• Participation : Keynote Speaker
• Session Title : Social Innovation as a means to Empower People in Driving Economic Development & Social Change
• Track/Activity : Industry & Government Track

• Track/Activity : Track/Activity
• Ahmed Mekky is the Former Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Bridge International (GBI); additionally he is a co-founder and Board Member of GBI. Ahmed led the company in building the first-ever privately-owned and independently-operated submarine cable in the Gulf region, with onward connectivity to Europe, Africa and Asia.
• Ahmed is a highly experienced telecom executive with strong technical and business qualifications and an impressive track record of 15 years of hands-on experience in strategic planning, business unit development, project and product management, and system engineering strategies. Indeed, he is considered a pioneer in the field of satellite communications having managed numerous projects across the region, including the evaluation process for the launching of a new satellite to serve the Middle East and the investment in a new satellite hub in the Gulf.
• Prior to founding GBI, Ahmed worked on projects encompassing both telecom's infrastructure and satellite communications. Ahmed has taken a leading role on a broad range of business opportunities including the acquisition of an existing telecom operator, investing in telecom ventures in Europe, investing in GSM licenses in Africa and acquiring a license for a country's international gateway for voice and data.

• Participation : Keynote Speaker
• Session Title : International Standards to enable 5G networks and digital transformation

• Participation : Technical Committee Co-Chair
• Track & Activity: Technical Track
• Prof. Mustafa Elnainay received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer engineering from Alexandria University, in 2001 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech, in 2009. He is currently on leave and affiliated with the Faculty of Computer and Information Systems, Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia.
• He is also a Professor of computer engineering with the Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Alexandria University, Egypt. His research interests include wireless and mobile networks, cognitive radio and cognitive networks, as well as software testing automation and optimization.
• His focus is on the use of artificial intelligence to solve problems in different domains, including communications and networking, indoor localization, and software engineering. He has served as a Reviewer, TPC member, and TPC chair/track chair for various international journals and conferences.

• Participation : Technical Committee Chair
• Track/Activity : Technical Track
• He has been at James Madison University since August 2012 where he worked as an assistant professor in the Integrated Science and Technology Department from August 2012 until July 2018. Afterward, he was awarded tenure and promotion as an associate professor starting August 2018.
• At James Madison University, he was the Telecommunications, Networking, and Security (TNS) Advisor for the students who wish to declare the TNS as their concentration. In the ISAT department, he teaches in the TNS sector (Computer Networking and Security Courses), the IKM sector (Computer Programming and Database Courses) and the Intelligence Analysis IA program. Also, I teach Computer Science (CS) courses (mainly the graduate program for the master degree).
• For his research, he is interested in the issues surrounding Intelligent Transportation, Mobile Development, Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Network Security, Wireless Network Security, Internet of Things (IoT), Voice over IP (VoIP), Network Programming, and Cloud Computing.

• Participation : Keynote Speaker
• Session Title : Edge Disarray
• Track/Activity : Technical Track
• Dr Yehia Elkhatib is a Reader (Associate Professor) at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK, and is a visiting professor at École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal.
• His work revolves mainly around using data-driven approaches to improve the performance and programmability of distributed systems. This involves work on optimized deployment on cloud and edge resources, post-deployment system composition, and intent-driven network architectures.

• Participation : Keynote Speaker
• Session Title : Autonomous Driving fueled by Smart Communication
• Track/Activity : Technical Track

• Participation : Keynote Speaker
• Session Title : Sensor-less Energy-free Sensing: The Future of Ubiquitous Context-Awareness for the IoT
• Track/Activity : Technical Track
• Moustafa Youssef is a professor at the American University in Cairo and Alexandria University and founder & director of the Wireless Research Center of Excellence, Egypt. His research interests include mobile wireless networks, mobile computing, location determination technologies, pervasive computing, and network security.
• He is an Associate Editor for IEEE TMC and ACM TSAS, served as the Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE Computer Special Issue on Transformative Technologies and an Area Editor of ACM MC2R as well as on the organizing and technical committees of numerous prestigious conferences.
• He is the recipient of the 2003 University of Maryland Invention of the Year award, the 2010 TWAS-AAS-Microsoft Award for Young Scientists, the 2013 and 2014 COMESA Innovation Award, the 2013 ACM SIGSpatial GIS Conference Best Paper Award, the 2017 Egyptian State Award, multiple Google Research Awards, among many others.
• He is also an IEEE and ACM Fellow.

• Participation : Opening Speech
• Session Title : Opening Speech
• Track/Activity : IEEE 5G Summit
• Founder & President, IPv6 Forum
• Chair, 5G World Alliance
• Member of 3GPP PCG (Board)
• IEEE 5G Steering Committee Member
• IEEE IoT Steering Committee Member
• Chair, IEEE ComSoC IoT TsC
• Vice Chair, IEEE ComSoC SDN-NFV TC
• Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society ISOC
• IPv6 Ready & Enabled Logos Program Board
• World summit Award Board Member
• Vice-Chair, ETSI IPv6 Industry Specification Group
• Member of 3GPP2 PCG
• Member of UN Strategy Council
• Member of Future Internet Forum EU Member States (representing Luxembourg)
• IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award, 2002
• IPv6 Life Time Achievement Award, 2016
• Research Associate @ University of Luxembourg on multiple European Commission Next Generation Technologies IST Projects.

• Session Title : Opening Speech
• President, University of Dubai
• Retired Faculty Member, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)
• Partner & Chairman, Barajeel Engineering Consultants, Since 1994
• Honorary Chair, IEEE UAE Section
• Senior Member, IEEE
• Senior Member, IEEE Communications Society
• Chairman of the Board, Emirates Science Club
• Consultant, Education & Techbnology, Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority
• Advisory Board, University of Sharjah, Ajman University of Science & Technlogy, American University in Dubai, Wollongong Univeristy in Dubai, American University of Sharjah, American University of Ras Al Khaima, etc.
• Consultant to Emirates Aviation College
• Board, Culture & Science Association
• Counselor, Dubai Economic Research Awards (DERA)
• Higher Board, Emirates Appreciation Award for Science, Arts and Literature
• Established the IT Center in Al-Ain Municipality, 2000-2003
• Head, Energy Section, Technology & Energy Research Center, 1990-1991
• Head, Technology Section, Technology & Energy Research Center, 1991-1992
• Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, College of Engineering, UAEU, 1992-1996
• Director, IT Center at UAE University, 1998-2000
• Editor-in-Chief, Engineering Magazine, 1990-1996
• Chair, Engineering Day, 1990-1996
• Member, Arabic Language Protection Association

• Session Title : Opening Speech
• Andy Chen, P. Eng., President & CEO, Catronic Enterprise, Founding Managing Partner, REDDS Capital
• President-Elect, IEEE TEMS (2020/2021)
• "TEMS help members to maintain essential engineering management skills and support their leadership career path"
• Andy Chen is the President & CEO of a global consulting firm. The firm’s principle business is to provide consulting services for utility industry worldwide. Andy held the position of the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Strategy and Architecture of the largest Canadian-based electricity generator.

• Session Title : Opening Speech
• Track/Activity : Women in Tech Summit
• Dr. Fatma Taher is an Associate Professor in the department of computer and applied technology and an assistant dean for Research and Outreach in the College of Technological Innovation and the CEO of Happiness and Wellbeing at Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. Her research interests are in the areas of signal and image processing, pattern recognition, artificial intelligent, medical image analysis, especially in detecting of the cancerous cells, kidney transplant, autism and Cerebrovascular Segmentation from MRA Images. In addition to that, remote sensing and satellite images researches. She received her PhD from Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE, in 2014. So that she is the first UAE local that graduated with PhD in Engineering inside the UAE, and Khalifa University considered as the first University to grant PhD degrees in computer engineering. Dr. Fatma Taher has published more than 60 papers in international Journals and conferences. She served as a member of the steering, organizing and technical program committees of many international conferences, and has served on many editorial and reviewing boards of international journals and conferences. Dr. Fatma is the chair of IEEE UAE section. Dr. Fatma has received many distinguished awards such as: the UAE Pioneers award as the first UAE to create a computer aided diagnosis system for early lung cancer detection based on the sputum color image analysis, awarded by H.H Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashed Al Maktoum, 15th Nov. 2015. Innovation award at the 2016 Emirati Women Awards by H. H. Sheik Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum. Chairman of Civil Aviation Authority and Patron of Dubai Quality Group and L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science Middle East Fellowship 2017. In addition to that, the Prize for the best PhD excellence Award in leadership day for Khalifa University, 12th February 2012. Best paper award in the BCS International IT Conference Towards 21st Century Innovations, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 31st March-1st April 2013. Best paper award of the first prize in the PhD Forum of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), PhD Forum, Dec. 8-11, 2013. Dr. Fatma has developed new techniques for the accurate identification and segmentation of medical images (MRI, CT images) as well as new registration techniques based on multiple second-order signal statistics, all of which have been reported at multiple international conferences and journal articles.

• Session Title : Opening Speech
• Track/Activity : Women in Tech Summit
• Dr. Tlili joined the Department of Electrical Engineering as an associate professor at Rochester Institute of Technology Dubai in 2010. Prior to the above Dr.Tlili served for two years as the program director of the Computer Engineering program at MSU-Dubai. Previous to joining the ECE faculty, Dr. Tlili was an associate professor and program coordinator of Electrical and Computer Engineering program at the American University in Dubai from 2004-2008. She participated in obtaining ABET accreditation for Engineering programs at AUD.
• Dr. Tlili is an IEEE senior member. She served as the IEEE Women in Engineering chair for the UAE section and on the Executive committee of IEEE region 8 UAE section, from 2005-2013. Under her leadership the IEEE WIE UAE section obtained "2010 Women in Engineering affinity group of the year" award.
• Dr. Tlili's research interests include Antenna analysis and design, Electromagnetic Theory, Field propagation in complex media and Microwave electronics.

• Session Title : Opening Speech
• I’m an award-winning ICT and Smart Buildings Consultant specialising in the digital transformation of buildings into smart properties which enhance the experience of building stakeholders, lower energy consumption, enable data-based governance decisions and reduce capital and operational expenditure.
• I have 07 years’ experience in leading technical multi-disciplinary designs for ICT projects and have provided consultancy, client technical advice, tender review and installation quality assurance services for client organizations in commercial, education, healthcare, cultural, residential and hospitality sectors across US, Russia,, UK and the Middle East.
• I have spoken at 40+ international events including the UNESCO World Science Forum, IEEE Sections Congress and the World Engineering Education Forum. My talks cover topics such as smart buildings, educational policy making, career management and inquiry-based science education.

• Participation : Keynote Speaker
• Track/Activity : Industry Summit
• Mohammed Alhashmi is an accomplished leader with more than 32 years of public and private sector experience. As the Chief Technology Officer, Innovation and Future Technology Department at Expo 2020 Dubai, he leads a team of information technology professionals and Premium Partners responsible for delivering one of the most advanced and innovative World Expo’s in the event’s 167-year history. Moreover, Mohammed is responsible for Procurement, Contracts and Legal departments at Expo 2020 Dubai.
• Prior to Expo, Mohammed served as Director General of the Gulf Business Foundation, a leading supplier of aerospace and aviation technologies, corporate investments, corporate office solutions, hospitality as well as industrial solutions throughout the Middle East.
• Mohammed started his career in 1989 with Dubai Aluminum (now part of Emirates Global Aluminum, the world’s fifth largest aluminum smelter), where he served as Manager of IT Services. During that period until 2006, Mohammed gained incremental technical and managerial experience in the various ICT verticals including, ICT operations, application development, information security and ICT service delivery. From 2006 to 2008, he led the award-winning implementation of SAP R/3, the enterprise resource planning solution, at DUBAL.
• In 2008, Mohammed joined Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority as Executive Director Corporate Support where he was responsible for different business units including ICT, procurement, logistics, administration, safety, security and environment. He was also given further responsibilities as Executive Director, adding Sales, Marketing and Corporate Communications to his portfolio. He continued to lead various technology transformations, sustainability and business process optimization initiatives.

• Session Title : 2021 Planet Reset - 5th Machine Age of Change
• Track/Activity : Opening Ceremony

Who is Stephen Ibaraki

• Multiple Awarded Global Visionary
• UN-related and Fortune CEOs Think Tanks Founder
• Founding Chairman YPO European Impact Summit Advisory Board
• Founder “AI for Good” Global Movement and World’s Largest AI UN SDG Summit
• Founder world’s No.1 CEO “futures summit”, and think tank -- CEOs managing trillions in assets
• Stephen Ibaraki Chairman and Managing General Partner REDDS Capital. In addition, Stephen is gl obally unique with Chairman, Founder, Board roles in: Business and startups, successful Entrepreneurship/investments/venture capital, No.1 global computing Science organizations, No.1 UN - related innovation programs, No.1 CEO / Industry - organizations / thin k tanks, No.1 Summits (acronym BE - SUN - CIS). 300+ annual global engagements impacting USD $100+ Trillion in ESG (environmental, social, governance), sustainable investments for 2020. He is keynote speaker, moderator, producer at more than 100 global CEO and leader events annually. Stephen’s has more than 300 “lifetime and career” achievements and awards for disruptive innovation, futuristic investments, successful entrepreneurship, and global technology leadership, as exemplified by July 2020 IFIP news -- 18 global Microsoft Awards including 15 Microsoft MVP Awards -- last one awarded in July 1st, 2020. There is more on LinkedIn

• Session Title : Good Future - Technology and Humanity by 2030
• Track/Activity : Industry & Government Track

• Session Title : Panel: IoT & Smart Cities
• Track/Activity : Women in Tech Summit
• Pr. Aawatif HAYAR President of University Hassan II of Casablanca-Morocco. She received, with honors,as the First Moroccan, the degree of “Agrégation” in Electrical Engineering from EcoleNormaleSupérieure de Cachan in 1992. She received the “Diplômed'EtudesApprofondies” in Signal processing Image and Communications and the degree of Engineer in Telecommunications Systems and Networks from ENSEEIHT de Toulouse in 1997. She received with honors the Ph.D. degree in Signal Processing and Telecommunications from Institut National Polytechnique in Toulouse in 2001. She was research and teaching associate at EURECOM’s Mobile Communication Department from 2001 to 2010 in Sophia Antipolis-France. AawatifHayarhas an HDR (Habilitation à Diriger la Recherche) from University Sud Toulon Var from France on Cognitive Wideband Wireless Systems on 2010 and an HDR on Green Téléommunication from University Hassan II Casablanca on 2013. From 2011 till June 2019, AawatifHayar had Professor position at the engineering school ENSEM of University Hassan II Casablanca. Since June 2019, Pr. Aawatif Hayar was appointed President of the University Hassan II of Casablanca-Morocco and is the second female in the history of Morocco to occupy this position. She is also member of Casablanca “Avant-garde” City think-tank. She is co-initiator since 2013 of E-madina Smart City Cluster. Her research interests includes fields such as cognitive green communications systems, UWB systems, smart grids, smart sustainable social building, e-governance, open data for citizens, smart cities, ICT for social eco-friendly smart socio-economic development. Pr. AawatifHayaris also IEEE DLT Chair for EMEA region since 2014 and the designerof Frugal Social Sustainable Smart City concept for Casablanca and emerging countries which was selected by IEEE Smart City initiative as one of the most innovative projects in the world in 2015. Pr. AawatifHayar is currently Chair of Casablanca IEEE Core Smart City project. She was also selected by the prestigious African Innovation Foundation as one of the top ten innovative African women in 2015. AawatifHayar has developed “Frugal Social Collaborative Sustainable Smart City Casablanca“, a new concept for smart city transformation which was distinguished by IEEE Smart city initiative in 2015 as an innovative cost effective inclusive smart city concept. She is the Scientific Advisor, at the City level, of Smart City Expo Casablanca and General Co-Chair of IEEE international Conference on Smart Cities (IEEE ISC2 -2019). Pr. AawatifHayar is currently leading or involved in a couple of R&D/Innovation projects with the City of Casablanca, the region Casablanca Settat, CNRST, INDH, GIZ and Heinrich Böll Stiftung such as End to End Energy Efficiency Living Lab, Virtual Museum of Casablanca, e-douar “Smart Inclusive Ecological village”and Solar Decathlon Africa E-Co Dar and Benguerir Smart City ASToN AFD projects.

• Session Title : Beyond self-driving, a modular collaborative vehicles ecosystem
• Track/Activity : Industry Summit

• Track/Activity : Women in Tech Summit
• Dr. Lobna Karoui is an Artificial Intelligence Leader, AI Trust Builder, Game Changer and results-oriented with more than 18 years of experience in AI Advisory positions, Innovation Strategic planning, AI Product Management and digital transformation. She is a scientist with more than 30 publications and presentations in international conferences. Following her dream of Teaching, she was an assistant professor in prestigious educational institutions as Sorbonne University and Polytechnique School. In 2008, she was awarded her PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University Paris-Orsay Sud and the Engineering Higher School Supelec. From there, she jumped on the Corporate World with her creative Mindset to bring visions to life and concepts to market. She worked as AI product manager and digital transformer with high achievers and leaders in different industries: Banking, telecommunication, Hosting, Luxury, retail. According to her successful track record of driving cost effective and scalable strategies, she speaks across the world in industry events and internal corporate seminars. Deeply connected to startup and innovation ecosystem across the world, she is involved as a borad advisor in couple startups and SME to bring AI vision, foster incremental business and drive cultural change. As a mentor and an exponential thinking Ambassador, she leverages her experience and network to increase awareness and action in Artificial Intelligence for diversity and best changes for human. She is the Google Female recognized in the AI equation "Disruption, Empathy and Trust". As Executive Coach, she spreads the Mindset of Disruption to build the human trust environment for a business exponential growth. Dr. Lobna Karoui is the President of AI Exponential Thinker with a mission to educate 1 Million people from the young generations about TRUST Technologies. The target is set for the horizon 2025. Dr. Karoui was featured by Forbes according to her actions for a future of Trust Technologies for our youth generation. In 2019, she was invited as a speaker in the most prestigious and successful institutions, education organization and Tech companies such as Bloomberg, Harvard university, Stanford, WEF, Amazon headquarter Seattle, ...; www.aiexponentialthinker.com

• Track/Activity : Industry & Government Track
• Badr Al Olama heads Aerospace at Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala), which includes in its current portfolio Strata Manufacturing PJSC (Strata), and the Sanad Group (Sanad). Badr is the Chairman of Strata and Sanad, and is a board director at Oumolat Security Printing, TASIAP GmbH - a joint venture with Daimler AG, as well as a number of automotive joint ventures in Algeria that produce Daimler and Rheinmetall vehicles. Badr heads the organizing committee for the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) – a pioneering collaborative platform that has been jointly established by the United Arab Emirates and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Through GMIS, Badr also oversees the Mohammed Bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity – an open innovation platform that seeks to solve real world challenges and recognise the exemplary demonstration of corporate social responsibility by global manufacturers. Prior to his current engagements, Badr was the former Chief Executive Officer of Strata, former President of the UAE Harvard Club, a former board director at Emirates Defense Industries Company (EDIC) and the UAE Space Agency, and a former member of the UAE Ministerial Council on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He also led the strategic development of Nibras Al Ain Aerospace Park, a joint initiative between Mubadala and Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), which aims to establish a sustainable aerospace ecosystem in Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates. Nominated as a ‘Young Global Leader for the Middle East and North Africa region’ by the World Economic Forum in 2016, Badr began his career as a lawyer at Habib Al-Mulla & Company (currently known as Baker & McKenzie Habib Al-Mulla). He earned his degree in Shari’a and Law from the UAE University (2002), and holds an LL.M from Harvard Law School (2005).

• Session Title : Women in ICT Leadership and Empowerment
• Track/Activity : Women in Tech Summit
• Prior joining DESC, Al-Blooshi was a research assistant and a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR), UAE. Al-Blooshi has a master’s in information security from KUSTAR and master’s in public administration from Mohammed bin Rashid College in collaboration with Harvard University. She is one of the inventors for “Volatile Memory Erasure by Controlling Refreshment of Stored data” patent submitted to US regulate patent. Dr. Bushra has also worked in ADNOC as well as RTA where she managed different project teams and worked closely with business departments to automate their manual processes. She also took part in many strategic initiatives and committees in both organizations.

• Track/Activity : Women in Tech Summit
• Vidya Ramnath serves as President of Emerson and Emerson Automation Solutions for Middle East and Africa since January 2019. In this role, she oversees a wide set of responsibilities covering strategy, corporate governance, P&L, sales, service and business portfolio growth of Automation Solutions for the region. MEA is one of the fastest growing world areas for Emerson, and Vidya was recently voted #23 in Forbes’s Middle East’s 100 Power Businesswomen 2020.