AGENDA

8:00 - 9:00 am | Registration & Coffee - hosted by Thunders

9:00 - 9:15 am | Welcome Note

9:15 - 9:45 am | The Conviction Gap: How Founders and Investors See the Same Company Differently

  • Karim Jouini, Founder & CEO at Thunders

  • Namek Zoubi, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Silicon Badia

  • Hashem Abdou, Co-Founder & CEO at Oasys

  • Nicholas Rouhanna, Chairman & CEO at IM Fnding

  • Sami Yabroudi, Founder & Principal at Flatiron Data

9:45 - 10:15 am | From Wedge to Moat: How Startups Earn the Right to Last

  • Anis Bennaceur, Co-Founder and CEO at Attention

  • Tressia Hobeika, Co-Founder & CPE at Stepful

  • Ben Wilde, Head of Innovation at Georgian

  • Katy Nelson, Magnetar Capital

  • Allia Mohamed, Founder & CEO at Openigloo

10:15 - 11:00 am | Networking Break - hosted by Pebble & Suportful

11:00 - 11:30 am | The Road to Replit: A Fireside with Co-Founder Haya Odeh

  • Haya Odeh, Co-Founder & VP of Design at Replit

  • Reem Goussous, Co-Founder of Viaka (moderator)

11:30 - 12:00 pm | Capital Has Left the Building: Where Is Conviction Headed Next?

  • Amjad Ahmad, Managing Partner at 500 Global

  • Mazin Al Zaidi, GP at STV

  • Rana Al-Hallaq, VP at Pfizer Ventures

  • Omar Darwazeh, MD & GP at AAF Mgmt.

  • Omar J. Sati, Managing Partner at DASH Ventures

12:00 - 1:00 pm | Lunch & Networking

1:00 - 1:30 pm | Scale It Till You Make It (even in a Completely Different Market)

  • Nour Taher, Founder & CEO at Intella

  • Khaled Kteily, Founder & CEO at Legacy

  • Firas Raouf, Co-Founder & GP, Companyon VC

  • Tamim Bazzi, Partner at Cooley

  • Sara Rona, MD & Head of EMEA at SVB

1:30 - 2:00 pm | If Compute Is the New Oil, Who Owns the Rig?

  • Hamza Derbas, Co-Founder & CEO at Maven Robotics

  • Samy Bahra, Co-Founder & CEO Bitbison

  • Najeeb Jarrar, Regional Director, Marketing, Middle East & Africa, at Google Dubai

  • Zaid Farekh, Founder at Propeller

  • Waleed Atallah, Founder & CEO at Makora

2:00 - 2:30 pm | When Intelligence Gets Personal: A Fireside with Dinesh Maheshwari, Founding Partner of GROQ

  • Dinesh Maheshwari, Founding Partner of GROQ

  • Lina Isamil, Co-Founder & CEO at Prospera AI (moderator)

2:30 - 3:30 pm | Networking Break - hosted by DMZ

3:30 - 4:00 pm | The Frenemy Economy: When Competition Buys In

  • Dalia Tarabay, VP of Corporate Strategi at IBM

  • Basel Fakhoury, Co-Founder & CEO, User Interviews

  • Josef Najm, Principal Investor at TR Ventures

  • Samir Addamine, Co-Founder & CEO at Heron

  • Dima Ayyash, Co-Founder & CEO of Pebble

4:00 - 4:30 pm | Bulls, Bears, and Billion-Dollar Bets: Private Conviction vs. Public Judgment

  • Zach Finkelstein, Managing Partner at Class 5 Global

  • Bradly Fishman, VP at Manhattan Ventures Partners

  • Abbas (Eddy) Zuaiter, Chairman & CIO at 33 Capital Management LLC

  • Evan Leitner, Partner at Cooley

  • Jessica Al-Hussaini, Principal at Globivest

4:30 - 4:45 pm | Rapid Fireside Chat with Ayah Bdeir, CEO of Current AI

4:45 - 5:00 pm | The Venture Reset: What the Data Is Telling Us - Presentation by Carta

5:00 - 7:00 pm | Can I Buy You A Drink? Hosted by Cooley