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Every month, somewhere worth being.

Forty-plus meetups and counting, across two communities and 27 governorates. Here's what's next — and the record behind it.

40+ meetups delivered 1,600+ seats filled Monthly without a gap
What's next

Coming up.

17–18
September

AI Filmmaking Hackathon

Hackathon · GenAI Club
25
September

GenAI Night

Creative night · GenAI Club
03
October

AI Transformation in Filmmaking

At Techne Summit
09
October

AI Film Festival — Round Zero

Flagship · Egypt Eternal Voices
16
October

Cybersecurity Meetup

Technical meetup · People of Data
23
October

AI in HR

Industry session · People of Data
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The record

Every meetup we've run.

A selection from the run, newest first. Real speakers, real rooms, real attendance numbers — the receipts behind the community.

Technical meetup

The Con Artist Just Got an AI Upgrade

Phishing, voice cloning and deepfakes. Real people, real inboxes, real failures — and that was before AI entered the picture.

Omar ElZaherCybersecurity Engineer — Beltone
49 attended
Technical meetup

Machines That See, Systems That Think

Computer vision didn't evolve — it exploded. Where it came from, and what it means for your work.

Mahmoud AbdelazizFounder & CEO — DevisionX
56 attended
Career session

Build Your Data Career in the AI Era

The field is moving faster than the job titles. Skills, roles and where the market is actually going.

Ahmed AliSenior Data & Analytics Engineer — Henkel
Mahmoud AymanSenior BI & Analytics Engineer — EFG Holding
330 attended
Roundtable · Invite only

Seniors Roundtable

What we'd do differently — a private roundtable of senior data, AI, tech and product leaders on the lessons that only show up years in.

Curated roundtableSenior leaders only
106 attended
Leaders · Invite only

Data & AI Leaders Meetup

No panels. No pitch decks. An invite-only room of Egypt's top data and AI minds, and one question: what can functional AI do for the economy in 18 months?

Curated networking formatInvite only
280 attended
Technical meetup

Own the Future: Why Data Must Be Your #1 Priority

Architecture, engineering and BI — why data is now the most powerful asset an organisation holds.

Kerolos AlfonsData Architecture AVP — GB Corp
48 attended
Industry session

Think Segments, Win Revenue

Customer Value Management: the segmentation strategies behind record revenue months.

Islam Atef El-TiarCVM Director — WaffarX
43 attended
Career session

Breaking Into Data Engineering in the Age of AI

How to land the role, and how AI is quietly redrawing what the role even is.

Amr SalehCEO — Kiwilytics
156 attended
Technical meetup

Charts That Change Decisions

Choosing the right chart, designing it properly, and telling the story the data actually supports.

Abdelaziz MahjoubData Visualization Manager · 3× Tableau Ambassador
95 attended
Bootcamp · Skilllz

Introduction to Machine Learning

Eight hands-on sessions. No slides-only theory — you leave having built something.

Mohamed HassanienCTO — Student Gator
87 attended
Founder session

From Startup to Success

Navigating AI across diverse domains, from someone who built the company while doing it.

Ahmed AbazaCo-Founder & CEO — Synapse Analytics
112 attended
Corporate fireside

Banque Misr <> People of Data

A fireside chat on the future of banking, AI and machine learning — with hiring on the table.

Dina HelmySenior Data Lead — Banque Misr
Mohamed HassaneinCTO — Student Gator
Youssef KamalCo-Founder — People of Data
136 attended
Corporate session

People of Data <> MVG

Loyalty programmes built for human-centric interactions — what actually makes people come back.

Islam Atef El-TiarCVM Director — WaffarX
115 attended
Career session

Every Dataset Has a Story Behind It

Two decades inside data modelling and analytics leadership, told as a career, not a curriculum.

Mohamed FetihaChief Data Officer — AXA Egypt
Beyond the meetups

Hackathons, festivals and the big rooms.

Hackathons

AI Filmmaking Hackathon

Two days, generative video tools, and a finished film at the end. Next run: 17–18 September.

Festivals

AI Film Festival

Round Zero, 9 October. $10,000 prize pool for the top three.

Invite only

Data & AI Leaders Meetup

280 attendees. Leaders running data ecosystems serving 50M+ users in Egypt.

Private

Seniors Roundtable

106 senior data, AI, tech and product leaders. No stage, no slides.

Monthly

GenAI Nights

For creators in film, advertising, music, fashion and design.

Agentic AI

Agents that do the work

Build sessions and corporate programmes on agentic systems — planning, tool use and agents wired into workflows that already run. Delivered with Helm.

Ecosystem presence

We show up where the ecosystem is.

Community partner, stage, or both. The rooms we don’t run are the rooms where the rest of Egypt’s tech ecosystem gets to meet the network.

February 2025

RiseUp — AI Unleashed

Cairo Business Park. Our first RiseUp collaboration, built entirely around the AI track.

Community partner
8–10 May 2025

RiseUp Summit 25

The Grand Egyptian Museum. Three days on the region’s biggest startup stage, with a dedicated community promo code for our members.

Community partner · member promo code
2024 & 2025

DSC MENA

Community partner across both editions — the 2025 run held 10–12 April at the Egypt University of Informatics.

Community partner · two editions
2025

TechShift Summit

Partnered with a community ticket discount for members across the network.

Partner · member discount
Alexandria

Techne Summit

On the programme in Alexandria — including AI Transformation in Filmmaking.

Speaking · programme partner
Cairo

AI Salon Cairo ×2

Two editions with Consoleya — smaller rooms, senior conversations.

Co-host
Connect X initiative AI & Blockchain Community Brunch · GrEEK Campus Alumni session · MSA University ESLSCA Career Fair Talk at Creativa Hub Benha

AI For Everyone, Everywhere!

Not a slogan. A test we hold every programme to — if it only reaches Cairo, or only reaches people who already had a head start, we haven't done the work.