Speakers

Ali Shabdar has spent nearly three decades at the intersection of business and technology as a practitioner who has built systems, grown markets, and helped hundreds of organizations change how they work.

As Zoho's first employee in the Middle East and Africa, he helped turn a promising yet volatile market into the company's fastest-growing region. The lesson that stuck: results at scale are never just about the technology.

Today, as Head of Strategic Growth at Zoho, he works with growing businesses on exactly that lesson. He calls the era we're entering the Age of Homo Augmentus, where technology amplifies what people are capable of rather than replacing them.

A three-time published author and a techno-realist, Ali is based in Texas and works globally.