Leaders

Meet the leaders shaping our regions next chapter - steering institutions, scaling teams, and delivering advanced technological outcomes that move industries forward.

SAUDI arabia

H.E. Prof Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi: President of the Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA)

His Excellency Prof. Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi is currently the President of the Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA), at the rank of minister, and serves as chairman or member of several boards and committees.

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united arab emirates

Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan: Chairman of G42.

Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan serves as chairman of G42, an Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence and cloud computing company founded in 2018, a position he has held since 2021. Under his leadership, G42 has expanded from a regional entity into a global leader in AI infrastructure, including supercomputing capabilities and machine learning research, with over 25,000 employees by 2024.

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DUBAI

How Grace Tang Is Building the Human Infrastructure Behind AI Adoption In Dubai.

In the Gulf, the AI conversation has moved past curiosity. Boardrooms talk about productivity, governments talk about national strategy, and founders talk about speed. But the real bottleneck is rarely compute. It is people. Tan Ting (Grace) Tang has built her work around that gap, with a simple provocation at the center: the region will not win the AI era by waiting for more engineers. It will win by expanding the definition of who belongs in building, deploying, and governi

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How Gowri Shankar Sivabala Is Connecting Dubai’s AI Ecosystem

When artificial intelligence starts moving from demos to deployment, the hardest work is rarely the model. It is alignment. Who gets access. Who sets guardrails. And who translates policy into practice. In Dubai, Gowri Shankar Sivabala has focused his energy on the connective tissue that makes adoption possible: a community designed to bring AI talent, founders, and policymakers into the same room, with shared language and shared responsibility.

H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence,UAE.

His Excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama was appointed as the Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence in October 2017. In July 2020, he was also appointed as the Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications. His responsibilities include enhancing the government performance levels by investing in the latest technologies and tools of artificial intelligence and applying them in various sectors.

H.E. Prof Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi: President of the Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA)

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Leaders

SAUDI arabia

H.E. Prof Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi: President of the Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA)

united arab emirates

Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan: Chairman of G42.

DUBAI

How Grace Tang Is Building the Human Infrastructure Behind AI Adoption In Dubai.

middle east all

How Gowri Shankar Sivabala Is Connecting Dubai’s AI Ecosystem

H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence,UAE.

H.E. Prof Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi: President of the Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA)

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