Arvind Ravishunkar is the Founder and CEO of Lenz AI Innovation Studio, a Silicon Valley–based venture studio pioneering Agentic AI systems for strategy and innovation. Through its flagship platform ASTRA, Lenz is building intelligent “strategy twins” that help enterprises move from insight to execution with unprecedented speed and clarity. Before founding Lenz, Arvind spent over 15 years driving innovation and growth strategies for global enterprises. At Wipro, he built and led the Emerging Technologies Think Tank, the GenAI Startup Accelerator, and multiple innovation programs that bridged frontier technologies with real-world business impact. Educated at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Arvind combines human-centered design, systems thinking, and data-driven strategy in his work. His current focus is on bridging innovation ecosystems across Silicon Valley, Dubai, and Bangalore—creating a global corridor where AI, design, and entrepreneurship intersect to shape the next generation of business and technology.

Dr. Shadab Khan is a Senior Scientist at ADIA Lab, where he leads the computational sciences and AI research in Health Science. Previously, he was the SVP of AI and Applied Sciences at M42, where his team of scientists and engineers developed AI models such as Med42 (LLM), Gene42 (Genomics LLM), AIRIS-TB (Imaging AI), amonth others. Before M42, he was a Healthcare AI researcher at Inception (G42) in UAE. At Inception, Dr. Khan was a founding faculty member at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of AI. Prior to moving to UAE, Dr. Khan was a Fellow in Radiology at Harvard Med and Boston Children’s Hospital. He holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College, and Master’s in Public Health (MPH) from Harvard University.

Wen Sang is the Co-Founder and COO of Genspark.ai, a Palo Alto-based AI company building agents for knowledge workers, which reached $50M in ARR within 5 months of launching, and became a unicorn within 7 months of launching. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Smarking Inc., a Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures-backed SaaS company for parking analytics, which was acquired by JustPark in 2022. Wen holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and has received industry recognition for both technical innovation and entrepreneurial leadership.

John R. Woodward is head of the School of Mathematics and Computer Science at Heriot Watt University, Dubai. His expertise in AI and machine learning and optimization techniques. He holds a BSc in Theoretical Physics, MSc in Cognitive Science, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He has worked on application domains including combinatorial optimization problems, airport scheduling, and automatically fixing software bugs. He regularly contributes to The Conversation, BBC, podcasts & other public engagement activities. He has 100+ peer-reviewed publications and has given over 100 presentations at international conferences and as an invited speaker at international universities. He has worked on four continents and has been employed in industrial, military, educational and academic settings, by organizations as diverse as EDS, CERN and RAF and 5 UK Universities.

Miku Jha is a distinguished AI technologist and executive leader known for translating breakthrough innovations into enterprise-scale outcomes. At ServiceNow, she founded and leads the Applied AI Forward-Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization — where AI meets execution. Her team bridges the gap from proof-of-concept to production, driving co-innovation on Agentic AI solutions that deliver measurable business impact and shape ServiceNow’s AI-native product flywheel. Previously at Google Cloud, Miku led Global AI/ML Partner Engineering, pioneering the Agent2Agent (A2A) interoperability protocol and launching an AI Agent Marketplace with 1,000+ solutions. A serial entrepreneur and Forbes honoree, she has led three successful startup exits and continues to mentor emerging AI talent and women in STEM.

This year alone, she’s reached over 2.5 million people with her mission to reconnect our workplaces and world through empathy. Her charming, and utterly contagious, influence is growing daily with an organic audience that now reaches over 60,000 people. Currently ranked the #1 Workplace Wellbeing Leader in Malaysia and the #12 Female Influencer on LinkedIn, in the country, her impact on the world’s largest brands is rising – genuinely, consistently and ethically. Mimi is the world’s leading Empathy Advocate & Influencer, a full-time Keynote Speaker, and an internationally Bestselling Author of 3 books. She’s recently shared stages with Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Steven Bartlett, and appeared on the BBC live to 85 million viewers as the leading voice in Listening-Led Leadership and the $9 trillion empathy gap. As one client put it, “Mimi is entirely in a league of her own.”

Fadi Ghandour is the Executive Chairman of Wamda Group, a platform that invests, nurtures and builds entrepreneurship eco-systems across the Middle East and North Africa. Mr. Ghandour is also the Founder of Aramex, one of the leading global logistics companies. Mr. Ghandour spent the first 30 years of his work life as CEO of Aramex, building the company, making it the leading emerging market logistics company, employing over 15,000 people working in over 250 offices in 90 countries. He took the company public twice, first on Nasdaq making it the first company from the Arab world to do so, then on Dubai Financial market. He continues to be active on the Aramex board. Mr. Ghandour is a serial entrepreneur. In his career, he was involved with founding, investing and launching tens of companies and non-profits, ranging from digital tech, hospitality, fitness & wellness. Passionate about impact and social entrepreneurship, Mr. Ghandour founded and chairs Ruwwad for Development, a private sector led community empowerment platform that helps marginalized communities, across several countries in the MENA region, overcome marginalization through activism, civic engagement, education and financial inclusion. Mr. Ghandour also served and continues to serve on several global and regional boards of companies, education institutions and non-profits.

Dany Farha is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of BECO Capital. Founded in 2012, BECO Capital is a Gulf-focused institutional venture capital firm, managing +$820M in AUM across five funds. The firm is a full-stack venture platform investing from inception to growth and has two $1B+ exits in its track record. With 30 years of experience in investing and entrepreneurship, Dany has successfully founded and exited several ventures. Since establishing BECO, he has led nearly 30 investments, including early backing of Kitopi, Property Finder, and Careem, supporting them on their journeys to becoming landmarks in the regional VC ecosystem.

Tamara Pupic holds the position of Managing Editor of Entrepreneur Middle East magazine, a division of Dubai-based BNC Publishing officially licensed by the US- based publication Entrepreneur. She is a seasoned journalist and legal expert with a deep passion for exploring the intersection between law, technology, and finance. With a master’s degree in international law and economics (M.I.L.E.) from the World Trade Institute in Bern (Switzerland) and more than a decades’ long experience in business journalism in the UAE, Tamara Pupic focuses on incisive analysis and engaging storytelling around complex regulatory issues, business growth, and emerging technologies.

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