Edith Elliott is the co-founder and co-CEO of Noora Health, a global nonprofit that turns hospital waiting rooms into classrooms and trains family members to care for their loved ones after discharge. What started as a Stanford design class project at a Bangalore hospital in 2012 has grown into an organization that has trained more than a million family caregivers across India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Indonesia. A TED speaker, Audacious Project winner and Skoll awardee, Elliott has built her career at the intersection of research, policy and design, betting that the most overlooked resource in any health system is the people already sitting at the bedside.
BJIT is a global software development and IT outsourcing company founded in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2001, built as a bridge between Japanese engineering discipline and Bangladeshi talent. With 750+ engineers across eight offices in Japan, the USA, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Singapore, Thailand and Bangladesh, BJIT delivers dedicated offshore teams, custom software, QA automation, DevOps, AI, IoT, blockchain and mechanical engineering to more than 50 Fortune 500 clients including Sony, Panasonic, BMW, Qualcomm and Dassault Systemes.
Akbar JM is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of BJIT Group, Bangladesh's largest IT consulting firm. He built BJIT from a 10-person startup in 2001 into a global technology company with 800+ engineers, offices across 8 countries, and clients including Google, Sony, Panasonic, and Qualcomm. Based in Palo Alto, CA, Akbar JM has bridged Bangladesh and Japan's technology ecosystems for over two decades, combining Japanese quality standards with Bangladeshi engineering talent to deliver software development, AI, IoT, and cloud services to Fortune 500 companies worldwide.
Murad Hasan serves as Chief Executive Officer for Automation Anywhere's Bangladesh operations, leading enterprise automation and AI initiatives across one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing technology markets. He represents a global leader in robotic process automation - a company that raised over $1 billion in funding and generates nearly half a billion dollars in annual revenue - at the country level in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Ahmed Reza is the Founder and CEO of Yobi, an AI workforce platform that deploys synthetic agents to handle calls, texts, and social DMs for small businesses 24/7. A Milken Scholar at Cornell University who wrote image-processing software for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, Reza went from child actor in Bangladesh to homeless student to serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. His previous ventures include Call Sumo (call tracking analytics) and Dental Web Now (AI dental marketing, acquired by NPI). Yobi raised a $2.37M seed round in 2023, reached $2.4M ARR by late 2025, and in 2026 partnered with Microsoft to develop a private foundation model for predictive behavioral intelligence.