Seif El Hakim Confirmed as Distinguished Speaker at Global Entrepreneurship Festival 2026

Seif El Hakim, Founder & Chairman of THE ALPHA GROUP, will take part as a Distinguished Speaker in The Global Leaders Dialogue at the Global Entrepreneurship Festival 2026 (GEF 2026) in Cairo.

The panel discussion, on the topic The Power to Help, takes place on 7 November 2026 at the JW Marriott Hotel, Cairo, and will be moderated by Kayode Akintemi, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of NewsCentral TV. The festival runs from 6 to 8 November 2026 under the theme The World We Help to Create, bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers and business leaders from Egypt and abroad.

Business leadership and lasting impact

The dialogue's topic sits close to how THE ALPHA GROUP approaches business: building companies on sound commercial foundations, committing capital with patience, and measuring success by the value that lasts beyond any single transaction. How leaders use what they have built to help others, through the businesses they create, the people they develop and the experience they share, is central to how the Group thinks about entrepreneurship.

Experience across markets

Seif El Hakim brings more than two decades of international corporate leadership and entrepreneurial experience, including senior roles at Samsung Electronics: at its global headquarters in South Korea, and as Regional Chief Marketing Officer for Russia and the CIS. Today he leads THE ALPHA GROUP, a diversified business group headquartered in Dubai with a presence across the UAE, Egypt and the United Kingdom, and hosts The Alpha Talks Show.

Egypt is one of the Group's own markets, and the festival offers a setting to engage directly with the entrepreneurs and investors shaping the country's next generation of companies.

Session details

• Event: Global Entrepreneurship Festival 2026, 6–8 November 2026
• Session: The Global Leaders Dialogue (panel discussion)
• Topic: The Power to Help
• Moderator: Kayode Akintemi, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, NewsCentral TV
• Date: 7 November 2026
• Venue: JW Marriott Hotel, Cairo, Egypt