Khalid Ismail

Topic: Entreprenership Success Story

Bio: Dr. Khaled Ismail is the Founder and CEO of SySDSoft, a company focused on the design of wireless communication system modems. In March 2011, SySDSoft has been acquired by Intel.

Dr. Ismail became thereafter the Managing Director of Intel Mobile Communications. Between 2005 and 2007, Dr. Ismail was the Senior Advisor of the Egyptian Minister of CIT, responsible for Technology Development, and between 2000 and 2002, Dr. Ismail was VP of Engineering of Ellipsis Digital Systems in Carlsbad, CA.

Between 1989 and 1997, Dr. Ismail was with IBM’s Watson Research Center in NY. He is the recipient of the IBM Invention Achievement Award and the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 1997 and 1995, respectively.

Dr. Ismail received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1989. He is an IEEE Fellow since 1997 and has published over 160 papers in international journals and holds 22 US patents. He is the recipient of the Eta Kapa Nu “Best Young Electrical Engineer” in the US award in 1994, and the Shuman Award for the “Young Arab Engineer” in 1995.

Dr. Ismail is married and has two children, and is fluent in Arabic, German, English and French.

Abdellatif Olama

Topic: Elevator Pitching

Bio: -CEO & Co-Founder of Dare’n’Deal

-Board member of Arab Cotton Ginning Co. (ACGC:CA)

-Ex-McKinsey & Co. Consultant

-Marketed large real-estate projects, attracting EGP~25 billions in investments

-Designed and implemented multiple policy reform programs spanning real-estate, agriculture, development / SMEs, healthcare, microfinance and banking

-Designed and set up human capital development programs with 15,000 trainees annually catering to the Outsourcing & Off-shoring industries

-MBA from INSEAD, France / Singapore; B.Comp.Sc. from Concordia University, Canada

Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément

Topic: TBD

Bio: Sebastian joined Google at the beginning of 2007 and is now the Developer Relations Lead for the Middle East and Northern Africa. His mission is to spearhead advocacy, outreach and support initiatives to make developers and businesses successful using Google products and developer tools. Prior to Google, he spent a few years working as a strategy consultant and then in business development at Dell. Sebastian is a Supélec engineer and holds an MBA from Collège des Ingénieurs.

Specialties: HTML5, CSS3, Maps, Google Apps, App Engine, Google+

Haitham Desoky

Topic: Pitching

Bio: Winner of the first prize in the \"Stars of Science\" Competition, for his touch screen invention Vivifi. Vivifi is a sticker that can be placed under any surface to convert it into a touch feature surface. Desouky has been inventing since he was 12 years old; his first invention was a device that measures the heart rate and sets off an alarm when the heart rate decreases below normal. He is an Al-Azhar engineering graduate and teacher’s assistant at Nile University.