Expand North Star 2023 | Dubai World Trade Centre | 14 October 2023 | Dubai Harbour, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Across four days will present some of the world’s best startups from over 100 countries, welcome 1000 VCs to raise funds and scout for their portfolio, and deliver unprecedented content program debating the big stories of 2023 including funding winter or flash storm & tsunami of generative Ai startups, and 50+ unicorn founders on stage give their opinions.

2022 Past Speakers

H.E Omar Sultan Al Olama
Minister Of State For Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy And Remote Work Applications, Government Of UAE

Dr. Tian Qi
Chief AI Scientist, Huawei Cloud

Dr. Brian Gu
Vice Chairman & President, Xpeng

Angelika Gifford
VP EMEA, Meta

Dr. Ray O. Johnson
CEO, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

Eugene Kaspersky
Co-Founder & CEO, Kaspersky

Helmut Reisinger
CEO EMEA & LATAM, Palo Alto Networks

Sebastien Borget
Co-Founder & COO, The Sandbox

Dr.Guy Diedrich
Global Innovation Officer & SVP, CISCO Systems Inc.

Cevat Yerli
Former Crytek CEO, Chairman & CEO,TMRW Foundation

Dimitrios Dosis
President, EEMEA, Mastercard

Paul Misener
VP Global Innovation Policy And Communications, Amazon

H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al-Kuwaiti
Head Of Cyber Security United Arab Emirates Government, United Arab Emirates Government

Mike Butcher
Editor-At-Large, TechCrunch

Divya Gokulnath
Co- Founder, BYJU’S

H.E. Raja Al Mazrouei
EVP, DIFC Fintech Hive

Kian Mossanen
CIO, Siemens Energy

Suzanne Kianpour
Senior Journalist & Presenter, BBC’s ‘Out Of The Shadows’

Artur Sychov
Founder & CEO, Somnium Space

Dr. Amr Talaat
Minister CIT, Ministry Of Communications And Information Technology (MCIT), Egypt

H.E. Dr. Maryam Ketait
Emarati Mental Health Specialist

Rashid Abdullah Al Ghurair
Founder, CAFU

Stefanie Palomino
CPO & GM, Room 3D, A @TMRW Foundation Company

Natalya Makarochkina
SVP, International Secure Power, Schneider Electric

H.E. Mariam Rashid Bin Al Shaikh
Director, Sharjah Business Women Council

H.E. Najla Ahmed Al-Midfa
CEO, Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center, Sheraa

H.E. Mohamed Al Hammadi
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC)

Alexey Lapirov
Chief Executive Officer, Microavia

Mohammed Al Balooshi
FinTech Sector Head, DIFC

H.E. Dr. Abdulla Al Karam
Director General, Knowledge & Human Development Authority (KHDA)

Moayad Abdullah Al-Fallaj
CEO & Co-Founder, RASAN / Tameeni

Safder Nazir
SVP – Digital Industries, Huawei Middle East

Abdelaziz Almaazmi

Hosni Zaouali
AdaptiKa & Lecturer, Stanford University, CEO Of Tech

Dr. Cédric Jeannot
CEO, Be Mobile Africa

Nayef Alabdulwahed
Director, Regulatory Policy Development, Capital Market Authority

Yaqoob Salem Al Zaabi
Head Of Trends And Innovation, Knowledge & Impact Sector, Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority

Mahankali Srinivas Rao
CEO, T-Hub Foundation (IN)

Divya gokulnath
Co-Founder, Oxford Analytica

Renier Lemmens
Group CEO, Geidea

Alex Nicholls
Director Of Expansion, AstroLabs

Mayowa Adegoke
Award Winning TV Show Host And International Journalist - Leading African Media Personality

SVORA
Performer, Sensorium XR

Suhail Sameer
CEO, BharatPe

Orkhan Taghiyev
Head Of Partner Affairs And Communications, Azerbaijan State Agency For Public Service And Social Innovations

Abdallah Abu-Sheikh
CEO, RIZEK & Barq EV

Soham Shah
CEO And Managing Director, Selfdrive.Ae

Mostafa Zafer
Vice President, IBM Cloud And Cognitive Software , IBM

Belal Jassoma
Head Of Business Development Of The Free Zone, DMCC

Syed Afzal
Software Architect, Digital Dubai Authority

KRC Murty
SVP - Head Of RTB And PMO, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Sam Hamilton
Creative Director, Decentraland

Pascal Murasira
MD East Africa, Norrsken

Farooq Arshed
Technical Lead, Digital Dubai Authority

Sumeet Chopra
Software Engineer, Digital Dubai Authority

Franklin Antony
Solutions Architect, Digital Dubai Authority

Marc Garcia
Core Developer For Pandas, Release Manager For Pandas 1.5.0, VP Infrastructure, NumFOCUS

Mohammed Fazalullah Qudrath
Senior Developer Advocate MENA, Amazon Web Services

Khawar Habib
Lead Mobile Engineer, Digital Dubai Authority

David Foy
Head Of Sector Development - Digital Economy At Luxinnovation GIE, Government Of Luxembourg

Eleni Giokos
Anchor & Correspondent, CNN

Dan Murphy
Anchor & Correspondent, CNBC

Kelly Forbes
Executive Director, AI Asia Pacific Institute

Maya Bridgman
Gold Ambassador CodersHq, Ministry Of Artificial Intelligence

Martina Fuchs
Senior Business Correspondent

Dr. Mame Aby Seye
Délégation Générale À L’entreprenariat Rapide Des Femmes Et Des Jeunes, Senegal

Aby Sam Thomas
Editor In Chief, Entrepreneur Middle East (AE)

Aya Zaghnin
Investment Associate, Delphos International; Investment Advisor, GIZ, Early Stage Investor In Africa

Yasmin Al Enazi
COO, Women In AI

David Lanre Messan
Founder And CEO, FirstFounders Inc.

Beatrice Cornacchia
SVP - Marketing & Comms EEMEA, Mastercard

Lochan Sim
Head Of Product Offering, Checkout ,Payoneer

Kola Oyeneyin
Partner And Director, Volition Capital

Brahim Ouamane
Advisor Of The General Director, Agence De Développement Du Digital, ADD

Jessica Walker
Moderator & CMO, Fluid Finance

Soliman Aldukhil
Group VP, Tap Payments

Charles Shyaka
General Manager, 250 Startups

Stephane Reverre
Founder, Sun Zu Lab

Nameer Khan
Founder, MENA Fintech Association

Anil Marc Sethi
CEO, Creed & Bear

Karthik Akula
Regional HeadRegional - Middle East, Freshworks (IN)