{"id":5428,"date":"2025-11-02T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/?p=5428"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:05:32","slug":"economic-development-boards-musab-abdullah-joins-as-a-moderator-at-touchdown-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/economic-development-boards-musab-abdullah-joins-as-a-moderator-at-touchdown-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Development Board\u2019s Musab Abdullah joins as a moderator at Touchdown Middle East!"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4899 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Musab-EDB-300x271-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are excited to announce that <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/musab-abdullah-b213a8a\/\">Musab Abdullah<\/a><\/strong>,<\/span><strong> <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Executive Director Business Development (ICT)<\/span> at <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Economic Development Board (EDB)<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>will be joining Touchdown Middle East 2025 as a Moderator! Musab will join our <strong>\u2018<span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">PANEL: AI at Scale: Government &amp; Enterprise<\/span>\u2019 .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musab Abdullah is the Executive Director of Business Development at Bahrain Economic Development Board<br \/>\n(EDB), responsible for attracting inward investment in the Information &amp; Communications Technology (ICT)<br \/>\nsector.<br \/>\nWith a career spanning over two decades, Musab has worked in the telecommunications sector for over half his<br \/>\ncareer: including as a policymaker with the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications (MTT) and as a<br \/>\nregulator with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA). His work focused on developing the sector by<br \/>\nintroducing forward looking-policies and spearheading national projects in telecommunications, e-government<br \/>\nand financial services.<br \/>\nMusab holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Bahrain and an MSc in Finance from DePaul<br \/>\nUniversity<\/p>\n\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_494050110\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"is-border\"\n\t\tstyle=\"border-color:rgb(227, 10, 135);border-width:10px 10px 10px 10px;\">\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<h4><strong>Need to know:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong>: \u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/musab-abdullah-b213a8a\/\">Musab Abdullah<\/a><\/strong>,<\/span><strong> <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Executive Director Business Development (ICT)<\/span> at <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Economic Development Board (EDB)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session<\/strong>: \u00a0 <strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">PANEL: AI at Scale: Government &amp; Enterprise<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Time: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 DAY 2 | 20th NOVEMBER | 11:25 \u2013 11:50<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Take a look at the full\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/2025-agenda\/\"><em>Touchdown Middle East 2025 Agenda.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_494050110 {\n  padding-top: 15px;\n  padding-bottom: 15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"gap-1109771223\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1109771223 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"social-icons follow-icons full-width text-center\" style=\"font-size:112%\"><span>Connect with this Speaker<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/musab-abdullah-b213a8a\/\" data-label=\"LinkedIn\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon primary button circle tooltip linkedin\" title=\"Follow on LinkedIn\" aria-label=\"Follow on LinkedIn\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><i class=\"icon-linkedin\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that Musab Abdullah, Executive Director Business Development (ICT) at Economic Development Board (EDB)\u00a0will be joining Touchdown Middle East 2025 as a Moderator! 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