Tabby Women Tech Club Podcast

Once a month, women engineers in Riyadh get together at Tabby to talk about the actual work. Data pipelines, security, AI, and the parts of a career nobody puts on a slide. Every session gets recorded, so you can listen wherever you are.

Where to listen

A new episode after every session, wherever you already listen.

Episodes

Recorded live in Riyadh, newest first.

#6 Beyond the code: growth, AI and the engineering of every payment

24 August 2026. Hala Alajlan (Senior Consultant, FinTech Products and Horizontal Platforms, Elm) on growing as an engineer. Zainab AlKamal (Risk and Data Analyst, Tabby) on thinking with AI rather than just using it. Raneem AlRushud (Sr. Software Engineer, DevOps and FinTech, Moyasar) on the road a payment takes.

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#5 Data night

27 July 2026. Shouq Alrumaih (Data Engineer, SMSA) on what really happens behind a dashboard. Tasabeeh Osama on the diet plan for big data, and why most dashboards go unused. Farah Alhanaya (Data Scientist, HALA) on turning messy documents into reliable data.

#4 QA and building a career

22 June 2026, fully in Arabic. Jana Almarabah (Senior QA Engineer, Elm, Absher division) on what QA engineers really do. Aseel AlAwfi (IT Governance Lead, Tabby) on moving from surviving to thriving. No recording from this one.

#3 AI, security and trust

13 April 2026. Aseel Alghuraybi (Information Security Senior Manager, Tabby) on whether we can trust AI with security. Manal Albawardi (Chief Information Officer, KFUPM) on the road from the keyboard to the boardroom.

#2 Growth and service design

11 February 2026. Evgeniia Fedotova (Software Engineering Manager, Tabby) on building skills and making career decisions with confidence. Norah Alsubaie (Head of Digital Experience, Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources) on user journeys and service design.

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#1 Quality in the age of AI

28 January 2026. Margarita Galina (QA Lead, Tabby) on keeping quality under control when AI writes more of the code. Moroj Alharbi (Technical Lead, Humain) on vibe coding, building whole applications through natural language.

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About the club

A women-only engineering community in Saudi Arabia, run by Tabby Engineering.

Hosted by Lama AlAfaliq

Lama picks the speakers, runs the room on the night and keeps the questions going long after the talks finish.

Monthly, in Riyadh

One evening a month at LEX by Heyazah, Tabby's Riyadh office. Talks, then food and networking.

Arabic first

The club runs in Arabic. The first two editions mixed in English talks, from the third it is Arabic all the way.

Practitioners only

Every edition pairs Tabby engineers with invited speakers from other Saudi tech companies. No panels about panels.

Women only

The room is for women in tech. Speakers, hosts and attendees, all of them.

Five editions so far

Running since January 2026, with speakers from SMSA, Elm, HALA, Humain, KFUPM and the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources.