Dr. Saleh Al Hashemi

500 Global is a venture capital firm with over $2.7B in Assets Under Management that invests early in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive economic growth. 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Our portfolio includes 51 companies valued at over $1 billion and 140 companies valued at over $100 million. Our 140+ plus team members are located in more than 15 countries and bring experience as entrepreneurs, investors, and operators from some of the world’s leading technology companies.

Alef Education is a leading K-12 education technology company based in the United Arab Emirates with a presence in the United States of America and Jordan. Alef Education was founded to transform the entire education experience for students. We believe in making learning personalized to the individual as well as engaging and exciting. The idea of Alef first came about in 2015 where it was conceptualized as a technology-enabled primary mode of the education system to address the needs of the local public school system in theUnited Arab Emirates. From that concept, the company’s vision soon expanded to include digital educational transformation within the Kindergarten-to-Grade 12 sector globally. Today, over 820,000 students in more than 4,000 schools in the United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Indonesia, and Morocco are using the award-winning Alef Platform. Alef Education is committed to building engaged learning experiences for the 21st-century learner. www.alefeducation.com

Plan, direct, and coordinate human resource management activities of an organization to maximize the strategic use of human resources and maintain functions such as employee compensation, employee relations, talent acquisition, career development, succession planning, training and leadership development, retention, HR policies, and regulatory compliance.

The ENTERTAINER (B2C): Founded in 2001 by Donna Benton, based in Dubai, the ENTERTAINER is the leading provider of 2-for-1 offers from well-known dining, leisure, entertainment, beauty and hotel brands across the Middle East. The company successfully transitioned from a print publication to a data-driven, tech company with the launch of the award-winning ENTERTAINER app in 2013. The ENTERTAINER offers location-specific products for Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, KSA (Riyadh, Jeddah & Eastern Province), Kuwait, Egypt and Singapore - with over 10,000 merchants globally. The ENTERTAINER business (B2B): The ENTERTAINER business creates easy-to-use and cost-effective app platforms that leverage incentives to help connect businesses with their customers and employees. Each platform can be adapted to suit any business, and clients can choose from a variety of features that best serve their brand and budget. The app solutions are fully customisable and may be white-labelled, co-branded or even embedded into any business’s existing app. The business division works with more than 250 partners globally and offers our clients loyalty solutions that allow them to leverage the ENTERTAINER model, venues, offers and more as a means of rewarding and delighting their employees and/or customers.

500 Global is a venture capital firm with over $2.7B in Assets Under Management that invests early in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive economic growth. 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Our portfolio includes 51 companies valued at over $1 billion and 140 companies valued at over $100 million. Our 140+ plus team members are located in more than 15 countries and bring experience as entrepreneurs, investors, and operators from some of the world’s leading technology companies.

At Saal, we focus on building advanced and flexible artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data frameworks to build technologies apt to think and learn. We enrich humankind by leveraging the human-machine interaction to create exponential growth opportunities to live meaningful and compassionate lives by building smart cities. Our uniqueness lies in the flexibility we offer, optimized to seamlessly integrate to suit any business of interest. We aspire to be recognized as one of the top applied A.I. companies worldwide that help redefine the way industries, businesses, and people interact and operate using our products and services - Digixt, Intalact, Arabic AI Tool, Artificial Intelligence Use Cases, etc. We strive to make a significant contribution in impacting humanity positively by enriching a billion lives by focusing on industries like healthcare, finance, energy and government organizations.

Alef Education is a leading K-12 education technology company based in the United Arab Emirates with a presence in the United States of America and Jordan. Alef Education was founded to transform the entire education experience for students. We believe in making learning personalized to the individual as well as engaging and exciting. The idea of Alef first came about in 2015 where it was conceptualized as a technology-enabled primary mode of the education system to address the needs of the local public school system in theUnited Arab Emirates. From that concept, the company’s vision soon expanded to include digital educational transformation within the Kindergarten-to-Grade 12 sector globally. Today, over 820,000 students in more than 4,000 schools in the United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Indonesia, and Morocco are using the award-winning Alef Platform. Alef Education is committed to building engaged learning experiences for the 21st-century learner. www.alefeducation.com