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A ticket is not the only way in.

Join the Summit

Five ways onto the floor.

Take the stage, back the summit, show what you have built, put money to work, or help run the whole thing. Each one is an application, each one closes, and each one is read by a person.

Exhibit

Showcase your innovation to industry leaders, investors, and potential partners by exhibiting at RiseUp Summit — the region’s key platform for entrepreneurship and innovation.

  • A stand on the exhibition floor for all three days
  • Two exhibitor passes, with more available at cost
  • A listing in the startup directory investors browse before they arrive
The form asks for
Company, stage, traction, and what you want off the floor.
Deadline
Applications close 14 November 2026
You hear back
Reviewed in ten working days
Apply to exhibit

Meet Our Speakers

Four hundred of them, across three days.

Founders, funds, operators and regulators, billed across five stages and the masterclass rooms. The line-up is announced in stages from October.

Become a speaker

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Policy

    Writes the digital-economy frameworks that founders in eleven countries build against.

    Tomas Vogel

    Director of Digital Economy
    MENA Digital Council

See the full agenda

Meet our Partners

The institutions behind the thirteenth.

Two hundred partners across thirteen editions, and the roster below for this one. Partnership is how the floor stays free for the founders who need it most.

Partner with us
  1. Mada Capital

    Investment Partner

  2. Seven

    Financing Partner

  3. IM Motors

    Automotive Partner

  4. TikTok LIVE

    Digital Live Partner

  5. Apes Solutions

    Technology Partner

Careers

Work on it all year, not just in December.

RiseUp is a small permanent team that grows to several hundred for three days in winter. These are the jobs that run the other three hundred and sixty-two.

See all openings

  1. Content Producer, Programme

    ProgrammeCairo · Hybrid

    Own a set of stages end to end: the shape of the days, the speakers on them, and the briefs that make a panel worth sitting through.

    Full time

  2. Partnerships Manager

    CommercialCairo · On site

    Build the partner roster for the fourteenth edition, from first conversation to the report that decides whether they come back.

    Full time

  3. Startup Community Lead

    CommunityCairo · Hybrid

    Run the exhibitor programme and the investor matching that sits under it. Three hundred startups, a hundred funds, one directory.

    Full time

  4. Production Coordinator

    OperationsCairo · On site

    Six months to December: suppliers, build schedules, and the floor plan that has to survive twenty thousand people walking through it.

    Contract

26–28 December 2026 · Cairo

The Turning Point

Three days in Cairo with twenty thousand people who are building the same thing you are.

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