Habibi Tech
Pickleball Social
8:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Meet the community and the speakers you came to hear, the night before they take the stage. A few games, real conversation, and you walk into Saturday already knowing people.
Habibi Tech Summit 2025 · In their words
The Response
We asked everyone who came what stayed with them. Their words, unedited.
Greatly impacted my view. I had no idea there are so many Muslims in tech.
The summit reinforced my belief that Muslim leadership in AI and tech, guided by our Islamic values of integrity, justice, and service to humanity, is rising stronger than ever and it's truly our time to shine.
Making connections with other Muslim professionals — I wouldn't have met these amazing people if I hadn't attended!
The confidence of speakers and attendees to really elevate ourselves and work smart to build wealth really stuck with me.
Attendee surveys · Habibi Tech Summit 2025
September 25–26 · New York City
Habibi Tech Weekend
Three events across two days. They are ticketed separately. One VIP ticket is the only thing that opens all three doors.
Habibi Tech
Summit
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Main event
Keynotes worth the flight, hands-on workshops where you build rather than watch, and a floor holding the Muslim world's leading builders, investors, diplomats, and creators.
Habibi Tech
VIP Dinner
8:00 – 11:00 PM
A charity dinner to close the weekend. The community gathers around one table to give back. The one part of the weekend that isn't about you.
One VIP ticket, all three. Pickleball, the Summit floor, and a seat at the dinner.
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Speakers
2026 · This Year
Faith/EthicsSh. Dr. Yasir Qadhi
Shaykh, Islamic Scholar
EPIC Masjid
Dallas, TX
One of the most influential Islamic scholars in the West, with a Yale PhD in theology.
Tech/AIHumna Khan
CEO & Founder
Astro
Los Angeles, CA
Ex-SpaceX, ex-NASA, ex-U.S. Space Force. Now building the materials that fly to space.
Faith/EthicsSh. AbdulNasir Jangda
Founder, President
Qalam Institute
Dallas, TX
Founded Qalam, one of the seminaries American Islamic scholarship is now built on.
Law/PolicyHonorable Sahar Albazar
Deputy Chair
Foreign Affairs Committee of the Egyptian Parliament
Cairo, Egypt
Elected by young parliamentarians from 179 countries to lead them. Harvard MPA, Yale World Fellow.
FinanceChris Blauvelt
Co-Founder
LaunchGood
Detroit, MI
Turned down a six-figure bank job for Detroit. The platform he built there has moved $650M+.
FinanceAmany Killawi
Co-Founder
LaunchGood
Washington, DC
Inc.’s Female Founders 100. The social worker who turned Muslim giving into a $650M platform.
FinanceMelissa Westbrook, Esq
General Counsel
Techstars
New York, NY
Over $1B in deals structured. Now she’s the one reading the term sheet at Techstars.
Faith/EthicsShaykh Rasoul
Imam & Content Creator
Faith and Fun
Canada
Takes the questions young Muslims are too embarrassed to ask, and answers them on TikTok.
Faith/EthicsDr. Mona Hamdy
Chief Advisor, AI Ethics
Aixplain
Cambridge, MA
Advises the G20, the UN and the World Bank on AI ethics, from a Harvard applied-ethics PhD.
Faith/EthicsSh. Mikaeel Ahmed Smith
Co-Founder
Miraj Collective
Dallas, TX
A scholar trained in Damascus, coaching founders on the emotional intelligence nobody teaches them.
Tech/AIYusuf Abdul-Qadir
Co-Founder
AI Sustainable Development Group
Washington, DC
Ran an ACLU chapter, then wrote product policy at Meta. Now teaches AI & Justice at Syracuse.
Tech/AIZaurbek Tsoroev
CEO
Codebender
Dubai, UAE
A UCLA engineer building the AI back end for companies scaling past $5M ARR.
MediaAmeer Al-Khatahtbeh
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Muslim
Jersey City, NJ
Started a weekly newsletter in college. Ten million people now follow what it became.
Health & WellnessDr. Mehboob Ali
Chief People Officer
Qalam Institute
Dallas, TX
Over fifteen years inside a Silicon Valley tech company, and a licensed counselor. His subject is AI and mental wellness.
Faith/EthicsOthman Altalib
Co-Founder
Miraj Collective
Washington, DC
Ex-Google strategist, ex-IBM consultant, eight-time triathlete. Now he coaches the founders.
HealthcareDr. Tarek Aly
Chief Medical Officer
Mosaic Psychiatry
Daytona, FL
Harvard-trained child psychiatrist. He helped write Boston Children’s manual for problematic screen use.
Tech/AIRafi Ayub
AI Engineer
Ex-Anthropic
Palo Alto, CA
Engineer behind Llama at Meta and Claude at Anthropic, and left after seeing the dark side of AI from inside
HealthcareBakhtawer Baloch
Founder
Clairdoc
New York, NY
Bootstrapped a billing company to 400+ doctors, then built the AI that catches the denial first.
Tech/AIFares Dahwal
Founder
NasTech
New York, NY
Builds the NIST-aligned security programs that banks get audited against.
HealthcareSherrine Eid
Global Head of Real-World Evidence & Epidemiology
SAS
Macungie, PA
Ran SAS's COVID response team with the CDC and Cleveland Clinic. Now she is its data ethics ambassador for AI in health.
MarketingMostafa Elbermawy
Founder & CEO
Goodie AI
New York, NY
Trained as an archaeologist. Now he works out how brands get found inside ChatGPT.
Law/PolicyHassan Shibly, Esq
Founder
Muslim Legal
Tampa, FL
A decade running CAIR-Florida. FBI harassment, watchlists, border detentions.
Law/PolicyAli Najmi, Esq
Chairman
NYC Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary
New York, NY
The election lawyer behind Mamdani’s rise, now chairing the committee that vets New York’s judges.
Law/PolicyRaheela Ahsan, Esq.
Founder, Attorney
Ahsan Law Firm
Dallas, TX
Appointed by the governor of Texas to a state regulatory board. Economics, then finance, then law.
Health & WellnessNadah Feteih
Founder
Ma’wa Collective
San Diego, CA
Left privacy engineering at Meta to build the largest travel company for Muslim women.
Tech/AIOzair Hasan
Head of IT
Qalam Institute
Dallas, TX
Graduated Qalam’s seminary, then built AI at Yaqeen Institute. Now he runs Qalam’s technology.
MarketingMohammed Hassan
Founder/Creative Director
Water Creative
Australia
Teaches branding out of the Qur’an, Sunnah and Seerah. He calls it the Creative Halaqah.
Faith/EthicsAshequl Hoque
Co-Founder
Miraj Collective
Dallas, TX
Co-founded Qalam and Miraj Collective. Now he writes the checks as well as the curriculum.
FinanceSami Kabir
Regional Vice President
Guidance Residential
Twenty years of financing homes for Muslim families without interest. He leads Guidance Residential's multi-state sales teams.
FinanceMohamed Karar
Venture Partner
Launch Africa Ventures
San Francisco, CA
Helped back 100+ startups across 21 African countries, the continent’s missing seed round.
Health & WellnessFaris Khan
Founder
BF Workout
Washington, DC
Nearly 400,000 people train with Brother Faris. He coaches them like athletes, not gym members.
Tech/AIDawood Khan
Co-Founder
Gradio (acquired by Hugging Face)
New York
Co-founded Gradio, sold it to Hugging Face, and stayed to build it. 14 million downloads a month.
Law/PolicyEnushe Khan
BizOps
EvenUp
New York, NY
Goldman Sachs to venture capital to legal AI. Each move further from the safe one.
MediaCyrus McGoldrick
Founder and Host
The Young Uncles Podcast
Istanbul, Turkiye
Ran civil rights for CAIR-NY. Now broadcasts from Istanbul to millions of views.
Health & WellnessJawad Mourabet
Co-Founder
Velto Pickleball Club
New York, NY
Left McKinsey to build NYC’s first fully automated pickleball club, the one hosting Friday night.
Tech/AIJavad Mushtaq
Founder & CEO
ImpactLab
New York, NY
Norway's top leader under 35, three years running. Now he runs NYC's official AI accelerator, backing the next 165 startups.
Business/StrategyOmar Nassimi
Co-Founder
Pvblic House
Washington, DC
Built the room in the DMV where spiritually rooted builders finally found each other.
ContentYusuf Omar
Founder
Seen.tv
Covered the Syrian war on a phone. Then taught 750 newsroom journalists to do the same.
FinanceHussam Qutub
Senior Vice President, National Sales Manager
Guidance Residential
Vienna, VA
Joined Guidance Residential in 2003 and built its brand. Now he runs national sales for the largest Shariah-compliant home financier in the US.
Climate TechJay Sadiq
Founder & CEO
FortyGuard
Washington, DC
Maps a city’s heat at human height, from Abu Dhabi, one of the world’s hottest cities.
Law/PolicyYasser Salem
Founder
OneNYC
New York, NY
Got 70+ CEOs in a room with New York’s new mayor, then joined his transition team.
Business/StrategyAwais Sheikh
Co-Founder
Forerunners
Washington, DC
Ran strategy for AWS’s largest public-sector division, a multi-billion-dollar book of business.
MediaShaniyat Turani
Investigative Reporter
GrayStak Media
New York, NY
Reported from Lebanon and Palestine during the 2024 war. Then traced covert U.S. weapons shipments through JFK.
Law/PolicyJulie Won
Councilwoman
New York City Council
New York, NY
Ten years at IBM fixing government tech. Then she stared down developers and doubled affordable housing as NYC Councilwoman
CybersecuritySourov Zaman
Global Head of Security Response
Cloudflare
New York, NY
Leads the cybersecurity response team that protects millions of websites from attack.
2025 · Last Year
Faith & EthicsSheikh Joe Bradford
Expert, Fiqh of Startups & Islamic Finance
Islamic University of Madinah
Policy & GovernmentCongressman Jamaal Bowman
Former US Congressman
NY 16th Congressional District
New York, NY
Policy & GovernmentCouncilwoman Shahana Hanif
NYC Council Member
39th District
New York, NY
AI & ResearchDr. Adji Bousso Dieng
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
AI & ResearchSahil Bhaiwala
Director & GM, Global Public Sector
Scale AI
Tech & ProductAyisha Irfan
AI & Product Strategy Lead
EntrepreneurshipHaroon Choudery
CEO
AutoBlocks AI
Media & CreativeHoda Abrahim
Host, Muslim Matchmaker
Hulu
AI & ResearchDr. Waleed Kadous
Chief Scientist
Stockapp
EntrepreneurshipFaizan Ahmed
Co-Founder
HeadStarter
AI & ResearchDr. James Faghmous
ML Lecturer & Author, Spiritual Intelligence
University of Southern California
AI & ResearchHamdan Azhar
Founder & Chief Data Scientist
Prismoji
Faith & EthicsSheikh Mohamed Elshinawy
Director & Research Fellow
Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research
Law & PolicyRamy Ibrahim, Esq.
Corporate Attorney
Amazon Web Services
Venture & FinanceFaran Malik
CEO
Capex Funds
Media & CreativeNuria Almuradi
Founder
Nur Agency
Tech & ProductOsama Alsaleh
Head of Partnerships, Health
Plug and Play
Faith & EthicsSheikh Nouh Kawkab
Founder
Kawkab Institute
Policy & GovernmentDr. Debbie Almontaser
Founder & CEO
Bridging Cultures Group
Health & MedicineDr. Saquib Rahim, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer
PrimeFocus Health
Media & CreativeRodrigo Queiroz
Head of Growth
Segments
Venture & FinanceShastri Mahadeo
Co-Founder
Friday Ventures
EntrepreneurshipSenan Khawaja
Co-Founder & CEO
Kollegio AI
Media & CreativeSakib Afridi
Executive Creative Director
Merkley+Partners
EntrepreneurshipZohaib Rattu
Partner
Social Snowball
Law & PolicySamy Harmoush, Esq.
Managing Attorney
Workers' Advocate Law Group PC
Faith & EthicsIman Sadreddin
Executive Director, Content & Technology
Quran Foundation
Venture & FinanceNabil Maataoui
New England Area Manager
Guidance Residential
EntrepreneurshipAlfarouk Saleh
CEO & Co-Founder
Parb AI
EntrepreneurshipIsmail Sayeed
Founder
The Eid Collective
Venture & FinanceMustafa Ammar
Managing Partner
Blue Nexus Ventures
Tech & ProductJunaid Kapadia
Software Development Manager
Amazon
Media & CreativeRida Ali
Creative Director
Saath Fund
Tech & ProductSafa Shameem
Senior Product Manager
Optum
Tech & ProductFaisal Owimer
Client Success Engineer
Goodie AI
AI & ResearchSafiyyah Sabreen Syeed
Researcher
University of Liverpool
EntrepreneurshipRobhy Bastami
CEO & Co-Founder
Biotics AI
Venture & FinanceFahad Rajput
Founder & Principal
Tresor Group
AI & ResearchIssam Alzouby
Chief AI Engineer
Covenant Intelligence Group
HTS 2025
2025 Sessions
Seize the Moment: Lead Boldly in the Age of AI
This keynote examines AI's threats to humanity — concentrated power, privacy erosion, algorithmic injustice, and…
Sheikh Mohamed Elshinawy
Future at Stake: The Ummatic Urgency to Lead in AI
AI development choices — from data collection to model deployment — reflect particular interests. This keynote…
Dr. Waleed Kadous
Fueling the Next Wave of Muslim-Led Innovation
Muslim founders and investors are rewriting the rules of fundraising — crowdfunding, venture capital, angel investing.…
Safa Shameem · Shastri Mahadeo · Mohamed Karar · Amany Killawi
Masterclass: Fiqh of Startups, Crypto & 21st Century Tech
Islamic jurisprudence applied to venture capital, cryptocurrency, and digital economy innovations. Rigorous frameworks…
Sheikh Joe Bradford
Smart Justice: AI's Role in Modern Law
From predictive policing to courtroom automation — how AI can advance justice while mitigating risks. The panel covers…
Mod: Hamdan Azhar · Enushe Khan · Ramy Ibrahim, Esq. · Samy Harmoush, Esq. · Raheela Ahsan, Esq.
Culture Architects: Branding in the Age of Algorithms
Brands navigating the collision of authenticity, scale, and technology in algorithmic marketplaces. Storytelling vs.…
Mod: Nuria Almuradi · Sakib Afridi · Hoda Abrahim · Rodrigo Queiroz · Faisal Owimer
The AI Workforce Revolution: The Future of Jobs & Skills
Automation and AI are rewriting the social contract of work. How organizations can capitalize on workforce evolution…
Mod: Ayisha Irfan · Mustafa Ammar · Jawad Mourabet · Faizan Ahmed
Journey into the Dark Web
A live tour of the digital underworld — how the dark web differs from the regular internet, connection methods, and…
Fares Dahwal
Vibe Coding: Build Your MVP Before the Chai Gets Cold
Rapid prototyping and MVP development using vibe coding techniques. Speed, experimentation, and AI tools help founders…
Hamdan Azhar
From Beta to Billion-Dollar Valuation: How to Scale an AI Startup
The journey from MVP to unicorn status: product-market fit, global scaling, and navigating the venture landscape. Real…
Zohaib Rattu · Sahil Bhaiwala
Beyond HalalGPT: How Muslims Must Save AI from Itself
Muslims aren't meant to catch up to Silicon Valley — they're positioned to lead the next technological paradigm for all…
Dr. James Faghmous
Soul of the Machine: Islam and the Ethics of AI
How Islamic values can shape a more just and humane digital future for all. Design, deployment, ethics, surveillance,…
Mod: Rida Ali · Dr. Adji Bousso Dieng · Dr. Mona Hamdy · Sheikh Joe Bradford
On the Shoulders of Giants: What Muslim Tech Can Learn from a Generation of Activism
How Muslim technology professionals can draw wisdom from veteran community organizers — the lessons of those who fought…
Mod: Yusuf Abdul-Qadir · Councilwoman Shahana Hanif · Yasser Salem · Dr. Debbie Almontaser
Pitch to Payday: Win Investors, Fund Your Startup
How Muslim founders can successfully pitch to investors, navigate term sheets, and fund their ventures while staying…
Enushe Khan · Mohamed Karar · Mustafa Ammar · Faran Malik
Exit Strategies: How We Scaled & Sold Our Startups
Founders with successful exit experiences share the strategies, negotiations, and timing required to sell companies.…
Mod: Mustafa Ammar · Dawood Khan · Zohaib Rattu
Vision to Venture: How We Built Our Funds
How Muslim investors are establishing venture funds and cultivating deal pipelines. Fund structuring, managing LPs,…
Mod: Javad Mushtaq · Fahad Rajput · Shastri Mahadeo
Quran & Sunnah Applications of AI
AI serving Islamic scholarship and practice. Quran.com demonstrates AI tools that enhance how Muslims engage with the…
Iman Sadreddin
Reinventing Care: AI and the New Era of Medicine
How AI is revolutionizing healthcare through diagnostics and personalized medicine. Medical professionals, researchers,…
Mod: Dr. Saquib Rahim, MD, MBA · Osama Alsaleh · Haroon Choudery · Issam Alzouby · Robhy Bastami
From Idea to Impact: Journeys of Muslim Founders
The stories of Muslim founders who turned their visions into world-changing ventures. Each founder's journey highlights…
Nadah Feteih · Senan Khawaja · Alfarouk Saleh
Solopreneur: How I Use AI to Build a 7-Figure Digital Brand
How a single entrepreneur can harness AI tools to scale competitive businesses. Strategies covering content creation,…
Zaurbek Tsoroev
The Ummah's Moment: Leading the AI Revolution
How Muslim leaders can guide AI development for global benefit through policy, entrepreneurship, and Islamic…
Amany Killawi · Dr. James Faghmous · Dr. Waleed Kadous · Junaid Kapadia
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