David Munir Nabti

Artist, Brainstormer, Business adviser, Business leader, Business mentor, Change Agent, Connector, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Explorer, Global soul, Idea generator, Inventor, Musician, Project manager, Public servant, Single, Social entrepreneur, Startup, Technologist, Writer/Editor

DMN works to support high impact innovation & entrepreneurship in challenging, emerging, and transitioning economies. He is Co-founder and CEO (Chief Entrepreneur & Organizer) of AltCity.me (www.altcity.me), a startup training hub working in Lebanon, MENA, and the EuroMed region. He is also co-founder and General Director of Boot Camp SAL (www.bootcamp-lb.com), a leading early-stage startup program in Lebanon and MENA. These efforts are designed to expand entrepreneurial skills, focused on marginalized, conflict/post-conflict, transitioning, and emerging areas, and to develop and support a culture of creativity, collaboration, inclusivity, innovation, and high-impact entrepreneurship. DMN worked at his first tech startup at 18 before going to university, and has been involved in tech, new media, social activism, and social entrepreneurship ever since. He grew up between California and Beirut, studied at UC Berkeley (political economy), worked at the UN-FAO in Syria, Stanford University (Communication Dept, Journalism Program), UC Berkeley (Education Dept, Service-Learning Research & Development Center), and Google, as a freelance journalist, and interned at Cisco Systems HQ and KQED (SF public media). He also conducted research on social entrepreneurship, and the relation between regime interests, the education system, and economic development in Egypt, and is published in "Social Entrepreneurship in the Middle East - Volume 1". Stay in touch via Twitter at @dmnabti or LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/dmnabti.

social innovation/social entrepreneurship, especially in developing/post-conflict countries; open source in social/econ/political development; alternative media; design for social change

Large-scale social change through large-scale social entrepreneurship. More here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsGGB-aSjWE

campaigning, education, lean startup method, Lebanon, public speaking, social entrepreneurship, startups

Have been involved as a volunteer and supporter of TEDx events for years, and a co-host for a TEDx salon in Lebanon. Now working to expand our programs and supports in more marginalized communities in Lebanon, refugees, and others, including some fun ways of engaging TED and the community in that. More coming soon! Oh ya, and I was invited to speak at TEDxRoma in 2015.