Start: 10 Feb 2025
End: 13 Feb 2025
Location: Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center

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Monday, March 04, 2024 16:10 - 16:30

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Africa's entrepreneurial beacon; LinkedIn's influential voice.

Adam Selipsky CEO, Amazon Web Services

Amin Nasser President & CEO, Aramco

Bill McDermott Chairman and CEO, ServiceNow

Mo Gawdat Former Chief Business Officer of Google [X], Host of Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat, and international bestselling author

Saeed Amidi Founder and CEO, Plug and Play

Rick Fox Co-founder and CEO, Partanna

Michelle Zatlyn Co-founder, President, and COO, Cloudflare

Adam Selipsky CEO, Amazon Web Services

Haitham Alsahfy CEO & Co-Founder, Fintactics Ventures

Tugce Ergul Founding Partner, Hypernova

Brian Rogove Co-Chief of Corporate Development, Alat

Amit Midha CEO, Alat

Fabio Fontana Chief Growth Officer, Tonomus, CEO Zeropoint DC

Don Tapscott Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute

Anne Biondi Simonds Founder & CEO, Muse Systems Enterprises

Abdulelah Alfaris Chief Operations Officer, THIQAH

Ayman AlFallaj CEO, THIQAH

HRH Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz President, Saudi Esports Federation (SEF)

Monica Brand Engel Co-founder and Managing Partner, Quona Capital

Rodi Lasso CEO & Co-founder, E1 Series

HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud Founder and CEO, KBW Ventures

Ali Busaleh CTO, Thmanyah

Abdulrahman Abumalih Founder and CEO

Tareq Amin CEO, Aramco Digital

HRH Prince Sultan bin Fahd bin Salman Al Saud Chairman, Saudi Water Sports and Diving Federation

Brian Ward CEO, Savvy Games Group

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald President, Tonomus Venture Studio and Chief Sustainability Officer, TONOMUS

Anil Chakravarthy President, Digital Experience Business, Adobe

Her Royal Highness Princess Lamia Bint Majed Saud Al-Saud Secretary General, Alwaleed Philanthropies

Joseph Bradley CEO, TONOMUS

Fadi Pharaon President EMEA, Ericsson

Lauri Almann Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, CyberExer Technologies

Guido Mengoni CMO & CDO, Temera

Altaf AlThekair founder and CEO, Circle

Cenly Chen Chief Growth Officer, Senior Vice President, and Managing Director, Supermicro B.V.

Helen Fullen Founder and CEO, Alinea

Mei Chan GM, Head of Fashion, Luxury & Lifestyle - Globalization Business, Alibaba Group

Professor Sun Dong Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Hong Kong SAR

Noorin Virani Group Director of Data & Insights, LVMH

Omar Hatamleh Chief Advisor, AI & Innovation, NASA

Chandler Song Co-founder and CEO, Ankr

Amin Nasser President & CEO, Aramco

Bin Li Chairman, Tsinghua Unigroup

Dowson Tong Senior Executive Vice-President of Tencent and CEO of Cloud & Smart Industries Group

Jwaher Al Saud Executive Director of Customer Experience, Tawuniya

Nabil Mohamed Chief Product and Technology Officer, 4Sale

Shravin Mittal Founder & CEO, Unbound

Lord Stephen Carter CBE Group Chief Executive, Informa PLC

Bill McDermott Chairman and CEO, ServiceNow

Abdulelah Alfaris Chief Operations Officer, Thiqah

Anya Hayden Founder & General Partner, ANIM

Joseph Aoun Director of Data Products and Analytics, Chalhoub Group

Saleh Al Tunaib Co-Founder and CEO, Raha Holding

Joe Kobrianos Chief Strategy Officer, AstroLabs

Michael Kratsios Managing Director, Scale AI

Lan Guan Chief AI Officer, Accenture

Mo Gawdat Former Chief Business Officer of Google [X], Host of Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat, and international bestselling author

Jessica Wong Founder & Managing Partner, eWTP Arabia Capital

Chase Lorio Global Head of Grocery, Careem

Artur Bergman Chief Architect and Founder, Fastly

Dr. Muhammad Al-Saggaf President, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Anna Germanos Group Director of CPG, Retail, E-commerce & Luxury, Middle East & Africa, Meta

Nicola Morini Bianzino Global Chief Technology Officer, EY

Saeed Amidi Founder and CEO, Plug and Play

Rick Fox Co-founder and CEO, Partanna

Prof. Zexiang Li Founder of Xbotpark and Shenzhen InnoX Academy; Co-founder of DJI; Distinguished Visiting Professor King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Wael Ismail Vice President for Corporate Affairs (AMESA), PepsiCo

Tiit Riisalo Minister of Economic Affairs and Information Technology, Republic of Estonia

Dr. Zhu Shenggao Vice President of AI, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Jigar Sagar Serial Entrepreneur and Founder, Triliv

Stewart Kohl Co CEO The Riverside Company

Paris de l'Etraz Managing Director Venture Lab

Tejas Ravishankar CEO Dimension

Abdulrahman Jiffrey Partner, 500 Global

Mohamed Aboulnaga Co-founder & Global CEO Exits MENA

Marta Arsovska Tomovska Director for Digitalization Government of Serbia

Hon. Moses Kuria HSC-CABINET SECRETARY PUBLIC SERVICE, Kenya

Sumayah AlZamil Co-founder & CEO Nugttah

Sabinije von Gaffke Founder IMPACTFULNESS Ventures

Jason Tanner CEO of Applied Frameworks

Adam Selipsky
CEO, Amazon Web Services

Amin Nasser
President & CEO, Aramco

Bill McDermott
Chairman and CEO, ServiceNow

Mo Gawdat
Former Chief Business Officer of Google [X], Host of Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat, and international bestselling author

Saeed Amidi
Founder and CEO, Plug and Play

Rick Fox
Co-founder and CEO, Partanna

Michelle Zatlyn
Co-founder, President, and COO, Cloudflare

Adam Selipsky
CEO, Amazon Web Services

Haitham Alsahfy
CEO & Co-Founder, Fintactics Ventures

Tugce Ergul
Founding Partner, Hypernova

Brian Rogove
Co-Chief of Corporate Development, Alat

Amit Midha
CEO, Alat

Fabio Fontana
Chief Growth Officer, Tonomus, CEO Zeropoint DC

Don Tapscott
Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute

Anne Biondi Simonds
Founder & CEO, Muse Systems Enterprises

Abdulelah Alfaris
Chief Operations Officer, THIQAH

Ayman AlFallaj
CEO, THIQAH

HRH Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz
President, Saudi Esports Federation (SEF)

Monica Brand Engel
Co-founder and Managing Partner, Quona Capital

Rodi Lasso
CEO & Co-founder, E1 Series

HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud
Founder and CEO, KBW Ventures

Ali Busaleh
CTO, Thmanyah

Abdulrahman Abumalih
Founder and CEO

Tareq Amin
CEO, Aramco Digital

HRH Prince Sultan bin Fahd bin Salman Al Saud
Chairman, Saudi Water Sports and Diving Federation

Brian Ward
CEO, Savvy Games Group

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald
President, Tonomus Venture Studio and Chief Sustainability Officer, TONOMUS

Anil Chakravarthy
President, Digital Experience Business, Adobe

Her Royal Highness Princess Lamia Bint Majed Saud Al-Saud
Secretary General, Alwaleed Philanthropies

Joseph Bradley
CEO, TONOMUS

Fadi Pharaon
President EMEA, Ericsson

Lauri Almann
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, CyberExer Technologies

Guido Mengoni
CMO & CDO, Temera

Altaf AlThekair
founder and CEO, Circle

Cenly Chen
Chief Growth Officer, Senior Vice President, and Managing Director, Supermicro B.V.

Helen Fullen
Founder and CEO, Alinea

Mei Chan
GM, Head of Fashion, Luxury & Lifestyle - Globalization Business, Alibaba Group

Professor Sun Dong
Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Hong Kong SAR

Noorin Virani
Group Director of Data & Insights, LVMH

Omar Hatamleh
Chief Advisor, AI & Innovation, NASA

Chandler Song
Co-founder and CEO, Ankr

Amin Nasser
President & CEO, Aramco

Bin Li
Chairman, Tsinghua Unigroup

Dowson Tong
Senior Executive Vice-President of Tencent and CEO of Cloud & Smart Industries Group

Jwaher Al Saud
Executive Director of Customer Experience, Tawuniya

Nabil Mohamed
Chief Product and Technology Officer, 4Sale

Shravin Mittal
Founder & CEO, Unbound

Lord Stephen Carter CBE
Group Chief Executive, Informa PLC

Bill McDermott
Chairman and CEO, ServiceNow

Abdulelah Alfaris
Chief Operations Officer, Thiqah

Anya Hayden
Founder & General Partner, ANIM

Joseph Aoun
Director of Data Products and Analytics, Chalhoub Group

Saleh Al Tunaib
Co-Founder and CEO, Raha Holding

Joe Kobrianos
Chief Strategy Officer, AstroLabs

Michael Kratsios
Managing Director, Scale AI

Lan Guan
Chief AI Officer, Accenture

Mo Gawdat
Former Chief Business Officer of Google [X], Host of Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat, and international bestselling author

Jessica Wong
Founder & Managing Partner, eWTP Arabia Capital

Chase Lorio
Global Head of Grocery, Careem

Artur Bergman
Chief Architect and Founder, Fastly

Dr. Muhammad Al-Saggaf
President, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Anna Germanos
Group Director of CPG, Retail, E-commerce & Luxury, Middle East & Africa, Meta

Nicola Morini Bianzino
Global Chief Technology Officer, EY

Saeed Amidi
Founder and CEO, Plug and Play

Rick Fox
Co-founder and CEO, Partanna

Prof. Zexiang Li
Founder of Xbotpark and Shenzhen InnoX Academy; Co-founder of DJI; Distinguished Visiting Professor King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Wael Ismail
Vice President for Corporate Affairs (AMESA), PepsiCo

Tiit Riisalo
Minister of Economic Affairs and Information Technology, Republic of Estonia

Dr. Zhu Shenggao
Vice President of AI, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Jigar Sagar
Serial Entrepreneur and Founder, Triliv

Stewart Kohl
Co CEO The Riverside Company

Paris de l'Etraz
Managing Director Venture Lab

Tejas Ravishankar
CEO Dimension

Abdulrahman Jiffrey
Partner, 500 Global

Mohamed Aboulnaga
Co-founder & Global CEO Exits MENA

Marta Arsovska Tomovska
Director for Digitalization Government of Serbia

Hon. Moses Kuria
HSC-CABINET SECRETARY PUBLIC SERVICE, Kenya

Sumayah AlZamil
Co-founder & CEO Nugttah

Sabinije von Gaffke
Founder IMPACTFULNESS Ventures

Jason Tanner
CEO of Applied Frameworks