MEET THE VISIONARIES SPEAKING AT ESTAAD 2025 Hear from global trendsetters and pioneers committed to pushing the boundaries in sports and entertainment. 2025 SPEAKERS Search Search H.E. Bader bin Abdulrahman Alkadi Vice Minister of Sport, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia H.H. Prince Khalid bin Mohammed AlSaud Chairman, Diriyah Club Sports Company H.E. Dr. Margarete Schramböck Former Austrian Minister of Economy & Digital Affairs Ricardo Rio Former Mayor, Braga Edwin van der Sar Legendary Manchester United Goalkeeper Esteve Calzada CEO, Al Hilal Club Company Ben Harburg First Foreign Owner of a Saudi Football Club, Al-Kholood FC; Chairman, Harburg Group Elena Fort VP of Institutional Affairs, FC Barcelona Jose Semedo CEO, Al Nassr Club Company Fabio Capello Legendary Manager Known as “The Championship Contractor” for Winning Titles with Milan, Roma, Juventus & Real Madrid Giorgio Marchetti Deputy General Secretary & Director of Football, UEFA Sakis Batsilas Deputy CEO, FIFA World Cup 2022 Susana Curto CEO, Liga Portugal Nuno Gomes Legendary Portuguese Footballer & High Performance Specialist, FIFA Olga García Former FC Barcelona and Spanish National Team Player Vítor Baía UEFA Champions League Winner, Former Porto & Barcelona FC Legend Rolando Martins Chief Visitor Experience Officer, Dubai Expo City; Former COO, Expo 2020 Thomas Rudy Chief Investment Officer, Golf Saudi Bex Smith Founder & CEO, Crux; Former New Zealand Captain Ibrahim Al Sheddi Chief of Shared Services, Saudi Esport Federation AbdulKareem Niazi Director, Marketing Strategy & Campaigns, Esports World Cup Foundation Abdullah Taha Chairman of the Board, Saudi Gymnastics Federation Alban Dechelotte CEO, G2 Esports - the Real Madrid of Esports Alberto Guerrero Chief of Strategic Partnerships, Vanguard Alican Inal Associate Principal, Populous Alireza Haghighi Founding Director & Chief Executive, International Center for Genetic Disease, Harvard University Amy Gillingham Commentator, Saudi Pro League Andrzej Antoszkiewicz Former Global Head of Planning, Innovation & Business Solutions, FIFA Angela Selkirk Executive Director - Visitor Experience & Attraction, King Salman Park Foundation Anna Baumann Founded Europe’s First Law Practice Dedicated to Esports António Silva President, European Aquatics; Vice President, World Aquatics Ashwaq Albabtain Associate Director, Development, New Murabba Barry Bremner Executive Director of Sports Strategy, Qiddiya Investment Company Briana Swift Regional VP of Development, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Hyatt Christos Passas Design Director, Zaha Hadid Architects Clark Henry-Brown Associate & Senior Designer, Experience Studios - a Populous Company Dalal AlShebaiky Infrastructure & Investments Director, Saudi Sports for All Federation Daniel Carvalho Football Legend Daniela Isetti First Vice-President, the Italian Cycling Federation David Nelson Director, Diario AS US Dina Hassan Corporate Development Director, SURJ Sports Investment Dušan Borovčanin Advisor, Former CEO, EXPO 2027 Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros Co-Founder and Global CEO, Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) Emma Igelström OLY 5x World Champion & 7x World Record Breaker in Swimming Eng. Mansour AlMokbel CEO, Saudi Motorsport Company & Saudi Automobile & Motorcycle Federation Ferdinand Omanyala OLY Africa's Fastest Man Filipe Ortigão Guimarães Strategic Consultant in Place Branding, FDI & City Promotion Strategie Fredrik Cornell Managing Director, Strawberry Arena Gustavo Arellano Head of Commercial Development, FIBA Hanane Spiers Acclaimed Host Harald Fux Award-Winning Architect of Raiffeisen-Arena Helle Søholt Founding Partner & CEO, Gehl H․H. Princess Fahda bint Bander Al Saud Co-Founder, Panther Holdings Isabel Pérez Espinosa Secretary General, Union of Sports Federations of Catalonia Jason Smyth Fastest Paralympian in the World, 21x Gold Medalist Jessica Smith OAM Award-Winning Paralympian Juliette Foster Award-Winning Anchor, BBC World Business and Bloomberg Katie Simmonds Global CCO, Sport Integrity Global Alliance Katie Reed General Counsel, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Kely Nascimento Chief Impact Officer, Hadaf Global | Executive Advisor, US Soccer Kevin Paul PLY Paralympic Gold Medalist Khalid Alkhudair CXO, SNB Lisa Wainwright MBE CEO, Sport & Recreation Alliance Lucy Hedges Technology Journalist and Presenter, BBC Mamadou Sakho Former Liverpool FC Footballer Maroun Deeb Head of Project & Development Services KSA & Bahrain, JLL Marta Corredera Former FC Barcelona Star & Spanish Football Icon Matic Gajsek Director, InterCivis Matt Roberts Award-winning Sport Insight Leader, Aston Martin F1 team Matteo Gatto Chief Architect, Milan Expo 2015 Maxwell Andrews Board Member & Committee Chairman, American Chamber of Commerce, Saudi Arabia Mimi Fawaz Award-Winning Sports Journalist Mohammed A. Al-Wabely Assistant Deputy Mayor for Iconic Projects, Riyadh Amana Mounir Zok CEO, NEXT Sport Niamh McCarthy Paralympic & 3x World Champion Medalist in Discus Thrower Nicola Innocentine Former Sporting Director of Al-Fateh & Former Professional Footballer Nimi Mehta World Renowned TV & Radio Host Noor Al Zaben Associate Director, Design Masterplan, New Murabba Núria Soler Top 100 Spanish Mentors Driving High-Performance Teams Olivier Crasson President, AlBawani Construction Company Olivier Jarosz CEO, AccessibAll Paulo Sousa Football Legend, 3x UEFA Champions League Winner Róisín O'Shea Managing Director, The Eddie Jordan Foundation Ryan Chilcote Award-Winning Journalist & Former Anchor, Bloomberg TV Saad Al-Lazeez Acting CEO, NEOM Sports Club Sayed Farouk Director of Technology, Saudi Pro League Semra Hunter Acclaimed Sports Broadcast Journalist Shireen Hamdan Senior Principal and Global Director, Populous Simon Wright Founder & Chairman at TGP International Thomas Staunton Global Events Strategist Behind Nine Games, Multiple World Cups, and Award-Winning Activations Tomasz Zahorski Senior Director, Sports Technology, Qiddiya Investment Company Yves Rathle Award-Winning Architect of Jacksonville Jaguars - Stadium of the Future Zaki Nakkash Executive Director, Development Management, ROSHN Samuel Lim VP, Shangri-La Display 94 of 94
