PRIVATE INVESTORS EVENT 11 September

September 14, 2022

Friends, our series of private events with investors continues!

On September 11, we held an event with business CEOs, venture capital funds, and investors at the Penthouse. Thanks to everyone who came! Everyone shared their insider information, got to know each other and had a heart-to-heart talk.

The next event will be Thursday – Business Meeting with TOP-5 Legal Experts.

Topic: Full Legal and Administrative Support for Business Investments and Development in UAE.

Write if you would like to join, see you soon!

Farzam Kalamabaidi

Investor

The Most Influential Foreign Figure in Modern China History

Farzam Kamalabadi, Persian-American, is a world-renowned influential personality specially in China, Middle East, Africa, and the West.

On strategy level globally Kamalabadi is in high relations with national leaders of some 100 countries at the level of Presidents & Prime Ministers, or Sultans & Kings, and/or Royal Families, including USA, China, all GCC, Africa, Europe, among others.

In particular he is slated as “The Most Influential Foreign Figure in Modern China History” by Chinese state media, United Nations’ Pictorial magazine, Arabian Business Arabic weekly, and other media in the United States and Europe.

Kamalabadi is Senior Economic Advisor to over 20 municipal and regional governments in China. He is the only foreigner who has masterminded and created several rounds of national policy of China, which have been signed, sealed, and endorsed in writing by China’s state leaders including the President, the Premier, and several other key national leaders collectively.

Kamalabadi is the person who guided and directed Africa’s first ever bloodless and zero- bullet power transition — Zimbabwe November 2017.

A well-known figure in the oil & gas and energy sector on the global stage, Kamalabadi has been the chairman or first keynote speaker at major petroleum & energy summits. He served in various capacities for economic development of nations as Senior Advisor to a number of countries’ national oil systems, including Oman, Kuwait, and China. He has successfully handled various oil and petrochemical trading deals and projects such as securing exploration rights and concessions. He is the only foreign personality in both the two national and several provincial private oil and gas associations of China in the first decade of their formation.

As the originating founder of the New Silk Road policy and China-GCC/MENA/Central Asia cooperation corridor, Kamalabadi was instrumental in China-Tajkistan boarder opening; China-Oman trade volume hyper jump from $600mm to $11Bn between 2001 to 2007; Gulf Cooperation Council’s series of Sovereign Wealth Funds’ investments into Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), the first ever in world history.

Michele Nati

PhD, Head of Telco and Infrastructure Development, IOTA Foundation
Market Cap $887,850,875

Matured almost 20 years of product R&D in Internet of Things and data

Michele has 20 years of experience in the fields of data and IoT, working on research and development and recently on innovation in a number of roles, from Academia to SMEs to government organizations. During his career he pioneered and touched all the technologies and aspects that helped to create the connected world we are living today.

In 2007, Michele obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Rome La Sapienza. He researched, designed and deployed novel cross-layer communication protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks and other resource-constrained embedded devices, dividing his time between Rome and Boston where he was a visiting researcher at the Northeastern University. After his PhD, he worked for academia and a number of SMEs as a research scientist in the area of remote sensing / monitoring.

In 2010 Michele moved to the UK to work at the University of Surrey, where he was a Senior Researcher at the 5G Innovation Centre. As part of the first large scale European smart city project, SmartSantander, he led the development and deployment of an Internet of Things campus-wide testbed comprising of thousands of sensor devices for energy monitoring applications. He led a group of PhD students investigating the impact of IoT and data in creating more sustainable buildings and campuses. He developed proposals and led a number of other European Projects, researching the field of privacy-aware communication and crowdsensing in mobile Internet of Things.

Since 2015 Michele has worked as the Lead Technologist for Data and Trust at Digital Catapult London, driving open innovation in the area of data and trust. He worked on a number of projects and initiatives to increase transparency and individual control on how personal data are collected and shared. He championed the introduction of a standardized Personal Data Receipt to increase transparency, track personal data sharing transactions and provide General Data Protection Regulation compliance.

In his research into trust and transparency, Michele was exposed to blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. He researched DLTs as a means to build an infrastructure for sharing data with trust, and to create innovation in the digital manufacturing and creative industries.

Currently he is an active member of the Mydata community, actively liaising with academia, SMEs, large organizations and governments to identify open innovation activities in the field of data and IoT.

Michele is responsible for growing the IOTA Ecosystem, by identifying, securing funding and leading the development of Web3 IOTA-based products. He manages the development of Spice, an IOTA as a Service solution. Michele also leads EU projects and IOTA international research collaborations. Together with his deep experience on blockchain, to date, Michele matured almost 20 years of product research and development in Internet of Things and data, both in Academia and various SMEs.

Friends, our series of private events with investors continues!

The next event will be Thursday – Business Meeting with TOP-5 Legal Experts.

Samuel Atebefia Omamuyowin

Faith "Queen Wiki" Sloan

Kirill Mishanin

Olivia Mushamba

Messiah Wealth

Farzam Kalamabaidi

Bruce Jeong

Michael Gurvich

Rajesh Natarajan

Austin Kimm

Ángel J. Ortega

Ilya Churakov

Erik Nurm

Shiti Rastogi Manghani

Michele Nati

David Uhryniak

Arslan Kiran

Tatiana Geletskaia

Vladimir "Alex" Kochenov