Jordan Innovation / Finance
Most of the Jordanians financing the AI era have never been in the same room. For one evening in New York, they will be.
Jordan Innovation began in San Francisco with the engineers building at the frontier of AI. New York turns to the other side of the same story: the people financing it.
Recognition. Surfacing the Jordanians inside the institutions assembling the AI capital stack — private equity, infrastructure, private credit, investment banking, venture capital, data centers, energy and compute.
Inspiration. Making that participation visible, at home and abroad. A young Jordanian shouldn’t experience AI as something happening to other people in Silicon Valley or New York. They should see their own in consequential seats and conclude: I can be part of this.
Connection. Putting those people in one room — not to speak on panels, but to know each other. A network that outlasts the evening, across finance, technology and infrastructure, between the diaspora and Jordan.
This is deliberately not an investment-promotion event. The proposition is Jordanians financing the AI economy, globally. Jordan’s gain comes from the network itself: once connected, it finds its own way home.
The evening:
6:00 PM · Arrival and reception
6:30 PM · ★ The Entrepreneur and the Capital Stack: Fadi Ghandour (Founder, Aramex) in conversation with Walid Faza (Partner, Novo Capital). An exclusive screening of a pre-recorded interview, shown only to guests in the room. It will not be livestreamed or published.
7:00 PM · Seeing Value Before the Crowd: Scott Storkamp (CIO, Morgens Waterfall) in conversation with Faris Gammoh
7:30 PM · From Compute to Customers: Salah Zalatimo (Managing Partner, Ooblek) in conversation with Dima Ayyash (Co-Founder, Pebble)
8:30 PM · Dinner over mansaf
Not in New York? The conversations from 7:00 PM ET will be streamed live. Subscribe to the Jordan Innovation YouTube channel to get the alert when we go live: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5quxzRBMOA96Tqim3AJmg?sub_confirmation=1
Around 75–100 seats, curated. Every request is reviewed personally. Address and arrival details are shared with confirmed guests.