RiseUp Summit '26Speakers
The whole bill.
Speakers
Every speaker
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Main Stage
Runs a logistics company across four markets, and has raised at every stage from angel to Series C in the region.
Omar Hassan
Co-founder and CEO
Marfa Logistics
Capital
Leads early-stage investments across MENA and has sat on both sides of more term sheets than she will admit to.
Lena Adler
General Partner
Northbound Ventures
Build
Took a forty-year-old bank’s product org from quarterly releases to daily ones, with the models to prove it.
Karim Fahmy
Chief Product Officer
Meridian Bank
Growth
Scaled an infrastructure business from twelve people to eight hundred without leaving the region to do it.
David Mercer
Group Chief Executive
Orbit Cloud
Policy
Writes the digital-economy frameworks that founders in eleven countries build against.
Tomas Vogel
Director of Digital Economy
MENA Digital Council
26–28 December 2026 · Cairo
The Turning Point
Three days in Cairo with twenty thousand people who are building the same thing you are.