:30 Welcome Coffee

10:00 Inspiring Applications of Data Science and Al

11:00 Break

11:15 Install/run R and RStudio

12:15 Lunch Break

13:00 Introduction Programming in R

14:00 Break

14:15 Visualization Techniques with ggplot2

15:15 Break

15:30 Data Manipulation and Statistical Analysis

17:00 End of Day 1

DAY 2 - 18th / 20th

9:30 Welcome Coffee

10:00 Introduction to Machine Learning

11:00 Break

11:15 Predictive Modeling: Regression and Classification

12:15 Lunch Break

13:00 Clustering Algorithms

14:00 Break

14:15 Association Rule Mining & Recommender Systems

15:15 Break

15:30 Deep Learning and the Future of Data Science

17:00 End of Day 2

WORKSHOP LEADER:Dr. Muhammad Shokoohi – Yekta, Lead Appliad Scientist at Microsoft

and Instructor at Stanford University USA

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