AI takes centre stage as Web Summit kicks off in Qatar
By Urooba Jamal
Under blocks of flashing lights, entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders converged in central Doha on Monday as Web Summit, one of the world’s biggest tech conferences, opened in Qatar’s capital.
The event, held in the Middle East for the first time, brings together participants from dozens of countries who, over four days, will be hoping to establish new connections, share insights and secure funds...
For Arezu Aghasey, attending this year’s Web Summit is something of a full-circle moment.
She last took part in the forum a decade ago as a scholar selected to participate as a youth professional and is now at the conference in Doha to scout for start-ups to invest in, spearheading portfolio management at the venture capital firm Crea, from San Francisco in the United States.
“I’m focusing on finding startups [and] how I can take them from the MENA region, bring them to Silicon Valley, and vice versa,” Aghasey told Al Jazeera.
“So build a globalisation bridge.”
Arezu Aghaseyedjavadi graduated from the MIMS degree program in 2015.
