SPEAKERS

Top Speakers in Ai

H.E. Younus Al Nasser

CEO

Dubai Data & Statistics Establishment, Digital Dubai

The world's largest educational and scientific computing society that confers every year The ACM A.M. Turing Award, recognized as the "Nobel Prize of Computing"

Dr. Yannis Ioannidis

President

Association of Computing Machinery (Greece)

Co-founder of DataScience.Sg, a community of over 10,000 AI and data scientists in Singapore

Koo Ping Shung

President

AI Professionals Association

Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC

Secretary-General

Commonwealth Secretariat

Host of "The Monday Morning Data Chat" and "The Data Nerd Herd" podcast, interviewing top data professionals.

Joe Reis

CEO

Ternary Data

Tech Investor, 117M Social media followers, sold over 250 million singles worldwide, Mastered the art of going viral

Jason Derulo

Award Winning Singer & Song Writer

Investor

Top 21 Influencers in data Rivery. Top 20 Industry Key Opinion Leaders by Onalytica. Over 500 million views on Linkedin.

Steve Nouri

Founder

GenAI Works

James Wang

General Manager of UAE & Turkey

Alibaba Cloud Intelligence

H.E. Khalfan Belhoul

CEO

Dubai Future Foundation

Cecile Tezenas du Montcel

Head of AI business development EMEA

HP Inc

In the top 5 graphical processing unit manufacturer in the world. His efforts are instrumental in Intel’s multi $Billion AI revenue growth.

Wei Li

Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence and Analytics

Intel

Board adviser on Cyber, Technology, Digital and Data risk - Strategic, Reputation, Regulatory, Change & Transformation, Financial and Operational

Andy Winters

Chief Governance, Risk and Compliance Officer

TONOMUS

Began what became Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) as a 20% project where he designed and implemented the core elements of the first generation TPU chip.

Jonathan Ross

CEO and Founder

Groq

AI pioneer advancing smart cities in Singapore and China, and a key contributor to Cambridge 1, the world's fastest supercomputer

Simon See

Professor at University of Indonesia, Coventry University, Nanyang Technological University; Executive Director

ASEAN Applied Research Centre

With 8 patents issued, Sol has been awarded “CAO of the Year” “50 Most Powerful Women in Tech”, “Top 20 CDOs”, and ”Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics” many years in a row

Solmaz Rashidi

CDO/CAO

Estée Lauder, Sony Music, and Merck

Empowers R&D with IT and tech-enabled innovation for the world's largest F&B company

Dr. Carolina Pinart

AVP, Group Head R&D IT

Nestlé

Ashley Woodbridge

Field CTO ISG - META

Lenovo

Leading one of the top business schools in the world (Forbes Top 10, Economist & FT Top 100)

Christopher Abraham

Sr. Vice President (Institutional Development)

S P Jain School of Global Management

Coral Movasseli

Founder

All in Tech Global

Dr. Ebtesam Almazrouei

Acting Chief AI Researcher and Executive Director, Artificial Intelligence Cross-Center Unit

Technology Innovation Institute

Develops an ecosystem of public, private, and academic sectors to collaborate on the developing of practical standards for the responsible and safe use of AI Technology

Gerry Kian Woon Chng

Chairman, AI Ethics & Governance Special Interest Group

Singapore Computer Society (SCS)

At the helpm of the world’s strongest telecom brand

Hatem Dowidar

Group CEO

e&

Hicham El Habti

President

University Mohammed VI Polytechnic

Backed up 10+ companies like MosaicML (acquired by Databricks), Stability AI, DynamoFL, Space & Time and others while at Samsung Next.

Hina Dixit

Partner

Microsoft Ventures

Global expert in data ethics and responsible data practices with a focus on ML and AI

JoAnn Stonier

Visiting Professor

Pratt Institute

The first British diplomat to hold an emerging technology portfolio. Holds a civil service award, presented by the late Queen Elizabeth II, for her work on digital diplomacy

Karen McLuskie

Senior Advisor on Emerging Technology

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Brings Dataikuʼs vision of Everyday AI to industry analysts and media worldwide

Kurt Muehmel

Everyday AI Strategic Advisor

Dataiku

Columnist at NASDAQ & CNN on macroeconomics, central bank policies and A.I.

Naeem Aslam

Columnist

NASDAQ

Nisrine El Sharif

Head of Department

General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA)

Priya Guha

Venture Partner & NED

Merian Ventures & UKRI

Advises Commonwealth member countries on digital infrastructure policy's impact on trade and economic growth

Radika Kumar

Adviser, Artificial Intelligence and Transformative Technology.

Commonwealth Secretariat

Robin Kearsey

Data Analytics

dnata

Sanjay Gupta

VP – South Asia and Middle East

NICE

Shail Khiyara

President & COO

Turbotic

Dr. Zhu Shenggao

Vice President of AI

Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Tannya Jajal

CEO

AIDEN

Valerie Hawley

Executive Director

Sorbonne Center of Artificial Intelligence (SCAI)

Vilmos Lorincz

Managing Director – Data Product

Lloyds Banking Group

Vinko Lesic

Associate Professor

University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

Renowned academic widely recognized for his contributions to the field of Computer Science and Engineering

Wathiq Mansoor

Dean of College of Engineering & IT

University of Dubai

Mouna EssaEgh

MEA Secure Power VP

Schneider Electric

Architecting world-class cloud services

Phil Lewis

SVP

Infor Solution Consulting - International

Ex-President of Blackberry China. Advising African and Chinese governments on ICT projects and development strategies.

Gregory Shea

Chairman

BYG Advantage

Saad Toma

General Manager

IBM Middle East and Africa

Leads AI implementation in 3rd largest Bank in Central and Eastern Europe

Adel Valiullin

Head of Artificial Intelligence

Gazprombank

Leads the Smart Cities topic in BCG globally

Dr. Akram Awad

Partner & Global Lead for Smart Cities

Boston Consulting Group

Ankit A. Shukla

Vice President

Frost & Sullivan

Chief Data Officer 2023, Award Winner of Best AI Project Implementation for Energy and Utilities Sector 2022 – 2023.

Awad Ahmed Ali EL Siddig

Head of Artificial Intelligent & Analytics

ADNOC Distribution

Founder of Smartcity Investments in Beijing. Digital pioneer helping the Chinese government develop smart cities.

Alan Boyd

Co-Founder

Metadventures

Top 25 in Financial Technology USA. Top 100 women in fintech across the globe.

Amnah Ajmal

Executive Vice President, Market Development, EEMEA

Mastercard

Nelson Mandela Nobel Peace Award 2021 & Mother Teresa Memorial Award 2022 Winner

Dr. Arshi Ayub

CEO

Trust With Trade Group

Ex VP at Citigroup. Frequently interviewed on CNN, CGTN, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, BNN Bloomberg and other channels.

Edgar Perez

Author of "The Speed Traders" and "Knightmare on Wall Street"

Bernard Ghanem

Professor of ECE and CS, Deputy Director of AI Initiative, Visual Computing Center

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Fintech CTO/CIO 2022 awarded by Ghana Fintech & Payments Association

Bill Yeboah Kyeremeh

General Manager, Delivery and Innovations

Consolidated Bank Ghana

Leads the largest global network of around 400,000 Smart Cities practitioners and stakeholders

Corey Gray

Global CEO

Smart Cities Council

Dana Kawas

CEO

Thynkli

Leads innovative global recruitment marketplace. Author of the Amazon best seller "Innovation Tools"

Dr. Evan Shellshear

Global CEO & MD

Ubidy

Director of The Social Machines and Robotics labs (SMART) at New York University Abu Dhabi. Researcher in the fields of AI, Robotics, Cognitive Computing, Human-Computer Interaction

Dr. Hanan Salam

Co-founder

Women in AI

Renowned American computer scientist, co-founder of AI-powered Graph Intelligence start-up.

Keshav Pingali

CEO

Katana Graph

Leads the development of AI solutions for the 5th largest banking group in the ASEAN region. Mentor for AI start-ups and for the Kerala Start-up Mission.

Mathew Joseph

Head

CIMB AI Labs

100 Brilliant Women in AI. Working on frameworks for AI policy – including the OECD AI Principles and the Universal Guidelines for AI

Merve Hickok

President & Research Director

Center for AI & Digital Policy (CAIDP)

Leading successful launches and collaborating with local partners and government entities for data-driven transformation and AI advancement in the META region

Mohamed Zouari

General Manager - Snowflake META

Snowflake

Thought leader in Industrial Digital Transformation. Author of "Building Industrial Digital Twins"

Pieter Van Schalkwyk

CEO

XMPro

Visiting Professor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing and Hainan University, with particular expertise in AI over the last 30 years

Dr. Richard Leaver

Director

Greybrook Limited

First telco in the world with SBTI-validated net zero targets that are taking the power of digitalisation to solve climate issues

Dr. Richard Benjamins

Chief Responsible AI Officer

Telefonica

Executing the CIB NBFI Sector Digital and Technology Enablement Strategy across South Africa and other major African countries

Pragashani Reddy

Executive Head of Technology and Digital Enablement SA and ROA Corporate and Investment Banking

Standard Bank Group

Co-creator of Siri. Top 100 most influential French developers in the digital world.

Dr. Luc Julia

Chief Scientific Officer

Renault Group

Listed in TIME Best 100 Inventions, Forbes AI 50, Forbes Cloud 100. World's no 1 noise cancelling app.

Davit Baghdasaryan

Co-Founder & CEO

Krisp.ai

Leads the AI Center of Excellence for one of the top 4 banks in the USA, which operates across 160 countries.

Dr. Prag Sharma

Global Head of Artificial Intelligence

Citi

Driving innovative lab insight solutions at one of the world's largest healthcare companies

Ralf Maier-Reinhardt

SVP Global Head Digital Diagnostics Apps

Roche

Using AI to revolutionize product photography, transforming boring images into works of art, used by 900,000+ creatives & ecommerce

Swee Kiat Lim

Co-founder

Pebblely

UK Top 50 Tech Leader. Spearheading digital innovation for one of the world's leading energy companies

Franziska Bell

Chief Digital Officer

bp

eBay’s first chief AI officer. His team recently rolled out new 3D visualization tool for sellers to create their own models.

Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov

Chief AI Officer

eBay

Drives the implementation of AI acceleration strategies at the top largest bank in the USA and the world's largest bank by market capitalization.

Daniel Wu

Head of AI & Machine Learning, Commercial Banking

JP Morgan Chase

Global leader of the world-famous Fender brand that boasts iconic ambassadors such as Christ Stapleton, Niles Rodgers, and others

Aarash Darroodi

Executive Vice President & General Counsel

Fender Guitars

Listed on Forbes Cloud 100 and Forbes AI 50 lists. Among the top 10 on the Data50 list.

Jepson Ben Taylor

Chief AI Strategist

Dataiku

Managing one of the biggest home-grown Data lake and MLOps platform, team of 20+PMs and 150 developers.

Sanchit Juneja

Director - Product, Data Science & Machine Learning Platform

Booking.com

Founder of the first DataPrepOps platform built for Machine Learning

Jennifer Prendki

CEO & Founder

Alectio, Inc.

Famous neuropsychology expert supporting top executives worldwide in the field of business psychology

Tanja Dressen

CEO

DressenCoaching

Established AI/ML teams for industry leaders like AppTek, eBay, Amazon, and Meta

Hassan Sawaf

CEO

aiXplain

Among Top 100 Global Leaders in Data & Analytics and 100 Most Influential AI & Analytics Leaders in India

Dr. Anish Agarwal

Global Head of Analytics

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories

Founder of the MLOps Institute. Author of "Data Science Pocket Guide"

Mohamed Sabri

Instructor and Mentor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

An ex IBMer, worked on more than 20 Data Warehouses and Data Lakes

Debbie Botha

Chief Partnership Officer, Women in AI and Co-founder & MD Dalebrook Media Middle East

Women in AI

Sought after speaker with more than 10 years experience in Data, Analytics and AI Management

Garry Ure

Head of Data Enablement

Zand

"Leads the only global member-based organization focusing on accelerating adoption of Augmented Reality in enterprise with members such as Boeing, Welsh Water, Newport News Shipbuilding, MedtronicMicrosoft, Magic Leap, RealWear, Qualcomm, Lenovo and PTC"

Mark Sage

MIT Horizons Subject Matter Expert & Executive Director

AR for Enterprise Alliance (AREA)

In charge of setup open source ecosystem of OS (openEuler), DB(openGauss), AI Framework(MindSpore), and Cloud Native (KubeEdge, Volcano) etc. and promote them in open source community

Junping Du

Ex Chairman - AI & Data

The Linux Foundation, China

Holder of 50 patents in Computer Vision & Deep Learning

Yonghua Lin

Vice President, Chief Engineer

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)

One of the most influential female engineers in the world by IEEE and awarded a grant of $50,000 from Bill Gates in Davos during the World Economic Forum

Ayat Amr Mohammad

Entrepreneurship committee member

IEEE

Among Asia's 100 most powerful women. UAE's 2023 Top Women Executive.

Vineesha HK

Regional thought leader & Advisor – Digital & Emerging Tech

Integrating NASA's technology efforts for planetary In Situ resources.

Dr. Omar Hatamleh

Chief Advisor - AI & Innovation

Goddard Space Flight Centre, NASA

Top rated technical writer and Google certified UX Designer

Shaheer Malik

Product Designer

RepairDesk