بريان بيليندورف
المدير التنفيذي لمشروع "هايبرليدجر" (Hyperledger)، مؤسسة لينكس
Brian Behlendorf
Executive Director – Hyperledger, The Linux Foundation
Brian Behlendorf is the Executive Director of Hyperledger. Behlendorf was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. He was the founding CTO of CollabNet and CTO of the World Economic Forum. Most recently, Behlendorf was a managing director at Mithril Capital Management LLC, a global technology investment firm.
إيمانويل فومبو
مدير قسم الطب الرقمي والابتكار، جونسون آند جونسون
Emmanuel Fombu
MD, Physician, Author: The Future of Healthcare
Dr Fombu is an internationally recognized authority on the convergence of digital technologies and healthcare. He is an award winning author, physician, pharmaceutical executive and healthcare futurist with over 15 years combined experience in clinical medicine, drug development, digital medicine, pragmatic trials and product lifecycle management strategy in the healthcare industry and private equity.
His current focus is on how digital technologies can be leveraged to better measure healthcare related product’s real world effectiveness and value in partnership with digital health startups, payers and providers.
In addition to his book, The Future of Healthcare: Human and Machine Partnering for Better Outcomes, Dr. Fombu has authored multiple research papers and abstracts in renowned peer reviewed journals. He is a champion and advocate for value based healthcare, personalized medicine, nanotechnology, blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital medicine. He serves as an external advisory board member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s MIT.nano project.
Dr Fombu completed his clinical training at Emory-Crawford Long Hospital and holds an MBA from both Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business and Queen’s University’s Smith School of Business. He lives in New York City.
نيوشا غايلي
الرئيس والشريك المؤسس، "بايوبوت أناليتيكس" (Biobot Analytics)
Newsha Ghaeli
Co-Founder & President, BioBot
Newsha Ghaeli is President & Cofounder of Biobot Analytics where she leads growth, city innovation, and government strategy. Biobot transforms city sewage into public health observatories, and is currently measuring opioid and drug concentrations in sewage to map consumption in cities. Government, public health officials, and first responders leverage this near-real time data to plan and tailor their opioid response strategies.
Prior to Biobot, Newsha was on fellowship at MIT’s Senseable City Lab investigating the future of cities through new technologies, where her work was covered in venues such as Wired, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. An architect by training, Newsha has led teams at MIT and the World Economic Forum implementing innovative city solutions.
ضيا هيكل
رئيس التحرير، إم آي تي تكنولوجي ريفيو العربية
Dia Haykal
Editor-In-Chief, MIT Technology Review Arabia
Dia is the Editor in Chief of MIT Technology Review Arabia, where she leads the editorial, content, localization operations for both print and online platforms. She holds a BA in Business Administration from the American University of Beirut; two Master’s degrees in Corporate Communication, and in Visual Media, from IE Business School in Madrid.
Dia’s experience in technology content goes back to her role as the founding editor-in-chief of Popular Science Arabia, where she has led the project launch including the website and the bi-monthly magazine. As head of content at Haykal Media, she’s overseen the creation and localization of hundreds of thousands of words every month.
هوارد هيرزوغ
كبير المهندسين الباحثين، مبادرة الطاقة بمعهد إم آي تي
Howard Herzog
Senior Research Engineer, MIT Energy Initiative
Howard J. Herzog is a senior research engineer in the MIT Energy Initiative, where he works on sponsored research involving energy and the environment, with an emphasis on greenhouse gas mitigation technologies. He received his undergraduate and graduate education in chemical engineering at MIT. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage and a co-author on the MIT Future of Coal Study. He was awarded the 2010 Greenman Award by the IEAGHG “in recognition of contributions made to the development of greenhouse gas control technologies”.
جيسون خان
كبير العلماء والشريك المؤسس، شركة "مايتِيَر" (Mightier)
Jason Kahn
Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder, Mightier
Jason Kahn PhD is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Mightier. He combines his expertise in developmental psychology and mental health to create video games that help children build emotional strength: the ability to harness their emotions to overcome behavioral challenges. Dr. Kahn also holds an appointment at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he creates and researches new technology addressing acute problems in pediatric mental health.
كوزماس كريتسوس
مدير أول قسم الأبحاث والتطوير، فايزر (Pfizer)
Kosmas Kretsos
Senior Director – R&D, Pfizer
Kosmas Kretsos, PhD, MBA, is a Senior Director at Pfizer and the Strategy & Consulting Lead for end-to-end R&D, helping the R&D leaders of Pfizer deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Currently he is supporting multiple enterprise-wide initiatives related to the digitization of drug discovery and development including adaptation of AI in key activities. Kosmas has close to 20 years of experience in Life Sciences and in multiple geographies, with several peer-reviewed publications. Kosmas’ career allowed him to blend applied mathematics, biology, and quantitative systems pharmacology within core pharmaceutical R&D, mainly for therapeutic candidates for auto-immune diseases.
بريدراغ كاي نيكوليك
أستاذ مساعد، جامعة شانتو الصينية
Predrag K. Nikolic
Associate Professor – Interactive Media, Shantou University
Predrag K. Nikolic is Associate Professor at Shantou University China. He is an interactive media designer and international digital media expert who holds a PhD in Digital Media and an MBA. His research focuses on intelligent interfaces, robot creativity, AI aesthetics, design for behavioural changes and smart living environments.
Before joining Shantou University, professor Nikolic was Dean of the Faculty of Digital Production, Visiting Professor at Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Researcher at Aalto University, Global Digital Director at Grey and J. Walter Thomson, Global Head of Digital at Ogilvy, Head of Digital Marketing at Groundlink New York, Consultant at Yahoo and Managing Director at JadePremier London.
Predrag K. Nikolic lectures at universities and giving speeches at international conferences such as Ars Electronica, Technarte, SIGGRAPH, INTETAIN, Smart City 360, Smart Society 360, etc. He is Editor-In-Chief for EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies and European Alliance for Innovation Fellow.
كارلو راتّي
مدير، مختبر "سْنس آيبُل سيتي" (Senseable City Lab) لدى معهد إم آي تي
Carlo Ratti
Director, MIT Senseable City Lab
An architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at MIT, where he directs the Senseable City Laboratory, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovation practice Carlo Ratti Associati. A leading voice in the debate on newtechnologies’ impact on urban life, his work has been exhibited in several venuesworldwide, including the Venice Biennale, New York’s MoMA, London’s Science Museum, and Barcelona’s Design Museum. Two of his projects – the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel – were hailed by Time Magazine as ‘Best Inventions of the Year’. He has been included in Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List: 50 people who will change the world’.He is currently serving as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councilon Cities and Urbanization, and as special advisor on Urban Innovation to the European Commission.
ديفيد روز
أستاذ محاضر، معهد إم آي تي
David Rose
Spatial Computing Expert, MIT School of Architecture
David Rose is an award-winning entrepreneur, published author, international speaker and MIT researcher on a mission to make technology dissolve into the fabric of daily living.
David is the VP of Vision Technology at Warby Parker, where he’s reinventing vision tests to make them more accessible and convenient for the billions of people who need corrective lenses. Before Warby Parker, Rose was a five-time entrepreneur in artificial intelligence, healthcare, consumer electronics and toys. He was the CEO of computer-vision pioneer Ditto Labs and founder of wireless healthcare company Vitality, which reinvented medication packaging that is now distributed by CVS, Walgreens and Express Scripts. David also founded Ambient Devices, which embedded internet information in objects such as lamps, mirrors and umbrellas.
His popular book, Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things, focuses on the future of the internet of things and how these technologies will impact the ways we live and work. He’s also a lecturer at the MIT Media Lab and has worked with the Tangible Media and City Science groups. David holds patents for photo sharing, interactive TV, ambient information displays and medical devices. His work has been featured at the MoMA, covered in The New York Times, WIRED, The Economist, and parodied on The Colbert Report.
David’s home was featured in a New York Times video called “The Internet of Things,” where he shared some examples of how to incorporate magic into mundane objects: a Google Earth coffee table that responds to gesture, Skype cabinetry in the living room, and a doorbell reminiscent of Mrs. Weasley’s click which rings when a family member is on their way home.
دونالد سادواي
أستاذ كرسي جون إف. إليوت تخصص كيمياء المواد، معهد إم آي تي
Donald Sadoway
John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry, MIT
Donald R. Sadoway, John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ph.D. in Chemical Metallurgy, University of Toronto.
MIT faculty since 1978 and author of over 170 scientific papers and holder of 31 U.S. patents, his research is applied electrochemistry supporting new technologies in metals extraction (molten oxide electrolysis) and energy storage (liquid metal battery). He is co-founder of two companies, Boston Metal and Ambri. Viewed over 2 million times, his TED talk is about inventing technology and inventing inventors. In 2012 named by Time magazine one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Marius Swoboda
Head of Physical Science and Capability, Rolls-Royce
Marius Swoboda
Head of Physical Science and Capability, Roll-Royce
Dr. Marius Swoboda has been with Rolls Royce since 1994, having held several positions, including leading the Aero Thermal Methods Group and managing Methods Developments. Marius took over Design Systems Engineering in 2010 and since 2016 he is the Head of Physical, Computational and Design Sciences, leading the Visualisation Methods and Techniques. His past and current research projects and interests (with more than 80 publications) include: Compressor Aerodynamics, Turbine Cooling and Heat Transfer, Active Flow Control, Compressible Transitional Flows, Methods Development (CFD/FEM), Process Automation and Integration, Design Optimisation, Visualisation of Analysis Results, Virtual Reality. Dr. Swoboda holds a PhD in Transitional Shock-Boundary Layer Interactions and in 2011, he was appointed Honorary Professor at Technical University Berlin.
المتحدثون 2018
Marwan Abou Dib - IU35
Partner & CEO, Tekuma Inc.
Marwan Abou Dib
Partner & CEO, Tekuma Inc.
He started Tekuma Inc, which brings large-scale art installations into the urban public realm. The firm conceived (with artist Skylar Tibbets) and is now supervising the installation of “Air-Wave”, a large self-oragnizing sculpture that will be the centerpiece of a new public space being developed by Cottonwood Management in Boston’s Seaport Innovation District. Recently, Abou Dib was instrumental in launching another firm, Tekuma |Frenchman Urban Design LLC, which is creating cities and urban districts in China, Korea, and Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia, the firm is responsible for the development of new downtowns in seven cities, providing innovative social cultural, and entertainment opportunities for a new generation of Saudi’s to enjoy the benefits of a more open and liberal society being promoted by the Crown Prince.
Salem Albedwawi
Head of Smart Transformation, Dubai Municipality
Salem Albedwawi
Head of Smart Transformation, Dubai Municipality
Salem Al Bedwawi, a UAE National with more than 25 years’ experience in both Technical and Managerial positions in Dubai Municipality. He started in the IT Operations and for the last 5 years he has been occupying the post of the Smart Transformation Manager. With a Bachelor in IT Management from American University UAE, a Master of Science in Innovation and Change Management from Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University – Dubai. He played a big role to define and implement Dubai Municipality smart government Strategy to achieve Dubai Municipality distinguished as Smart-Government. He is also leading IT PMO office and He is a member in Dubai Municipality & Government committees related to government smart transformation
Tuka Al Hanai - IU35
Research Assistant, Spoken Language System Group, MIT CSAIL
Tuka Al Hanai
Research Assistant, Spoken Language System Group, MIT CSAIL
Research assistant, Spoken Language System Group, MIT CSAIL Developed an A.I. system that can detect depression in a conversation. From information on what was said (text) and how it was said (audio) the neural network model can automatically figure out what patterns it should look for. This is different to prior work, where a model is trained to look for specific words (`sad`, ‘down’, ‘therapy’) and questions (‘Do you have a history of depression’). She has also developed an A.I. system that can evaluate the mood of a conversation, by utilizing information form a speaker’s speech, pulse, and movement. The system works even without ever having heard the person before, and can determine to high accuracy whether they were happy or sad. Using a neural network, the system can automatically determine what signals to look for and can make evaluations in real-time.
Saleh Alhashemi
Managing Director, Krypto Labs
Saleh Alhashemi
Managing Director, Krypto Labs
As the Managing Director of Krypto Labs, the Chairman of Integrated Securities and the Chairman of Integrated Capital PJSC. Dr. Alhashemi brings a wealth of experience from working in senior leadership positions across businesses, government, and academia. Most recently, he was the Executive Director of Infrastructure and Environment at the General Secretariat of Abu Dhabi’s Executive Council. During his tenure at the Executive Council, Dr. Alhashemi was instrumental is advising the government in restructuring key infrastructure projects and state-owned commercial enterprises to improve the use of sponsor capital and financing to better align these initiatives to the long-term interests of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. In 2001, he led the development of the Petroleum Institute where he helped open several innovation and research centers within the ADNOC complex. Dr. Alhashemi holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University in the United States. He is a patented inventor and a published author in several peer-reviewed academic journals including Science Magazine.
Abdul Mohsen Al Husseini - IU35
Founding CTO, Analytical Space
Abdul Mohsen Al Husseini
Founding CTO, Analytical Space
Founding CTO of Analytical Space- developing a network of nano-satellites that will provide a communication backbone for remote sensing satellites and remote industrial IoT applications, enabling planet-level analytics and the global industrial internet. Analytical Space, Inc. (ASI) is addressing the ownlink bottleneck with a planned LEO network capable of drastically improving data offload capacity through a combination of bidirectional radio-frequency crosslinks and high speed optical downlinks. When fully eployed and operational, our network of relay satellites in LEO will enable EO assets to downlink at any time over their entire orbital period.
Sadeem Al Marri - IU35
Product Analyst, Tamkeen Tech
Sadeem Al Marri
Product Analyst, Tamkeen Tech
Computer Science Graduate from Al Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud University- Created a 3D printed robotic hand that translates Arabic texts entered in the mobile application into the equivalent Arabic sign language alphabet gestures that act as a mean of communication between the deaf or deaf-blind person and the world. In addition, it can be used as a tool to aid in teaching sign language for deaf people and those who want to learn sign language.
Omar Al Olama
Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates
Omar Al Olama
Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates
His Excellency Omar bin Sultan Al Olama has been appointed as Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence following the Cabinet reshuffle of October 2017. His responsibilities include enhancing the government performance by investing the latest technologies and tools of artificial intelligence and applying them in various sectors.
Al Olama is currently the Managing Director of the World Government Summit in the Prime Minister’s Office at the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs and the Future. His Excellency has been working as the Deputy Director of the Future Department at the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs and the Future. Al Olama contributed to the preparation of the UAE Centennial 2071 strategy and the UAE 4th Industrial Revolution Strategy.
His Excellency holds a Diploma in Project Management and Excellence from the American University of Sharjah and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the American University of Dubai.
Derya Baran - IU35
Founder, Iyris
Derya Baran
Founder, Iyris
Professor at King Abdulaziz University for Science and Technology.Founder of iyris. The iyris innovation allows any window to become a solar cell. Our technology absorbs the infrared portion of the spectrum to produce electricity, whilst at the same time blocking heat from passing through and leaving the window transparent to our eyes. We coat our technology directly on commercially available glass, seal this as a double glazed window unit and the iyris panel is ready to be sold. This glass can be directly integrated in to a building’s fabrication allowing it to produce electricity and reduce heating invisibly.
Essa Basaeed - IU35
Head of Technical Studies Section, General Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Dubai Police
Essa Basaeed
Head of Technical Studies Section, General Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Dubai Police
Head of Technical Studies Section, General Dept. of Artificial Intelligence at DP. Created. Created an algorithm that represents a paradigm change in the methodology of how police patrols are currently placed, for them to respond more efficiently to emergencies. It also allows a better utilization of available resources. In addition, it can help in better planning for the expanding city.
Khalfan Belhoul
CEO, Dubai Future Foundation
Khalfan Belhoul
CEO, Dubai Future Foundation
Khalfan Juma Belhoul was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) February 2018. DFF was launched by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Dubai.
Prior to his current role, Belhoul was a Vice President of Strategy at Dubai Holding, where he was
responsible for formulating Dubai Holding’s strategic direction and enhance its investments and its
role in the diversification of Dubai’s non-oil economy.
Before joining Dubai Holding, Belhoul played a key role in setting up the Belhoul Investment Office, responsible for rolling-out a sophisticated asset allocation strategy spanning private equity, alternative investments, real estate and conventional assets.
Khalfan Belhoul holds a BSc in Finance, M.I.S. and a Masters in Ecommerce, all from Boston University.
Marwan Bin Haidar
Executive Vice President Innovation and The Future, Dubai Electricity & Water Authority
Marwan Bin Haidar
Executive Vice President — Innovation and The Future, Dubai Electricity & Water Authority
Eng. Marwan Bin Haidar is the Executive Vice President of Innovation and The Future
since 2016 and the Vice Chairman of MORO – Data Hub Integrated Solutions.
With over 20 years of experience in ICT field, Eng. Marwan has accumulated
impressive achievements that contributed to the implementation of “SAP” since 2009
which led to many achievements in cost savings, smart services and customer
happiness.
All of his efforts are aligned and strives to keep up with the fast-paced developments of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and enhance the government’s readiness to anticipate the rapid technological changes in the world. Eng. Marwan plays a catalyst role in the digital transformation by adopting new initiatives, strategies and technologies to promote DEWA’s leadership in implementing disruptive technologies.
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau
CEO and publisher, MIT Technology Review
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau
CEO and publisher, MIT Technology Review.
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau is the CEO and publisher of MIT Technology Review, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s media company. Elizabeth is leading the growth, expansion, and modernization of MIT Technology Review’s media platforms and products, including U.S. and international websites, newsletters, events, and an award-winning print magazine. Elizabeth also serves as chair of the global entrepreneurial network MIT Enterprise Forum. Elizabeth has a 20-year background in building and running teams at world-leading media companies. She maintains a keen focus on new ways to commercialize media content to appeal to discerning, demanding consumers as well as B2B audiences. Prior to joining MIT Technology Review, Elizabeth was the global managing director of the Economist Corporate Network (whose parent company publishes The Economist magazine), where she led editorial content creation, sales, marketing, and event operations. She also spent a decade working as a consultant. Elizabeth holds an executive MBA from the London Business School, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College.
Fikile Brushett
Raymond A. and Helen E. St. Laurent Career Development Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Fikile Brushett
Raymond A. and Helen E. St. Laurent Career Development Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Fikile Brushett is Associate Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the development of transformative electrochemical technologies that enable a sustainable energy economy. He is especially fascinated by the fundamental processes that define the performance, cost, and lifetime of present and future electrochemical systems. Fikile received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010 and, from 2010-2012, he was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Electrochemical Energy Storage group at Argonne National Laboratory. He has received several awards from his research and teaching including being named one of Chemical & Engineering News’s Talented 12 in 2017.
Anthony Butler
CTO, IBM's blockchain business in Middle East and Africa
Anthony Butler
CTO, IBM’s blockchain business in Middle East and Africa
Anthony is the leader and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for IBM’s blockchain business in Middle East and Africa. He is responsible for leading engagements with clients across the region and helping them to leverage distributed ledger technologies to transform their organisations, ecosystems and industries. He was previously the CTO for IBM Cloud in Middle East and Africa providing technical leadership across cloud, blockchain, and cognitive portfolios; and helping clients understand how emerging technologies can be used to unlock new forms of value. Prior to this, he held multiple global roles, including leading the global transformation of one of IBM’s largest natural resources sector clients, consulting to a global payments provider on new forms of digital payment, and developing a set of services offerings around mobile payments. He is a member of IBM’s Academy of Technology, chair of MEA’s patent development board, and was appointed as a Distinguished Engineer in recognition of sustained technical leadership across the IBM company and his contribution to blockchain and cloud technologies. He holds multiple patents in the fields of blockchain, mobile payments, artificial intelligence, and security; and holds a Masters of Engineering from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a thesis in scheduling in distributed systems.
Justin Fier
Director for Cyber Intelligence & Analytics, Darktrace
Justin Fier
Director for Cyber Intelligence & Analytics, Darktrace
Justin Fier is the Director for Cyber Intelligence & Analytics at Darktrace, based in Washington D.C. Justin is one of the US’s leading cyber intelligence experts, and his insights have been widely reported in leading media outlets, including Wall Street Journal, CNN, the Washington Post, and VICELAND. With over 10 years of experience in cyber defense, Justin has supported various elements in the US intelligence community, holding mission-critical security roles with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Abraxas. Justin is also a highly-skilled technical specialist, and works with Darktrace’s strategic global customers on threat analysis, defensive cyber operations, protecting IoT, and machine learning.
Rida Hamza
Vice President, Global Business Development, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Parsons Corporation
Rida Hamza
Vice President, Global Business Development, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Parsons Corporation
Dr. Rida Hamza is the vice president of global business development, critical infrastructure protection (CIP), for the Federal Business Unit of Pasadena, California-based Parsons Corporation.Rida provides global business development leadership and direction, supporting all Parsons’ security markets and services, with a focus on CIP. He acts as an executive sponsor to drive growth and operational excellence in CIP and large-scale physical and cybersecurity project delivery in the Middle East, Africa, and other high-growth regionsRida is the author or coauthor of several engineering books, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers journal articles, and conference papers, and he holds more than 48 U.S. and international patents in support of physical security, video analytics, and biometrics technology and innovations. He is also an active member of the Development of Technological Leadership Network at the University of Minnesota, USA, and is an active member of the advisory board for the Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering Graduate Program at the American University in the UAE
Abdulsalam Haykal
CEO, Haykal Group
Abdulsalam Haykal
CEO, Haykal Group
Abdulsalam Haykal is a Syrian entrepreneur, and CEO of Haykal Group, based in Abu Dhabi since 2013. Haykal Group includes Haykal Media, a knowledge and information platforms company, with products including the Arabic editions of Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, Popular Science, Aliqtisadi.com, Manhom Directory; Transtek Systems, maker of cloud enterprise and financial systems, and VAT and tax software; and Labeeb Labs, focused on Arabic-natural language processing products including enterprise search, recommendation system.
Haykal serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut. He was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and received the Arab Thought Foundation’s Innovation Award. He is a member of the UAE government’s Arabic Language Advisory Council. Abdulsalam is a graduate of the American University of Beirut and SOAS, University of London.
Dia Haykal
Editor-In-Chief, MIT Technology Review Arabia
Dia Haykal
Editor-In-Chief, MIT Technology Review Arabia
Dia is the Editor in Chief of MIT Technology Review Arabia, where she leads the editorial, content, localization operations for both print and online platforms. She holds a BA in Business Administration from the American University of Beirut; two Master’s degrees in Corporate Communication, and in Visual Media, from IE Business School in Madrid.
Dia’s experience in technology content goes back to her role as the founding editor-in-chief of Popular Science Arabia, where she has led the project launch including the website and the bi-monthly magazine. As head of content at Haykal Media, she’s overseen the creation and localization of hundreds of thousands of words every month.
Antoinette Matthews
VP, Licensing and Communities, MIT Technology Review
Antoinette Matthews
VP, Licensing and Communities, MIT Technology Review
Antoinette Matthews is responsible for building and expanding MIT Technology Review’s global footprint through long-term strategic partnerships that help bring its journalism to audiences all across the world, in different languages, and on different platforms. As the head of licensing and communities, Antoinette acts as ambassador for MIT and MIT Technology Review’s thought leadership, championing initiatives that further grow Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 community.
Ms. Matthews has a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Financial Management from the University of Pretoria. She is a current Executive MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Christoph Meinel
President and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) for IT Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam
Christoph Meinel
President and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) for IT Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam
Christoph Meinel is CEO and Scientific Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI) as well as Dean of the Digital-Engineering Faculty at the University of Potsdam, where he holds the chair of Internet Technologies and Systems. He teaches courses on IT Systems Engineering in the HPI Bachelor and Master Degree programs and in the MOOC platform developed by his team: openHPI. His research currently focuses on security engineering, knowledge engineering, and Web 3.0–Semantic, Social, Service Web. He is also scientifically active in research on the innovation method Design Thinking. Earlier scientific work concentrated on efficient algorithms and complexity theory. Christoph Meinel is author or co-author of more than 25 books, anthologies, as well as numerous conference proceedings. He has had more than 550 (peer-reviewed) papers published in scientific journals and at international conferences and holds a number of international patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program.
Ambarish Mitra
CEO and Co-Founder, Blippar
Ambarish Mitra
CEO and Co-Founder, Blippar
Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-founder of Blippar, a leading technology company specializing in augmented reality and computer vision (AI). Under Mitra’s direction, Blippar has grown from a groundbreaking idea to an industry leader and was listed 3 years in a row in CNBC’s list of most disruptive companies in the world. With a vision to bridge the physical and digital worlds, Ambarish has been widely recognized for
his pioneering work in the field of AR. In 2016, Mitra was named UK Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and Mitra was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2017. Ambarish is an active private investor in the field of AR, AI, food tech and genomics. Listed amongst industry experts, Mitra is often invited to keynote sessions on pioneering innovations and entrepreneurship at esteemed institutes and events including TED Talks, Mobile World Congress, CES, DLD and SXSW.
Fiona Murray
Professor of Entrepreneurship & Associate Dean of Innovation, MIT Sloan School of Management
Fiona Murray
Professor of Entrepreneurship & Associate Dean of Innovation, MIT Sloan School of Management
Fiona Murray is the Associate Dean of Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management, William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship, and an associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is also the co-director of MIT’s Innovation Initiative.
She serves on the British Prime Minister’s Council on Science and Technology and has been awarded a CBE for her services to innovation and entrepreneurship in the UK.
Murray is an international expert on the transformation of investments in scientific and technical innovation into innovation-based entrepreneurship that drives jobs, wealth creation, and regional prosperity. She has a special interest in the commercialization of science from idea to impact and the mechanisms that can be effectively used to link universities with entrepreneurs, large corporations, and philanthropists in that process.
Abdelkader Nasreddine Belkacem - IU35
Assistant Professor, Osaka University
Abdelkader Nasreddine Belkacem
Assistant Professor, Osaka University
Munir Nayfeh
Professor of Physics, University of Illinois
Munir Nayfeh
Professor of Physics, University of Illinois
Munir Nayfeh is an atomic physicist renowned for groundbreaking work in nano-science and technology. He received his BSc from AUB and PhD from Stanford. He was a postdoc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a lecturer at Yale, and is currently professor at University of Illinois. He authored Electricity and Magnetism, and Fundamentals and Applications of Nano Silicon, and co-edited three books on lasers. He uses the trademark “Dr. Nano,” to simplify nanotechnology for children. He holds 23 US patents in nanosilicon, and founded – NanoSi Advanced Technologies, NanoSilicon Solar, Parasat-Nanosi (Kazakhstan), and Reach-NanoSi (Palestine) – promoting high-tech devices with diverse applications from solar energy and lighting to early detection-treatment of acute disease. Nayfeh is on the advisory board of KFUPM, Saudi Arabia and SHTP, Vietnam. He is an IAS fellow, and president of the Network of Arab Scientists and Technologists Abroad. He received the Beckman, AT&T, Industrial 100, and Energy 100 Awards.
Una-May O’Reilly
Principal Research Scientist at CSAIL, MIT
Una-May O’Reilly
Principal Research Scientist at CSAIL, MIT
Una-May O’Reilly is a Principal Research Scientist at CSAIL, MIT. Her research focuses on computational intelligence – particularly machine learning and adversarial dynamics. Her PhD dissertation was one of the world’s first on the AI topic of Genetic Programming. She received the EvoStar Award for Outstanding Achievements in Evolutionary Computation in Europe. She is recognized by ACM SIGEVO for Outstanding Contributions (ISGEC Fellow, elected 2004). She has applied algorithms to health care, online education, energy and cybersecurity.
Carolina Osorio
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), MIT
Carolina Osorio
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), MIT
Carolina Osorio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and in the Operations Research Center (ORC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her work develops operations research techniques to inform the design and operations of urban mobility systems. She was recognized as one of the outstanding early-career engineers in the US by the National Academy of Engineering’s EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, and is the recipient of a US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an MIT CEE Maseeh Excellence in Teaching Award, an MIT Technology Review EmTech Colombia TR35 Award, an IBM Faculty Award and a European Association of Operational Research Societies (EURO) Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Donald Sadoway
John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry, MIT
Donald Sadoway
John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry, MIT
Donald R. Sadoway, Ph.D. in Chemical Metallurgy from the University of Toronto, is John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author of over 170 scientific papers and holder of 26 U.S. patents, he is the founder of two companies, Ambri and Boston Metal. Viewed almost 2 million times, his TED talk is as much about inventing inventors as it is about inventing technology. In 2012 he was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Noor Shaker
Co-Founder and CEO, GTN Ltd
Noor Shaker
Co-Founder and CEO, GTN Ltd
Before co-founding GTN, Noor was an assistant professor at Aalborg University in Copenhagen working on machine learning with a special interest in generative models. She has more than 50 publications and 1100+ citations and has co-authored a book on generative methods. She has won a number of grants and awards for her research.
Clarissa Shen
Cheif Operating Officer, Udacity
Clarissa Shen
Cheif Operating Officer, Udacity
Clarissa Shen is the Chief Operating Officer for Udacity. She joined as Udacity’s first business hire leading all business functions. Prior to Udacity, she co-founded a K-12 start-up, led digital change at Apollo Group, and advised Fortune 500 and government clients throughout Greater China, Asia, and Europe as a management consultant with Deloitte/Monitor Group.
Clarissa has also managed a Google Top 10 digital marketing team, and led an internationally-renowned touring contemporary dance company. Clarissa graduated magna cum laude with a BA in English and Environmental Studies from Williams College, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Siim Sikkut
Government CIO of Estonia
Siim Sikkut
Government CIO of Estonia
Siim Sikkut is the Government CIO of Estonia, also titled as Deputy Secretary General for IT and Telecom in Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications. His role is to set the strategy and policies, to launch and steer strategic development initiatives and regulation in areas digital government and society in Estonia. Siim is one of the founders of Estonia’s groundbreaking e-Residency programme.
Anas Tawileh
Executive Director, EmTech MENA
Anas Tawileh
Executive Director, EmTech MENA
Dr. Anas Tawileh in the Executive Director of EmTech MENA. He is the managing director of Systematics Consulting Inc. A seasoned digitization strategist and digital transformation architect, he led and successfully delivered several transformation projects for major telecom operators around the world. Dr. Tawileh published extensively in industry and scholarly journals and publications. He holds a PhD in Information Assurance and an MSc in Strategic Information Systems from Cardiff University, UK.
Lin Wen Hu
Director, Research and Services
MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
Lin Wen Hu
Director, Research and Services
MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
Dr. Lin-wen Hu is an international expert with more than 20 years of experience in nuclear systems design, safety, and nuclear technology applications. She is a senior research scientist and director of MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory’s research and irradiation services division, which consists of reactor experiments, neutron activation and elemental analysis, neutron beam applications, and reactor physics groups. Dr. Hu is the Technical Lead of the MIT Reactor (MITR) as a partner facility of Idaho National Laboratory’s Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) and is an expert in a wide range of nuclear applications including advanced nuclear fuel and materials irradiation tests, radioisotope production, licensing, and safety analysis of nuclear reactors. Dr. Hu’s group is leading the development of a transportable Fluoride salt-cooled High-temperature Reactor (FHR) with an innovative demonstration strategy through integrated subcritical facility. She currently leads several research projects including MITR LEU fuel conversion feasibility study; (FHR) design, modeling and safety analysis, fluoride salt and materials irradiation testing; and Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) instrumentation design. Dr. Hu is author or co-author if over 200 technical publications.
Stefano Zanero
Associate Professor Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Polytechnic University of Milan
Stefano Zanero
Associate Professor Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Polytechnic University of Milan
Stefano Zanero received a PhD in Computer Engineering from Polytechnic University of Milan, where he is currently an associate professor with the Associate Professor Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering. His research focuses on malware analysis, cyberphysical security, and cybersecurity in general. Besides teaching “Computer Security” and “Computer Forensics” at Polytechnic University, he has an extensive speaking and training experience in Italy and abroad. He co-authored over 90 scientific papers and books. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society (for which he is a member of the Board of Governors), and a lifetime senior member of the ACM. Stefano co-founded the Italian chapter of ISSA (Information System Security Association). He has been named a Fellow of ISSA and sits in its International Board of Directors. A long time op-ed writer for magazines, Stefano is also a co-founder and chairman of Secure Network, a leading information security consulting firm based in Milan and in London; a co-founder of 18Months, a cloud-based ticketing solutions provider; and a co-founder of BankSealer, a startup in the FinTech sector that addresses fraud detection through machine learning techniques.