March - May, 2024
(Multiple Nights)

6:00 - 10:00 PM
(UTC +3 AST)

Riyadh
(Private Invitations)

Keynotes

Talks

Case Studies

Panels

Workshops

Pitching

NAUATECH Nights 2024

In Strategic Sponsorship of

And Platinum Sponsorship of

And Hosting Partnership of

And Knowledge Partnership of

And Community Partnership of

And Distinguished Participation of

Nawaf Hareeri

CEO, Salla

Abdullah Mzaien

Software Engineer, Malaa

Saud Bawazeer

Managing Partner, Theen

Muath Alfouzan

Product Design Lead, Jahez

Mohamed Milyani

Co-founder, CEO, Nqoodlet

Lama Alziyad

Tech Entrepreneur, Product Manager

Lujayn Alhddad

Director of Experience Design and Services

Firas Namazi

Senior UX Designer

Wadah Esam

Senior Software Engineer, Malaa

Hussam Gharawi

Head of Experience and Brand

Hashim Habtur

Senior Software Engineer, Scalers

Ali Alhoshaiyan

CTO, Moyasar

Yarob Almostafa

Software Engineer, Web and Apps Developer

Mazen Rukayni

CGO, CTO, Labayh

Khalid Alhokail

CTO, FlyAkeed

Abdulrahman Alomran

Co-founder, CEO, Rekaz

Salah Alkhwlani

CTO, Salla

Basem Aljedai

Co-founder, Moyasar

Eman Alashwali

Academic and Researcher in Security & Privacy

Tarek Alsawaf

UX Lead Consultant

Walaa Altowairiki

Head of Infrastructure, Resal

Mohammed Alkaldi

Data Scientist

Yousef Alsenani

Director, Head of AI and Privacy, Lun R&D

Abdulaziz Alkharashi

Co-founder, CTO, Rekaz

Hasan Alhendi

Lead Product Manager, Lucidya

Abdulaziz Alaboudi

Assistant Professor

Huthaifa Afanah

Co-founder, CPO, Quant

Turki Alotaibi

Data Scientist

Mohammed Algadhib

Head of Engineering, Resal

Anas Alamoudi

CTO, Resal

Jay Alammar

Director, Engineering Fellow, Cohere

Tasneem Dosoqi

Head of Tech, Sahseh

Amin Fadul

Director of Product, Salla

Faruk Caglar

Senior Research Scientist, Lun R&D

Abdullah Khamis

VP for AI and Analytics, Salla

Abdullah Alburayh

Data Analyst, Jahez

Mohammed Ghawanni

Co-founder, CTO, Scalers

Ahmad Alhuwwari

Senior CX/UX Consultant and Trainer

Ruba Almarroti

Senior Data Analyst, Jahez

Event Nights

#	Title	Day	Date	Type
1	Opening Night	Tuesday	March, 19	In-person (Riyadh)
2	Startup Night	Wednesday	March, 20	In-person (Riyadh)
3	Product Night 1	Thursday	March, 21	In-person (Riyadh)
4	Engineering Night 1	Friday	March, 22	In-person (Riyadh)
5	Jeddah Night	Monday	April, 22	In-person (Jeddah)
6	Featured Night 1	Wednesday	May, 1	In-person (Riyadh)
7	Product Night 2	Monday	May, 6	In-person (Riyadh)
8	Featured Night 2	Wednesday	May, 8	In-person (Riyadh)
9	Community Night	Thursday	May, 9	In-person (Riyadh)
10	Virtual Night 1	Saturday	May, 11	Virtually (Live Stream)
11	Engineering Night 2	Sunday	May, 12	In-person (Riyadh)
12	Product Night 3	Monday	May, 13	In-person (Riyadh)
13	Product Night 4	Wednesday	May, 15	In-person (Riyadh)
14	Engineering Night 3	Thursday	May, 16	In-person (Riyadh)
15	Virtual Night 2	Saturday	May, 18	Virtually (Live Stream)

Event Schedule
(Updatable)

Day / Time	Session
Featured Night 2 (Wednesday, 08 May 2024)
6:00 PM	Event Begins, Meet & Greet, Registration, Welcome Drinks, Open Networking
6:45 PM	Short Intro
7:00 PM	Beyond Buttons and Screens: Fostering a UX-Driven Culture Muath Alfouzan 1. Introduction: - The evolution of UX Cultures - How does a UX-Driven Culture look like? 2. Core Principles: - Empathy: Prioritizing User Needs - Collaboration: Breaking Organizational Barriers - Iterative Innovation: Embracing Continuous Growth 3. Building Blocks: - Leadership's Role in Cultivating UX Culture - Establishing Robust Design Frameworks - Cultivating the Right Team Dynamics 4. Case Studies: - Lessons from Successful UX Culture Transformations - Addressing Challenges and Learning Opportunities 5. Implementation Strategies: - Establishing Comprehensive Training Programs - Leveraging User Feedback for Iterative Design - Measuring Impact: Metrics for Success 6. Continuous Improvement: - Staying Ahead: Navigating Technological Shifts Arabic User Experience Usability Graphical User Interface
7:45 PM	Breakout, Open Networking
8:15 PM	Fintech Evolution: Tracing the Arc of Innovation to Tomorrow's Trends Basem Aljedai Arabic e-Commerce FinTech
9:15 PM	Supporting Economic Growth with F&B Open Data: Jahez as a Leading Example Ruba Almarroti Abdullah Alburayh Arabic Data Science Analytics and Marketing FoodTech
10:00 PM	Event Ends
Community Night (Thursday, 09 May 2024)
6:00 PM	Event Begins, Meet & Greet, Registration, Welcome Drinks, Open Networking
6:45 PM	Short Intro
7:00 PM	How to make first MVP Lama Alziyad - What is MVP? - How to make it? - Tools to help you for MVP. Arabic Business Development Open Source Project and Product Management
7:45 PM	Breakout, Open Networking
8:15 PM	The Next Gen App, A Journey You Must Have to Break Your Barriers Tasneem Dosoqi This session will take you on a rollercoaster journey we had in Sahseh, from the moment we decided to throw out everything we'd built over the last 5 years and start anew. Why did we make this decision? When did we decide to take this bold step? And how did we navigate the challenges along the way? We'll dive into the essential steps and strategies needed to overcome our barriers and build the next generation of the Sahseh platform, so you can also break your barriers and unleash your startup goals to the sky! English Investment in Technology Project and Product Management Technology Capabilities Building and Developing
9:00 PM	Hacker Culture Abdulaziz Alaboudi Saudi Arabia is pushing into tech with events like hackathons and bootcamps, but it's not yet making a big splash globally. The missing piece? Embracing hacker culture—a world of creative, curious programmers who've built things like Linux and Gmail. By really getting into this culture of innovation and sharing through open-source, Saudi can boost its tech scene and become a global tech leader. This talk is about how adopting the hacker mindset can be a game-changer for Saudi's tech future. Arabic Open Source Software Engineering
10:00 PM	Event Ends
Engineering Night 2 (Sunday, 12 May 2024)
6:00 PM	Event Begins, Meet & Greet, Registration, Welcome Drinks, Open Networking
6:45 PM	Short Intro
7:00 PM	Solid Principles Between Cleaning the Code and Over Engineering Yarob Almostafa Arabic Software Engineering
8:00 PM	Breakout, Open Networking
8:30 PM	Scaling Infrastructure Salah Alkhwlani Challenges on scaling a real-time platform English DevOps
9:30 PM	Breakout, Open Networking
10:00 PM	Event Ends
Product Night 3 (Monday, 13 May 2024)
6:00 PM	Event Begins, Meet & Greet, Registration, Welcome Drinks, Open Networking
6:30 PM	Short Intro
6:45 PM	Hybrid Business Models in PropTech Huthaifa Afanah Arabic PropTech
7:45 PM	Breakout, Open Networking
8:15 PM	Establishing a UI Design System Culture for Enterprise-Level Development Hashim Habtur Arabic Software Engineering User Experience
9:00 PM	How to Create Product Experiments That Actually Work Mohammed Ghawanni English Data Science DevOps Project and Product Management
10:00 PM	Event Ends
Product Night 4 (Wednesday, 15 May 2024)
6:00 PM	Event Begins, Meet & Greet, Registration, Welcome Drinks, Open Networking
6:45 PM	Short Intro
7:00 PM	TBD
7:45 PM	Breakout, Open Networking
8:15 PM	UX Design in 2024 Lujayn Alhddad Hussam Gharawi Ahmad Alhuwwari Tarek Alsawaf - What is the current status of UX design in 2024. - AI in UX. - Why you need to care about Micro UX. Arabic Graphical User Interface Interaction Design User Experience
10:00 PM	Event Ends
Engineering Night 3 (Thursday, 16 May 2024)
6:00 PM	Event Begins, Meet & Greet, Registration, Welcome Drinks, Open Networking
6:45 PM	Short Intro
7:00 PM	RAG Systems Mohammed Alkaldi Turki Alotaibi Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique that enhances pre-trained language models by incorporating external data sources. This method allows the model to fetch relevant information in real-time, improving its accuracy and relevance. Arabic Data Science
7:45 PM	Breakout, Open Networking
8:00 PM	Marriage of Minds: Cultivating a Successful Partnership between Product and Engineering in SaaS Hasan Alhendi Arabic Artificial Intelligence Project and Product Management Software Engineering
9:00 PM	Scaling with Simple Tools Ali Alhoshaiyan Arabic Cloud Computing Databases Web Development
10:00 PM	Event Ends
Virtual Night 1 (Saturday, 11 May 2024)
9:00 PM	Event Begins, Short Intro, Ice Breaker
9:30 PM	Federated Learning: A Collaborative, Privacy-Preserving, Decentralized Approach to Artificial Intelligence Faruk Caglar One of the key challenges in Artificial Intelligence is to utilize diverse and large volumes of data from different organizations to build strong, safe, and privacy-preserving AI models, all without centralizing sensitive proprietary data. This means getting different organizations who own sensitive data to collaborate safely, which is a big challenge in all fields. In this talk, Dr. Faruk will present what the Federated Learning approach is and performance comparison of the Breast Invasive Carcinoma model with centralized approach to tackle these crucial issues and resolve the above challenges. English Data and Information Security Artificial Intelligence
10:15 PM	Privacy Perceptions and Behaviors of Google Personal Account Holders in Saudi Arabia Eman Alashwali While privacy perceptions and behaviors have been investigated in Western societies, little is known about these issues in non-Western societies. In this talk Eman will share research results and lessons learned from conducting in-depth interviews with 30 Google personal account holders in Saudi Arabia about their privacy perceptions regarding the activity data that Google saves about them, as well as any steps they take to control Google’s collection or use of this data. She will conclude with insights and future direction in usable privacy and security research. English Data and Information Security Usability
11:00 PM	Event Ends
Virtual Night 2 (Saturday, 18 May 2024)
7:00 PM	Event Begins, Short Intro, Ice Breaker
7:30 PM	Large Language Models as Building Blocks Jay Alammar The rise of large language models is inspiring a wide variety of application ideas and experiments. For builders to become more adept at building with LLMs, it's important to gain an understanding of using LLMs as components of advanced pipelines, and not of being a text-in text-out monolith. In this talk, Jay covers a number of LLM applications covering generative use cases, as well using language models for semantic search and data exploration. Arabic Artificial Intelligence Data Science
8:30 PM	Event Ends

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