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MEVCA Investors Summit 2025 Agenda
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30 January, 2025
Time | Session Name | |
|---|---|---|
9:00 AM | Welcome Breakfast and Reception | |
10:00 AM | Opening Remarks | |
10:20 AM | Keynote Presentation: GPCA | |
10:35 AM | Panel: How AI Can Disrupt Venture Capital | |
11:05 AM | Coffee Break | |
11:35 AM | Keynote: Carta | |
11:50 AM | Panel: Government Fund of Funds: Learnings from the Last Five Years | |
12:20 PM | Panel: Have Private Credit and Venture Debt Finally Arrived? | |
12:50 PM | Lunch | |
2:30 PM | Panel: Venture Growth and Growth Equity: Is the Time Now for Growth Capital in the Region? | |
3:00 PM | Panel: The Venture Capital Exit Landscape in MENA | |
3:30 PM | Keynote: BytePlus (part of ByteDance) | |
3:50 PM | Coffee Break | |
4:15 PM | Panel: Which Institutions Are Making Big Moves in Venture Capital? | |
4:45 PM | Fireside Chat with HE Dr. Tariq Bin Hendi, Managing Director at Astra Tech | |
6:00 PM | Closing Reception – Em Sherif Sea Café | |
30 January, 2025
Time | Session Name | |
|---|---|---|
9:00 AM | Welcome Breakfast and Reception | |
10:00 AM | Welcome Remarks
Noor Sweid Chairperson MEVCA | |
10:05 – 10:20 | Opening Presentation
Philip Bahoshy CEO MAGNIITT | |
10:20 – 11:00 | The Region as a Global Ecosystem Hub
AbdulWahab Al Betairi Managing Partner Watar Partners Amal Dokhan General Partner 500 GLOBAL Sharif El-Badawi CEO Dubai Future District Fund Patricia Gomes Regional Head of Commercial Banking for MENAT HSBC Khalifa Hamad Ahmed Salem Alhajeri Senior Principal Mubadala Noor Sweid Chairperson MEVCA Moderator | |
11:00 – 11:40 | Family Offices: Their Importance in Venture Ecosystem
HE Khaled AK Al Fahim Board Member Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry Jonathan Summers Head of Asset Management ADGM Jean Shahdadpuri Managing Director Nikai Group Karthik Reddy Co-Founder and Managing Partner Blume Ventures Stephan Heller Founding Partner AQVC Moderator | |
11:40 – 12:10 | Coffee Break | |
12:10 – 12:50 | Building a significant VC in an Emerging Ecosystem
Issa Aghabi Founder and Managing Partner Access Bridge Ventures Ishpreet Singh Gandhi Founder and Managing Partner Stride Ventures Sonia Weymuller Co-Founder and General Partner VentureSouq Rana Abdel Latif Partner SpeedInvest Cate Ambrose CEO Global Private Capital Association Moderator | |
12:50 – 13:30 | Internalizing VC vs Externalizing VC: cost benefit analysis
Rebecca Hall CEO Kanoo Ventures Mohammed Al Muhtaseb CEO ISSF Josephine Koh Director Carta Ben Harburg Managing Partner MSA Capital Allen Taylor Managing Partner Endeavor Catalyst Moderator | |
13:30 – 14:45 | Lunch | |
14:45 – 15:00 | Fireside Chat
Gabrielle Inzirillo Head of Ecosystem Development ADGM Tunc Ozgul Head of Startup and VC Ecosystem Amazon Web Services Moderator | |
15:00 – 15:40 | CVCs: partners, investors or competitors?
Kushal Shah Managing Director e& Patrick Thiriet CEO EQ2 Ventures Manaf Kayal CIO Takamol H.E. Dr. Tariq Bin Hendi Senior Partner Global Ventures Moderator | |
15:40 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
16:00 – 16:40 | What is happening in VC? IS THE GAME OVER?
Henry Ward CEO Carta Sherif ElHalwagy Co-founder & Partner ACE & Company Amir Farha Founder Cotu Ventures Khaled Lababidi Operating Partner Arbor Ventures Loulou Khazen Baz Founder and Managing Partner Spade Ventures Moderator | |
16:40 – 17:10 | Fireside Chat – MEVCA<>GPCA PLAN 2024
Cate Ambrose CEO Global Private Capital Association Noor Sweid Chairperson MEVCA Moderator | |
18:00 – 21:00 | Closing Reception Coya | |
30th of January, 2023
Time | Session | Speaker(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
08:00 – 08:30 | Registrations and Welcome Coffee for Exclusive Roundtable | By Invite Only | |
08:30 – 10:15 | Exclusive Roundtable | By Invite Only | |
10:15 – 10:30 | Coffee Break | By Invite Only | |
10:00 – 10:45 | Registrations & Welcome Coffee (non Roundtable Participants) | ||
10:45 – 11:00 | Opening Remarks | Noor Sweid
Chairperson MEVCA | |
11:00 – 11:30 | Corporate VC in Emerging Markets | Noor Sweid
Chairperson MEVCA Maan Al Awlaqi Executive Director Strategy and Transformation Moran Levinovitz Managing Director HSBC Invest | |
11:30 -12:15 | UAE as a New Epicenter | Mattia Fugazza
Head of MENA Ventures Mubadala Investment Company Sharif Badawi Chief Executive Officer Dubai Future District Fund Markus Thomas Head of Investments Abu Dhabi IPO Fund Noor Sweid (m) Chairperson MEVCA | |
12:15 – 13:15 | Lunch | ||
13:15 – 14:00 | Surviving This Recession (As an Investor) | Christos Mastoras
Founder & Managing Partner Iliad Partners GV Ravishankar Managing Director Sequoia India Loulou Khazen (m) Managing Partner Spade Ventures Susana Garcia – Robles Senior Partner Capria Abdullah Mutawi Chairman Dubai Angel Investors | |
14:00 – 14:30 | Global vs. Regional Trends | Philip Bahoshy
CEO & Founder MAGNITT Julie Ruvolo Managing Director of Venture Capital GPCA Darius Alexander (m) Head of Technology & Fintech, MENA FTI Consulting | |
14:30 – 15:00 | Family Offices in Venture | Mahmoud Adi
Founding Partner Shorooq Ventures Chetan Mehta Founding Partner AUM Omar Al Khawaja Managing Director AMK Investment Office Tarek El Torgoman Managing Director Helios Capital Omar Majdouie Founding Partner Raed Ventures Bhaskar Dasgupta (m) Independent Board Member and Advisor – Funds and Family Offices | |
15:00 – 15:15 | Coffee Break | ||
15:15 – 15:45 | The Next Five Years | Omar Sati
Managing Director DASH Ventures Tala Al Jabri VC and Angel Investor Saudi Angel Investors Khaled Jalanbo Co-Founder & Managing Partner Valia Syrine Ben Mansour (m) Principal Hambro Perks Oryx Fund | |
15:45 – 16:05 | Investment Opportunities between Asean, Pakistan and MENA | Thomas G. Tsao
Cofounder and Chairperson Gobi Partners | |
16:05 – 16:45 | Capital Allocation in Alternative Assets | H.E. Dr. Nabeel Koshak
CEO and Board Member SVC Andrew Dalton Managing Partner Digital Spring Ventures LLP Areije Al Shakar Director & Fund Manager Al Waha Venture Capital Fund of Funds Kushal Shah Head of CVC e&/Etisalat Allen Taylor (m) Managing Director Endeavor | |
18:00 Onwards | Closing Reception at Coya | ||
30th of January, 2023
Time | Session | Speaker(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
08:00 – 08:30 | Registrations and Welcome Coffee for Exclusive Roundtable | By Invite Only | |
08:30 – 10:15 | Exclusive Roundtable | By Invite Only | |
10:15 – 10:30 | Coffee Break | By Invite Only | |
10:25 – 10:30 | Registrations & Welcome Coffee | ||
10:25 – 10:30 | Opening Remarks | Noor Sweid
Chairperson MEVCA | |
10:30 -11:00 | Fireside Chat | H.E. Dr. Tariq Bin Hendi
Senior Partner Global Ventures TBC | |
11:00 – 11:30 | Corporate VC in Emerging Markets | Noor Sweid
Chairperson MEVCA Moran Levinovitz Managing Director HSBC Invest | |
11:30 -12:15 | UAE as a New Epicenter | Mattia Fugazza
Head of MENA Ventures Mubadala Investment Company Sharif Badawi Chief Executive Officer Dubai Future District Fund Markus Thomas Head of Investments Abu Dhabi IPO Fund Noor Sweid (m) Chairperson MEVCA | |
12:15 – 13:15 | Lunch | ||
13:15 – 14:00 | Surviving This Recession (As an Investor) | Christos Mastoras
Founder & Managing Partner Iliad Partners GV Ravishankar Managing Director Sequoia India Loulou Khazen (m) Managing Partner Spade Ventures Susana Garcia – Robles Senior Partner Capria Abdullah Mutawi Chairman Dubai Angel Investors | |
14:00 – 14:30 | Global vs. Regional Trends | Philip Bahoshy
CEO & Founder MAGNITT Julie Ruvolo Managing Director of Venture Capital GPCA Darius Alexander (m) Head of Technology & Fintech, MENA FTI Consulting | |
14:30 – 15:00 | Family Offices in Venture | Mahmoud Adi
Founding Partner Shorooq Ventures Chetan Mehta Founding Partner AUM Omar Al Khawaja Managing Director AMK Investment Office Tarek El Torgoman Managing Director Helios Capital Omar Majdouie Founding Partner Raed Ventures Bhaskar Dasgupta (m) Independent Board Member and Advisor – Funds and Family Offices | |
15:00 – 15:15 | Coffee Break | ||
15:15 – 15:45 | The Next Five Years | Omar Sati
Managing Director DASH Ventures Tala Al Jabri VC and Angel Investor Saudi Angel Investors Khaled Jalanbo Co-Founder & Managing Partner Valia Syrine Ben Mansour (m) Principal Hambro Perks Oryx Fund | |
15:45 – 16:05 | Investment Opportunities between Asean, Pakistan and MENA | Thomas G. Tsao
Cofounder and Chairperson Gobi Partners | |
16:05 – 16:45 | Capital Allocation in Alternative Assets | H.E. Dr. Nabeel Koshak
CEO and Board Member SVC Andrew Dalton Managing Partner Digital Spring Ventures LLP Areije Al Shakar Director & Fund Manager Al Waha Venture Capital Fund of Funds Kushal Shah Head of CVC e&/Etisalat Allen Taylor (m) Managing Director Endeavor | |
18:00 Onwards | Closing Reception at Coya | ||