Highway to 100
Unicorns
Virtual Conference

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VC Day - Keynote

Noor Sweid, General Partner at Global Ventures

4:30 PM (GMT +4)

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VC Day - Fire side chat

Priya Rajan, Managing Director at Silicon Valley Bank

Salvatore Lavallo, Head of FDI at Abu Dhabi Investment Office

Nader Museitif, Product & Business Development at Hub71

5:00PM (GMT +4)

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VC Day - Panel

Shane Shin, Founding Partner at Shorooq Ventures

Tamara Steffens, MD at M12

Sharif Al Badawi, Founding Managing Partner at Plus VC

Omar AlMajdouie, Partner at Raed Ventures

Moderator: Loulou Khazen-Baz, Founder at Nebbesh, Conversations with Loulou

6:00PM (GMT +4)

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Accessibility - Keynote

Ihsan Anabtawi, COO and CMO - Microsoft UAE

4:30 PM (GMT +4)

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Accessibility - Fire side chat

Dona Sarkar, Director Of Technology - Accessibility at Microsoft

5:00PM (GMT +4)

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Accessibility - Panel

Paula Newby, CEO at Predixa

Dr. Sara Saeed, Khurram CEO at Sehat Kahani

Mohammad Kilany, CEO at MindRockets

Jose Rubinger, CCO & Co-founder at Key2enable

Moderator: Richie Santosdiaz, Head of Middle East and Africa at The Fintech Times

6:00PM (GMT +4)

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Tech Day - Keynote

Iba Masood, Co-founder and CEO at Tara.AI

4:30 PM (GMT +4)

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Tech Day - Fire side chat

Bassem Asseh, Vice President, EMEA GitHub

Vinayak Hegde, CTO-in-Residence at Microsoft for Startups

5:00PM (GMT +4)

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Tech Day - Panel

Sergii Marchenko, Chief Information Officer at Securrency

Mossab Hussein, Co-founder & Chief Security Officer at spiderSilk

Gonca Gulcer, Co-founder & CTO at QuinAI

Moderator: Sania Kaddoura, Cloud Architect at Microsoft

6:00PM (GMT +4)

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Founders Day - Keynote

Jonathan Labin, President at Unifonic

4:30 PM (GMT +4)

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Founders Day - Fire side chat

Faisal Toukan, Co-Founder & CEO at Ziina

Zach Finkelstein, Managing Partner at Class 5 Global

5:00PM (GMT +4)

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Founders Day - Panel

Carolin-Carmen Neubauer, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder FERO.Ai

Shamsher Singh, Founder & CEO at BLUELIGHT SYSTEMS

Patrick Rogers, Co-Founder @ Clara Technologies + Support Legal

Reem Khouri, Co-Founder and CEO Whyise

Moderator: Eleanor Slinger, Regional Director, New Statesman Media Group & Lead Monitor

6:00PM (GMT +4)

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Corporate Day - Keynote

Xavier Anglada, Managing Director - Strategy & Consulting lead, Innovation Lead - Middle East

4:30 PM (GMT +4)

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Corporate Day - Fire side chat

Bakari Brock, Senior Director of Global Partnerships at Microsoft for Startups

Céline Brémaud, Sales, Marketing and Operations VP, Microsoft Middle East and Africa

5:00PM (GMT +4)

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Corporate Day - Panel

Maria Paula Oliveira, Chief Innovation Officer, MENA at EY

Asad ur Rehman, Director Media & Digital Transformation, North Africa & Middle East at Unilever

Suryanka Jatain, Director - Digital & Innovation @KPMG Management Consulting

Kai Ling Ting, Innovation Lead at Etihad

Moderator: Ali Samir Oosman, Strategic Partnerships & Dealflow Manager at Microsoft for Startups MEA

6:00PM (GMT +4)

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Go-to-Market Day - Keynote

Akhtar Badshah, Founder and Chief Catalyst at Catalytic Innovators Group.

4:30 PM (GMT +4)

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Go-to-Market Day - Fire side chat

Elie Habib, Anghami Co-Founder

Hosam Arab, Co-Founder and CEO at Tabby

5:00PM (GMT +4)

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Go-to-Market Day - Panel

Rami Khoury, CEO at Auxi

Anuscha Iqbal, Chief Executive Officer at Spotii.me

Suna Zoabi - Othman, Founder & CEO – Tawazon

Alaa Bakhit, Founder of B12 for Digital Services and Professor of Practice at HTU

Philipp Pabst - Moderator, Strategic Partnerships & Dealflow Manager at Microsoft for Startups MEA

6:00PM (GMT +4)

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Government Day - Keynote

Juma Alhamli , Senior Executive Director of Strategy and Business Development at Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)

4:30 PM (GMT +4)

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Government Day - Fire side chat

Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta, Associate Director - Financial Centre Development at ADGM

Miriam Kiwan, Executive Chairman's Office at ADGM

5:00PM (GMT +4)

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Government Day - Panel

6:00PM (GMT +4)

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Ecosystem Building Day – FC

Jeff Ma, VP, Startups at Microsoft

Lynn Chouman, News Editor at LinkedIn

4:30 PM (GMT +4)

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Best Practices for B2B Startups working with Corporates

Elodie Robin, Aerospace and defence start up accelerator - Hub 71 - Gothams

Shereen Abdulla, Podcast Host and Producer at Spark! With Shereen

Mia Jafari, Managing Director, Intelak Hub & Programmes Manager

5:00PM (GMT +4)

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Accelerating & Building the Future of Venture

Marie-Therese Fam, Managing Partner at Flat6Labs‬

Babak Ahmadzadeh, Managing Director, Plug and Play Abu Dhabi

Kareem Elsirafy, Managing Partner at Modus Capital

Hana Barakat, Associate Director at startAD

Selma BAHÇİVANOĞLU, Manager, Incubation and Acceleration Programs at İTÜ ARI Teknokent A.Ş.‬

Mehvish Arifeen, CEO at I2I Accelerator

Moderator: Noor Salama, Community & Program Manager at Microsoft for Startups MEA

6:00PM (GMT +4)