Announcing our Wamda Plane travelers!

The Wamda Plane trip is all set, and we have very noteworthy Saudi bloggers and entrepreneurs on board! We're extremely pleased to be joined by:

• Ahmed Elasra, Qhat
• Rafah Alkhatib,  Reach Holdings                 
• Hemza Benahcene, Transline Solutions      
• Piotr Yordanov, Beepl                               
• Ali Alghamdi, Enteqa                                  
• Lamya Bafaqer, LenoShop  
• AbdelAziz Zwier, ArbDroid.com
• Abdullah Konash, indiegd.com
• Ahmed AlMustafa, Electrony.net
• Tariq Buhilaigah, the Saudipreneurship initiative
• Saad AlQahtani, ArabTech
• Hisham El Hag

Upcoming Events

• 02 Dec - The startup and digital revolution in the Arab World, Paris, France
• 03 Dec - ArabNet Riyadh 2013
• 04 Dec - Arab Mobile App Challenge Acceleration Workshops

Be sure to check wamda.com/events, or follow @WamdaME on Twitter to stay up to date on the region's top upcoming events! 

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