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H.E. has over 30 years of solid experience in the IT and telecom industry, implementing working strategies for the provision of innovative digital technologies, he was tasked with a chief mission to lead Egypt’s Digital Transformation Initiative, 2020.

H.E. DR AMR TALAAT

Minister of Communication and Information Technology

Egypt

She is the Advisor to the Minister for Artificial Intelligence at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology with 17 years of experience in technology areas, with international experience in AI and cloud computing.

GOLESTAN RADWAN

ICT Minister’s

Advisor for Artificial Intelligence,

Ministry of Communication and Information Technology

Egypt

With 16 years of research and professional experience in Cyber and Network Security domain, Hafiz is harnessing the first-line-of-defense against a huge spectrum of targeted and untargeted cyber attacks from adversaries.

Hafiz Farooq

Cyber Security Data Architect,

Saudi Aramco

Saudi

Ibrahim ElSayed is a security engineer at Facebook's London HQ. Ibrahim focuses on using static analysis to scale security vulnerabilities detection and prevention. He is leading the work to build Facebook static analysis tools Zoncolan and Pysa to analyze more than 100M lines.

IBRAHIM EL-SAYED

Product Security Engineer,

Facebook

United Kingdom

She holds an endowed chaired professor in Risk and Insurance funded by the UK largest insurance company, Aviva. Meryem directs the ESRC IAA funded University of Nottingham Fintech Research Network.

PROF MERYEM DUYGUN

Aviva Chair in Risk and Insurance,

University of Nottingham

UK

He possesses over 10 years of work experience in IT Security, being mainly the Chief Information Security Officer, working for different institutions.

HISHAM MOHAMED ALY

Chief Information Security Officer,

Risk Division Emirates NBD

Egypt

Heide is responsible for driving innovative cyber security strategies and policies required for teams to securely function, along with digital transformation management. Heide is also a Founding Partner and Board Member of Women in Cyber Security Middle East (WiCSME).

HEIDE YOUNG

Co-Founder,

Women in Cyber Security

Middle East

He enjoys working with others to Drive Technology Transformation in Logistics Supply Chain Management , Enterprise Resource Planning and Operations Management through contributing to setup and run business in both emerging markets and matured markets

Samson Tingbani

Head of Technology Transformation,

DHL Global Forwarding

UAE

Jelena is the leading CISO who was awarded the CISO of the year for 2019 in Luxembourg, and recently ‘CISO Sentinel GLOBAL’ and CISO of the Year Europe, and a President of W4C Chapter Luxembourg and WomenCyberForce Luxembourg.

JELENA ZELENOVIC MATONE

Senior Head, Op. Risk & CISO, European Investment Bank, W4C President,

Luxembourg

Hazem has more than 20 years experience in the Artificial Intelligence field, Cognitive radio and Telecom industry.

DR HAZEM SHATILA

Data Science and Artificial Intelligent Advisor to assistant of Prime Minister of Egypt

Egypt

Wissam has a long experience in performing large scale international M&A and IT due diligence, as well as building IT Strategy across different countries and cultures.

Eng. Wissam Al Adany

Group Chief Information Officer,

Ghabbour Auto Group

Egypt

Viktor Polic is Chief Information Security Officer at the International Labor Organization, but his information communications technology career spans different roles across financial, humanitarian, and public sector organizations.

DR VIKTOR POLIC

Chief Information Security Officer,

International Labour Organization

Switzerland