Judges

Kamel Al Asmar,  Founder, Nakhwah Head of Communications & Community Engagement, Nakhweh, Wamda

Nizar Habash, Associate Professor of Computer Science, NYUAD

Caroline Faraj, CNN’s Vice President/Arabic Services, CNN

Toby Harward, UNHCR’s head Office in UAE, UNCHR

Saeed Al Nofeli, Incubator Manager, Sheraa

Rana Tomaira, Research Scientist/ Lecturer of Social Science (Social Research and Public Policy), NYUAD

Hoda Alkhzaimi, Director, Center for Cyber Security and Research Assistant Professor, NYU-AD NYUAD

Mark Wood, Engineering Manager in the Bloomberg Mobile Team, Working on the Bloomberg Professional App for iOS and Android. Bloomberg LP

Mohamed Zakariae El Khdime, CEO Vul9

Aamena Alshamsi, Department, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (in collaboration with MIT
and currently part of Khalifa University), Abu Dhabi, UAE

Advising Committee/ Judge

Khalil Ramadi, Co-Director of MIT Hacking Medicine, MIT

Baris Yuksel, Software Engineering Manager and Tech Lead at Google for 8 years and advisor at Little Bridge, Google

Dr. Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Research Scientist at the IBM Research AI Organization,IBM

Susan Malaika, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM

Artemisa Jaramillo, Programme Director in Marketing, Innovation and Technology, Digital at Princess Noura bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh

Munir David Nabti, General Manager, CEO Bootcamp LB, AltCity.me

Taher Mestiri, CEO of HADRUM SA, GM of I.T.GRAPES, World Bank Consultant, IT Systems Architect and Web and Mobile Developer, and Expert Advisor for the Arab League for Education, Culture and Science Organization (ALECSO).