48-hour reset for Muslim entrepreneurs building at a serious level
Fri, Sep 18, 2026 · 5:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
JW Marriott Houston by The Galleria, Houston, TX
Hosted by AMCOB
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About this event
Three days to get clear on how you are building. In the company of people who are building at a serious level.
LEAD Summit is a three-day working summit for Muslim entrepreneurs, founders, and executives
hosted by AMCOB at the JW Marriott Houston by the Galleria. This is not a conference. Every session is a working session. You leave with decisions made, not just notes taken.
What to expect over three days:
10 practical workshops where you build something in the room. EOS frameworks, sales strategy, storytelling, and leadership systems with committed next steps before you leave your seat.
Keynotes from founders who have actually been through it. Honest accounts, not highlight reels.
A capital conversation on equity, debt, and the state of venture capital in the Muslim business community across North America.
A live expo floor open all weekend. 300 entrepreneurs already in buying, partnering, and hiring mode.
Facilitated dinner conversations on Friday night with assigned tables and real prompts. No small talk.
Saturday open mic. Two minutes, your story, volunteer basis. These tend to be what people remember most.
300 seats. Year one. Small on purpose. If you have been waiting for something like this to exist, it does now.
Early bird tickets available at lead.amcob.org
Location
In Person
JW Marriott Houston by The Galleria
JW Marriott Houston by The Galleria, 5150 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77056, United States, Houston, TX, USA
Build It Right. Protect What You've Built. Know When to Sell
A Founder's Legal Playbook for the AI Era
Speaker: Syeda Nazifa Nawroj
39 min
12:00 PM
BREAK - Duhr Prayer - Lunch
90 min
1:30 PM
EOS Vision Building
Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process, and Accountibility
Speaker: Malik Khan
90 min
3:00 PM
Mining the Miracle Machine
A Blueprint for Merging Human and Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Dr. Mohammad Shehata
45 min
3:45 PM
BREAK
15 min
4:00 PM
Growth With a Compass
A Working Session with a PE Investor
Speaker: Kamal Solaiman
45 min
4:54 PM
Hire Your First AI Coworker in Under an Hour
Bring the task you'd pay to never do again
30 min
5:15 PM
Featured AMCOB Members: Presentations
30 min
5:45 PM
BREAK - ASR PRAYER - REFRESH
75 min
6:30 PM
HNIs Dinner & Networking
Open Mic for attendees stories
120 min
8:30 PM
Breaking boundries with your identity intact
Speaker: Aneesa Muthana
45 min
9:15 PM
NETWORKING
45 min
10:00 PM
End Of Evening
Sunday
September 20, 2026
7:30 AM
Breakfast
60 min
8:30 AM
Morning Reflection & Day Overview
Speaker: Mariam Sobh
15 min
8:45 AM
The Trust Economy
Doing Business with Integrity in a Skeptical Marketplace
Speaker: Sajjad Chowdhry
45 min
9:30 AM
Panel: Sales & Marketing
Speaker: Ayesha Qureshi, Mouneeb Shahid, Faruk Bhagani
45 min
10:15 AM
BREAK
15 min
10:30 AM
Leading in the Age of AI: The Leadership Shift from Strategy to Execution
Moving from Strategy to Execution in AI
Speaker: Nejat Abdurrahman
45 min
11:15 AM
Vulnerability: The Road to Courage
Understand vulnerability as essential to courageous leadership
Speaker: Tasnim Benhalim
45 min
12:00 PM
BREAK - House Keeping - Lunch - Prayer
90 min
1:30 PM
Closing Keynote: Success to Significance
Speaker: Umair Khan
45 min
2:15 PM
Closing Remarks, Commitments & Send Off
Speaker: Mariam Sobh
30 min
2:45 PM
NETWORKING SESSION
75 min
4:00 PM
End Of Summit
Speakers
Hosts and guests you'll hear from.
Omair Tariq
Founder @ Cart.com
Mariam Sobh
Emcee LEAD
Adnan Adrian Wood-Smith
Founder @ Prophetic Community
Do you ever wonder what your unique mission in life truly is, and how you can stay committed to it amidst daily distractions and challenges? Though we form businesses out of a sense of mission, we can easily lose touch with the big picture behind them. In this energizing, interactive presentation, Imam Adnan Adrian Wood-Smith draws on profound lessons from the Qur’an and Islamic spirituality to help you explore how to identify your own “Greater Why,” understand the internal doubts and external f
Syeda Nazifa Nawroj
Principle Attorny @ Merger Lawyer
Most founders build companies without ever understanding the legal infrastructure underneath them — until a deal, a dispute, or a data breach forces the issue. In this interactive session, Silicon Valley M&A attorney Syeda Nazifa Nawroj walks founders through the legal fundamentals that protect personal assets, reduce personal liability, and maximize exit value. From entity formation to the M&A lifecycle, AI data compliance risks, and what buyers actually find in diligence
Dr. Mohammad Shehata
Founder/CEO @ FiLiCiTi, Inc
AI will change every business operation faster than anyone expects, and everyone is racing to adopt it. The blind spot no one watches: measuring the human intelligence AI is meant to amplify. That mistake will cost small and mid-sized businesses the next decade. we'll lay out a blueprint: codify human intelligence, identify the human edge, then integrate it with AI in a closed-loop system tailored to each business, then navigate uncertainty as an early adopter before the window closes.
