Young Arab Leaders Mentorship Program 2nd Edition
Date
Dec 13, 2020
YAL Mentors & Startups
CyberHero
Cyber Hero is a formal awareness program, aimed at training users of the potential threats to an organization's information and data, and how to avoid potential risks of losses. Its goals are to lower the organization's attack surface; empower users to take personal responsibility for protecting the organization's information, and to enforce the organization’s policies and procedures of the organization to protect the data.
Ramzi Ben Ouaghram - Cloud and Cognitive Software Technical Leader, IBM MEA
Ramzi helps organizations to transform and innovate with the IBM technologies. Ramzi is a fond technologist with a PhD in AI and strong technical background. Prior to that, Ramzi led the efforts of the C&CS technical teams in France and Europe to help IBM clients adopting the IBM technologies and innovations such as Hybrid Cloud, Data&AI and Automation. Ramzi also engaged with NGO to help reduce the environment footprint of large organizations.
Efate
eFate is a specialized company in managing and collecting e-waste and aims to achieve sustainability, as well as saving the environment by building a link between the e-waste consumers and the recyclers. eFate will support in placing the UAE as a leader in the field of recycling. In a 2019 four-week pilot campaign 1100kg of e-waste was collected, and the 2020 target is to collect and process 100 tons of e-waste.
Bassam Helmy - Area Sales Manager, Infofort UAE & Oman
InfoFort UAE and Oman, the leading Information Management Solutions provider in 20 countries across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. He has over 18 years of experience in the Service Industry and started his MNC/Regional career in 2004. Bassam is a Sales management professional with certificates focused in Leadership and Supervisory Management (CSM) from Florida State University, College of Business – USA and the American University of Beirut (AUB).
Washing Space
Heba Sayed - Head of Marketing, IBM Middle East
Mridul Bhandari is a Developer Advocate at IBM with experience in Specialised Delivery with a demonstrated history of working in Information Technology, Project Management and Non-profit Organizations. Strong Program and Project Management Professional graduate with B.E (Hons) Computer Science from Birla Institute Of Technology and Science, Pilani Dubai. Currently, he is focusing on Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Microservices.
Anam is a Cloud Developer Advocate at IBM, Dubai. She graduated from the American University of Sharjah with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. She has experience in working with Agile Software Development and has worked on multiple Web Development projects using Python (Django framework), PostgreSQL Database, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS, and API Integration. She has a passion for AI, Data Science, Machine Learning, and has many blogs and publications on various Cloud technologies. Fawaz Siddiqi is a Developer Advocate at IBM. He is a graduate from the University of Wollongong in Dubai with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science majoring in Digital Systems Security and is currently pursuing his Masters in Information Technology Management. He has expertise in programming languages such as C++, Java, and Python. He has an interest in gaining insights and information from data and also has an interest in integrating emerging technologies.