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Hamad Al-Jasser Hall
University Main Hall, King Saud University
Riyadh, Ar Riyāḑ, 12372
Saudi Arabia

Ahmad Akram

Founding partner in Azyn Foundation. He had a dream of changing the world. He woke up and began to change himself. Addicted to continuous learning.

Dr. Malak Abedalthagafi

Malak Abed AlThagafi is a Georgetown, UCSF and Harvard trained physician-scientist, entrepreneur, and public speaker. She is from Makkah and was born with genetics problem which was the cause of her very early passion toward medicine and genomic. Which takes us to the title of this heart warming talk "breaking walls", as she fought through the wall of health problems, her passion in the genome project which at the time was at Silicon Valley, and exiting her comfort zone as a researcher to the enterprise world.

Khalid AlYahya

Dr. Khalid Sulaiman Al Yahya is a consultant in the United Arab Emirates and has chaired the programs of King Abdulaziz International Cultural Center (Ethra). He was awarded the WISE Innovation Award in Education from Qatar Foundation, and was awarded from Saudi Aramco Board of Directors.

Mansour AlRogayba

Business man, invested in health and medicine and a social media celebrity. Expert in failure in 7 years and success in 8.

Suliman AlMohaymdi

A pilot, and a member of the British Air Aviation Association, the author and presenter of the Flight Information Program

Sultan AlHijazi

A student in the first year of King Saud University at the age of 20 years. Since the beginning of my life my surroundings was centered around art and imagination. And now I've reached a much advanced stage in drawing and I've participated in many exhibitions and presented a number of workshops in this field. In addition to my deep love for writing.

Thamer AlMunajem

An expert in how to turn failure into success by learning and adapting, developing then winning. No one said it will be easy but sure it will be worth it.

Yara AlSalloum

My years of medical school at the hospital have taught me children who have never had the taste of family. Children are left without a family, for reasons which are not their fault. They are left to fight their pain alone. Children are asking for home, flowing with love and unconditional affection, our children, loved ones of Allah, we have to deliver their voices, to have what they deserve, let them have a voice.