Time: September 22, 2018
Speakers

Fahd Hamidaddin
Senior Advisor,
Misk Foundation, KSA

Faisal J. Abbas
Editor-in-chief,
Arab News, KSA

Constance Adams
Space Architect, Emerging Explorer 2005,
Synthesis, USA

Piyush Agrawal
Co-founder & CEO,
SuperProfs, India

Eren Aksu
Chief Opportunity Creator,
Emblematic, USA

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

H.E. Khalid Al-Falih
Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources
, KSA

Meshal Al-Harasani
Saudi Inventor,
King Abdulaziz University, KSA

Nouf Abdullah Al-Rakan
CEO,
Educational Initiatives LLC, KSA

Sarah Al-Shawwaf
Senior Director,
Albright Stonebridge Group, KSA/USA

Anas AlFaris
Vice President for Research Institutes,
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, KSA

His Excellency Abdullah AlSwaha
Minister of Communication & Information Technology,
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, KSA

Ameerah AlTaweel
Co-founder and Chairwoman,
Tasamy Social Entrepreneurs Center, KSA

Abdulelah Altunisi
Manager Affiliative Reporting, Financial Accounting,
National Commercial Bank, KSA

Deemah AlYahya
Secretary General,
National Digitization Program, KSA

Alex Amouyel
Executive Director,
MIT Solve, USA

Ayman Arandi
Head of Nationals,
Hult Prize, USA

Adam Aron
CEO and President,
AMC Entertainment, USA

Bill Aulet
Managing Director; Professor of the Practice,
Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship; MIT Sloan School of Management, USA

Nadeem Bakhsh
Founder & Director of Digital Experience Transformation & Technology Innovation,
UXBERT Labs, KSA

Esther Baldwin
Artificial Intelligence Strategist for Intel Corporation’s,
Technology Computing Initiative Enterprise and Government Group, USA

Allen Blue
Vice President of Product Management & Co-founder,
LinkedIn, USA

Essam Bukhary
CEO,
Manga Productions, KSA

Roland Busch
Chief Technology Officer,
Siemens AG, Germany

Anthony Butler
CTO,
IBM Cloud Middle East and Africa, Australia

Teresa Carlson
Vice President Worldwide Public Sector,
Amazon Web Services, USA

Zubin Chagpar
Head of Middle East and Africa, Public Sector Business,
Amazon Web Services, UAE

Ziad Chehadé
Marketing Manager MENA,
Google, UAE

Hassan Damluji
Head of Middle East Relations & Deputy Director of Global Policy & Advocacy,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UK

John Defterios
CNN Money Emerging Markets Editor,
CNN Money, USA

Josep Curto Diaz
Professor,
IE Business School, Spain

Lucía Valencia Dongo Quintanilla
Co-founder,
Duhem, Peru

Tatiana dos Santos Silva
Co-founder & Projects Director,
FA.VELA, Brazil

Lyse Doucet
Chief International Correspondent,
BBC News, UK

Franco Dragone
Founder & Artistic Director,
Dragone, Belgium/Italy

Sylvia A. Earle
National Geographic Explorer in Residence & Founder,
National Geographic ; Mission Blue, USA

Selim Eddé
Head of Public Policy MENA,
Google, UAE

Henry Elkus
Founder and CEO,
Helena, USA

Mark Elliott
Vice Provost for International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History,
Harvard University, USA

Abdulla Elyas
Co-founder and CPO,
Careem Inc, KSA

Caroline Faraj
Vice President & Head of Arabic Services,
CNN, UAE

Lutz Finger
Data Scientist in Residence,
Cornell University, USA

Alexis Gambis
Executive Director & Founder,
Imagine Science Film Festival, USA

Hadley Gamble
Anchor,
CNBC, USA

Chris Gardner
Author,
The Pursuit of Happyness, USA

Bill Gates
Co-chair,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Zhihui Ge
Chairman,
Ledo Interactive Co., LTD & SNK Corporation, China/Japan

Tarek Ghobar
Startup Manager,
1776, UAE

Josh Giegel
Co-founder & CTO,
Virgin Hyperloop One, USA

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski
Physicist,
Harvard University, USA

Diane Greene
CEO,
Google Cloud, USA

Lara Habib
Senior Business News Presenter,
Al Arabiya, UAE

Riad Hamade
Executive Editor for the Middle East and Africa,
Bloomberg News, UAE

Shaima Hamidaddin
Executive Manager,
Misk Foundation, KSA

Hala Hanna
Director of Economic Prosperity,
MIT Solve, USA

Olivier Harnisch
Chief Executive Officer,
Emaar Hospitality Group, UAE

Kinda Ibrahim
Director of Media Partnerships,
Twitter MENA, UAE

Gopi Kallayil
Chief Evangelist, Brand Marketing,
Google, USA

David Kenny
Senior Vice President,
IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, USA

Sal Khan
Founder & CEO,
Khan Academy, USA

Loulou Khazen Baz
Founder & CEO,
Nabbesh, Lebanon

Daniel Kirk
Professor,
Florida Institute of Technology, USA

Jonas Kjellberg
Co-creator,
Skype, Sweden

Klaus Kleinfeld
CEO,
Neom, USA/GERMANY

Duleesha Kulasooriya
Lead strategist,
Deloitte’s Center for the Edge, USA

Finn Kydland
Henley Professor of Economics, Nobel Laureate Economics 2004,
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Jean-Yves Le Drian
Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs,
Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, France

Deborah Lehr
CEO,,
Basilinna, USA

Michele Levy
Founder & CEO,
Ihabela Holdings, USA

Tony Little
Group Chief Education Officer,
GEMS Education, UK

Nanxi Liu
CEO and Co-founder,
Enplug Inc., USA

Noura Youssef Mansouri
Senior Research Associate,
King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, KSA

Eddy Maroun
Co-founder Anghami,
Anghami, Lebanon

Pierre-Alain Masson
Co-founder,
Seedstars, France

Yosuke Matsuda
President & Representative Director,
Square Enix Holdings Co. Ltd, Japan

Winston Matthews
Silicon Valley VR Developer & Entrepreneur
, USA

Gordon McConnell
Head of the Entrepreneurship Center, Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship,
KAUST, Ireland

Ed McConville
Director, Learning and Development Europe Middle East & Africa,
LinkedIn, USA

Kenjiro Meguri
COO,
Digital Hollywood University, Japan

Ronaldo Mouchawar
CEO,
Souq.com, UAE

Sota Nagano
Chief Financial Officer & Board of Director,
GLM.Co.,Ltd, Japan

Matt Ocko
Co-Managing Partner,
DCVC, USA

Maureen Orth
Special Correspondent,
Vanity Fair, USA

Abu Qader
Co-founder,
GliaLab, USA

Richard Quest
Anchor,
CNN, USA

Fabien Riggall
Founder and Chief Creative Officer,
Secret Group Limited, UK

Muhammad Azam Roomi
Vice Dean & Professor,
Mohammed bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship (MBSC), United Kingdom

David Rosenberg
CEO & Co-founder,
AeroFarms, USA

Rania Rostom
Chief Innovation Officer, GE Middle East, North Africa & Turkey,
GE, Egypt

Martin Sabbagh
CEO for Middle East,
JCDecaux, France, France

Pablo Sanchez Santaeufemia
CEO & Co-founder,
Bridge for Billions, Spain

Sandi Sein Thein
CEO,
Digital Kaway, Myanmar

Dana Shaddad
Founder,
Imtiaz Middle East & Arab Mobile Challenge, MENA

Omran Sharaf
Emirates Mars Mission (Hope Probe) Project Manager,
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre, UAE

Shinji Shimizu
Senior Director and Producer,
Toei Animation, Japan

Riaz Siddiqi
Houston Founder & Managing Partner,
Denham Capital, USA

Keir Simmons
Journalist,
NBC, UK

Rainer Speh
Chief Technology Officer,
Siemens Ltd Saudi Arabia, KSA

Abdulrahman Tarabzouni
CEO & MD,
STC, Saudi Arabia

William Tunstall-Pedoe
Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneur,
Formerly with Amazon Alexa, UK

Amanda Turnbull
Vice-President,
Discovery Networks, UAE

Zeeshan Usmani
Big Data Technical Lead Manager,
Tech Innovation Lab, Misk Foundation, KSA

Dino Varkey
Chief Executive Officer,
GEMS Education, UAE

Zain Verjee
Co-Founder & CEO,
aKoma Media

Werner Vogels
Chief Technology Officer,
Amazon, USA

Tatiana Vorobieva
MBA Student,
Mohammad Bin Salman College, Russia

Evans Wadongo
Co-founder,
GreenWize Energy, Kenya

Siya Xuza
Founder & Managing Director,
Galactic Energy Ventures, South Africa

Seif Abou Zaid
CEO & Co-founder,
Mavericks, Egypt