Speakers

Faith/Ethics

One of the most influential Islamic scholars in the West, with a Yale PhD in theology.

Law/Policy

Elected by young parliamentarians from 179 countries to lead them. Harvard MPA, Yale World Fellow.

Cybersecurity

Leads the cybersecurity response team that protects millions of websites from attack.

Tech/AI

Builds factuality into Google DeepMind’s foundational models. Before that, misinformation detection at Meta and on-device ML at Apple.

Tech/AI

Ex-SpaceX, ex-NASA, ex-U.S. Space Force. Now building the materials that fly to space.

Healthcare

A behavioral scientist who ran health informatics at the National Cancer Institute. Now he leads population health for AWS.

Cybersecurity

Nine years as CISO of a $26B health system. Now Databricks’ Field CISO, and faculty on Carnegie Mellon’s CISO program.

Law/Policy

Ten years at IBM fixing government tech. Then she stared down developers and doubled affordable housing as NYC Councilwoman

Faith/Ethics

Founded Qalam, one of the seminaries American Islamic scholarship is now built on.

Law/Policy

The election lawyer behind Mamdani’s rise, now chairing the committee that vets New York’s judges.

Finance

Over $1B in deals structured. Now she’s the one reading the term sheet at Techstars.

Tech/AI

Founded the Google team behind Android's blue dot. Now builds an Islamic AI assistant.

Finance

Turned down a six-figure bank job for Detroit. The platform he built there has moved $650M+.

Finance

Inc.’s Female Founders 100. The social worker who turned Muslim giving into a $650M platform.

Healthcare

Ran SAS's COVID response team with the CDC and Cleveland Clinic. Now she is its data ethics ambassador for AI in health.

Business/Strategy

Ran strategy for AWS’s largest public-sector division, a multi-billion-dollar book of business.

Law/Policy

Wants climate disinformation fact-checked by machine, and the platforms that spread it liable.

Law/Policy

Got 70+ CEOs in a room with New York’s new mayor, then joined his transition team.

Tech/AI

Taught AI at MIT, Columbia, Stanford and USC. Was CTO of Mount Sinai's global health institute.

Faith/Ethics

Takes the questions young Muslims are too embarrassed to ask, and answers them on TikTok.

Faith/Ethics

Advises the G20, the UN and the World Bank on AI ethics, from a Harvard applied-ethics PhD.

Faith/Ethics

A scholar trained in Damascus, coaching founders on the emotional intelligence nobody teaches them.

Tech/AI

Ran an ACLU chapter, then wrote product policy at Meta. Now teaches AI & Justice at Syracuse.

Tech/AI

A UCLA engineer building the AI back end for companies scaling past $5M ARR.

Health & Wellness

Over fifteen years inside a Silicon Valley tech company, and a licensed counselor. His subject is AI and mental wellness.

Faith/Ethics

Ex-Google strategist, ex-IBM consultant, eight-time triathlete. Now he coaches the founders.

Healthcare

Harvard-trained child psychiatrist. He helped write Boston Children’s manual for problematic screen use.

Healthcare

Bootstrapped a billing company to 400+ doctors, then built the AI that catches the denial first.

Tech/AI

Builds the NIST-aligned security programs that banks get audited against.

Law/Policy

Appointed by the governor of Texas to a state regulatory board. Economics, then finance, then law.

Tech/AI

Graduated Qalam’s seminary, then built AI at Yaqeen Institute. Now he runs Qalam’s technology.

Faith/Ethics

Miraj Collective and served as Executive Director at Qalam. Now he writes the checks as well as the curriculum.

Finance

Twenty years of financing homes for Muslim families without interest. He leads Guidance Residential's multi-state sales teams.

Finance

Helped back 100+ startups across 21 African countries, the continent’s missing seed round.

Health & Wellness

Nearly 400,000 people train with Brother Faris. He coaches them like athletes, not gym members.

Law/Policy

Goldman Sachs to venture capital to legal AI. Each move further from the safe one.

Media

Ran civil rights for CAIR-NY. Now broadcasts from Istanbul to millions of views.

Health & Wellness

Left McKinsey to build NYC’s first fully automated pickleball club, the one hosting Friday night.

Tech/AI

Norway's top leader under 35, three years running. Now he runs NYC's official AI accelerator, backing the next 165 startups.

Tech/AI

Fifteen years finding human stories in strange datasets, from emoji and payments to culture, community, and the data of a human life.

Business/Strategy

Built the room in the DMV where spiritually rooted builders finally found each other.

Content

Covered the Syrian war on a phone. Then taught 750 newsroom journalists to do the same.

Finance

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 Tech

Maps a city’s heat at human height, from Abu Dhabi, one of the world’s hottest cities.

Media

Reported from Lebanon and Palestine during the 2024 war. Then traced covert U.S. weapons shipments through JFK.

Faith/Ethics

An MIT PhD in electrical engineering and an Alimiyyah degree. Lead author of Yaqeen’s fiqh of artificial intelligence.

Law/Policy

Worked both sides at two litigation firms, then founded one that acts only for workers.

Finance

Seven years on Wall Street, on deals worth more than $20 billion. Now he writes the checks, in real estate and in venture.

Tech/AI

Left NHS residency a year in to build the AI that answers the phone at private clinics.

Law/Policy

Eighteen years at Homeland Security, leading its policy work on face recognition and AI.

Media

Award winning screenwriter and AFI directing fellow. Now she works on how Hollywood writes Muslims.

Business/Strategy

Patented a cotton candy pop in 2014. Now she is building AI portrait experiences.

Tech/AI

Came from rural Pakistan to Brooklyn in 1998. Now he teaches organisations to use AI.

Law/Policy

Two years a software engineer, then Harvard Law — now she holds the industry she came from to account.

Marketing

Trained as an archaeologist. Now he works out how brands get found inside ChatGPT.

Tech/AI

Sits between frontier models and the founders building on them, at Google for Startups.

Law/Policy

She built DC's first Office of Innovation from scratch, overseeing AI transformation.

Media

Social marketing at MTV, BET, iHeartRadio and WWE. Now she co-founds the events where the diaspora meets in person.

Tech/AI

Founder of QUWA Labs and a former Microsoft and JPMorgan Chase engineer. She teaches non-technical founders to actually build.

Finance

Weighs reinsurance risk across Bermuda, London and North America, and builds the AI to do it faster. Miss Universe Pakistan finalist.

Business/Strategy

Builds public interest platforms across technology, capital and culture. Appointments at Stanford and the United Nations.

Tech/AI

Teaches AI and climate at Johns Hopkins, and hosts the Beyond the Byte podcast. Founded ByteWise, an ethical technology strategy firm.

Education

Imam and Director at New York's largest Islamic center, and teacher to more than 700 students. Now he trains the next generation of reciters.

Business/Strategy

Ran the country's largest employment data program at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now she measures what AI is doing to work.

Tech/AI

The youngest delegate from any country to negotiate the UN Sustainable Development Goals now builds AI for Meta and AstraZeneca.

Business/Strategy

Runs operations for Orphans In Need USA, and a khateeb at ADAMS Center. Trained more than 500 professionals across Fortune 500 companies.