Dr. Hamda AlBreiki
Assistant Professor
College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University

Dr. Hamda Al Breiki holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Khalifa University. Her thesis was about defining a trust requirements model for blockchain systems. She co-founded a start-up company in systems development (Afkar for Systems and Programming) where she worked as a primary developer in several projects. She worked in localizing Scratch application and website (a programming tool for kids) in cooperation with teams from MIT and UAE University. She worked as an IT faculty in Higher Colleges of Technology from 2012 to 2015. She joined several judging committees in programming competitions for school students in UAE.

Mr. Mohammed Abdelhadi
Software Architect (Senior International Consultant)
AlArabiya.Net, MBC Group

Mohammed Abdelhadi is a software engineer with more than 14 years of experience. He started his career as a junior developer, and was promoted as a senior architect at Alarbiya.net, part of MBC Group where he served for about 11 years. He also served as a developer at MIG Bank for 1.5 years. Mohammed holds a master’s degree in computer engineering. He spent considerable time developing ideas, solving problems, designing impactful projects with his software engineering skills. He has hands-on experience with design patterns, service-oriented architecture (SOA), web performance, and numerous frameworks and tools including Angular JS, Docker, and AWS.
   

Ms. Maha Hadid
Instructor
College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University

Ms. Maha is an Instructor in the College of Technological Innovation in Zayed University- Dubai Campus in the Department of Information Science and Technology Management.
She taught in different universities in UAE since 2010, before joining Zayed University in 2018, she worked for the Higher College of Technology- Dubai Campus and the American University in Dubai. Prior to working in UAE, she worked for several years in universities in Lebanon. She teaches a variety of IT courses , organizes trainings and competitions.

Ms. Afshan Parker
Instructor
College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University

Ms. Afshan Parker is a faculty at the College of Technological Innovation at Zayed University- Abu Dhabi Campus in the Department of Information Science and Technology Management. She specializes in Artificial Intelligence and has a certification in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is also a certified Artificial Intelligence Practitioner (CAIP) by EMT-CERT NEXUS, USA. She possesses about thirteen years’ experience in the field of education (teaching and administration) as a Faculty and Coordinator for Bachelors and Masters of Computer Science & IT (Information Technology) with University of Mumbai (India) and various colleges affiliated with Mumbai University.
She worked as a Faculty of Computer Information Science with Abu Dhabi & Khalifa City Women's College (Higher Colleges of Technology). She is currently the coordinator of System Analysis and Design Labs at Zayed University. She is an Advisor at the Zayed University Coding Club and is involved in mentoring students at SAP technologies and various programming competitions such as Emirates Skills and Gulf Programming Competition. Her expertise is Programming in languages such as Python, Java (J2SE, J2EE, J2ME, Hibernate, Struts, Spring Framework), C, C++, C#, database and web technologies.