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V-Lab
Summit

A Day You Can't Miss!

June 18

AUC Tahrir, Cairo

Featured Speakers

INDUSTRY EXPERTS

INSPIRING ENTREPRENEURS

TOP-TIER WORKSHOP PROVIDERS

PANEL DISCUSSION

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Basil Moftah

General Partner | Nclude

Basil is an experienced company builder who works with founders to create disruptive companies with an enterprise technology focus in MENA. Prior to Nclude, Basil was General Partner with Global Ventures for both fund 1 and fund 2 investing across Africa and Middle East early stage startups.

PANEL DISCUSSION

Rafeh Saleh

Rafeh Saleh

Founding Partner | Cubit Ventures

Rafeh launched Cubit Ventures and Founder Institute Egypt, is an advisor to Toronto based Loyal VC, sat on Falak Startups board and on Egypt Ventures governance committee, and led one of the largest consulting firms in Egypt.

PANEL DISCUSSION

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Saeed Talaat

Co-founder and CEO | Klickit

Saeed Talaat is the CEO of Klickit, a fintech company operating in the educational payments space. Klickit managed over a span of only five years to boast a portfolio of more than 55 thousand public schools and 400 private schools.

PANEL DISCUSSION

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Walid Hassouna

Founder and CEO | valU

Walid Hassouna is the Founder and CEO of valU, the Chairman of Paytabs Egypt and the Vice Chairman of EFG EV Fintech.

He sits on multiple boards including, EFG Hermes Corp Solutions for leasing and factoring, Bedaya for mortgage finance and KarmSolar.

FIRESIDE CHAT

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Eslam Darwish

Founding General Partner | Nclude

Eslam has 25+ years experience in corporate innovation, product development, digital transformation, brand management, venture capital & startup incubation across North America, Europe, Africa & Middle East. Currently, he spearheads Nclude, an investment platform offering full-stack support for fintech and fintech-enabled startups. 

FIRESIDE CHAT

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Mirna Arif

General Manager | Microsoft Egypt

Mirna Arif brings in 20 years of experience with multinational organizations and public sector entities across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Equipped with a strong belief in empathy-based management and in youth training, the first woman to assume this prestigious role is leading the nation’s technological movement towards digital transformation.

Speakers

Agenda

JUNE 18

Check out the updated agenda!

Time
Session
Speakers
11:30 AM
Workshops (Closed)
12:45 PM
Registration
01:30 PM
Opening Remarks
01:45 PM
Keynote Speech: Arab African International Bank
01:50 PM
V-Lab Award Announcement & Fireside Chat
02:15 PM
Panel #1: Building Investable Startups
03:00 PM
Fireside chat #2: Can Startups Save the Planet?
03:55 PM
Introducing V-Lab
04:05 PM
Keynote Speech: Drosos Foundation
04:10 PM
V-Lab Demo Day Pitches: Arab African International Bank Cycle 18
04:45 PM
Fireside Chat #3: Enabling Scalable Startups
05:00 PM
V-Lab Demo Day Pitches: Arab African International Bank Cycle 18
05:30 PM
Entertainment and Networking
06:30 PM
Keynote Speech: CIB Egypt
06:35 PM
Fireside Chat #4: Digitizing Payments for SMEs
07:05 PM
Panel #2: Fintech Opportunities and Trends
07:50 PM
Break
08:00 PM
Keynote Speech: International Finance Corporation
08:05 PM
V-Lab Demo Day Pitches: Spring’22 Fintech Cycle
08:30 PM
Panel #3: Investing in Uncertain Times
09:15 PM
Networking
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Yasmine Nagaty - Square
Verina Rizkallah - Square
Mariam Kamel - Square
Mohamed Ihab - Square
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Yasmine Nagaty - Square
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Agenda
AUC Venture Lab Demo Day Entrance

AUC Tahrir

The Venue

The historic campus located on Tahrir Square is a landmark and cultural oasis in the heart of Cairo. 

The Venue

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Who Are We?

AUC Venture Lab

V-Lab Summit is a one-day entrepreneurship summit created by AUC Venture Lab featuring top-notch expert knowledge, latest market insights, networking opportunities as well as pitches from V-Lab's latest cohorts. 

 

AUC Venture Lab is Egypt's first university-based accelerator. We are an award-winning accelerator committed to empowering Egyptian entrepreneurs on their journeys to turn business ideas into viable, scalable and investment-ready tech startups with high-growth potential through connecting them with the AUC community and ecosystem players and the right combination of knowledge, action and networking.

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