Badr Al-Olama is an entrepreneurial executive with a deep passion for transformational impact-driven investments. During his tenure with Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala), Badr was responsible for the UAE Clusters portfolio which included a diverse set of businesses that span across aerospace, technology, and healthcare; forging strategic partnerships with global organizations and establishing a startup ecosystem to further contribute towards economic growth and diversification.

Badr is the Chairman at Emirates Post Group and currently serves on the board of Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat), SHUAA Capital, Yas Holding, and various automotive joint ventures. Badr has been leading the organizing committee for the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) since its inception, prior to which he was the former Chief Executive Officer of Strata Manufacturing, the former President of the UAE Harvard Club, and previously served as a member of the UAE Ministerial Council on the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Badr was nominated as a ‘Young Global Leader for the Middle East and North Africa Region’ by the World Economic Forum in 2016. He began his career as a lawyer and holds an LL.M from Harvard Law School.

Francesca Gori is the Regional Director of Legal Services at Accenture for Compliance, Operations, Regulatory and Employment law. She leads a team of approximately 40 in-house talented lawyers across Middle East, Africa and ASIA PACIFIC, and is also the General counsel for Accenture in Middle East.

Throughout her career, she gained extensive experience in major international law firms providing support to multinational companies. During her 18-year tenure with Accenture, Francesca has been part of several global project implementation initiatives, as well as the set-up of new operations and legal entities across the Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Asia and Latin America regions.

Francesca holds a Law degree from L.U.I.S.S. Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy, and has a strong background in Compliance, Employment Law, Immigration and Corporate law, Data Privacy, and Regulatory matters across EMEA. She lives in Dubai with her son Leonardo of 13 years old and enjoys spending time with her family.

With over 20 years of experience across global brands in the UAE, within aviation and telecommunications, Yaser is a commercial savvy and passionate about marketing, customer experience, loyalty, partnerships and product development & management.

Yaser has Joined the Abu Dhabi Residents Office as Director of Partnerships to oversee a portfolio of strategic and commercial partnerships within the Government and private sector. His objective is to attract and retain talents, enhance residents’ journey, empower the voice of residents and reward their contributions. Yasser holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Toulouse Business School in France.

In her current role based in the UAE, as AI Solution Director, for C3 AI, she is at the frontier of AI technologies adoption in large industrial and governmental entities.

With 17+ years of experience in energy and digital domains, as well as previous roles at SAP, and Bakerhughes a GE company, she is really enjoying seeing the current level of interest in technology.

C3 AI
An Enterprise AI public American software company headquartered in Silicon Valley, Redwood city next to Apple and Facebook campuses.

C3 AI is a leading Enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation. The proven C3 AI Platform provides comprehensive services to build enterprise-scale AI applications more efficiently and cost-effectively than alternative approaches. The C3 AI Platform supports the value chain in any industry with prebuilt, configurable, high-value AI applications. C3 AI's clientele list include but not limited to US Department of Defence, US Army, Airforce and Missile Agency, Shell, Baker Hughes, Con Edison, Cargille, LyondellBasell and others.

Nadim Hasbani has 20 years of experience across Europe, the Middle East and Asia in the areas of public/political communication and Government Affairs in some of the world's most sophisticated regulatory environments.
Prior to moving with Microsoft in 2021 where he is heading the Government Affairs and technology regulation for UAE, Nadim worked with Philip Morris International (PMI) in Dubai where he was leading their government relations for GCC countries. He moved in 2014 to Singapore to head PMI’s Corporate Affairs function there for a couple years and to Indonesia in 2016 to head the Regulatory Department of PMI. He was PMI’s Government Affairs Director for South and South East Asia from 2018 to 2020.
Nadim worked with major US and International Think Thanks such as the International Crisis Group in Brussels and the Carnegie Endowment in Beirut where he was the regional Communications Director for Middle East North Africa.
He holds a PhD in Geopolitics of the UAE from the Paris University as well as two Masters in Communication and in Political Sciences. Nadim taught in several European universities and is authors of books and dozens of articles about the Middle East, the GCC and the UAE.

Morad Qutqut is Chief of Customer Innovation for the World Wide Strategic Customer Engagement organization, leading an innovative customer engagement process that maps strategic business aspirational needs to different digital innovations, allowing customers to test and verify outcomes. Bringing industry experience, subject matter expertise and an ecosystem of innovative partners together following a state-of-the-art well-defined innovation methodology to convert dreams into reality.

Prior to this, Morad was the CTO for HPE in the Middle East, where he defined technical market strategy and drove initiatives to improve HPE’s positioning in the marketplace, his previous experience in leading the Middle East Presales Organization gave him rich experience in several industries’ IT solutions and rich understanding of IT market directions and trends.

Morad has a BSc degree in electrical engineering from the University of Jordan since 1998. He joined HPE (Compaq) in 2000 and progressed in his career across different functions and responsibilities from services, presales management, and executive sponsorship.

With more than 43 years of experience as a financial consultant and public accountant, I am consistently building and directing a highly dynamic team & advising local and international companies. A prominent and sought-after voice in the accounting, auditing, & consulting sectors I started my career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (A.F. Ferguson & Co.) in Karachi Pakistan for 6 years, after that moved to KPMG Peat Marwick UAE as Manager for 2 years. A graduate of Business Admin. In Karachi and got my Master's and Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Management Accounting in the USA. In 1976, Alliott Management Consulting (AMC) and Alliott Hadi Shahid Chartered Accountants, both were established with offices in the United Arab Emirates, where I am the Managing Director & a Partner, respectively. Alliott Global has 185+ firms in 80 countries. With these resources, our firm can provide clients with legal, finance & tax services. I am actively involved in various professional bodies: American Business Group (AmCham), which has served as a Nominating and Election Comm. Chairman since its inception in 1996, Founding President of Pakistan Business Professional Council (PBPC) Abu Dhabi from 2004-2008, & currently the President, which works under the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ADCCI). The Council’s Patron-in-Chief is H.H. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, & a former member of the Abu Dhabi Council of Economic Development. I served as an Honorary Auditor for AmCham Abu Dhabi for the last many years.
One of the Founding Members of the Indus Hospital and the School of Nursing in Karachi facilitates and provides free health services to the community for which it was founded. I served as Vice-Chairman of the Pakistan Institute of Science and Technology and Economics (PISTEC), under the famous Dr. A.Q. Khan A Board member & Chairman of the Finance Committee for the Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Arab Pakistan School, with more than 2,500 students for the last many years. Elected Board Member of the Saadiyat Beach Villa Abu Dhabi by the residents in September 2020. Specializing in guiding in establishing the companies and also repositioning/restructuring the companies to achieve their objectives & to operate profitably Specializing in structuring a family business and succession planning by forming companies registering w/ ADGM/DIFC, as well as, writing the WILL for the family & preparing special accounts for family members' assets & income locally & internationally.

Murtaza is Regional Managing Partner at Fragomen for the Middle East and Africa region. Fragomen is the global leader in immigration services and solutions. Murtaza has been based in the Middle East region for over 14 years and is responsible for Fragomen’s practices and network partners spanning across the Middle East and Africa region. In this capacity, he has extensive experience of working with large global and regional companies alongside representing the SME sector.

Murtaza has deep knowledge of regional business immigration, mobility and deployment issues. His experience includes working with companies in a variety of sectors offering strategic advisory, design and management of immigration programs tailored to the region’s requirements and best practices. Murtaza is a Fellow at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales having worked in the Audit and Corporate Finance Advisory divisions at a Big Four Accounting firm.

Shoaib is an Immigration Manager at Fragomen’s Dubai office with over a decade of experience advising clients, from national governments to startups and large corporations. He manages UAE and Middle East and North Africa immigration processes, and develops and implements reliable, efficient, pragmatic and sustainable immigration programs regionally. One of his focuses is to help startups scale internationally. Shoaib advises clients across a diverse range of industries, including banking and finance, oil and gas, information technology, media, defense and consulting.

Prior to joining Fragomen, Shoaib lead regionally significant national projects for an international financial institution in the development sector as well as the Energy sector in the Middle East.

Shoaib speaks English and is fluent in spoken Urdu.

Education:
University of Cambridge Judge Business School, 2020
Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd, B.S., 2007