Excellence Reimagined Forum: From Vision to Value

An exclusive half-day forum on Quality and Excellence, featuring global leaders sharing strategies in operations, human capital, technology, and finance to drive performance, competitiveness, and sustainable excellence.

Date and Time

Oct 21st, 2025, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Venue

Dubai Chambers HQ – 13th Floor

Organized By

Dubai Chambers

Event Type

Forum

About the Forum

An exclusive forum on Quality and Excellence, bringing together global thought leaders to share insights on operational excellence, human capital, technological innovation, and financial leadership.

This half-day program will spotlight benchmark practices and proven strategies that leading organizations apply to elevate performance, build competitiveness, and create lasting impact, continuing the region’s tradition of inspiring and celebrating business excellence.

Agenda

  • 08:30 to 09:00: Registration
  • 09:00 to 09:10: Intro from Emcee
  • 09:10 to 09:20: Intro from Dignitary from Dubai Chambers
  • 09:20 to 10:00: Keynote “Excellence in the Age of Disruption” by Carlo Pepe
  • 10:00 to 10:30: Session 1: Strategic & Leadership Excellence by Hussein Wehbe
  • 10:30 to 10:45: Break
  • 10:45 to 11:15: Session 2: People & Culture Excellence by Ghenwa Habbal
  • 11:15 to 11:45: Session 3: Operational & Financial Excellence by David Daly
  • 11:55 to 12:15: End of Forum
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Agenda

Participation Fees

Free of cost

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Speakers

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Hussein Wehbe
CEO, Plug MENA

Hussein is an innovative, bold, and tech-savvy C-Level executive with 22 years of experience in logistics, supply chain, and operations in the Middle East and Africa. Passionate about service excellence and leadership, Hussein is a strong believer that people are the enablers of high-performance cultures. He has a proven track record in several industries such as shipping, transportation, logistics, supply chain, e-commerce, last mile and digital transformations within logistics to name a few. He is currently the Founder and CEO of PlugMena, a practical advisory firm that aims to support clients in the region with their growth and transformation projects. In his last corporate role, Hussein served as Fetchr’s rescue CEO, the first UAE tech-enabled delivery and logistics company. Prior to this, Hussein served as a full-time advisor at the UAE’s Prime Minister’s Office in Dubai where he worked very closely with the federal government services team in developing and transforming government services across channels together with improving the resident experience while bridging between the Public and the Private sectors.

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Ghenwa Habbal
Business & Organisational Psychologist

Dr. Ghenwa Habbal is a Business & Organizational Psychologist, global HR leader, and creator of the F.A.S.T. Model™ and CultureGPT™. She is co-author of The Talent Matrix™ and has been recognized as one of the GCC’s Top HR Leaders. Her contributions to leadership and organizational excellence have also been honored with the Government of Dubai Police Award for Exemplary Leadership & Humanitarian Impact. Her thought leadership has been featured in Harvard Business Review and leading global platforms, amplifying her mission to reshape leadership and culture in VUCA environments by activating human potential through emotional intelligence and future-of-work strategies.

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David Daly
Partner, Gulf Tax Accounting Group

David is a UK Qualified Accountant and a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. With over two decades of global experience in transformational settings across diverse industries, David has spent fourteen of those years at an executive level, with the last nine being rooted in the Middle East. He’s an established author, penning a series of articles on VAT for the UAE published in The National and contributing to international platforms like Bloomberg and The Telegraph. David’s expertise encompasses VAT, finance, project management, business turnaround, treasury, audit, IT systems & ERP, business process re-engineering, and contract negotiations.

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Carlo Pepe
Founder, Koshima.ai

With over 25 years of experience, Carlo co-founded Koshima to strategically guide enterprises in adopting impactful AI technologies. Always working in new technologies his journey started in '99 with the UK’s first independent ISP, he progressed to global telecoms, supporting key industries like finance and aviation in optimising connectivity. He also spent six years enhancing public cloud and application modernisation for various companies.

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