Touailat is a truely motivational person, having made a huge impact through social media. She is an experienced public speaker at both national and international events, ranging from board rooms to venue arenas covering subjects from AI and business acceleration to diversity and equality. Ishtar Touailat is an praised entrepreneur who has made an impact through her many companies, creating platforms to share insights on entrepreneurship, technology and social skills. Touailats’ latest movement, FUTURISTAS, is created with the mission of equality in all fields. This is done by supplying knowledge and insights from the forefront of tech, entrepreneurship and business disruption to women of different occupations, backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses. FUTURISTAS will now expand to West Africa to educate teenagers in programming, entreprenuership, about AI and growth mindset, helping them become sustainable leaders to impact our future. Touailat has previously started and managed businesses such as Student competence (Studentkompetens), Startup Bootcamp and Women in Business Accelerate. She also started The Startup course, Europe’s largest startup course with 2000 participants every year during seven years – which means Touailat have educated and drilled 14 000 persons with ambitions of becoming entrepreneurs in total. On behalf of the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, Touailat founded the Innovation Office at Stockholm University in 2013 with the mission to commercialize research progress. She was responsible for supporting several hundred students’ and researchers’ innovations and business ideas every year. She left the Innovation Office in 2017 when she was headhunted for the position as Head of Innovation Incubator of Data-Driven Business at Tieto, Europe’s largest IT company with a mission to develop software products within AI. Ishtar Touailat is on a mission to make impact and keeps on going, whether it is helping small businesses and large companies with innovation and development of emerging technologies or being an activist for justice and equal opportunities for everyone.
