Dubai Tech Tuesdays No. 74 - Special UAE National Day Edition + Impact by Liora Global
*** PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU REGISTER FOR EASIER ACCESS ***
📅 DATE: Our 74th Dubai Tech Tuesdays event will be held on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, from 6:00 - 11:30 PM.
🎭 VENUE: Come mingle with fellow technologists at our lovely venue - the amazing BELCANTO RESTAURANT AT THE DUBAI OPERA. The venue's management is generously providing special menu selections. belcantodxb
🍹DRINK SPECIALS: FREE entrance for women 👠. Men - 150 AED gets you 3 beverages (mandatory, but note that the venue's mocktails are very nice).
🤝 EVENT PARTNER: Liora Global. Liora Global curates and delivers worldwide integrated impact campaigns that unite media, marketing, and experiential strategy to create measurable results. They collaborate with brands, family offices, and cultural institutions to transform attention into place-based outcomes aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. liora_global
🕕 6:00 - 8:00 pm GATHER and SOCIALIZE. We know traffic and parking is crazy! Do NOT stress. Take your time and get here.
🕕 8:00 - 9:00 pm SPEAKERS & PRESENTATIONS. Tech Tuesdays features the best tech projects and intellectual content. Think well-done TED or Davos talks. We are like that.
🎙 MICHELLEE FOX, Founder and CEO of Liora Global. Liora Global is a strategic impact studio working where culture, capital, and consciousness meet. A Brazilian-born, Green Michelin–trained chef and global storyteller, she has led humanitarian food operations in Eastern Ukraine, produced large-scale cultural events, and created cinematic documentary work filmed entirely solo in her signature “one woman, one camera, one take” style. She is also the architect behind DGRID, a unified AI-driven response system designed to deliver actionable intelligence within the first twelve hours of crisis. Her work spans food sustainability, ancestral knowledge, and systems design, advising brands, institutions, and global leaders on regenerative strategy. michelleefox
🎙 ELENA RAKHIMOVA, Founder & CEO — Swiss Financial Engineering for GCC Institutional Investors. Elena is the CEO of Rahim Invest, a Swiss platform engineering sophisticated fiduciary investment structures for top-tier GCC institutional investors. Through Swiss banking products, 0% interest environments, and compliant leverage mechanisms, she enables clients to turn their capital two to three times simultaneously across €25M–€300M DeepTech and sustainability-linked rounds. Elena is ranked #2 in Switzerland in Finance & Investing by Favikon. rahim_invest
🎙 VANESSA BUDAH, Founder & CEO Seed Frequency. Seed Frequency is a pioneering wellness-tech platform bringing holographic healing and mind–body–soul coherence into everyday life. With over 20 years across wellness, travel, media, and entertainment, Vanessa blends ancient wisdom with immersive technology to create transformative, accessible healing tools. She's the Lifestyle partner to VOYEX, a private jet company that offers transformative travel and mastermind experience designed for global visionaries and high-performance leaders. Her work spans collaborations with tech, tourism boards, luxury brands, and high-net-worth communities, positioning her as a bridge between spirituality, innovation, and human potential. Vanessa is currently leading the expansion of the Seed ecosystem to elevate global consciousness at scale. vanessa-budah-873ab051
🎙 ALENA SHMALKO, Director of Ecosystem at TON Foundation. Alena leads global ecosystem growth for teams and developers building on TON, the blockchain integrated with Telegram. With over six years in scaling fintech, RWA and edtech startups, she has launched multi-million growth programs, co-founded an accelerator supported by Mastercard, Polygon, and TRON — and forged partnerships with leading global companies and venture funds to accelerate founders and innovation. alena-shmalko
🎙 AHAD M. BHAI, CEO of Liberty Gaming FZCO /SIXR Cricket. Ahad is the Founder and CEO of Bongo, Bangladesh’s largest entertainment platform, where he has spent over a decade driving product expansion, strategy, and digital scale. He also leads Liberty Gaming FZCO as CEO and majority shareholder, overseeing the strategy, fundraising, and execution behind the SIXR Cricket Web3 ecosystem. His background spans digital media and large-scale content distribution, having built Bongo and BongoStudios into a network reaching more than 300 million followers globally. At SIXR, he directs the creation of the first Web3 cricket experience backed by TON, Telegram, Bongo, and 24+ global cricket stars. ahad-bhai-9b54b586
DUBAI TECH TUESDAYS SPECIAL UAE NATIONAL DAY EDITION
As we do every year, Dubai Tech Tuesdays is proud to acknowledge and honor UAE National Day.
🕕 9:00 - 9:30 pm COMMUNITY INTRODUCTIONS - UAE NATIONAL DAY EDITION. 20 or so guests will be invited to introduce themselves on stage to the community, microphone in hand. AND each guest can related something positive, special and/or insightful relating to their experiences in the UAE. Community Introductions are conducted by our friend and colleague, KARMIN HABIBI, Founder of the Savvy Closer Method. https://www.linkedin.com/in/karminhabibi/25
🕕 9:30 -10:30 pm SPECIAL EVENING PROGRAM AND SONG PREMIERE PRESENTED BY ANNA KAM.
We are thrilled to collaborate in doing so with our talented creative entrepreneur, songwriter, singer and film director friend, ANNA KAMENEVA. Anna will present us with a special program celebrating creativity, culture, and innovation in the Emirates. Within the program, Anna will perform her new English song “Emirates Vibe”, dedicated to all seven Emirates.
“Through this performance, I want to express my love and admiration for the UAE - its people, creativity, and energy that inspires me every day.”
— Anna Kam annakam_official
🎁🎉🎂🎈 We should also mention that it is ANNA KAM's birthday and that we are excited and humbled that she and her friends have elected to celebrate it with us.
10:30 pm - Midnight NETWORKING + DINNER + SHISHA. Now is the time to meet everyone else you might have missed before. Grab a (new) friend, grab a drink, and grab a table. Create and deepen your connections with good conversation. Everyone is friendly and open - so introduce yourself to someone new.
🎥 MEDIA PARTNER: We are thrilled to be supported by FS Entertainment as our media/photography partner. fsentertainmentofficial
👔👗 DRESSCODE: Please dress to impress - this is a high-level business and social event. *** NO caps/shorts NO open toe shoes / sneakers *** Be classy (please). Men - try wearing a suit or sports jacket. Don't wear some random T-shirt/raggedy jeans. Women - this is your chance to be elegant. The venue WILL block access in case of inappropriate, sloppy, or indecent attire.
🤝 COMMUNITY SUPPORT: Thanks to Web3 Future Space for their continued support. https://web3future.space
ALSO we welcome the referral of other quality guests.