Ame Saidane is an entrepreneur and ecosystem builder. She is Founder of Betawaves, innovation powerhouse with a focus on emerging and frontier ecosystems. She is Founder and former President of TunisianStartups, the association giving a voice to Tunisian startups. She is also non-executive board member in startups.

She is an innovation and digital transformation activist acting for instance as a board member for the Digital Center of Excellence of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and as Tunisia steering committee member for Digital Arabia Network, a platform supporting the digital transformation in the Arab world. She has acted as member of the StartupAct ""College of Startups"" for the first three years of its operation. She also a member of the BMW Responsible Leaders Network. She acted as a strategy and innovation consultant and worked with various international cooperation players.

Prior to that she has acted in different sales and client relationship management roles with some of the largest multinationals (Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia) Amel is an Engineer in Electro-technics, qualified from the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, she also holds a Master's of Science in Business in Digital Economy from the University of Maryland.