Dr. Mourad Bouache is the Engineering Director at Intel's AI Innovation Center, where he drives performance optimization in strategic AI workloads. He blends deep technical expertise in computer architecture, performance analysis, and AI/ML/DL with a strategic approach honed by his MIT xPRO Chief Operating Officer (COO) certification.

With over a decade of experience at industry leaders like Intel, Verizon Media, and Yahoo, Dr. Bouache has spearheaded projects in AI-powered anomaly detection, system optimization, and hardware acceleration.  His work analyzing industry benchmarks, profiling software, and collaborating across teams informs the design of next-generation AI solutions.

Security Architect with more than a decade of experience in designing, testing, and implementing leading-edge security solutions while balancing security initiatives to risks, business operations, and innovations.

Specialties include cloud and application security architecture, Telco and ICS security, cryptography, and data protection, with extensive experience in the Telecommunications (Huawei, Ooredoo, and Twilio) and Healthcare industries (Abbott Laboratories). 

Siham holds an MA in TEFL from the University of Batna 1, Algeria. She has a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of Essex, UK. She has lectured in English Linguistics at both universities in Algeria and the UK, and she is currently teaching at Ibn Haldun University in Turkey. She also holds a Cambridge CELTA certificate for teaching English as a second/foreign language from the UK. Since 2013, she has been teaching English to different international students across the world. 

Her main research interests are language change, language ideologies, policies and planning, multilingualism and education, gender issues, media discourse analysis, minorities, identity and nationalism, and the sociology of immigration. She has published in a number of journals including The British Academy and the International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Her most recent presentations have been on the topics of motivation in blended learning, critical thinking, academic writing, and gamification in EFL classrooms.

Dr Amina Douidi is a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) and Intercultural Communication consultant in English Language Teaching (ELT). 

She holds a PhD in Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics from the University of Southampton (UK), and a joint MA in ELT from Tlemcen University (Algeria) and University of Balearic Islands (Spain). She is a DEI reviewer for ELT publishers and teaches pre-sessional English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at UK Higher Education institutions. She is an associate Fellow of AdvanceHE and acts as co-editor of the TESOL ICIS newsletter championing contributions of teachers and researchers from the Global Majority. 

• Hadjer Benmeziane received her Master's and Engineering degrees in Computer Science at the Higher National School of Computer Science, Algiers, Algeria, in 2020. 

• She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search at the University Polytechnic Hauts-de-France, LAMIH/CNRS, Valenciennes, France. Her goal is to offer tools for everyone to use deep learning on any low-power platform. In 2018, she founded School of AI Algiers, a community of Algerian AI enthusiast that organize events and workshops and promotes AI education. 

• Worked as a software engineer in a FinTech startup in Constantine in 2020.

• Awarded the “Stipendium Hungaricm” scholarship which allowed me to pursue a master degree in Data Science at the Eötvös Lorand University (ELTE) in Budapest Hungary 

• He worked as a part-time machine learning engineer in a Hungarian company “Webpredict.io” where we leveraged and implemented NLP and NLG-oriented technologies.

• Currently doing a PhD in Tübingen, Germany in the sphere of “Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Healthcare” within the “International Max-Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems” (IMPRS-IS) doctoral program.