Heath Blandford

Senior Solutions Engineer

Edge Impulse, a Qualcomm company

Heath is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Edge Impulse, working to help customers bring enterprise grade AI to the Edge to solve real world problems. In his spare time, Heath enjoys training for ultra-endurance races, backpacking, and watching Formula 1.

Mona Kattan

Founder and CEO

KAYALI

Mona Kattan is the Founder and CEO of KAYALI.  She is trailblazing Arab American entrepreneur, has been named one of the most powerful women in the Middle East by Forbes and has appeared on popular TV shows like Netflix’s Dubai Bling and Shark Tank.

Driven by her love for perfume, Mona launched KAYALI in 2018. The brand, which means “my imagination” in Arabic, draws inspiration from her Middle Eastern heritage and the art of layering scents. Mona continues to lead KAYALI, working with world-renowned perfumers to create unforgettable, cruelty-free fragrances. Each luxurious scent, from its alluring notes to its beautifully crafted bottle, is a tribute to expert craftsmanship and storytelling. With nearly 5,000 perfumes in her collection, Mona has been honored as the "Most Influential Social Media Personality" by The Fragrance Foundation. Mona has built a global community of over 6 million followers across social media and she remains dedicated to fostering inclusivity and empowering the next generation of beauty enthusiasts.

Ahmet Burak Başpınar

Environment & Energy and Sustainability Group Manager

pladis MENA & TR & CA

Begüm Yontar Avcı

Sustainability Director for Eurasia and Middle East OU

The Coca-Cola Company

Selim Ucer

Co-Founder

Doktar

Lukas Gentele

CEO

vCluster Labs

Lukas Gentele is the CEO & Co-Founder of vCluster Labs, a venture-backed startup virtualizing Kubernetes to enable advanced tenancy models to increase utilization, reduce cost and make Kubernetes more dynamic than ever. vCluster enables platform and infra teams to create virtual Kubernetes clusters which are as scalable and isolated as traditional clusters but much more lightweight and versatile. Trusted by companies such as CoreWeave, Nscale, Adobe, and Deloitte, vCluster enables organizations to create fully isolated tenant clusters on any infrastructure, from public cloud to private clouds all the way to AI supercomputers powered by the latest GPUs. Lukas has been a keynote speaker and presenter at events such as KubeCon, DevOpsDays, ContainerConf, as well as at AWS and Kubernetes Community Days around the world.