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Fatemeh Abdollah on blockchain, neuroscience and being a woman in Iran
Fatemeh Abdollah on blockchain, neuroscience and being a woman in Iran

Fatemeh Abdollah, CEO and Founder of Zarela, tells the story of her falling in love with blockchain and the philosophy of decentralization and applyin...

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Shereen Abdulla on building a career as a content creator and a lifestyle of her dreams
Shereen Abdulla on building a career as a content creator and a lifestyle of her dreams

Shereen Abdulla, producer and founder of Sparks Studios, shares her story of pivoting into content creation and building a business based on a passion...

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Ayumi Moore Aoki on bringing more women to the tech industry
Ayumi Moore Aoki on bringing more women to the tech industry

Ayumi Moore Aoki is founder and CEO of the global movement Women in Tech. The organization is based in Paris, but it operates in 45 countries, with th...

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Vera Futorjanski on similarity bias and building flourishing ecosystems
Vera Futorjanski on similarity bias and building flourishing ecosystems

Vera Futorjanski is the CEO and founder of Veritas Ventures, an innovation advisory firm based out of the UAE. Vera is an angel investor who invests m...

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Ambreen Khan, Founder & CEO at MeatoDoor, on entrepreneurship and idea validation
Ambreen Khan, Founder & CEO at MeatoDoor, on entrepreneurship and idea validation

Ambreen Khan is Founder & CEO at MeatoDoor. Meat is the largest traded food category in the Middle East by value and by volume. Yet, the $40 billi...

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Shehzeen Jamil Rehman on empathy as a superpower and on navigating challenging environments
Shehzeen Jamil Rehman on empathy as a superpower and on navigating challenging environments

Shehzeen Jamil Rehman is an entrepreneur in the specialty coffee and tech space. She is co-founder of Sippy Beans and the head of coffee market at COF...

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Lucy Chow on the gender investment gap and ways to bridge it
Lucy Chow on the gender investment gap and ways to bridge it

All-women startup teams receive less than 3% of the global venture capital funding. All-men teams, in turn, collect almost 90%. This phenomenon is cal...

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Mashal Waqar, Managing Director at Milestone Ventures, on community building and experimentation
Mashal Waqar, Managing Director at Milestone Ventures, on community building and experimentation

Mashal Waqar is Managing Director of Milestone Ventures. Previously, she was the co-founder of The Tempest, a global news outlet for women, and 60 Day...

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Nour Al Hassan, Founder & CEO at Tarjama, on opportunities and challenges of remote work
Nour Al Hassan, Founder & CEO at Tarjama, on opportunities and challenges of remote work

We celebrate female role models in the MENA region: innovators, trailblazers, changemakers. Our first guest is Nour Al Hassan, Founder & CEO at Tarjam...

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