# CognitionX AI Conference | Cairo

A high-impact gathering designed for innovators, architects, and builders shaping the next chapter of AI. This event focuses on the real engineering behind modern intelligence — not theory, not hype — delivering practical frameworks, future-ready practices, and hands-on guidance that help teams ship production-grade AI with confidence. Attendees gain exclusive access to expert-led sessions, live demos, deep-dive discussions, and collaborative workshops built to elevate skills, accelerate adoption, and unlock new possibilities across the AI ecosystem. Whether you're designing systems, scaling solutions, or leading transformation inside your organization, this event equips you with the clarity, patterns, and mindset to build what truly lasts.

## Event
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- Start: Dec 23, 2025, 9:00 AM
- End: Dec 23, 2025, 4:00 PM
- Timezone: Africa/Cairo
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
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## Registration
- Registration URL: https://cognitionx.org/en/event/cairo-summit-2025/reserve
- Create account: https://cognitionx.org/en/register
- Log in: https://cognitionx.org/en/login
- Update profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/dashboard/profile
- Registration opens: Sep 22, 2025, 10:00 PM
- Registration closes: Dec 22, 2025, 10:00 PM
- Registration deadline: TBD
- Profile requirements: Valid date of birth; Company; Role

### How to register
1. Create a CognitionX account or log in with an existing account.
2. Update your profile and complete the required fields before reserving.
3. Open the registration URL and reserve your spot: https://cognitionx.org/en/event/cairo-summit-2025/reserve
4. Confirm the reservation. No payment is required.

### Tickets and pricing
- Price: Free
- Payment: No payment required

## Venue
- Name: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: Microsoft Office / Cairo - Egypt
- Address: Kerdasa, Giza Governorate
- City: Cairo
- State/Province: Cairo
- Country: Egypt
- Postal code: 3630103
- Capacity: 75

## Organizers
- Hazem Ali

## Speakers
### Mostafa El-Sherbeny
- Summary: Mostafa El-Sherbeny - Squadio
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/mostafa-elsherbeny
- Company: Squadio
- Bio: Sr. Software Engineer
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765545917914-oqigt357y7e.png

### Andrea loannou
- Summary: Andrea loannou - Erickson International
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/andrea-loannou
- Company: Erickson International
- Bio: Performance & Communications Expert
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765638039280-wlfbedsbdzk.jpeg

### Artem Chernevskiy 
- Summary: Artem Chernevskiy - Microsoft AI Platform MVP at Harvard
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/artem
- Job title: Microsoft AI Platform MVP
- Company: Harvard
- Bio: Microsoft AI Platform MVP
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-chernevskiy/
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765637903649-y56cxrf4b2n.jpeg
- Qualifications: Microsoft MVP - Microsoft

### Dave Rendon
- Summary: Dave Rendon - Certified Trainer & MVP at Microsoft
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/dave-rendon
- Job title: Certified Trainer & MVP
- Company: Microsoft
- Bio: David Rendon (Dave Rendon), a Microsoft Azure and AI MVP for 12 consecutive years and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. As an IT professional with more than 15 years of experience, He have focused strongly on Microsoft technologies and Azure since 2010.
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daverndn
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765886883088-by2tnhw1hwr.png
- Qualifications: Microsoft Azure MVP - Microsoft - 2025

### Ayman Abo El Ela
- Summary: Ayman Abo El Ela - Mobile Application Developer at MTI
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/ayman
- Job title: Mobile Application Developer
- Company: MTI
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765921712869-2tlwl2obbmc.jpg

### Mohamed Elmenoufy
- Summary: Mohamed Elmenoufy - CEO at ‎Infinity
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/mnofy
- Job title: CEO
- Company: ‎Infinity
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1766270327012-0m764zswawzd.jpg

### Hazem Ali
- Summary: Hazem Ali - Founder & CEO at Skytells, Inc
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/hazemali
- Job title: Founder & CEO
- Company: Skytells, Inc
- Bio: Microsoft MVP | Distinguished AI & ML Engineer / Architect
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drhazemali/
- GitHub: https://www.github.com/drhazemali
- Portfolio: https://www.facebook.com/drhazemx
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765135910493-v6em9nfp9c.png
- Qualifications: Microsoft AI MVP - Microsoft - 2025

### Jamel Abed
- Summary: Jamel Abed - Senior Developer Advocate
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/jamel-abed
- Job title: Senior Developer Advocate
- Bio: Microsoft MVP, Product Evangelist
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765545195477-f4cd1w94kyn.png
- Qualifications: Microsoft MVP - Microsoft

### Abel Adugam
- Summary: Abel Adugam - Venture Capitalist at Softdroom AI Fund
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/abel-adugam
- Job title: Venture Capitalist
- Company: Softdroom AI Fund
- Bio: Abel Adugam is a venture capitalist, product strategist, and global voice on ethical and human-centered AI innovation. As Managing Partner at the Softdroom AI Fund, he leads investments in startups building artificial intelligence with purpose balancing technological progress with societal responsibility. A lifelong entrepreneur and ecosystem builder, Abel has advised founders, VCs, and policymakers on responsible AI frameworks, startup scaling, and the intersection of capital, conscience, and code. His talks blend sharp humor, deep insight, and real world experience inspiring audiences to rethink what progress means in the age of intelligent machines.
- LinkedIn: https://x.com/adugamayuba
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765134460100-9mns2ihteef.jpg

### André Melancia
- Summary: André Melancia - Certified Trainer at Microsoft
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/Andre-melancia
- Job title: Certified Trainer
- Company: Microsoft
- Bio: Microsoft MCT
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765544710257-pvulqxanhol.jpeg
- Qualifications: Microsoft MVP - Microsoft

### Abhilekh Verma
- Summary: Abhilekh Verma - Master at ICFAI
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/abhilekhverma
- Job title: Master
- Company: ICFAI
- Bio: Microsoft MVP, Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhilekhverma/
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765545026245-9e5kbk5qr85.jpeg
- Qualifications: Microsoft MVP - Microsoft

### Rajendra Ongole
- Summary: Rajendra Ongole - Lead BI Engineer at Bosch Digital
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/rajendra-ongole
- Job title: Lead BI Engineer
- Company: Bosch Digital
- Bio: Microsoft Data Platform MVP
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765236265371-q6cydwjgiz.jpg
- Qualifications: Microsoft Data Platform MVP - Microsoft

### MAHMOUD A. ATALLAH
- Summary: MAHMOUD A. ATALLAH - AZURE SD LEAD AT BESPIN at BESPIN
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/mahmoud-atallah
- Job title: AZURE SD LEAD AT BESPIN
- Company: BESPIN
- Bio: MICROSOFT MVP, AZURE SD LEAD AT BESPIN
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765131655018-obts5rchle.png
- Qualifications: Microsoft Azure MVP - Microsoft - 2025

### Ahmed Hussien
- Summary: Ahmed Hussien - Head of Security at SAK Holding
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/ahmed-hussien
- Job title: Head of Security
- Company: SAK Holding
- Bio: Ahmed Hussien is a cybersecurity-focused Mission Critical Engineer who transforms complex cloud and security challenges into clear, actionable strategies. With deep expertise in Azure security, cloud governance, and identity protection, Ahmed is known for bringing order to technical chaos — turning abstract threats into practical architectures that teams can actually implement.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/athussien/
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765135265424-x3yyv5d31q.png

### FADY M. EBEID
- Summary: FADY M. EBEID - MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER at TEACHER AT ITI
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/fady-ebeid
- Job title: MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER
- Company: TEACHER AT ITI
- Bio: MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER, TEACHER AT ITI
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765240542628-8et0c1uf0gw.jpg

###  Luis Beltran
- Summary: Luis Beltran - PhD in Engineering Informatics at Tomas Bata University
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/luis
- Job title: PhD in Engineering Informatics
- Company: Tomas Bata University
- Bio: Microsoft Azure MVP
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-antonio-beltran-prieto
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765544456831-tzrzdbyihx.png
- Qualifications: Microsoft Azure MCP - Microsoft

## Schedule
### Keynote: From Intelligence to Impact: Engineering the Next Era of AI
- Event topic ID: 49edf37a-74e0-4acd-85a2-9345345a7258
- Topic ID: 24c93672-5df4-4062-b23f-d91cb26ffd3c
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 9:15 AM to Dec 23, 2025, 9:30 AM
- Type: keynote
- Speakers: Hazem Ali
- Speaker profiles: Hazem Ali: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/hazemali
- Track: AI
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: AI has moved beyond experimentation. The real challenge now is turning intelligence into measurable, trusted impact at scale.

### Zero-Trust: Building Enterprise Self-Security-Aware Agents
- Event topic ID: 6e7e1ee5-db88-48b8-9871-030459e34e09
- Topic ID: 09916719-3bf6-469f-b647-847980ba1230
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 9:30 AM to Dec 23, 2025, 10:00 AM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Hazem Ali
- Speaker profiles: Hazem Ali: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/hazemali
- Track: AI & Security
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: What happens when your AI agents become powerful enough to access data, trigger workflows, and make decisions on their own, can you still trust them? Agents aren’t toys anymore, they’re becoming critical actors in many fields including enterprise systems. As enterprises scale AI, agents are transforming into new identities with real privileges. This shift demands a new security model: zero-trust, embedded directly within the agents themselves. In this in-action session, you’ll learn how to design self-security-aware agents that actively enforce policies, monitor their own behavior, and adapt to evolving threats.

### Empowering SaaS Startups with Azure Applied AI Services
- Event topic ID: 314f51c7-75b5-411e-9043-02eea6660d9e
- Topic ID: 870b3172-705a-4762-a817-1348fb5cae66
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 10:00 AM to Dec 23, 2025, 10:30 AM
- Type: session
- Speakers: MAHMOUD A. ATALLAH
- Speaker profiles: MAHMOUD A. ATALLAH: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/mahmoud-atallah
- Track: Applied AI
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: Join us to explore the world of Azure Applied AI Services and discover how they can be a game-changer for startups and businesses looking to accelerate their AI-driven SaaS solutions. In this session, we will delve into the versatile capabilities of these services and how they can simplify AI development for various scenarios. You will learn about pre-built solutions and services tailored for: - Conversational AI: Create chatbots and virtual agents effortlessly. - Content Insights: Unlock the power of AI-driven search and generative apps. - Reading Comprehension: Enhance applications with text reading and comprehension capabilities. - Data Extraction: Streamline information extraction from scanned forms and invoices. - Personalized Recommendations: Elevate user engagement with AI-driven recommendations. - Anomaly Detection: Proactively identify and mitigate issues with AI anomaly detection. - Healthcare Conversational AI: Build compliant healthcare AI experiences at scale. Discover how these services can benefit developers, students, and professionals alike, without the need for prior machine learning expertise. We'll also highlight the exceptional advantages of using these pre-built solutions to develop your SaaS offerings. Learn how to transform your startup idea into a thriving online SaaS solution, such as an OCR system for content extraction, enabling businesses to digitalize their paperwork efficiently, including tax documents. Explore the potential of AI-driven SaaS solutions to drive business growth and innovation.

### AI Agents in the Enterprise: 10 Use Cases Driving Business Value
- Event topic ID: 232f10d7-28a1-4b1e-97d0-fe2cb13fec3c
- Topic ID: b97eebb8-3bb5-4ee9-a276-a311d9e3aa6e
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 10:30 AM to Dec 23, 2025, 11:00 AM
- Type: session
- Speakers: MAHMOUD A. ATALLAH
- Speaker profiles: MAHMOUD A. ATALLAH: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/mahmoud-atallah
- Track: AI & Business
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: You’ll explore 10 real-world use cases across industries—from finance and retail to healthcare and manufacturing, We’ll also highlight how Copilot+ PCs and NPUs are accelerating AI agent performance at the edge. Whether you’re building your first intelligent workflow or scaling agents enterprise-wide, this session will equip you with the insights to lead your organization’s AI evolution.

### From Data to Decisions: How Knowledge Powers Intelligent Agents
- Event topic ID: d10516af-0a51-4f02-84e0-2f6aeef7daa2
- Topic ID: 046eac46-c9c4-4a00-bc74-d1bac3b1970d
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 11:00 AM to Dec 23, 2025, 11:30 AM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Jamel Abed
- Speaker profiles: Jamel Abed: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/jamel-abed
- Track: Data & Knowledge
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: AI agents are only as effective as the knowledge they can access, reason over, and trust. This session explores how raw data becomes actionable knowledge inside agent systems — covering retrieval-augmented generation, structured and unstructured data, long-term memory, and real-time context. It highlights why data quality, provenance, and governance directly influence agent reliability, autonomy, and decision-making in production environments.

### Designing Backend Systems for AI at Scale
- Event topic ID: 9359e34a-2d66-4e31-bcd4-1b45a42d253b
- Topic ID: 3b99f5f2-2eea-4a07-828b-7ff71f2fd45c
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 11:30 AM to Dec 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Mostafa El-Sherbeny
- Speaker profiles: Mostafa El-Sherbeny: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/mostafa-elsherbeny
- Track: Software Engineering
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: AI workloads place fundamentally different demands on backend architectures. This session examines backend design patterns that support applied AI, including asynchronous processing, event-driven pipelines, vector data stores, caching strategies, and fault isolation. It focuses on building systems that can absorb model variability, traffic spikes, and evolving data without breaking downstream services. A practical guide to engineering backends that can grow with AI adoption.

### Building Successful Business focused SaaS
- Event topic ID: 6d9d9120-50b2-4412-8262-f7d7e055afb7
- Topic ID: 38e9ae63-7cbe-45bc-8f5c-d29b9d48bee9
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 12:00 PM to Dec 23, 2025, 12:15 PM
- Type: talk
- Speakers: Ayman Abo El Ela
- Speaker profiles: Ayman Abo El Ela: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/ayman
- Track: Business
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: This session explores what it really takes to build SaaS products that succeed in the market—not just technically, but commercially. We’ll break down how to align product architecture with real business problems, design scalable and secure platforms, and translate customer needs into features that drive adoption and revenue.

### AI Beyond Automation: The New Business Advantage
- Event topic ID: 9ddbdb3c-1cc5-4ce6-a07e-482dbce0490b
- Topic ID: a2d63f02-634b-47ab-aed0-d125fc57b51b
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 12:15 PM to Dec 23, 2025, 12:30 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Mohamed Elmenoufy
- Speaker profiles: Mohamed Elmenoufy: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/mnofy
- Track: AI & Business
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: AI is no longer just about automating tasks or reducing costs—it has become a core driver of competitive advantage. This session explores how forward-thinking organizations are using AI to reshape business models, accelerate decision-making, unlock new revenue streams, and create intelligent products and services.

### Secure by Design: The Cloud Foundations AI Can’t Live Without
- Event topic ID: 7776cc4d-d5e0-49e3-96c1-8241bcf1cd94
- Topic ID: 44bd7c7c-943b-4f9f-aa7d-78df91d25aeb
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 12:30 PM to Dec 23, 2025, 12:50 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Ahmed Hussien
- Speaker profiles: Ahmed Hussien: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/ahmed-hussien
- Track: Security
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: Modern cloud-hosted AI systems don’t succeed because of smarter models — they succeed because they run on secure, resilient, and well-governed cloud foundations. In this high-energy, visual, and story-driven session, we’ll explore Azure security through the metaphor of a growing medieval castle — starting from a simple blueprint and expanding layer by layer as we uncover the essential defenses behind trustworthy cloud-based AI. We’ll build this “castle” one piece at a time: Zero Trust architecture, starting from your core network controls, identity hardening, storage protection, Defender for Cloud governance, endpoint defense, SIEM strategy, and intelligent monitoring — showing how each layer contributes to a secure AI-ready platform without overwhelming the audience.

### Hacking the Cloud: Security in Action
- Event topic ID: e8dcdbb0-7a76-425a-8c76-1d5b1bc03f02
- Topic ID: c83c5478-3608-4ec9-ba33-200bfc39ac86
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 12:50 PM to Dec 23, 2025, 1:15 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: André Melancia
- Speaker profiles: André Melancia: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/Andre-melancia
- Track: Security
- Room: Remote
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: Cloud security is best understood when it is broken — and then fixed. This session demonstrates real-world cloud attack paths, from misconfigured identities and exposed APIs to lateral movement across cloud services. Each attack is followed by a defensive breakdown showing how modern cloud security controls detect, contain, and prevent compromise in production environments. A fast-paced, hands-on look at how cloud systems are attacked today — and how to secure them properly.

### AI, Identity, and Access: The Hidden Risks Startups Ignore
- Event topic ID: 43ebc8f1-26d3-4167-9641-dd074048eb0c
- Topic ID: af2e6122-df18-403a-a4c1-09914fc77dbd
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 1:15 PM to Dec 23, 2025, 1:45 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Abhilekh Verma
- Speaker profiles: Abhilekh Verma: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/abhilekhverma
- Track: AI & Business
- Room: Remote
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: diving into why access, governance, and security must be first-class citizens in AI-first products.​​

### S1: Designing Intelligent Coaching Experiences with Azure AI Foundry Agents
- Event topic ID: 3b6fbe95-776e-46af-995c-bacdde729f0a
- Topic ID: be98689e-88e2-4756-9ccd-c36f1686f633
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 1:45 PM to Dec 23, 2025, 2:00 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Andrea loannou
- Speaker profiles: Andrea loannou: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/andrea-loannou
- Track: AI & Business
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: In this session you will learn how to build a fully functional AI-driven coaching application using Azure AI Foundry’s latest capabilities. We will present an end-to-end architecture based on Microsoft Agent Framework (public preview) — a unified, enterprise-grade SDK and runtime that consolidates strengths of previous frameworks (e.g. AutoGen and Semantic Kernel) and enables both multi-agent orchestration and structured, long-running workflows.

### In-Action: Designing Intelligent Coaching Experiences with Azure AI Foundry Agents
- Event topic ID: cd049933-4914-4c9f-9b40-f7a47f077ccf
- Topic ID: 0d3f9187-0dbb-4c14-b2db-1b34519f538b
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 2:00 PM to Dec 23, 2025, 2:15 PM
- Type: live-demo
- Speakers: Artem Chernevskiy 
- Speaker profiles: Artem Chernevskiy : https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/artem
- Track: AI & Business
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: In this session you will learn how to build a fully functional AI-driven coaching application using Azure AI Foundry’s latest capabilities. We will present an end-to-end architecture based on Microsoft Agent Framework (public preview) — a unified, enterprise-grade SDK and runtime that consolidates strengths of previous frameworks (e.g. AutoGen and Semantic Kernel) and enables both multi-agent orchestration and structured, long-running workflows.

### Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric: Simplifying Data Integration and Automation
- Event topic ID: 22164b5e-ab18-4eb1-a880-34237a40a79d
- Topic ID: 502ebbcd-4bbd-46f4-87c0-053b93f93afb
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 2:30 PM to Dec 23, 2025, 3:00 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Rajendra Ongole
- Speaker profiles: Rajendra Ongole: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/rajendra-ongole
- Track: Data
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric provide a seamless way to connect, ingest, and manage data from on-premises or cloud sources without complex infrastructure setup. They act as intelligent intermediaries that securely move data into Fabric environments, supporting scheduled and event-driven workflows. With built-in scalability and governance, Data Agents help organizations unify diverse data sources into a single analytics platform. This capability empowers users to automate data flows, enhance data reliability, and accelerate insights across the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.

### Beyond Pipelines: Building Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems with LangGraph
- Event topic ID: 53f9e8c1-e93d-4cac-b1e7-5a08402fa584
- Topic ID: 197b3371-0a71-4e12-804e-363ff5f066db
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 3:00 PM to Dec 23, 2025, 3:30 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: FADY M. EBEID
- Speaker profiles: FADY M. EBEID: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/fady-ebeid
- Track: AI & Engineering
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: In today’s AI ecosystem, linear pipelines are no longer enough. Real-world applications demand agents that can plan, adapt, recover from errors, coordinate with other agents, and maintain state across long-running tasks. LangChain gave developers the tools to build modular AI components — but LangGraph is the framework that turns those components into intelligent, controllable, multi-agent systems. In this session, we’ll explore how LangGraph transforms agent development from simple prompt chains into stateful, fault-tolerant, graph-driven workflows capable of real reasoning and collaboration. You’ll learn how to design adaptive agents, enforce guardrails at every node, enable memory-aware behaviors, integrate tool supervision, and build deterministic flows that scale safely in enterprise environments.

### Building AI Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework
- Event topic ID: c785756d-2002-4bfc-ab94-5a348f09b3d0
- Topic ID: 668ac04b-2cca-40da-9038-a7af6511d15c
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 3:30 PM to Dec 23, 2025, 4:00 PM
- Type: live-demo
- Speakers:  Luis Beltran
- Speaker profiles:  Luis Beltran: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/luis
- Track: AI & Agents
- Room: Remote
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: In this session, we'll explore Microsoft's new framework for developing, managing, and deploying AI agents in a simplified, more natural way, enhanced with numerous capabilities (workflows, observability, multi-agent orchestration, and much more). We'll demonstrate its use with simple applications and a more complex implementation in a mobile app to illustrate a use case.

### Building a Multi-Agent System using the Microsoft Agent Framework and AZD
- Event topic ID: 7fb607db-283f-4475-9848-d2c3e1aa4453
- Topic ID: 4759bafc-db55-4afe-b041-30a63badf355
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 4:00 PM to Dec 23, 2025, 4:30 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Dave Rendon
- Speaker profiles: Dave Rendon: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/dave-rendon
- Track: Agentic AI
- Room: Remote
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: Learn how to build and deploy a multi-agent ticket triage system on Azure using the Microsoft Agent Framework, and Microsoft Foundry. This session walks you through a practical example: a Support Ticket Triage System built using the Microsoft Agent Framework, orchestrated by a FastAPI backend, and deployed entirely via Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep) and the Azure Developer CLI (AZD).

### AI Without a Soul: Why Ethics Is the Next Frontier of Innovation
- Event topic ID: 1d1a87d7-ffe6-4240-a64f-ea6afce5c919
- Topic ID: 2dce5105-0cd0-4a5f-9c24-541ae2e850f1
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2025-12-23
- Time: Dec 23, 2025, 4:30 PM to Dec 23, 2025, 5:00 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Abel Adugam
- Speaker profiles: Abel Adugam: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/abel-adugam
- Track: Ethics
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Microsoft Egypt
- Description: We’ve built intelligent machines, now it’s time to build a moral compass. The AI revolution has moved faster than our ethical imagination. We’re optimizing for performance, scale, and profit but forgetting purpose. This session explores why ethics isn’t a brake on innovation, but its next great accelerator. We’ll dive into: The hidden biases shaping how AI sees the world. Why ethical frameworks are the new competitive advantage. How to embed moral reasoning into your model design, team culture, and investment thesis. Because the future belongs to innovators who build machines with conscience not just code.

## Sponsors
### Microsoft
- Tier: platinum
- Featured: Yes
- Logo: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/sponsor-logos/1765232739159-o2mko7j06ws.png

### TEDxEJUST
- Tier: platinum
- Featured: Yes
- Website: https://www.ted.com/
- Logo: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/sponsor-logos/1766271675465-ymlmai8qakl.jpeg

### Skytells
- Tier: platinum
- Featured: Yes
- Website: https://www.skytells.ai
- Logo: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/sponsor-logos/1765235333535-4osw52yj1l6.png

### Navix
- Tier: silver
- Website: https://navix.ae
- Logo: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/sponsor-logos/1765235417225-gdrdq1cuequ.png

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