Dr. Fatmah Baothman is the founder and the Board President of AI Society in Saudi Arabia and a member of G20 Saudi Secretariat taskforce 4.
Dr. Baothman was awarded a Ph.D. of Modern Artificial Intelligence in 2003 from the School of Computing and Engineering, the University of Huddersfield and listed at the University roll of honor. She is a faculty member at KAU.
Dr. Baothman is the first Saudi to join the Artificial Intelligence global educational theater, and she led the project successfully in two academic institutes. She also participated in the 20th AI lab anniversary and the 50th AI anniversary among AI global scientists.

Kamales Lardi is a bold and strategic thinker in digital and business transformation. She combines deep experience of over 20 years in the digital space with a dynamic and current approaches to technology application. She often says, 'technology is not a silver bullet solution, a clear value proposition should drive any transformation effort'. This approach resonates well with many business leaders and has helped her stand out in the digital space. Since establishing Lardi & Partner Consulting GmbH in 2012, Kamales has advised many multinational companies across various industries in Europe, Asia and Mauritius, including Cim Finance, UBS AG, Swiss Federal Railway (SBB), Pfizer, Ernst & Young Switzerland, Aduno Gruppe, BonusCard AG, Berlinger Group, Sanitas Insurance, among others. Kamales is a Teaching Fellow and Chairperson of the MBA Advisory Board at Durham University Business School, and she was recently awarded as Top 10 Global Thought Leaders And Influencers In Digital Transformation (Thinkers360).

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek is the CEO and Founder of Women in Voice, the international nonprofit empowering women and gender diversity in voice tech.
Previously a Senior Conversational Experience Designer at Nuance and Principal User Experience Researcher at the University of Arizona, Bajorek has spearheads conversational research and strategy for the world's largest voice digital agency, VERSA. An Alexa Champion, “Top 11 Influencer of Voice” by Voicebot.ai 2019, WeWork Labs Entrepreneur in Residence 2020, “Executive of the Year” Finalist 2019, and Finalist for “The Project Voice Medal for Diversity and Inclusion” and “Voice AI Pioneer of the Year” 2020, Bajorek is a leader in the voice technology field domestically and internationally.

Phoebe Ohayon is a board member of Whoozy Agency and active as Head of Design at Voicebranding.ai. Phoebe helps brands to exploit the power of sound and speech to design the best voice experiences. With her methodology, she helps brands like Pepsico, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and Babylon Health to make knowledgeable data-driven design decisions about their audio and voice identity on conversational touch-points.

Keri Roberts is the Owner of Branding Connection, helping companies and entrepreneurs find what they're great at and amplify it. Her passion and focus lies in branding, content marketing and community building with a speciality in podcasting and voice technology.
She is the podcast creator and host of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things as well as the host of B2B Tech Talk with Ingram Micro and previously was the host of the Inside VOICE podcast. She has interviewed leaders on mindset, technology, cybersecurity and voice technology including executives from Pandora, IBM, NPR, Oracle, Mereceds and the Dale Carnegie Institute.
She was featured as a thought leader in media and advertising in Forbes in 2019 and featured as an expert in Just AI Global's blog on why brands need a voice strategy as well as an expert in branding and voice in Soundhound's Voice Guide.

Carla specializes in innovations around language assistants, such as the Google Assistant and Alexa from Amazon. As a consultant she helps companies to develop strategies and concepts and to implement them. In 2018, she founded Smartvoices B.V. and Voicedomein.com and has been a managing partner of both companies ever since. Carla is also co-founder of Women in Voice NL and member of the DDMA Voice Expert Group. She has experience as a senior marketing and communications manager and was Senior Marketing Manager in the central management of the insurance company Achmea from 2015 to 2019. Carla G.M. Verwijmeren obtained her Master in Marketing Strategy at the University of Groningen in 2018 and wrote her dissertation on 'Conversational Commerce'.

Sharmistha Chatterjee is a Data Science Evangelist with vast professional experience in the field of Machine Learning and Cloud applications. She is currently working as a Senior Manager of Data Sciences at Publicis Sapient where she leads the digital transformation of clients across industry verticals ranging from Media, Travel and Hospitality, Advertising, IOT, and Telecom. She has proven experience in doing AI research and implementing scalable AI solutions for enterprises. In this process, she tries to bridge the gap between theory and practice. She is an active blogger (hackernoon, datasciencecentral, techairesearch.com) and an international speaker at various tech conferences. She is also a Google Developer Expert in the field of Machine Learning and Hackernoon Tech award winner for 2020. She enjoys mentoring and, teaching others helping them to learn and grow.

Sarandeep Kaur is the Conversational AI Manager and Chapter Founder- Women in Voice- India. Sarandeep is responsible for setting up the global product and platform for Conversational AI at Novo Nordisk from ground up. She is work with teams across the globe for designing and building chatbots/voicebots for employees, patients and healthcare practitioners.

Shyamala Prayaga, Product Owner Digital Assistant at Ford Motor Company. Shyamala is a UX evangelist turned product owner with experience designing for mobile, web, desktop, and voice-based interfaces.
At Ford, she is the product owner for the Autonomous Digital Assistant. She leads the company-wide Ford's Autonomous Digital Assistant innovation for Voice and Chatbots by owning and executing the roadmap and overall vision.

Mythili holds an MA in economics from the prestigious school of Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi and is also an alumnus of Presidency College, University of Calcutta. She is an analytics leader with more than 14+ years of experience in various areas of Analytics and data science including risk management, marketing analytics, Infrastructure services and AI. She has diverse experience in the area of Modelling across various banking products like credit cards, debit cards, personal loans, wholesale mortgage loans and secured installment loans and has worked across geographies like UK, USA, Canada, Latin America, Middle East and Asia. In addition to having credit risk modelling knowledge, she is also experienced in Basel II, strategies for effective cross selling and new launch of consumer banking products. She has an all-round experience in analytics as well as client handling activities especially in managing multiple projects simultaneously and business development activities. She is proficient in statistical and machine learning techniques using structured and unstructured data and has demonstrated ability to conceptualize new solutions and offerings leading teams to deliver values across new functions/domains. She has been the pioneer in building advanced analytics solutions for the Infrastructure services domain in Accenture and has received 3 patents for the solutions/products along with 1 pending patent that has been filed. She has authored and presented research papers in international conferences and is also an active contributor of the ‘Towards Data science publication in medium. She is a data science and AI speaker and with experiences in events like GASP 2020 and WiDS. She is also the recipient of 3AI ‘Women in AI and Analytics’ award in 2020. Mythili is currently the ‘Vice President’ at Accenture Innovation Centre for Analytics.

Utsav is a dynamic and highly accomplished strategy leader, executive partner and business owner with a career track in enabling various companies in different verticals to enhance their AI/ML initiatives. At Shaip, Utsav Shah is responsible for growing and supporting companies willing to solve the most demanding AI challenges in the Middle East, APAC and Europe region. He is a finance professional turned entrepreneur and a strong believer in technology and data. He has broad experience of leading and expanding teams, partnerships, business models, go to market, etc. He is also a member of AI standardisation Committee at Niti Aayog. He is a regular speaker at various forums and events.
He is a chartered accountant and a commerce graduate. He was working with Deloitte before joining Shaip.

Bassem is a Dreamer and a passionate Android developer with embedded system background. He is the Founder of RafiQ, which is an Android App that allows you to give Arabic voice commands to you Android smartphone.
RafiQ is a virtual assistant Android application that can understand Arabic voice commands in user’s local dialect.
RafiQ can do two type of things:
1- Phone control like phone calls, setting alarms, send SMSs, ...etc.
2- Services like Book a taxi, order food, book flight ticket, doctor reservation, ...etc.
Achievements:
- RafiQ was nominated for the best Arabic assistive technology award in Seed stars, 2018.
- RafiQ won the Second place in Unbound Bahrain Face-off pitch competition, 2018.
- RafiQ won the Third place in Falling Walls Lab Egypt, 2017.
- RafiQ won the First place in Mobile Application launch pad by Google in Cario, Egypt, 2017.
- RafiQ was one of the selected ten finalists in ArabNet conference in Beirut, Lebanon, 2017.

Charlie is a robot interaction designer, who started as a game developer and then spent almost two decades as a travelling magician, copywriter and high tech performer. (A strange fragment of his career is winning Sweden’s Got Talent). He has created and produced award-winning shows featuring robots and worked very closely with the Furhat social robots and conversational platform. These robots were put on stage in front of thousands of people around the world, collecting very unique knowledge and insight in how to create engaging and inspiring interactions with robots.

Hans van Dam is co-founder and Dean of the Conversation Design Institute, world’s leading training and certification institute for conversation designers. The Conversation Design Institute works with brands like Walmart, JP Morgan, Google, ABN AMRO, and many others, to make their AI Assistants more human-centric, helpful, and natural. Hans van Dam lectures at multiple universities (VU, University of Nijmegen, Goldsmiths), and speaks often at conferences around the world.

Rami is an author, executive coach, proud geek futurist, cross-industry innovation and lean exponential business models advisor, investor and executive. When appointed as senior vice president and chief innovation officer at Jordan Ahli Bank he became the first chief innovation officer to be approved by the central bank of Jordan for such a role, as CEO of Ahli FinTech he co-founded the 1st Bank fully owned financial technologies company and fintech accelerator in the middle east, and co-founded “AnaMeen” the First Artificial Intellignce and Blockchain-based customer identity verification platform (eKYC-as-a-service) and verified digital identity app in the Arab world.
Rami is an Innovation X speaker at NASA's cross-industry innovation summit, a mentor at 500 Startups, Unreasonable Future, and Startupbootcamp fintech, chairman at Arcoten, Octonius.com, member of the board at Al Raed Arabi School, and member of the advisory board of Think Barter Network, Fintech Galaxy, Roybi AI-Powered Robots, and WAKE International in San Francisco.
Rami founded his 1st startup at the age of 19, he holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Jordan, and completed the Venture Capital Executive Program at HAAS UC Berkeley, and “The Leading for the future”, and “The Leading, Organizing for Action” Executive Programs at Harvard Kennedy School, and the Senior Executive Education Program at UC San Diego. Rami is a passionate advocate of the Lean Startup movement and is a regular judge, mentor & keynote speaker at the region's main innovation, entrepreneurship & technology events. He designed and produced a number of events and interventions in this space including the THINKLEAN speaker series, LeanStartupProgram, BackToStartupBasics, and his popular innovation/futurist talks titled: The future of banking and banks, The future of telecom, The future of retail, The future of corporates, The Future of ....

Mukul Devichand is the Executive Editor of Voice + AI for the BBC. He is responsible for developing and running a broad BBC offer on newly emerging Voice AI platforms, including both discovery of all BBC services and developing what the broadcaster offers on AI platforms in genres from news to children’s content. Part of this involves creating the BBC's own AI Assistant capability, 'Beeb', and running new teams that pair producers with software engineers to set a direction for public service media in the era of AI Assistants. Mukul is also part of the senior team of BBC Sounds, the BBC’s digital audio offer.
His background is in BBC production and journalism, with a 15-year career as an investigative programme maker and then an editor for BBC News and World Service. He founded and ran several of the BBC’s main digital journalism units, such as the BBC Trending unit, the world’s “bureau on the internet

Dr. Mohammed Khursheed Akhtar is working as a Senior Strategic Advisor & Data Scientist at Research and Studies Unit of Strategic Center to Kingdom Vision Realization of King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under Kingdom Vision 2030.
Dr. Akhtar has more than 30 years’ experience in the field of Teaching, Research, Consulting and IT Business Development. He has 2 PhDs, one from Atlantic International University, Hawaii, USA in 2004-2007 in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and another from Singhania University Rajasthan, India in 2011-2015 in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). He has Master Degree in Applied Mathematics with Honors. He has diploma in Islamic Finance and Insurance.

Dr. Mazin Gadir is also a Director of Client Relationships, Bid Management and Partnerships at IQVIA Payer Provider Government Group and an External Advisor for healthcare government ministries and authorities with responsibility for Health strategy development, implementation, execution and Transformation. He Accumulated over 20 years of Experience in Digital Health Innovation, Health Informatics workflow optimization, eHealth Regulatory Framework and Compliance, Health Information Systems/Health Information Exchange, Digital Maturity and Accreditation according to International Standards, Project and Change Management experience in Healthcare IT Transformation Programs
Prior to joining, Dr Mazin was a Senior Consultant at Dubai Health Authority, Organizational Transformation Office. Dr Mazin Gadir also worked in Healthcare Transformation Strategy and Digital Health Innovation at several companies, including PriceWaterhouse Coopers PwC, Abu Dhabi Healthcare Services Co. SEHA and Cerner Limited accumulating 19 years of experience in the field of Healthcare, innovation and transformation. Notable is his 19 years as a management consultant his depth of experience covered many global organizations in the UK, France, UAE, KSA, GCC, Australia, India and the USA.
Dr Mazin Gadir received his PhD in Quantum Electronics and Nanotechnology in Medical Diagnostics from The University of Leeds in the UK in 2005. He also obtained his MSc in Management and Business Administration and BEng in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the same university.

Herbert is a versatile and highly accomplished CIO/CDO level executive, executive partner and business owner with a career track in enabling companies to be successful in their digitization and digital transformation ambitions while applying a holistic approach from vision, strategy, operating model, organization, processes to identifying the most relevant, innovative technologies as appropriate for the respective industry.
Herbert’s professional career over the past +25 years is with landmark name corporations across various industries where he had the opportunity of being instrumental in significant transformation and optimization initiatives with global footprint and scope. Throughout his career, Herbert established himself as an innovator, achiever and thought leader across the “build”, “run” and the “transform” spectrum of IT and the business. Herbert holds an MSc as well as an Executive MBA and has an MIT executive program in progress at this stage of his career

Rana Gujral is an entrepreneur, speaker, investor, and CEO at Behavioral Signals, an emotion AI and behavioral recognition software company. In 2014, Rana founded TiZE, a cloud software for specialty chemicals, and held the role of CEO until his exit when TiZE was acquired by Alchemy. He has been awarded the ‘Entrepreneur of the Month’ by CIO Magazine, the ‘US-China Pioneer’ Award by IEIE, and listed in "Top 10 Entrepreneurs to follow in 2017" by Huffington Post. Due to his notable thought-leadership in the voice-first community, spearheading digital transformation in the behavioral analysis space, he is recognized in Inc. Magazine as an “AI Entrepreneur to Watch”. His writing can be found in publications such as Inc., TechCrunch, and Forbes.

Mostafa Seif is a software team lead -Vice President at EFG-Hermes, the leading financial service institution on middle east.
He has 11 years of experience on software development, eight of them on financial industry. he leads a very successful projects on different financial areas like stock market brokerage and consumer financing.
Mostafa responsible for leading data science projects inside EFG-Hermes and he made the kickoff AI and data science projects through a successful project on consumer financing.
The latest data science projects Mostafa finalized it was related to credit scoring and client delinquent behavior.
Mostafa finalized his master’s degree in 2018 and his thesis was about how to predict stock market trend by combining the stock market price with stock market tweets and make sentiment analysis to find the stock market trend.
Mostafa published his paper on Springer under title of “Stock Market real time recommender model using Apache spark framework” in 2017.
He enrolled now on PhD program on “Arab Academy for science, technology and maritime transport” and he focused on how to use data science technologies in consumer financing.

Experienced Head with a demonstrated history of working in the health wellness and fitness industry. Skilled in EHR development and Implementation ( 4 EHR systems), Performance Improvement, Training, Change Management, Applying FMEA Methodology, Manage teams, Inspire and influence clinicians and other healthcare providers, Technical Support, Big Data analysis, and Strong research professional.
Health Informatics Specialization - Johns Hopkins University
Health Informatics and Technology in Decision Making - Doane University
Clinical Documentation Improvement-CDI - The Coding Company Limited
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification - Six Sigma Global Institute
Leading Change in Health Informatics - Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor's degree in Nursing.

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With a progressive international banking career spanning over 20 years, Neale has carved out a highly versatile leadership position in Digital Financial Services. Currently holding the position of Digital CTO with the Apex Group he is charged with strategy, delivery, and management of a new digital-first Challenger bank for corporates and funds / institutional investors, going live in Q1 2021.
An accomplished Senior Director of Complex Change Programmes, Product / Business Strategy and Software Engineering, his portfolio of delivery includes modular First Platforms with real-time Big-Data Analytics, AI/ML and operational Robotics, Cloud first architecture and Blockchain DLT capabilities.
A collaborative, customer-centric and complexity aware leader he has driven innovation and alignment of business & technology strategies through Hybrid Digital Transformation at numerous FinServ organisations; operating across Tier 1 Investment Banking, Fund / Asset Management, Private Banking, Commercial and Retail Banking organisations including FinTech / RegTech, Digital Start-ups and established Corporate firms.
Working extensively with C Suite Executives, Board NEDs and Chairs as an advisor and transformational leader, he is highly cognizant of the critical cultural impact that is at the heart of evolving organisations into Digitally capable, Data focussed businesses, and to develop them as socially responsible gateways into the rapidly competitive Neo Digital landscape.

Dr. Osama is a medical doctor, management consultant and the CEO of TachyHealth, a leading healthcare artificial intelligence startup focusing on Middle East and Africa, embracing AI and data science in solving healthcare problems on a scale. Dr. Osama worked before with Ernst and Young and IQVIA.

Mahmoud Daif holds a PhD in Distributed Computing from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He has research interest in semantics systems, machine learning, health informatics and web application security. He is the pioneer for Semantic Web Application Firewall (SWAF) in cooperation with DTS Inc Japan in 2010. He contributed in agent cites project, a European funded research and development project for agent systems. He initiated SAGE (Scalable fault tolerant Agent Grooming Environment) project and proposed the concept of decentralized multi agent systems SAGE back in 2002. He has more than 100 international publications including a book on security in sensors. He has been awarded a number of national and international awards such the Best Researcher Award of the year 2011 by NUST, PSF/COMSTECH best researcher of the year 2005 and Star Laureate award 2004.

Dr Hafiz Farooq Ahmad is an Associate Professor at the College of Computer Sciences and Information Technology (CCSIT), King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia. He holds a PhD in Distributed Computing from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He has research interest in semantics systems, machine learning, health informatics and web application security. He is the pioneer for Semantic Web Application Firewall (SWAF) in cooperation with DTS Inc Japan in 2010. He contributed in agent cites project, a European funded research and development project for agent systems. He initiated SAGE (Scalable fault tolerant Agent Grooming Environment) project and proposed the concept of decentralized multi agent systems SAGE back in 2002. He has more than 100 international publications including a book on security in sensors. He has been awarded a number of national and international awards such the Best Researcher Award of the year 2011 by NUST, PSF/COMSTECH best researcher of the year 2005 and Star Laureate award 2004.

Damodaran Raman had started his career as Space(Rocket) Scientist and served 14 years in Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO). He is an expert in Launch Vehicle and Satellite component design and control system programming. His extensive work helped ISRO in the indigenisation of various elements like Bimetallic transition joint & Gas Dynamical Ignitor for Cryogenic etc.,
Damodaran Raman’s second stint was in IBM for around 14 years and performed various key roles. He performed client facing roles in North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Middle East in the capacity of Project & Account Executive. He is an SME and Consultant in Telco, Payments, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Cloud and Microservices. He also played key roles in many of the organisational initiatives like Base Account Growth to drive grass root innovation, Inside Track 2017 – Global hackathon with around 8500 ideas across 50 countries, Cost Take out, Eminence and Excellence Program across Global Business Services. He performed the role of Microservices Leader to help clients towards digital modernisation, develop capability and eminence and to increase Microservices foot print as part of their strategy. He is also an expert instructor in conducting Microservices Architecture courses for architects and senior consultants across various countries (India, Philippines, Thailand & Chile) and he trained around 2000+ professionals.
Damodaran Raman joined Bayan Payments Ltd., a Saudi Arabian Fintech as Chief Technology & Innovation Officer from March 2019. The company’s vision is to take digital payments to the next level in Saudi Arabia, followed by global expansion. He was awarded as “TOP 50 TECH LEADER AWARD” by Intercon Global recently(October 2019) and “SUPER HERO CIO AWARD 2020(Global)” & “TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT AWARD 2020 (MEA)” by Enterprise IT World.

Frederik Bisbjerg (born 1973 in Denmark) is a highly respected international business developer with expertise in digital transformation and business model innovation. His proven and numerous successes with worldwide business transformations comes from his belief in enabling and empowering people to execute on the change strategies He is Executive Director, Digitization at Daman National Health Insurance company, one of the largest insurers in the GCC countries, where he oversees the company’s digital transformation initiatives, building a ‘digital-first’ flexible and resilient insurance company Besides Daman, he holds the position as Head of MENA and Digital Transformation specialist with the Digital Insurer, the world’s largest knowledge base on digital insurance with more than 35,000 active members. With the Digital Insurer, he is part of the World’s first mini-MBA in Digital Insurance, where he lecturers in the topics of Strategy and Transformation, Big Data and Best Practice Tech Architectures Based in the Middle East since 2013, he’s a sought-after keynote speaker and expert for local and international business innovation and development, working with companies seeking to leverage digital opportunities Frederik has strong business acumen and is recognized for his ability to build businesses and create new, often previously unseen, alliances between business partners for mutual benefits; a skill refined and honed through many years of working internationally for a toptier management consulting firm He’s and author on Insurance _Next, a practical guide on how to transform an incumbent insurer to a flexible, agile and resilient insurance company, prepared for the New Normal following the COIVD-19 outbreak

Abdullah Saleem, the Group Chief Information Officer at Omni Hospital. Abdulla has almost 25+ years of experience in Healthcare IT domain. He is responsible for developing leadership excellence, creating clinical, business transformation, and managing technology based strategic growth. He has successfully provided the IT transformation support to this chain’s various hospital leadership teams on benchmark-based cost containment, novel revenue growth and databased revenue leak avoidance strategies, leading to more than doubling of unit EBITDAs within six months.
Prior to joining to Omni, he was working with Ohum Health Care Solution Pvt Ltd whereby he was heading the end to end enterprise solution delivery and deployment for public & private sectors for India, USA, Europe & Gulf countries.