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Ahmed El-Sharkasy is a software engineer and product manager with more than 15 years of experience working in world-class startups in the Middle East, US and Europe.

He was the first engineer at Bkam, a leading price comparison website in the MENA and was also the first engineer at Onfido, the leading identify verification service in the UK and Europe (recently acquired by Entrust). After going through one of the top accelerator programs in Europe (Entrepreneur First), Ahmed was the CEO and Co-founder of Knowledge Officer, a London-based EdTech startup with a mission to build the shortest and most efficient path to employment and career progression.

He has also been included in the list of top 100 influencers in Edtech by the EdTech Digest in 2019. After Knowledge Officer, Ahmed joined Yelp as a Group Product Manager leading a business critical division and a team of product managers. Ahmed is mission-oriented with a 3-yearLighthouse Goal: Make a positive impact on the lives of 1M+ people.

Dr. Amr Awadallah is the CEO and Cofounder of Vectara, a company that is enabling organizations to leverage GenAI in business applications by reducing risks from hallucinations, bias, copyright infringement, and model weight pollution.

Amr previously served as VP of Developer Relations for Google Cloud. Prior to joining Google in Nov 2019, Amr co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and as Global CTO, he spent 11 years working closely with enterprises around the world on how to ingest and extract value from big data (he famously coined the concept of “schema-on-read vs schema-on-write”). Cloudera went public in 2017 on the NYSE, and was acquired by KKR + CD&R in 2021 for $5.3b.

He also served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo! from 2000-2008. Amr joined Yahoo after they acquired his first startup, Aptivia, in mid-2000 which was a search engine for online product information. Amr received his PhD in EE from Stanford University, and his Bachelor and Master Degrees from Cairo University, Egypt.

Amr is one of 10 luminary scientists and technologists that were granted honorary citizenship to Saudi Arabia in 2021.

Hossam Taher, a father, serial entrepreneur, and a doctor, leverages his expertise in product management and business strategy in venture building and business growth. As the former CEO of Orcas, which he successfully exited in 2023, he expanded the company's regional presence, built an international team, and secured over $4 million in funding.



Hossam now offers consultancy and mentorship in venture building, digital transformation, product strategy, and business strategy, while exploring angel investing, with a preference for tech startups.

Wael Fakharany currently serves as the CEO of Edenred, leveraging his extensive leadership background.

Before joining Edenred, Wael served as CEO of Omnix International and held the position of Vice President and General Manager of EMEA at Incorta. He also worked at Careem as Managing Director for Egypt and held the position of Global Senior VP for Government Relations.

At Google, Wael served as Regional Business Lead at Google X and Head of Agencies for the Middle East and North Africa. His career spans over 25 years in the technology sector, including previous roles at 3Com, Oracle, and IBM.

Wael holds a B.Sc. in Computer & Communications Engineering with Distinction from Ain Shams University in Egypt.

Aya is an Egyptian software engineer and entrepreneur who aims to bridge the gap between top tech talents and hiring companies.

She is doing this through Talents Arena, the ultimate ‘talent marketplace’ for African job seekers and recruiters in tech.



Talents Arena is re-inventing technical hiring by matching tech gurus with ideal hiring tech companies, thus cutting down time wasted in the hiring process.

Aya has worked in the tech industry for over a decade, starting as a software engineer at IBM – Egypt. She later moved to lead many tech teams in regional startups, including 360 Imaging, Instabug, and others.

Ammar Kandil is the Co-Founder of Yes Theory. Originally from Sadat City, Egypt, located two hours outside Cairo, Ammar's journey began with a profound fascination for people.

Yes Theory began in the summer of 2015 when Ammar, Thomas, Derin and Matt were four strangers in their early 20s who bonded over the idea that life's greatest moments and deepest connections exist outside your comfort zone.

Today Yes Theory is a community of millions of people who act on the belief that seeking discomfort is the gateway to a fulfilling life.