In February 2025, AISA flew to Doha for Web Summit Qatar, which its organizers call the largest gathering of international startups in the Middle East. We went as an ALPHA startup, part of Web Summit’s program for early-stage companies, with a booth of our own on the show floor.

For a small team building a way to learn American Sign Language, it was a chance to put AISA in front of thousands of people from the tech world in a few days.

Booth A534, Healthtech and wellness

Web Summit Qatar 2025 ran from February 23 to 26 at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center. Our booth was A534, in the Healthtech and wellness area, under a sign with the AISA logo and the word ALPHA.

We wore our AISA School shirts and our ALPHA badges, and spent our time at the booth showing visitors what we were building and answering their questions.

On the last day, with “And that’s a wrap! Join us next time.” on the main stage screen, we took one more photo with our booth sign. It is the picture at the top of this page.

Pitching wherever we can

A few weeks later, Amirali Rezaei told Case Western Reserve University’s news team how the team was spending that spring: “We’re pitching in many places, including recently at Web Summit Qatar.”

Every conversation at a booth is a short pitch, and four days in Doha gave us plenty of practice.