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The BSF Virtual Hackathon
The BSF Virtual Hackathon
Posted by: Banque Saudi FransiSaudi Arabia

Judges

  • Michael Cunningham

    Michael Cunningham - Chief Strategy & Digital Officer
    Theme: Personal Financial Management
    Organization: Banque Saudi Fransi

    Mike has been a banker his entire career and still wakes up excited each day to do banking ‘stuff’. A serial builder of banks, Mike has built 3.5 banks to date and has another one or two on the way! A Barclays veteran of 12+ years, followed by 8 years at ADCB in the UAE and a failed attempt to build the region’s first truly digital challenger bank, Mike now splits his time between Riyadh and London as he drives the digital agenda for Banque Saudi Fransi. A self-confessed emerging markets junkie with a fanatical outlook on Customer Experience, Mike wants to show the world what our region is capable of.
  • Haitham Aljarbooa

    Haitham Aljarbooa - Head of Digital Banking and Direct Channels
    Theme: Personal Financial Management
    Organization: Banque Saudi Fransi

    A transformation leader and visionary with 21 years of diversified experience in banking and technology, Haitham has a track record of instituting major business development ventures in Saudi banking environment, he is an active member in the society of digital transformation in the country, passionate about building new business models contributing towards augmented growth. Haitham believes that successful business today is more about simplicity, storytelling and happy customer.
  • Grant Niven

    Grant Niven - Head of Group Digital
    Theme: Personal Financial Management
    Organization: Banque Saudi Fransi

    Senior banking & consulting executive, putting clients at the centre of everything “we” do. Digital evangelist, passionate about great experiences enabled via technology. Excellent communicator, operating at board to delivery team level, with a strong consulting, P&L & stakeholder management background. Motivated by an entrepreneurial culture & building successful teams....leading to long term business partnerships & happy customers.


Mentors

  • Badr Tharwat

    Badr Tharwat - Technology Strategy Advisor
    Theme: Personal Financial Management
    Organization: Oracle

    Badr Tharwat is a Techology Advisor experienced in helping Financial Sector Entities, Telcos and Utilities where he played integral part in many concept-to-product large scale projects in the EMEA region. Badr Specializes in Technology Strategy planning and Execution with focus on sustainability and rapid delivery, He is also passionate about Value Proposition design and experienced in running Design Thinking Workshop. Currently he advises Financial Sector entities on digital transformation and innovation management. Additionally he also advises Startups onboarded to Oracle for startups program helping them scale into the Cloud. Badr holds an MBA, a Diploma in Strategic Management and is a TOGAF certified architect.
  • Bandar Alqubisy

    Bandar Alqubisy - Head of Business Development
    Theme: Personal Financial Management
    Organization: Banque Saudi Fransi

    Customer-centric and self-motivated professional with over 15 years of thorough banking experience in financial services within the digital realm. Strong ability in the development of strategic visions and their profitable execution in the areas of Customer Value Management, Consumer Asset Product, Remittance, Commercial Card Banking, Credit, Debit, Prepaid Cards and technology (loyalty management systems, security & identity management). Held various roles in the areas of management, products, sales, marketing, and operations adding value to my existing strong leadership and multitasking abilities. A passionate leader with a strong focus in creating customer value with thorough understanding and consideration of the customer life cycle. My main specialty is my ability to fit bank' products and services into the organizations’ sales and service model in order to maximize customers acquisition and increase cross selling ratio.
  • Ben Lloyd

    Ben Lloyd - Head of Digital Product
    Theme: Personal Financial Management
    Organization: Banque Saudi Fransi

    Ben is Head of Digital Product at BSF. In his role he is responsible for the creation and enhancement of new and existing financial instruments and channels. Previously, he has been a successful fundraiser for startups and worked on one of the largest recapitalisation events in Europe. He also advises FinTech Venture Capital Fund, 1818 Venture Capital.
  • Hany Soliman

    Hany Soliman - General Manager
    Theme: Personal Financial Management
    Organization: Paytabs

    Hany Soliman is equipped with 17 years of diversified experience in business development and strategic management serving SMEs and entrepreneurs in several countries and across different sectors; Banking, document management, telecom and more recently, fintech. Hany used to head Commercial International Bank-Egypt Innovation & Digital Strategic Alliance department where he was responsible for building the digital business value proposition and articulating the strategy to serve the unbanked segment through mobile products and payment solutions to achieve financial inclusion. He also worked to support startups and the entrepreneurship ecosystem to complement the Innovation department’s business proposition. This led to CIB being positioned as the FinTech hub in the Egyptian market. Throughout his career, Hany has participated in many strategic initiatives and programs as an advisor and mentor to SMEs and entrepreneurs on how to benefit from banking services and have access to finance at different stages of their lifecycle along with angel investment activities that got him deeply engaged with several startups in the market. His knowledge is backed by an ICFA from the Chartered Institution for Securities and Investment in London and an MBA from Phoenix University. In his current role, Hany leads -MENA’s award winning fintech solution provider -PayTabs, Egyptian operations.
  • Karim Zaitouni

    Karim Zaitouni - CEO
    Theme: Personal Financial Management
    Organization: OnePay

    - Laureate of the polytechnic university - MBA in management of innovation - CEO of the international company SisPay S.A - President of Business Plus network, an international professional business referral network organized under international ISO standards and a large networking platform - Expert in entrepreneurship and innovative projects - International Speaker, in entrepreneurship, innovation, and new technologies
  • Nadim Samna

    Nadim Samna - Managing Partner
    Theme: Personal Financial Management
    Organization: Startexis

    Nadim Samna is a management consultant, thought leader in digital banking, Fintech enthusiast and mentor for many startups. For 20 years, Nadim was living in Europe, assisting leading financial institutions (BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Credit Agricole, AttijariWafa…) in transforming their activities and capturing the benefits of digital technologies. After working for Top consulting firms (Oliver Wyman, Kurt Salmon, Deloitte Consulting) and steering transformation programs across 15 countries located in 3 continents, Nadim started focusing on Egypt and the Middle East. He founded Stratexis to contribute to the ongoing transformation of Egyptian and Middle Eastern organizations. He chose to be located in the Greek Campus, the heart of the startup ecosystem in Egypt to actively bridge between financial institutions and startups. Nadim holds an executive MBA from Insead and 2 Master’s degrees in Telecom Engineering and Finance.
  • Nizar Alturaif

    Nizar Alturaif - Regional Cloud & Innovation Consultant / Architect
    Theme: Personal Financial Management
    Organization: Oracle

    A Saudi Tech professional with a demonstrated experience of working in Europe & the Middle East as a Technology Consultant in the IT & services industry. Currently working as a Regional Cloud & Innovation Consultant / Architect for Oracle in the Gulf. Focusing mainly on the adoption of Emerging Technologies (Mobile & Chatbots, IoT, Blockchain) through Cloud Computing (Infrastructure & Platform) to drive Digital Transformation and innovation across all industries for S&M businesses in addition to large enterprises.
  • Omar Al Shabaan

    Omar Al Shabaan - Co-Founder & CEO
    Theme: Personal Financial Management
    Organization: The Space

    Omar Al-Shabaan is an Entrepreneur, Business Developer, and a Consultant with over 15 years of work experience, he is the co-founder and CEO of The Space. He was the Partnership director at Misk Innovation, a subsidiary of Misk Foundationwww.misk.org.sa, as well as serving as a short term consultant with The World Bank group on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and was an Advisor for the National Digitization Unit in the Saudi Government. He co-founded The Space, a Saudi company focused on developing and operating coworking spaces, incubators, and accelerators. Omar has worked previously in Nestle, Healthcare Development Holding group, and Tam Development, where he contributed in the latest to creating multiple public engagement programs in the Kingdom and regionally. Omar has an MBA from IE business school in Madrid, and an Executive Master in Corporate Communication from the same school.
  • Saqr Ereiqat

    Saqr Ereiqat - Consulting Leader - Government & Public Sector
    Theme: Personal Financial Management
    Organization: IBM

    Saqr Mashhor Ereiqat is a Dubai based BlockChain aficionado, leading IBM’s consulting arm, Global Business Services for the public sector & government industry in Dubai as well as the IBM Associates program for Middle East and Africa. In the past he has been establishing HealthTech Innovation Hubs and has spent the majority of his career at IBM leading complex projects across 23 Countries in Europe, Middle East & Africa; focusing 2015 to 2018 assisting clients to define their BlockChain agenda. He successfully led one of the first BlockChain Strategy Engagements for IBM's Government Industry. He has immersed himself into the Government & Healthcare industry, advising large hospital conglomerates on their strategy. In Saudi Arabia, he set up the award winning National Health Lab for Emerging Technology for the Saudi Arabian Government.

Participants
51

Team size
2-5

Registration Start Date
Jul 16, 2020

Registration End Date
Aug 20, 2020

Shortlisting Date
Aug 27, 2020

Hackathon Start Date
Aug 31, 2020

Hackathon End Date
Sep 06, 2020

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