REGISTER YOUR INTEREST
Exhibit With US

ATTEND

Book a stand
PRE-REGISTER FOR 2025
Media Hub
BECOME A MEDIA PARTNER

LEARN

PRE-REGISTER FOR 2025
BECOME A SPEAKER

Show Timings

Sunday 15 th October 11AM – 6PM Exhibition
Monday 16 th October 10AM – 6PM Exhibition
Tuesday 17 th October 10AM – 6PM Exhibition
Wednesday 18 th October 10AM – 6PM Exhibition
Daily NetworkingUntil 9PM

EXPLORE

BECOME A COMMUNITY PARTNER

Get In Touch

Show Timings

Sunday 15 th October 11AM – 6PM Exhibition
Monday 16 th October 10AM – 6PM Exhibition
Tuesday 17 th October 10AM – 6PM Exhibition
Wednesday 18 th October 10AM – 6PM Exhibition
Daily NetworkingUntil 9PM

Agenda

ReSet
Download Agenda
Download Full Agenda

12:00 - 13:00

12:55 – 13:00
10 October 2022 | 5 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Welcome Remarks by MC

13:00 - 14:00

13:00 – 13:10
10 October 2022 | 10 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Welcome & Opening Address: Scaling Up in the Most Innovative and Accelerated Startup Eco-system

13:10 – 13:40
10 October 2022 | 30 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Panel: People, Purpose, Profit

  • Gauging market size and opportunity
  • Balancing pro-bono and viability
  • The role of startups in the global movement toward purpose-led business
  • How are investors driving embedding ESG into startup DNA?
13:40 – 14:00
10 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Introduction to what3words

-        How what3words is working in the Middle East with Aramex, Careem and many others?

14:00 - 15:00

14:00 – 14:30
10 October 2022 | 30 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Fireside chat: Growing Green - Impact Investing Under the Microscope

  • The interest in sustainable and ESG investment opportunities – scope and growth
  • What this means for startups and how to take advantage of the trend
  • Advice on seeking investment for ESG-oriented businesses
14:30 – 15:00
10 October 2022 | 30 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Funding the Funds: Sector and Market Trends Impacting Fund Managers

15:00 - 16:00

15:00 – 15:40
10 October 2022 | 40 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Panel: Investor Viewpoint – What’s on the Radar?

  • Industry trends - what are investors particularly keen on at the moment and why?
  • Investor landscape - red flags and pitfalls
  • Business models and structures that build investor confidence
  • How do Angels and VCs differ in what they look for?
  • How the investor, founder relationships have evolved?
15:40 – 16:10
10 October 2022 | 30 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Panel: Funding Winter? Availability and Levels from Seed to C Today

  • Is the pool of cash for startups drying up and why?
  • Pre-seed and seed challenges and how to get around them
  • Bootstrapping pros and cons
  • So you’re on your way: series B, series C buy in trends and downrounds
  • Are any verticals bucking the trend or more less impacted at least?

16:00 - 17:00

16:10 – 16:50
10 October 2022 | 40 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage
  • 10x

Debate: To raise or not to raise in the current funding climate

  • With lower valuations, surely funds are more eager now?
  • But will the market go up and as a founder, should you hold back on raising?
  • Pitting the pros and cons in this dynamic debate, we’ll come to a scientific, albeit potentially not definitive recommendation for entrepreneurs and growing businesses

13:00 - 14:00

13:15 – 13:20
11 October 2022 | 5 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Welcome Remarks by MC

13:20 – 13:45
11 October 2022 | 25 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Investors Panel: How Growth Stage Investing is Disrupting the Venture Ecosystem?

  • With a striking doubling of growth and venture assets in the last year, where is this breed heading to?
  • How can geopolitical trends indirectly affect market movement
  • What sectors are next in store?
13:45 – 14:40
11 October 2022 | 55 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Panel: Growing Global - General Expansion Strategy Conversation

  • How to decide whether and when to expand to new markets?
  • Key considerations and strategies
  • Advantages, risk and reward
  • Is expansion the only/best way to grow?
  • Examples - Who did it best?

14:00 - 15:00

14:10 – 14:40
11 October 2022 | 30 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Startup Acceleration and Angel Investment is Paramount to the Africa''s Tech Ecosystem

14:40 – 15:00
11 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Unicorn Story and Q&A: Setting and Implementing a Sound Global Expansion Agenda

  • Global expansion objectives – how and where to begin?
  • Identifying priority markets, considering opportunity vs. challenges
  • Market penetration and the localisation imperative
  • Success story from Yanolja Cloud

15:00 - 16:00

15:00 – 15:15
11 October 2022 | 15 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Industry Insight Presentation: When is MENA Going to Have a Multisector Global Tech Giant?

  • What is that?
  • What are the challenges and opportunities?
  • Why current SaaS models aren’t becoming tech giants?
  • Are founders trying to innovate enough?
  • Do we have the environment to go towards a multi-sector tech giant?
  • What’s the payback for fostering such a global giant from MENA?
15:15 – 15:55
11 October 2022 | 40 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Panel: All About Ecosystems – the Future of Innovation and Expansion?

  • Applying the African proverb to entrepreneurship: “If you want to fast, go alone, if you want to go far, to together”
  • Partnerships for growth and expansion; are mergers/acquisitions inevitable?
  • Advantages of an ecosystem approach in a competitive landscape
  • Open innovation opportunities and considerations in ecosystem-based models
  • What about IP? And who owns the customer? What value do you play?
  • Ecosystem and team building - acquiring talent and skills you need to scale
15:55 – 16:15
11 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Unicorn Founder Stories: Entrepreneurship and Innovation -From India to the world

  • What does it take to be an entrepreneur
  • India’s current entrepreneurial landscape - startup culture and breakthrough innovations
  • How India can and is creating an education solution for the world
  • Democratising learning through innovation?

16:00 - 17:00

16:15 – 16:35
11 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Expert Insight Talk: Expanding your Business in Times of Geopolitical Uncertainty

  • Is your strategy aligned with the global context?
  • Essential considerations in considering new markets for expansions
  • Current risks and opportunities to analyse regionally and globally

17:00 - 18:00

17:00 – 17:30
11 October 2022 | 30 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 6, Pitch stage
  • SPOTLIGHT AFRICA TECH

End of day 2 Rising conference

10:00 - 11:00

10:55 – 11:00
12 October 2022 | 5 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Welcome Remarks by MC

11:00 - 12:00

11:00 – 11:25
12 October 2022 | 25 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

In Conversation: ITHCA Group (The Revolution of Things)

11:45 – 12:05
12 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Innovation Insight: The Impact of Tokenisation on Emerging Assets

  • The latest in crypto markets
  • Evolution of liquidity in digital assets
  • Exciting protocol trends emerging
  • The perspective of end users and crypto ecosystems

12:00 - 13:00

12:05 – 12:25
12 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

From Startup to Scale-up: The Importance of Well-functioning Scale-up Ecosystems

  • A well-functioning ecosystem is critical to the creation and growth of companies from startup to scale-up
  • How do you support the creation of growth of scale-ups, looking at market access, capital and talent
  • Championing the growth of scale-ups and support across the ecosystem
  • The panel will explore best practices for championing internationalisation and inward market access
  • Building international networks to champion cross border collaboration that is both grass-root driven and semi-gov
12:25 – 13:00
12 October 2022 | 35 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

CVC Panel: Bridging the Gap Between Startup and Corporate Innovation

  • A look at corporate innovation and CVCs in comparison with startups when it comes to innovation power
  • Bridging the gap - generating synergies between the startup landscape and corporate enterprises
  • How do you engineer innovation to keep it going and avoid resting on laurels?
  • Where and how to start? Opportunities to disrupt and how to grab them!

13:00 - 14:00

13:00 – 13:20
12 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Unicorn Founder Stories and Q&A: Fireside chat

13:20 – 13:40
12 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Unicorn Founder Stories and Q&A

Inspiring quickfire talks from the founders of regional and international unicorns with opportunity for Q&A
13:40 – 14:00
12 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Quickfire Innovation Talk: A Story of Passion

  • Having a vision and sticking with it – how to develop grit!
  • Mastering the rules of business, so you can break them!
  • Swimming against the current and blurring industry borders
  • Imagine it, build it, monetize it

14:00 - 15:00

14:00 – 14:20
12 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Insight Talk: The Value of Valuations

  • Overall downward valuation trends, regional differences and what they mean for your business
  • The value of valuations – recent cases of inflated valuations and consequences on the startup landscape
  • Pre-seed, how do you reduce subjectiveness and produce realistic, rational and reliable valuations
  • The value of the valuation is: Make or break in growth and success
14:20 – 14:40
12 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zaabeel Hall 7
  • 10x

Unicorn Founder Stories and Q&A

14:40 – 15:00
12 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Focus insight: The Globalisation of Chinese Technology Models – Lessons for Middle Eastern Entrepreneurs

  • Examining the evolutionary state of Chinese tech users compared with emerging markets and with the US – why this matters to the Middle East
  • Why Chinese pioneered or popularized mobile-first fintech, commerce, social and entertainment platforms are more tailored to emerging market entrepreneurs
  • Leveraging payments and logistics innovations to leapfrog technology adoption
  • Reviewing lessons learned and practical applications for emerging market startups

15:00 - 16:00

15:00 – 15:20
12 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Telco’s: Blurring Line Between a Service Provider and Digital Partner

15:20 – 16:00
12 October 2022 | 40 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Panel: What’s Next for Mobility?

Mobility tech sector is booming. We’ve seen a serious growth in mobility startups recently seeing smarter solutions to address impact challenges. An eclectic mix of hyper-growth scaleups, vehicle financing disruptors and ESG inventions have seen rising investments in the sector.

10:00 - 11:00

10:30 – 10:35
13 October 2022 | 5 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Welcome Remarks by the Chairperson

10:35 – 11:00
13 October 2022 | 25 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

In Conversation with the Founder of Policy Bazaar: From Idea to Public

11:00 - 12:00

11:00 – 11:20
13 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

In Conversation with: Paul Misener, Amazon

11:20 – 12:00
13 October 2022 | 40 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Panel: Emerging Funds of the Decade see Growth in Billions

  • Volatile can be fastest growing
  • Strategies and tips to tailor your portfolio
  • Best performing markets and sectors
  • How to expose to limited risks?

12:00 - 13:00

12:00 – 12:40
13 October 2022 | 40 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Unicorn, Soonicorn

12:40 – 13:00
13 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Oman Technology Fund Finals

13:00 - 14:00

13:00 – 14:30
13 October 2022 | 90 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Supernova Competition Finals, part 1

14:00 - 15:00

14:30 – 14:50
13 October 2022 | 20 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

In Conversation with: David Cohen | Gambling on Pre-Seed Startups

  • Building a global community
  • Navigating the current funding climate from founder and startup POV
  • Markets and sectors to bet on
  • How does techastars pick next markets, what does building a unicorn mean?
  • Corporate relationships and case studies from corporate accelerators (what are corporates interested in right now, web3)

15:00 - 16:00

15:00 – 17:00
13 October 2022 | 120 Minutes
Paid
  • North Star
  • Track: North Star 10x
  • Zabeel Hall 7, 10X Stage

Supernova Competition Finals, part 2