About The Speaker
Samar AbdelFattah
Samar AbdelFattah is the co-Founder and CEO of Disruptive Mobility Technologies DMTech, and comes from an Aerospace Engineering background, having been involved in mobility based projects for 5 years. She kicked off her activities by joining the Dragonfly research program (a space mission program to Alpha- Centauri using Solarsail and Magsail) and competition founded by Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4iS). She later presented her team project and they won innovation award at the British Interplanetary Society HQ in London in […]
Samar AbdelFattah is the co-Founder and CEO of Disruptive Mobility Technologies DMTech, and comes from an Aerospace Engineering background, having been involved in mobility based projects for 5 years.
She kicked off her activities by joining the Dragonfly research program (a space mission program to Alpha- Centauri using Solarsail and Magsail) and competition founded by Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4iS). She later presented her team project and they won innovation award at the British Interplanetary Society HQ in London in July 2015.
Shortly after, she started working on the Hyperloop concept and her team received innovation award during the first SpaceX Hyperloop Competition in January, 2016. Later the team (HyperNova) was scaled-up to have a team of 18 brilliant Engineers, Architects, and Civil Engineers to work not only on vehicle design but also stations and tubes. After publishing as a co-author her first paper on Hyperloop Capsule Design using Linear Induction Motors at ICAMAME in May, 2016, Berlin. HyperNova team won the Judges Award in Dubai Build Earth Live Challenge for a connection between Dubai, Fujairah, and Al-Maktoum Airport.
Later that year, she partnered with Sypron Solution, Ministry of Military Production, and Cairo University to build the first single- passenger Hyperloop Capsule in the MENA to participate in SpaceX competition in 2017.
In cooperation with Sypron Solutions, the team launched the Passenger- Centred Experience Design Project for Smart Mobility and the first Hyperloop Summer School that was launched in Dubai Future Foundation during the AI summer camp.
Inspired by Smart City vision and tech role in future sustainability, in 2019, they launched Disruptive Mobility Technologies (DM Tech) to focus on levitating and magnetic transportation solutions, smart mobility services along with educational programs in transportation.