Wamda

Global

Tech hegemony: Friend or foe?

Salwa F. Darraj is a senior consultant at Ernst and Young (EY), where she is the Women’s Network Champion. Darraj is a Member of the...

Technology

U.A.E

Enabling innovation: A blended approach to university education

Education is one of the critical elements of an innovation ecosystem. Here, Professor David Sadler, Provost at the University of Birmingham...

blended learning EdTech

Regional

Tourist VCs and their impact on emerging market ecosystems

There is a rising number of foreign VCs investing in the Middle East. Of the 10 Egyptian startups that raised investment in September, four...

Egypt Investment

Regional

Women cannot have it all...

Julie Nguyen is the founder of Crunchmoms, a professional network based in the UAE for talented, working mothers. There is...

Women empowerment

Regional

Do robots create or destroy jobs?

Eugene Kovalenko is the chief commercial officer of Rozum Robotics, the company behind the first robot cafe in the UAE. When it...

robotics

Regional

Should online retailers pay greater attention to men?

Leith Mathews is the founder and CEO of UAE-based rokpool, an online platform dedicated to men’s personal care products. Safe...

E-commerce

Regional

Should we care about Philosophy of AI in the Mena region?

Aliah Yacoub is an AI philosopher and head of techQualia at Egypt-based Synapse Analytics, a data science and AI company The...

Artificial intelligence AI

Regional

Can data regulation be Mena's competitive advantage?

Khaled Lababidi is vice president and general manager of the Middle East, Africa and Turkey, for InCountry – a data...

Fintech Data regulation

Palestine

What does the future generation of Palestinian startups look like?

Majd Zghyer is the strategy officer at uMake, an entrepreneurship support organisation (ESO) based in Ramallah, Palestine. Last month,...

palestine

Regional

The need for edtech in higher education

Brendan Vyner, is the director of marketing and student recruitment at the University of Wollongong in Dubai. Covid-19 has...

Education EdTech

Regional

Beauty and the online beast: Driving online sales in the Middle East

Nicolas Bruylants is the co-founder and chief visions officer of UAE-based CNNB Solutions, which helps brands to build, operate and scale...

D2C Beauty

Regional

Fintech is poised for consolidation in the Middle East

Mahmoud Hamouda is a strategy and operations consultant at Dell Technologies. He is also the head of Dell for Entrepreneurs in Egypt. In...

Fintech

Egypt

Is a virtual demo day better for pitching?

Karmah El Naggar is the special projects lead at Falak Startups, an accelerator based in Egypt In February 2020, we were quickly...

Falak Startups accelerator

Global

Lessons for Mena: The rise of bus-sharing in Bangladesh

Wes Schwalje is the co-founder of Tahseen Consulting, a boutique consulting, government relations and development firm based in the UAE....

mobility buses

Regional

How we pivoted our startup with grace

Walid Daniel Dib is the co-founder and CEO of hala, a UAE-based insuretech startup Spoiler: There was absolutely no grace...

Pivot Hala

U.A.E

Can Dubai become the capital for next-gen healthtech startups?

Marwan Abdulaziz Janahi is the managing director of Dubai Science Park Medical innovation has surged as the world’s greatest minds...

Dubai healthtech

Regional

Want economic prosperity? Help women become more financially capable

Dina Alnabulsi is a business analyst at Globitel, a Jordan-based telecommunications company Financial exclusion is a universal issue,...

financial inclusion Women empowerment

Palestine

Does Palestine have investment-ready startups?

Majd Zghyer is the strategy officer at uMake, an entrepreneurship support organisation (ESO) based in Ramallah, Palestine. So far this...

palestine

Egypt

What can open banking do for Egypt?

Akram Abdou is the founder of Egypt-based Underlie, an open banking platform offering application programming interfaces (APIs) to...

Open banking

Saudi Arabia

Why Mumzworld is a unique story for the Arab region

The Mumzworld story is a triumph for e-commerce startups and the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Arab region. The journey of the two...

Mumzworld

Global

Tips to bear in mind if you’re expanding to the Middle East

Firas Marafie is the senior partnerships lead at what3words The Middle East: the quick buck, the pot of gold, or is it? With venture...

what3words MENA

Regional

Teachers, technology and tortoises

Nafez Dakkak is the managing director and CEO of the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development. It all seems so...

EdTech Nafez Al Dakkak

Regional

Startup advice: Building an efficient sales engine for a growth-stage startup

Sakshi Tulsian is the co-founder and chief revenue officer (CRO) at India-based POSist Technologies, which offers cloud-based restaurant...

POSist

Regional

An evolving landscape: The state of open banking regulations in Mena

Abdulla Almoayed is the founder and CEO of open banking platform Tarabut Gateway. Here, he discusses how government regulations are shaping...

Fintech Open banking Regulations

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