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Alireza Omidvar – Tehran Hub for Social Innovation – Tehran

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Alireza spent past decade leading teams and projects; most importantly in consulting and advisory services to foreign investors and large companies in Iran in terms of marketing plan, local partners, political analysis, Strategic planing,etc for OMV, Tetrapak, Caterpillar , World Bank and BAT but my passions, however, go beyond this industry.

He looks for IMPACT everywhere and this is the reason he is the co-founding member of two non for profit associations in Iran to improve the business environment in Iran in a responsible way, prepare the environment for entrepreneurs and Start-ups and promote these concepts in public policy arena.

He is also keen on exploring how we can solve complex social issues through hybrid approaches including business and politics.

Alireza is now starting a new initiative called Tehran Social Innovation Center, which is an entrepreneurship and technology innovation center focused on education (through classes and workshops), workforce development (through incubation), business acceleration, and economic development in technology and 21st century skills. As a beacon of resource through physical space and curated programming, TSIC provides impactful individuals and organizations the resources to realize their ideas for a better world.

See Lebanon For Yourself!

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The Phoenice Hotel recently launched #SeeLebanonForYourself, an initiative to highlight the beauty of Lebanon through high quality virtual images. The areas currently available are the following: Baalbeck, Jeita Grotto, Saydit el Nourieh, Saida Souq, Balou3 Balaa, Saida Sea Castle, Beiteddine Hammam.

Check out the See Lebanon for Yourself website to explore unseen angles of #Lebanon with one click. Use the arrows to#SeeLebanonforyourself in a 360 view!

Imad Riachi – Facebook – London

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Imad Riachi is currently the Data Science Lead for Product Analytics at Facebook in London.

He also sits on the advisory board of Essentia Analytics, a multi-award winning London-based financial technology start up working in the behavioral finance space, where he used to be VP of Product and Chief Scientist prior to joining Facebook.

Before Essentia Analytics, he worked as a strategist and algo-trading quant at Goldman Sachs.

Imad is a multi-disciplinary scientist with expertise in complex systems modeling/simulations, machine learning and big data – and a keen interest in Neuroscience and AI.

Karim Atiyeh – Paribus – USA

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Karim is the Founder and CTO of Paribus, a startup that saves shoppers money by automatically claiming price drop and price match guarantees on their behalf.

Karim launched Paribus at TechCrunch Disrupt in May 2015, went through YCombinator this past summer and recently raised a $2.1M seed round from top Silicon Valley VCs including General Catalyst and Greylock.

Prior to launching Paribus, Karim worked on broad are of technical topics from natural language processing to computer vision, advanced hardware design and machine learning. He received his Bachelor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and MS in Computer Science from Harvard University where he was a Siebel Scholar.