Astar Growth Summit 2026
Usamah Ahmed Jan
Innovation and Events Partner at HUED
Biography
Usamah Ahmed Jan
Usamah Jan is an Innovation and Events Partner at HUED with more than 20 years of experience across corporate innovation, digital transformation and customer experience in Saudi Arabia. He helps organizations build innovation ecosystems that connect strategy, governance, operating models, capabilities and experimentation to business value.
His career spans HUED, NUPCO, the Diriyah Gate Development Authority, stc, Elm, Ministry of Education, and Saudi National Bank, with hands-on experience establishing innovation functions, labs and intrapreneurship programs, and taking digital initiatives from concept to launch.
Usamah is an Innovation360 Fellow, an Innovation Management Black Belt (2nd Dan), and a Certified Chief Innovation Officer (CCInO) through the Global Innovation Institute. His focus is making innovation a sustained organizational capability.
The talk
Creating an Innovation Ecosystem Within a Large Organization
Wednesday, October 14