Speakers

Faith/Ethics

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

Tech/AI

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

Faith/Ethics

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

Law/Policy

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

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.

Finance

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

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.

Media

Started a weekly newsletter in college. Ten million people now follow what it became.

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.

Tech/AI

Engineer behind Llama at Meta and Claude at Anthropic, and left after seeing the dark side of AI from inside

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.

Healthcare

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

Marketing

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

Law/Policy

A decade running CAIR-Florida. FBI harassment, watchlists, border detentions.

Law/Policy

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

Law/Policy

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

Health & Wellness

Left privacy engineering at Meta to build the largest travel company for Muslim women.

Tech/AI

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

Marketing

Teaches branding out of the Qur’an, Sunnah and Seerah. He calls it the Creative Halaqah.

Faith/Ethics

Co-founded Qalam and Miraj Collective. 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.

Tech/AI

Co-founded Gradio, sold it to Hugging Face, and stayed to build it. 14 million downloads a month.

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.

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.

Law/Policy

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

Business/Strategy

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

Media

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

Law/Policy

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

Cybersecurity

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