WORLD SUMMIT AI QATAR 2025
SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS
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2025 Programme

HEADLINER | AI in a resilient world
Tom Gamali, CTO & Advisor MEA TRC, Cisco Splunk
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HEADLINER | The global AI equation: The race for sovereign intelligence and the new wealth of nations
Lucia Velasco, Head AI Policy, United Nations
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KEYNOTE | Transforming organizations to agentic enterprises
Jesper Schleimann, EMEA AI Officer, SAP
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KEYNOTE | Forward deployed: The how of GenAI
Mohamed Shaaban, Director of AI Product, Scale AI
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KEYNOTE | Where does the region stand in AI adoption and deployment?
Hugo Carreira, AI Lead, Roland Berger Middle East El Moustapha Izidbih, Senior Advisor, Roland Berger Middle East
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KEYNOTE | The geopolitics of AI: Power, security and the new global order
Jean-Marc Rickli, Head of Global and Emerging Risks, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
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KEYNOTE | From hype to reinvention to habit: The discipline to unlock AI’s real value
Ali Nehme, AI Strategy Lead, Accenture Middle East
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HEADLINER | The augmentation imperative: Living, working, and thriving in the era of intelligent systems
James Sayles, Founder/Chief AI Officer, I3Mation.ai; Chief AI Strategist and Governance Officer, Halliburton
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HEADLINER | The interplay between ‘AI for Energy’ and ‘Energy for AI’
Santiago Bañales Lopez, Managing Director, Iberdrola Innovation Middle East & CEO, East-West Digital
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HEADLINER | From automation to discovery: The next evolution of AI research
Simon See, Global Head Nvidia AI Technology Centre, NVIDIA
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FIRESIDE CHAT | Space data for healthcare breakthroughs: AI at the edge of human discovery
Dr. Imed Gallouzi, Professor of Bioscience, Chair of the Center of Excellence for Smart Health, KAUST Kimberly Washington, Co-Founder & CEO, Deep Space Biology, Founding Board Member of Generation AI, Reuben College, University of Oxford
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KEYNOTE | Harnessing AI for multimodal data analytics: Practical applications in health, science, and research
Helia Mohammadi, Chief Research Technology Officer, City of Hope
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HEADLINER | The critical sovereign AI
Dr. Eng. Fadi Nasser, Chief Commercial Officer, MEEZA
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TRACK 1
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2025 Programme

KEYNOTE | Transforming a telecom giant: Scaling AI across Swisscom
Katherine Munro, AI Transformation Manager, Swisscom
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KEYNOTE | From experiments to enterprise: Making AI agents mission-critical
Andrey Belik, Senior Product Manager, Camunda
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KEYNOTE | From agents to ecosystems: Human-centric AI built on shared world models
Arkadeep Joardar, Sr. Product Manager, SearchUnify
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KEYNOTE | Unlocking aviation’s AI potential: Overcoming barriers through systemic collaboration
Amad Malik, Founder & President, Open AAM
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USE CASE | How AI is transforming the future of shopping at Snoonu
Nikita Gordeev, CTO, Snoonu
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KEYNOTE | Building trustworthy AI
Tahir Latif, Chief Privacy & AI Governance Officer, Ethical AI Alliance
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TRACK 2
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KEYNOTE | The interplay between Quantum and AI
Dr Saif Al-Kuwari, Director of Qatar Center for Quantum Computing, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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KEYNOTE | AI sprawl is happening now: Understand the urgent risks and how to bring them under control
Nithish Rajan, Head of Solutions, Airia
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KEYNOTE | If AI owns the experience, how will customers experience you?
Amjad Al Sabbah Group VP, MEA, Sprinklr
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KEYNOTE | Building cyber-secure sovereign AI infrastructure for frontier markets
Frank Meehan, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, FrontierOne
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KEYNOTE | AI trends every developer needs to master in 2026
Celina Lee, Co-Founder & CEO, Zindi
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KEYNOTE | Composite AI for regulatory compliance
Badshah Mukherjee, Principal Business Solutions Manager, SAS
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KEYNOTE | The AI military race: Ethics, power, and global diplomacy
Denise Garcia, Professor, Northeastern University in Boston and Global Commission on Responsible AI in the Military
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KEYNOTE | Trust by design: Building impactful responsible AI systems
Lisa Rice, CEO, National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA)