Minister
Deputy Minister
Deputy Minister of Environment, Water & Agriculture
Head of Cyber Security for UAE Government
CEO
SVP - International Government Affairs EMEA & APJC
Chief Executive Officer
General Manager Middle East & Africa Growth Markets
Solution Architecture Director
Content Creator & WideBot Ambassador
Vice President & General Manager, Middle East, Türkiye & Africa
Co founder
Chief AI Officer
Field CDO
General Partner - Venture Capital
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Field CISO, EMEA
Venture Senior Investment Manager
President Middle East, Türkiye & Central Asia
Chief Technologist
Researcher & Chief Ethics Scientist
Chief Scientist & Vice President, IBM Technology & Technical Community
EMEA Leader DC, AI, Client & Gigafactory
Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)
Chief Scientist & Executive Board Member
Group Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Technology Officer
Co-Founder
Managing Partner, EMEA
Founder & General Partner
Global Head & VP of Strategic Markets & Partnerships
Digital Development Practice Head for Africa & the Middle East
Chief Digital Officer
Content Creator
Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications, Digital Economy, and Transparency
COMOROS
Harnessing AI and demand-driven investment to tackle water, education, health, and energy challenges in Small Island Developing States.
Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Economy (MTDE)
State of Palestine
Steering the digital future under extraordinary challenges, to keep citizens connected while building a modern, inclusive digital economy
Ministry of Environment Water & Agriculture
SAUDI ARABIA
Founding member of the RDI Authority, holding multiple patents across the Saudi Genome Program and National RDI Strategy
UAE Cyber Security Council
UAE
Cybersecurity Visionary, elevating UAE’s cyber security posture on a global level
ITIDA
EGYPT
CISCO
Championing global, responsible AI and digital policy that bridges governments, business, and citizens worldwide
e&
Driving AI, 5G deployment & smart cities development for one of the top 5 largest telecom operators in North Africa
Microsoft
Helping governments & businesses leapfrog into a resilient digital future by scaling AI & cloud footprint across high-growth markets
Red Hat
Driving digital sovereignty through open-source AI
Widebot
An Arabic knowledge series about AI and real-world applications
Cerebras
Forbes AI 50, TIME 100 Most Influential Companies, the world’s fastest AI inference
Cloudera
Forbes AI50 2025 Unicorn, developing AI architectures for scalable deep learning
Cognizant
Inventor of core technology behind Siri
Dataiku
UK
DPI VC (Development Partners International)
One of a MEA’s largest private equity and growth investors, with over USD 3 billion raised across multiple funds
Fawry
Egypt’s first publicly listed unicorn (USD 1.1B), serving 45+ million users, with the #1 fintech app in the Middle East
Fortinet
Cybersecurity visionary, author of Policy Design in the Age of Digital Adoption, advising on scalable security postures in the age of AI
Gobi Partners
MALAYSIA
US$2 billion AUM, manages a portfolio of over 400 companies, supported emerging ecosystems, built a proven track record of 75 exits and counting
Honeywell
Fortune 500 company, serving as the technological backbone for Egypt’s ambitious Smart City project
HPE
Chief technologist part of the HPC and AI team focusing on sovereign AI and AI at a scale for strategic and enterprise organizations.
Hugging Face
TIME100 List innovator, $4.5B valuation, Top 3 largest open source unicorns in the world managing 2 million+ foundation models & 100,000+ datasets
IBM Research
70+ US patents and 100+ publications on AI for code, Responsible AI, and semiconductor optimization
Intel
ITU
Switzerland
“The father of LTE” (Long-Term Evolution mobile broadband)
LIBELIUM
SPAIN
Chair IoT Data Quality at IEEE, leading a flagship European Initiative to enable Urban planners to address Green Deal, Sustainable and Resilience Goals with AI and Data-driven decision making.
Mashreq Bank
Ranked #32 on Forbes Middle East Top CEOs
MNT Halan
Powering Egypt’s largest fintech ecosystem for millions of unbanked and underbanked customers, valued at USD 1B+
MONTA AI
US
Built Esri’s global AI and Geospatial Intelligence practice; founded Monta AI, one of the fastest-growing applied AI companies from Silicon Valley
Opay
NIGERIA
Driving one of Africa’s largest fintech platforms, serving 50+ million users and processing USD 12B+ monthly
OREUS
FRANCE
France’s first end-to-end sovereign AI operator, Former Secretary of State in charge of citizenship and urban affairs
Plug and Play
The world’s largest startup innovation ecosystem, backing 3,000+ startups and scaling 30+ unicorns
Sunny Side Venture Partners
JAPAN
Sunny Side Venture Partners is the first Asian VC based in North Africa, which has so far invested in 24 companies operating across 24 countries
Tenstorrent
Forbes AI50 List of 2025, Unicorn and next-generation computing company that builds in AI architectures focused on scalable deep learning. Raised $700M at a valuation of more than $2.6 billion from investors including Jeff Bezos, Samsung, LG, Fidelity Management & Research Company
The World Bank
Building vibrant, safe and inclusive digital economies in the fastest growing continent
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
KENYA
Leading global digital and AI strategy for the environment, former architect of Egypt’s national AI strategy
ZAHARE Media
Global travel creator, filmmaker, and entrepreneur with over 4 million followers across social platforms