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Guest Speakers

Andy Abbar
Sr. Director, Product & Product Marketing Management
Middle East & Africa, Yahoo!

Reine Abbas
Co-founder and Owner
Wixel Studios, leading Lebanese online gaming company

Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Chairman of the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development

Dr. Khater Abi Habib
Chairman and General Manager, Kafalat

George Akiki
Director of Corporate Affairs
Middle East and Africa, Cisco

Rashid Al Ballaa
CEO of N2Ventures
Holding company for hawwaworld.com, NetAd-vantage, and other digital initiatives

Dr. Mohammad Aloqeely
Director General of IT, Saudi FDA
Chief Advisor for the King Abdullah Initiative for Arabic Content

Essam Al-Zamel
CEO, Remal IT
A Saudi leader in software, online forums, parent company of the popular card game kammelna

Rabea Ataya
CEO, Bayt.com
Largest employment / job search portal in the region

Patrick Attallah
Head of France and Italy, 90:10 Group, Social Media Consultancy

Timothy Bataillie
Head of Business Development, MENA, Turkey, Central  & Eastern Europe, Netlog
Leading Online Youth Community in Europe and the Middle East

Randa Bdeir
Head of Electronic Banking and Business Development, Bank Audi

Russell Buckley
Vice President of Global Alliances, AdMob

JC Butler
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Dubizzle.com, the UAE's leading online classified service

Gian Luca Cioletti
Head of Business Development, EMEA, Forum Nokia

Tarek Dajani
CEO, Cleartag

Muhannad Ebwini
Co-Founder and CEO, The Games Experts (Gate2Play),
former General Manager, OneCard

Mohamed ElSayad
General Manager , MSN Arabia, Maghreb & Pakistan

Jeremy Foster
Marketing Director, Ericsson Middle East

Marc Feed-Finnegan
New Business Development, Google

Wael Ghonim
Head of Marketing - MENA , Google

Ghassan Haddad
Director of Internationalization, Facebook

Georges Harik
Founder, imo.im, Former Director of Googlettes
One of the first 10 employees at Google, led R&D efforts for Gmail, Google Talk etc

Ahmad Humeid
Co-Founder, TootCorp (ikbis, watwet, itoot)

Khaled Jabasini
Founder, E-marketing MENA
Largest advertising network in the MENA, acquired by Jabbar Group

Dr. Abdel Malek Jaber
CEO, Zain Jordan

Maher Kaddoura
Managing Director, Huron Consulting Group

Mostafa Kamel
General Manager, Masrawy.com, Shofha.com

Nour Khrais
Founder and General Manager, Maysalward
Maysalward has 6 years of experience in developing mobile games and VAS

Preethi Mariappan
Creative Director, OgilvyOne

Hassan Mikail
Manager of E-commerce Services, Aramex

Ronaldo Mouchawar
CEO, Souq.com

Fadi Mujahid
General Manager, Gamepower7
Parent company of Arabic Rappelz, a leading online 3-D multiplayer game

Mohamad Nanabhay
Head of Online, Al Jazeera English, Angel investor

Matthias Popiolek
Lead for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Microsoft Online

Bassel Ojjeh
Former SVP, Strategic Data Solutions, Yahoo, Angel investor

Fawzi Rahal
Regional Communications Director, G2 MENA

Rani Saad
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Middle East Venture Partners

Feroz Sanaulla
Regional Director, Middle East, Turkey and Africa, Intel Capital

Afif Toukan
CEO, Wizards Productions

Samih Toukan
CEO of Jabbar Group, Founder and former CEO, Maktoob.com
Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo in Aug 09, Jabbar Group includes ikoo, souq.com, cashu.com and tahadi.com

Yousef Tuqan
CEO, FlipMedia
One of the region's largest online advertising agencies

Scott Weeman
General Manager of Getmo
a leading mobile content and VAS provider