WHO SPEAKS IN TECHNE

Ibrahim Abdel Rehim
  • Ibrahim Abdel Rehim
  • Managing Partner
  • Managing Partner
  • Moonbase Capital
  • Moonbase Capital
  • Egypt

Amr Saleh
  • Amr Saleh
  • CEO
  • CEO
  • Welnes
  • Welnes
  • Egypt

Karim Haggar
  • Karim Haggar
  • Kepri Projects ( The impact Investing/ Advisor Business)
  • Kepri Projects ( The..
  • Egypt

Omar El Metwally
  • Omar El Metwally
  • CEO
  • CEO
  • Sigmafit
  • Sigmafit
  • Egypt

Francesco Cracolici
  • Francesco Cracolici
  • General manager
  • General manager
  • Nomadic Minds
  • Nomadic Minds
  • Italy
  • Francesco leads Nomadic Minds, the world’s largest network of tech CEOs and top executives that now helps emerging startup ecosystems to thrive. 


    The people in the networks have collectively raised +$4BLN and generated +$20BLN in companies’ value, and they worked with The White House, the king of Morocco, King of Jordan, Albania, Colombia, etc..

    Nomadic also connects the best seed-stage startups from emerging ecosystems with investors from the Valley to raise their Serie A.


    Prior to that, he was a two-times where he headed sales and business development.

Sebastien Toupy
  • Sebastien Toupy
  • Advisor
  • Advisor
  • Greentech Alliance
  • Greentech Alliance
  • Belgium
  • Entrepreneur, community builder & people-connector. I have a real passion for startups, innovation, and social impact. I currently dedicate my time to organizing events and running programs that help startup founders to build successful & sustainable ventures.

Ante Lucic
  • Ante Lucic
  • Director
  • Director
  • Abriva Partners
  • Abriva Partners
  • Croatia
  • Since he returned to Croatia in 2014, Ante Lucic has been leading A-Link, a strategic HR and career management consultancy, with a special focus on the future of work and education. Ante invented "Talent Capital" & ex-ANTE methodology - a new HR paradigm aiming to diagnose, evaluate, and develop human capital as the essential asset of every organization. Ante has also been an active startup mentor and advocates who founded Cronnect.me - a platform that c(r)connects Croatian startups with potential investors from the Croatian Diaspora. Two years ago he started a program to teach entrepreneurship in elementary schools, trying to raise a new generation of entrepreneurial innovators in Croatia. As an entrepreneur, Ante remains committed to empower companies and individuals to develop, maintain, and grow the most important of all resources - the human resource, as well as to harness the most powerful of all types of capital - the talent capital, in order to ensure competitiveness and innovation.

Marina Maljuric
  • Marina Maljuric
  • Special Adviser
  • Special Adviser
  • MEKST conference
  • MEKST conference
  • Serbia
  • Marina Maljurić, Special Adviser, MEKST Conference Marina Maljurić is an experienced event manager, program director, and special adviser of conferences in different fields that gather from 200 to 1000 participants. The biggest one is the MEKST conference taking place every year in Novi Sad with more than 1000 participants from 15 European countries. Since last year the organizer and moderator of both online and hybrid events. Working as a manager for the promotion and development of tourism products in the MICE sector at the Tourism organization of the City of Novi Sad helped her gain more experience in development and promotion as well as in an organization of B2B events, fam trips, festivals, etc.

Eslam Darwish
  • Eslam Darwish
  • CEO & Founder
  • CEO & Founder
  • Just.Innovate
  • Just.Innovate
  • Egypt
    • EXPERIENCE:
      GLOBAL SVP NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & INNOVATION at MASTERCARD.
      20 yrs in Innovation/product development, Marketing, Digital, Tech Startups & Across North America, Europe, Russia, Middle East & Africa

    • INDUSTRIES:
      Fintech, Banking, FMCG, Media & Entertainment

     

    • EMPLOYERS:
      Unilever, Citi, Twofour54, MasterCard

     

    • EDUCATION:
      Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
      Central Michigan / Arab Academy, Alex University

Dimitris Litsikakis
  • Dimitris Litsikakis
  • Global Head of FinTech
  • Global Head of FinTe..
  • DeVere Group
  • DeVere Group
  • Greece
  • Dimitris Litsikakis holds a BSc in Information Technology from Piraeus University and a MSc in Project Management from Lancaster University. He worked at IBM UK as a Project Manager delivering large scale IT projects.

    He then joined Edenred Greece as Digital Transformation Manager where he led the entire digitalization of the company’s solution offering, issuing hundreds of thousands of MasterCard cards to beneficiaries. In 2018 he was appointed Country Manager for Revolut in Greece, Cyprus & Malta, where he grew the client base by 400%.

    Having secured $336M in funding, Revolut has an impressive $1,7B valuation and 4 million users across Europe. In April 2019 he joined DeVere as Global Head of FinTech, leading the group’s digital efforts. Since 2014, he also acts as Athens Chapter Director for Startup Grind, the largest entrepreneurship community in the world."

Cory Kidd
  • Cory Kidd
  • CEO & Founder
  • CEO & Founder
  • Catalia Health
  • Catalia Health
  • United States
  • Dr. Cory Kidd is an experienced entrepreneur who has been working in healthcare technology for more than two decades. Dr. Kidd is the founder and CEO of Catalia Health, a chronic disease care management company that provides an effective AI-powered solution to keep patients on therapy and improve outcomes. The focus of his work has been applying innovative technologies towards solving large-scale healthcare challenges. His previous company, Intuitive Automata, created interactive coaches for diabetes and weight management.

    Prior to this, Dr. Kidd received his M.S. and Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab in human-robot interaction. While there, he conducted studies that showed the psychological and clinical advantages of using a physical robot compared to screen-based interactions. Dr. Kidd also conducted an extensive study showing the efficacy of his weight loss coach in helping people to diet, as well as completed work in nursing homes using robotic companions for elderly individuals. He received his B.S. in Computer Science and was subsequently a research faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  

    Dr. Kidd founded Catalia Health to use scalable, innovative technology to better support patients living with chronic illness. He has raised around $10 million in seed funding from VC and PE funds including Khosla Ventures, Ion Pacific, and Fusion Fund.

    As a frequent speaker, Dr. Kidd provides healthcare and technology commentary at events and in the media. In 2018 he was awarded a grant and honored as a finalist in Astellas Oncology’s C3 Award that acknowledges and supports non-medicine innovations aimed at improving the cancer care experience for patients.

Amr El Tobgi
  • Amr El Tobgi
  • Business Mixologist
  • Business Mixologist
  • ATConsuting
  • ATConsuting
  • United Kingdom
  • Amr is an innovation mixologist, passionate about ideas, people, and businesses with the potential to positively impact the world. His most recent post was with Unilever as Global Innovation Director based in the UK and he has had an accomplished career with over 20 years of experience in the FMCG industry with multinational companies. He is a true global citizen with experience in developing and growing famous international brand franchises like Dove, Axe, Clear, Lipton, Clorox and Dettol across diverse markets like Egypt, GCC, Levant, India, Turkey, UK, USA, France, and Russia, many of which he has had an immersive working and living experience.

     

    A consultant, design thinker, business coach, public speaker, trainer and mentor who over the past few years has been involved with a diverse range of corporate, governmental, entrepreneurial and developmental ecosystems which include; Nestle, Minlo, Ministry of Solidarity, Egypt Ventures Ministry of Investment, Creative Industry Summit, MIT Arab Forum for Refugees, Unilever Marketing Academy, Drosos, The American University in Cairo Centre For Entrepreneurship.

     

    His areas of expertise cover; Innovation, Strategy, Branding, Advertising, Entrepreneurship, Consumer Insight & Research, Story Telling, Pricing Strategies, and Personal Branding.

    Amr is the Campaigner ENTP personality: entrepreneurial, creative, intuitive, problem solver, enthusiast, change catalyst, abstract thinker, dot connector, challenger, inspirer, and motivator who is passionate about empowering people and businesses.

Nitin Dahad
  • Nitin Dahad
  • Journalist and entrepreneur
  • Journalist and entre..
  • embedded.com
  • embedded.com
  • United Kingdom
  • Nitin Dahad has been actively involved in technology and related industries over the last 35 years. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of a deep tech magazine, embedded.com, and a correspondent for international electronics industry publications, EE Times and EE Times Europe. He is also a board member for a regional economic development agency, the Hertfordshire LEP, and on the board of global growth startup incubator platform, Technoplat. As an entrepreneur, his track record includes taking microprocessor startup ARC International to Silicon Valley, USA, and guiding it through a billion-dollar flotation, and chairing a photonics company through its sale to a Chinese telecoms company. He also co-founded one of the first practical magazines for tech entrepreneurs in 2002, The Chilli; and also co-founded online global innovation magazine, The Next Silicon Valley. He was also a key technology ambassador for the British government and has served on the boards of UK universities.

Matthew Gardiner
  • Matthew Gardiner
  • Founder
  • Founder
  • A1 AI
  • A1 AI
  • United Kingdom
  • Matthew is the founder of A1 AI, he previously worked in PwC’s Global Financial Services practice and sits on several advisory boards in Financial Services & Fintech.

    He has advised C-Suite at global FIs, asset management professionals, VCs, and their legal counsel on Fintech innovation in multiple jurisdictions in EMEA, APAC & MENA/ GCC.

    Matthew has recently spoken at: Money 2020 Europe & Asia with the FCA, ECB, DNB, MAS, BoJ, Next Money EMEA, APAC & MENA, ArabNet Dubai, Finnovasia, Bank of China, Tencent, The Emir of Kuwait Global Informatics Forum, Diwan of Royal Court of Oman, Bank Negara, The Global Leaders Forum, Institutional Investor, Global Fixed Income Institute Geneva, AIM Abu Dhabi, Arendt - Luxembourg, Gianni Origoni Rome, Techstars, Rise, Samsung, TEDXRoma & The Turing Trust.

    Matthew is visiting faculty at Cass Business School and the Asian Banking School. He is a Tech London Advocate and a mentor at a number of international tech incubators. He advises HNW/ UHNW individuals and family offices on charitable giving and is a founding

    Member of Techfugees, a global charity that promotes financial inclusion.

Ekaterina Munina
  • Ekaterina Munina
  • Founder
  • Founder
  • Personal Strategy School
  • Personal Strategy Sc..
  • Russia
  • Marketing strategy consultant. 

     

    Ekaterina had been studying in the USA, Russia, and Great Britain. Has obtained working experience developing strategies for SMEs in Argentina, The UAE, and The UK. 

     

    After returning to Russia, Ekaterina Munina adopted corporate marketing strategy tools to personal strategy and founded Personal strategy school.

    Nowadays she has hundreds of successful graduates from online and offline programs. 

Nicolas Rouhana
  • Nicolas Rouhana
  • General Manager
  • General Manager
  • IM Capital
  • IM Capital
  • Lebanon
  • Dr. Nicolas Rouhana is currently the General Manager of IM Capital, a $20M program funded under USAID MENA Investment Initiative, providing Matching Capital, Equity Guarantee, and Technical Assistance to early-stage businesses and investors in Lebanon. Between 2002 & 2015, Dr. Rouhana was the Executive Director of Berytech Technological Pole, a leading Technology Business Innovation & Incubation Center in Lebanon. He is currently Vice-President of Internet Society-Lebanon Chapter, board member of Berytech, and the current Chairman of Speed@BDD the first tech accelerator in Lebanon.

    Nicolas has a Telecommunications Engineering degree from Saint-Joseph University in Beirut, a Ph.D. in Networking Systems from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, and an EDP graduate from INSEAD, France.

Omar Shoeb
  • Omar Shoeb
  • Head of Account Management and Creative Content
  • Head of Account Mana..
  • Kijamii
  • Kijamii
  • Egypt
  • A digital transformation professional with a dynamic 16-year marketing and media career that includes extensive experience in digital marketing and advertising, digital brand strategy and management, digital music distribution, television production and online journalism. Currently managing Kijamii's cross-functional core offering business unit working with a dynamic and diverse list of clients from across the region.

Mazen Yassen
  • Mazen Yassen
  • Founder
  • Founder
  • Just A GoProer
  • Just A GoProer
  • Egypt
  • Spreading positivity, showing the beauty of Egypt and the world, sharing living experiences, and changing stereotypes through visual content, with Mazen being the sole content creator of the brand.

Manish Kohli
  • Manish Kohli
  • Managing Director
  • Managing Director
  • Beyond Horizon Health
  • Beyond Horizon Healt..
  • United States
  • A visionary physician leader with a demonstrated history of instrumental roles in pioneering health care endeavors globally, Dr. Kohli is passionate about transforming health and care through digital innovation and is a champion for better access to quality care for every citizen, anywhere, anytime. He is known for expertise in complex healthcare “firsts”; digital health; informatics; clinical transformation; personal well-being and preventive health. Dr. Kohli has extensive work experience in a variety of international health care settings focusing on advancing health and care through the use of health information technology. He is a frequently invited speaker globally and has lectured extensively throughout Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, the US, Europe, and Australia. He serves as Managing Director of Beyond Horizon Health, a global digital health advisory and consulting firm. He is also a Co-founder and Partner, Infinite Care Holdings.

sameh abdel fattah
  • sameh abdel fattah
  • Founder & CTO
  • Founder & CTO
  • Zvendo
  • Zvendo
  • Egypt
  • A professional with 21 years of experience in the Information Technology field and now fully focused on e-commerce. A technology lover with a genuine passion for new challenges and trends, working full-time in the e-commerce industry for the past 7 years as the founder of Business Boomers for E-commerce, the company behind zVendo.com, and the one handling the e-commerce business for many brands in the region.

Khaled nimr
  • Khaled nimr
  • CEO
  • CEO
  • Fwrun
  • Fwrun
  • Egypt
  • Khaled Elnimr is a very experienced Ceo in the E-commerce market after a long and successful story in business development and market expansion around the world he landed in the fulfillment and logistics field and quickly could build Fwrun which considered to be the first Fulfilment Center assigned to E-commerce in Egypt.

Salma El Barkouky
  • Salma El Barkouky
  • CBO
  • CBO
  • Fatura
  • Fatura
  • Egypt

Hussein Mohieldin
  • Hussein Mohieldin
  • CEO
  • CEO
  • Robusta
  • Robusta
  • Egypt
  • Hussein is a tech entrepreneur and the CEO of robusta, a tech agency based out of Egypt and Germany, since 2012, and has lead the company's journey featuring triple digit growth year over year. Hussein has also led robusta's team to launch the E-Commerce Summit, a grass-root movement to stir up the conversation about the potential of selling online, a place educating and raising the awareness of retailers and brands about the inner workings of E‐Commerce and a unique chance for top-tier retailers to network with service providers, marketeers and industry leaders sharing the passion & driving the growth of E‐Commerce in the MENA Region under the same roof in a series of yearly events. Before founding robusta, Hussein has been working at Quick-Wins as a management and strategy consultant for several family businesses and regional conglomerates in the GCC throughout transformation and turnaround exercises across several sectors including technology, retail and distribution. He has also occupied several teaching and research posts at the German University in Cairo. Hussein holds a MSc. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and a BSc. from the German University in Cairo.

Abdelhamid Abdella
  • Abdelhamid Abdella
  • Commercial Director
  • Commercial Director
  • Icon Creations
  • Icon Creations
  • Egypt
  • Abdel Hamid Abdella has 15+ years of experience in digital advertising, business development and product management and is currently acting as the Commercial Director and Partner at Icon Creations; a full-fledged digital agency offering digital media advertising, social media management, website and mobile application development as well as video content production. Throughout his experience at various positions in different companies, Abdel Hamid was part of teams that launched several products in the market including Vodafone Egypt’s mobile advertising program.

Yosra Badr
  • Yosra Badr
  • CIO
  • CIO
  • Seha Healthcare
  • Seha Healthcare
  • Egypt
  • Yosra Badr has over a decade of experience in digital transformation across different industries; healthcare, consumer goods, retail, nonprofits, and government organizations. She works with leadership teams and executives on IT strategic planning, developing roadmaps, executing and implementing end-to-end solutions to meet business objectives and manage organizations change

Mohamed heikal
  • Mohamed heikal
  • Strategic Lead
  • Strategic Lead
  • Roche
  • Roche
  • Egypt

Ayman Ismail
  • Ayman Ismail
  • Professor and VLab Director
  • Professor and VLab D..
  • AUC Venture Lab
  • AUC Venture Lab
  • Egypt
  • Ayman Ismail is an international expert in entrepreneurship and economic development. He is currently the Abdul Latif Jameel Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor at AUC School of Business and the founding director of AUC Venture Lab and AUC Angels. He is a co-founder, angel investor or board member in several fast-growing startups in fintech, microfinance and logistics. Previously, he was a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, a consultant in McKinsey & Company’s New York office, a co-founder and managing partner at Enovio Consulting, and a Young Global Leader (YGL) at the World Economic Forum (WEF). He received his PhD in International Economic Development from MIT.

Marie Therese Fam
  • Marie Therese Fam
  • Managing Partner
  • Managing Partner
  • Flat6Labs
  • Flat6Labs
  • Egypt
  • Marie-Therese started her career in commercial banking, joining HSBC Bank Egypt in 2004. After successfully completing the corporate credit course certified by Morgan Stanely, she joined the Corporate Credit department as an Assistant Manager. In 2008, she joined Beltone Financial as a portfolio manager, managing a USD 30 million MENA focused equity fund. Marie-Therese then moved to NBK Capital in Kuwait as a fund manager to manage equity mutual funds and discretionary portfolios in the range of USD 1 billion. She was also part of the business development and fund raising team at NBK Capital, assisting the team to increase Assets Under Management from USD 45m in 2011 to around USD 1bn in 2015. Marie-Therese joined Flat6Labs, in November 2017 as Managing Partner, managing the Egypt portfolio. Since joining Flat6Labs Cairo, Marie has been managing the USD 13 million Seed Fund that has so far invested in 62 technology-enabled startups in Egypt. She has been invited to participate and join in several ecosystem events, competitions and panels sharing her insights on the Egyptian startup ecosystem. She also participated as a Judge in Hona Al Shabab, a nation-wide startup competition held in Egypt. She received her Bachelor in Economics from Cairo University in 2003 and Masters Degree in Financial Economics from the University of Warwick, England in 2007.

Ahmed Sheikha
  • Ahmed Sheikha
  • CEO
  • CEO
  • Brimore
  • Brimore
  • Egypt
  • Ahmed is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Brimore, a social commerce and distribution platform allowing local suppliers have nationwide access through a network of individual distributors selling their products through all possible channels (Omni-channel). Ahmed is working with a network of more than 10,000 individual distributors (Mostly women), with a continuous growth of 10X in y-o-y and more than 50 local manufacturers listed, Brimore is aiming at transforming the traditional supply chain in Egypt to be more consumer centric, through allocating marketing, sales and distribution cost on people who buy and refer the product, this allows for smooth market access for local manufacturers despite poor infrastructure, and gives women a huge social and economic empowerment opportunity without the need to leave the house. Ahmed has vast experience in Supply Chain management working in P&G through several regional and local roles, business development and project management experience working with Save the Children and co-founding Umbrella for business development, besides being an activist in youth development sector, founding and working several NGOs, and regularly giving specialized training and workshops for youth especially school students. Ahmed has BSc. in Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering from Alexandria University, and currently a masters degree candidate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation management in the Royal Institute of Technology KTH in Sweden. Interests: Supply chain management, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem development, Technology, Education, Youth Empowerment, basketball and good food

Shadi wahba
  • Shadi wahba
  • CEO
  • CEO
  • EMBER Medical
  • EMBER Medical
  • Egypt
  • Shadi Wahba is a software/hardware engineer who turned into a Healthtech entrepreneur since 2018. He got degrees from Iowa State University and UCSB before co-founding EMBER.

Ahmed El Sherif
  • Ahmed El Sherif
  • CEO
  • CEO
  • Openner
  • Openner
  • Egypt
  • I work with disuptive entrepreneurs to generate, build, and launch the next generation of USD 100M+ digital businesses in Egypt, the Middle East, and Africa

Hady Bsat
  • Hady Bsat
  • Founder & CEO
  • Founder & CEO
  • Drapp.me
  • Drapp.me
  • Egypt

Nora Toma
  • Nora Toma
  • Deputy CEO
  • Deputy CEO
  • Education for Employment
  • Education for Employ..
  • Egypt

Noura Abou El Seoud
  • Noura Abou El Seoud
  • CEO
  • CEO
  • Education for Employment
  • Education for Employ..
  • Egypt