• 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 : Redefining Digital Transformation for a post-covid world: the next 10 years
• 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.