Telecom industry association GSMA announced new speakers for its Mobile 360 Series – Middle East and North Africa (MENA) conference on 9-10 October in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
GSMA said the 2-day telecom event has confirmed over 50 speakers, including 15 CEOs and 25 C-Level executives from 17 countries.
Huawei and Ericsson are some of the main sponsors of the telecom conference that aims to create platform for telecom operators and equipment vendors in the MENA region.
The 2017 agenda includes insight and opinion on the key topics impacting the region, such as the Internet of Things, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, 5G, disaster response, social mobile video, e-commerce and digital transformation, amongst others.
New speakers for the event
Bahar Akin, SVP Digital Payments, Garanti Bank
Salvador Anglada, Chief Business Officer, Etisalat
Sherif Hashem, VP Cybersecurity, NTRA Egypt
Haitham Al Kharusi, VP Consumer Unit, Omantel
Yves Gauthier, Director General, Orange Maroc
Shainoor Khoja, Managing Director Roshan Community, Roshan
Zyad Alkhwaiter, GM Regulatory Affairs, STC
Gregg Rowley, VP Corporate Strategy, STC
Alpha Bah, Chief of IT Emergency Preparedness and Response, UN WFP
Jorge Conde, VP Multiplatform, Strategy and Business Development, Southern and Western Europe, Middle East and Africa, Viacom
Ashraf Helal, Commercial Operations Unit Director, Vodafone Egypt
Other confirmed speakers
Ulugbek Yuldashev, Founder, Awok.com
Faisal Al Bannai, Founder and CEO, DarkMatter
Osman Sultan, CEO, Du
Matias Silanpaa, EMEA Director of Growth and Operator Partnerships, Facebook
Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA
Nasser Kettani, CTO Middle East and Africa, Microsoft
Atef Helmy, Senior Advisor, Board of Directors, Orange Middle East and Africa
Wesam Lootah, CEO, Smart Dubai
Abdulrahman Tarabzouni, CEO and MD, STV
Nazar Arabi, CSO, Sudatel Group
Firat Yaman Er, CSO, Turk Telekom
Ziad Shatara, CEO, Umniah
Mikkel Vinter, Founder and CEO, Virgin Mobile Middle East
Fadi Ghandour, Chairman, Wamda Group
Diana Baddar, Head of Partnerships MENA and Turkey, YouTube
Scott Gegenheimer, CEO of Operations, Zain Group
