SPEAKERS

His 20-year trajectory has focused on different roles and industries, as engineer in the German R&D automotive and aerospace industry, Innovation Director in the Spanish govt., MD of an innovation management consultancy, or digital entrepreneur.

OSCAR LEIBANA

Innovation and Technology Senior Manager,

Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (2022 FIFA WORLD CUP™)

Qatar

Al-Sulaiti brings massive experience and technical skills to Qnbn, matched by management and leadership qualities, building Qatar’s next generation national fiber-optics infrastructure. Prior to establishing Qnbn, Al-Sulaiti was the Manager of National Broadband Network at ictQATAR.

Dr Ahmed Al-Sulaiti

CEO,

Qatar National Broadband Network

Qatar

Prior to QFC, he worked with Bloomberg L.P. for over 8 years as an Islamic Finance and Portfolio specialist where he set up and led the core Portfolio and Risk Analytics team in Singapore covering the Asia-Pacific region.

JAHONGIR BURHONOV

Vice President Business Development,

Qatar Financial Centre Authority

Qatar

She is currently working with the TASMU team leading the Logistics sector and part of the Central Platform initiative contributing to achieve Qatar’s Digital Transformation agenda.

Sarah Khalid Al-Hussaini

Project Engineer ,

Ministry of Transport and communication

Qatar

An Innovative, results-driven business development and marketing leader with notable success driving player acquisition, market expansion, revenue growth, and social impact.

Heba Al Masri

Managing Director,

Qatar SportsTech

Qatar

Olivier Penel

Data & Analytics Strategic Advisor,

SAS

United Kingdom

Husain Ebrahim

Solutions Architect Specialist Automation & DevOps,

Nutanix

Qatar

Khaled is the Business Development Manager - Smart Cities at Axis Communications in the Middle East. He has been with Axis for over five years with various roles in engineering and business development.

KHALED KAMRALDAWLA

Business Development Manager – Smart Cities ,

Axis Communications

Middle East

Raimund is a Railway Transportation executive with a profound expertise in transportation planning and knowledge about all relevant disciplines that form a Railway System, including solutions for the first and last mile.

RAIMUND HANAUER

Director of Transport Planning,

Qatar Rail

Qatar

The director of innovation at Qatar Science and Technology Park, her role also involves supporting tech-entrepreneurship in Qatar through various innovation and incubation programs.

Hayfa Al-Abdulla

Innovation Director,

Qatar Science & Technology Park

Qatar

Laila specializes in digital & social media and currently leads national projects in Oman like the government innovation in emerging technologies and the Smart Ambassador initiative in Oman and other projects related to digital transformation.

LAILA ABDULLAH AL HADHRAMI

Digital Transformation & Change Management Expert- Ministry of Technology & Communications MTC, Oman,

Director - Oman Smart City Platform

Oman

Dr. Filali currently leads the technology development of QMIC's solutions in the area of Smart Cities, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Road Safety, IoT, and Connected Car solutions.

DR FETHI FILALI

Head of Technology Development & Applied Research,

Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC)

Qatar

Narayanan holds a Bachelor of Science (Statistics) and a Master in Business Administration degree from the University of Mumbai, India and has over 30 years of IT and Operations experience in the banking sector.

NARAYANAN SRINIVASAN

Group Chief Operations Officer,

Barwa Bank

Qatar

With 15 years of expertise in strategic content and advisory, she has acquired an expertise in AI and innovation towards sustainable development goals, with a focus on social and gender bias and ethical concerns.

VIRGINIE MARTINS

Ethical AI & SDG expert,

Member of European Union Alliance

Belgium

The Chief Data Officer for the Estonian government, he oversees data governance and data science in the Estonian government. His mission is to lead the development of government services using artificial intelligence.

Ott Velsberg

Government Chief Data Officer,

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications

Estonia

She leads a group of specialists to build the next generation of AI platforms and services for Airbus in 5 areas: computer vision, anomaly detection, knowledge extraction, conversational intelligence and decision making.

CHRISTELLE GENDRIN

Head of AI,

Airbus

France

Mr. Schindler specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Quality, and Manufacturing having also won the Pioneer Award of Auto Bild and Computer Bild (2020) for AI at Production.

MATTHIAS SCHINDLER

Head of Artificial Intelligence Innovation,

BMW

Germany

Prior to QEERI, he was Chief Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the US, where he was awarded the 2008 Laboratory Director’s Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement.

Dr Antonio Sanfilippo

Chief Scientist/Director,

Qatar Foundation/Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute - QEERI HBKU

Qatar

He has 29 years of experience with internet technologies and software engineering, database systems, and business re-engineering.

CHRISTOPHE BILLIOTTET

Executive Manager,

ADGS

Qatar

Sreejith is a seasoned professional with almost a decade of experience in AI & Analytics in Banking & Financial markets.

SREEJITH SURENDRAN

Chief Delivery Officer,

Beinex

A Senior Executive with over 26 Years in Information Technology. Expertise in vital areas of Technology - IT Operations, Service Management, IT Governance, Info Security Governance, IT Projects/Programs, Operational Excellence.

Saheem Mohammed Ibrahim

Head - IT Service Management & Governance, Qatar,

Doha Bank

Qatar

He is a seasoned Transaction Banking & Innovation Thought Leader, with a career spanning 21 years across 3 Global Banks (HSBC, Standard Chartered & ABN AMRO) and 1 Sharia compliant institution.

Syed Shahid Ahmad

Head of Transaction Banking & Innovation,

Dukhan Bank

Qatar

Meraj Khan

Business Development Manager – Critical Infrastructure,

Axis Communications

Middle East

With a solid background in corporate banking and finance, Hamad continues to be a driving force within Qatar’s growing startup and enterprise ecosystem.

HAMAD AL-QAHTANI

General Manager,

Qatar Development Bank (QDB) & Qatar Business Incubation Center (QBIC)

Qatar

She received her nutrition and health sciences degrees from the University of Ottawa, Canada and comes with experience in community and clinical chronic disease management.

Racha Zarzour

RD, CDE, CBE, PMP Acting Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer,

Droobi Health Technology

Qatar

Alena has trained in Executive Leadership development while working in the field of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and is the co-founder of The Training Academy - ITW.

ALENA DIQUE

Founder & Coordinator,

UNCTAD Youth Action Hub Oman

OMAN

Wireless communication and IoT expert, he is a full-time Professor at the Electrical Engineering department at Qatar University.

Dr.Nizar Zorba

Professor,

Qatar University

Qatar

An entrepreneur with a passion for technology and equal access for all. He co-founded and remains to be the COO of his first startup and uses his free time to share his knowledge and lessons learned with other aspiring entrepreneurs”.

Ramy Abdulzaher

Co-Founder and COO,

Bonocle, Inc

Qatar

Dr. Shadha ALAmri, is an Academic Researcher, Innovation Inspector and Curriculum Developer. Her research areas are in computer network and security, Cloud computing, access control security, artificially intelligent and formal logic - Modal logic.

Dr Shadha ALAmri

Ambassador,

Oman Smart City

OMAN

HUBERT ETIENNE

AI Ethics Research Head,

Facebook

France

A Harvard Alumini, Award Winning Technologist, Rescue Pilot, Angel Investor and Global speaker with over 100+ global recognition and 17 Patents. He has been acknowledged as world's top 25 CIO, top 10 Robotics Designer in 2019 and #1 Artificial Intelligence Leader in Asia.

Ravinder Pal Singh

Chief Information and Innovation Officer,

TATA SIA Airlines Ltd

India

Served as Head of IT department for more than 7 years as well as IT operation Project Manager for more than 5 years, specialised with managing IT functions on a day-to-day operational basis.

Samer Al Hato

IT PMO Director/ICT Consultant,

General Authority for Minor's Affairs, Doha

Qatar

Italian citizen, CEO of Dinamica International (Europe and GCC), and operate as a senior advisor to industry and government authorities on innovation and digital transformation.

Dr Bijan Pio Majidi

Programs Director,

Bahrain Smart City Society

Bahrain

With more than 25 years of experience and growth and exit of many ventures from their inception stage, he has been listed by Forbes as a Business Leader in Middle East for five consecutive years between 2014 and 2018.

Dr Tejinder Singh

Founder & Managing Director,

360 Nautica,

Qatar

Maria has an extensive career in the IT field, having worked in senior management and consulting roles in Oracle and GÉANT.

Maria Minaricova

Director of Business Development,

Fetch.ai

United Kingdom

Juha Perälampi has provided coaching and consulting for over 2500 start-up companies and corporations during the past 15 years.

Juha Peralampi

Manager,

Cresciamo, Qatar university

Qatar