About The Speaker
Ayat Amr
Computer Engineer, Youth Ambassador for Jordan at the United Nations and social media influencer. Ayat's passion for robotics got her immensely involved in several aspects of the engineering arena, from Microsoft Internship programs in Germany and US, to co-founding the IEEE Computer Society Chapter and co-organized the first IEEE Grand Tech conference, hosting 100 post-secondary students throughout Jordan. She also went to NASA Johnson Space Center – Houston, Texas, and was selected by The United Nations to be the Youth Delegate of Jordan in the Youth Human Rights International Summit in NYC.Ayat is also business development consultant with Zest, connecting Tech-Startups in the Middle East with Investors in Silicon Valley and deploying our cross industry expertise to reduce the chances of their venture failure to a minimum. Zest currently has 17 happy clients with a great track record of helping founders, with over 62% of the companies still in operation and have raised more than $12M in VC money.