Hackathon 2014 – Mentors

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

  • Michael Paik, Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, New York University Abu Dhabi
  • Fareeha Amjad, Sofware Engineer, CTED, New York University Abu Dhabi
  • Saad Harous, Professor, College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University
  • Ibrahim AlSuwaidi, cofounder, Liwa Ventures LLC and the lead technology partner
  • Eyad Salamin, Enterprise Architect at C4 Advanced Solutions

Canada

  • Alexandre Spaeth, CTO & PhD, E-180 & École Polytechnique de Montréal

France

  • Serge Humpich, Development Engineer – Security Specialist
  • Guillaume Leseur,  Software Architect,Work4
  • Irene Kapusta, Senior Strategy Consultant & Project Manager

Jordan

  • Samer Atiani, Co-Founder & CTO, liwwa

Lebanon

  • Ghady Rayess, Co-Founder & Managing Director, FOO
  • Mackram Raydan, CTO, Seeqnce Alice

Libya

  • Maraim Masoud, Technical Entrepreneur & Research Assistant, University of Southampton

Palestine

  • Akram Dweikat, Co-Founder & Co-Leader, PALinnO

Qatar

  • Thierry Sans, Assistant Professor,Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
  • Ahmed Ali , Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)

Tunisia

  • Taher Mestiri, General Manager
     I.T.GRAPES & Hadrum

United States

  • Alexandra Qin,  Front-End Developer, Bloglovin
  • Baris Yuksel, Senior Software Engineer, Google
  • Max Stoller,  Analyst, Lerer Ventures
  • Anirudh Koul, Data Scientist, Microsoft
  • Michael Schidlowsky,  Senior Software Engineer, Google
  • Zahra Ashktorab, PhD Student in Information Science: Focus on HCI & Social Computing, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Geoffrey Litt, Student – Major in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Yale University
  • David Hu, Developer Advocate, FourSquare
  • Kenneth Leland, Senior VP of Engineering, Monmouth Telecom
  • Yamil Asusta, Developer Evangelist, SendGrid
  • Stephen Lang, Digital Director, Silkstone

Event Details

Date:
February 14-16, 2014
Arriving on Thursday February 13th and Leaving on Monday February 17th.
Location:
New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Downtown Campus

Contact Us

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