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Feb 2018
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Ahmed Hossam, designing gamification and...

Rob Alvarez
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Ahmed Hossam is The International Gamification Confederation (Gamfed) Ambassador in Egypt. He is a keynote speaker, consultant, designer and facilitator on gamification. He is currently the president of Gamification Egypt and the founder of Gampact. Ahmed is one of the of the top pioneers in gamification in the Middle-East, he has been in the ·Global Gamification Gurus Power 100· since 2015 and in July 2017 he was rated #2. He has helped a variety of companies, from seed stage startups to Fortune 500 companies such as HP, Oracle, Vodafone, AUC, Abudawood and many more· Ahmed has been interested in the concept of Gamification ever since 2005.

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