Agenda

William Thompson

Chief Strategy Officer

United States of America

Forbes Ignite

Nicole Cacal

Professor at Parsons School of Design & Founder & CEO

United States of America

Forbes Ignite

Driving initiatives for Purposeful AI and key advisor Global 2000 corporations and venture-backed start-ups on communicating to C-level executives about digital technologies and transformation

Safder Nazir

SVP – Digital Industries

United Arab Emirates

Huawei Middle East

50 Most Impactful Smart Cities Leaders

Kathleen Kennedy

Senior Director

MIT Horizon

Strategic leader operating on the front lines of innovation. Named by the Women of the Harvard Club as one of Boston’s Most Influential Women.

Bryan Tan

Chief Scientist

Carro

The AI expert who introduced in Singapore the first usage-based insurance by using Telematics; first contactless car viewing, first Computer Vision model to analyse defects in cars; formally introduced its Carro x AWS Scholarship for Singaporean undergraduate students to develop AI & ML competencies; With over $1 billion transactions Carro is one of the largest- funded automotive marketplaces in the world, backed by venture capital firms such as SoftBank Ventures Asia, B Capital Group, EDBI Pte Ltd and Insignia Ventures Partners

Simon See

Senior Director of AI Technology Centre & AI Nation

Nvidia

Heavily leveraging AI to make Singapore and cities in China smarter across its key projects, an important contributor to the development of Cambridge 1, the world's fastest supercomputer

Sherif Tawfiq

Chief Sustainability Officer - Middle East & Africa

United Arab Emirates

Microsoft

Leading the commercial and go-to-market strategy for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability in the Middle East & Africa and driving the ESG agenda; Winner of the Chairman Award presented by Bill Gates

Ahmed Al-Jeshi

Regional Director - HPC & AI

Saudi Arabia

Intel

Specialist in High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Technical Computing, Parallel Applications and Hybrid IT Infrastructure Solutions

H.E Omar Sultan Al Olama

Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications

United Arab Emirates

Government of UAE

Maya Bridgman

Gold Ambassador CodersHq

United Arab Emirates

Ministry of Artificial Intelligence

UAE government Coders HQ youth ambassador

Kaveh Vessali

Partner

United Arab Emirates

PWC

Senior Advisor to several local and national governments on their Master Planning initiatives; oversaw the launch and implementation of Smart Dubai, Dubai Data, Dubai Pulse & Abu Dhabi Open Data Platform

Kathleen Kennedy

Senior Director

MIT Horizon

Strategic leader operating on the front lines of innovation. Named by the Women of the Harvard Club as one of Boston’s Most Influential Women.

Katie King

UK Government All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) task force, Author & CEO

AI in Business 

Member of the UK Government All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) task force for the enterprise adoption of AI, Former advisor to Richard Branson/Virgin, NatWest/RBS, Accenture, PA Consulting, Orange, Arsenal Football Club, and Harrods. Launched a school AI programme, the Leaders of Tomorrow

Caroline Gorski

Chief Executive

United Kingdom

R² Factory at Rolls-Royce

Driving the digital readiness and digital culture of Rolls Royce globally with initiatives such as digital twin, industrial AI & ML, virtual reality maintenance software management, air refueling optimisation, automated tip clearance inspection service to name a few

Alessandra Sala

President of Women in AI, Director of AI & Data Science

Shuttershock

2021 winner of the XV International Prize "Le Tecnovisionarie" in the AI - Industrial Research category, Member of the  advisory boards of Ireland's National Centre for Applied Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence (CeADAR)

Koo Seng Meng

Sr Deputy Director

AI Singapore

Shaped the billion-dollar APAC games industry and launched Singapore's first mobile experiential platform – Lab on Wheels – demystifying MxR and AI/ML to students and masses; Has been an effective contributor to Singapore's rise in the top 10 countries of AI index

David Magard​

Co-Chair & Swedish Government Representative

European Blockchain Partnership

Su Le

Chief Digital & Strategy Officer

Saudi Arabia

Tonomus

Building the cognitive foundations of cities, ensuring the ability to connect, to compute and to contextualize, using data where and when it is needed, and bringing the power of analytics to decision making

Dr. Ebtesam Almazrouei

Director of the Al-Cross Center Unit

United Arab Emirates

Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

Led the team behind building Noor, the world’s largest Arabic natural language processing (NLP) model to date

Simon See

Senior Director of AI Technology Centre & AI Nation

Nvidia

Heavily leveraging AI to make Singapore and cities in China smarter across its key projects, an important contributor to the development of Cambridge 1, the world's fastest supercomputer

Abiodun Morolari

CISO

Canada

City of Toronto

Sanjay Vishwakarma

Qiskit Advocate and Founder of Quantumgrad, Research Software Engineer, IBM Quantum Computing ambassador

United States of America

IBM

Built Deep Learning Language Model to predict and autocomplete Qiskit Quantum Programming Code that improved accuracy of the model by 8% using Sentence Piece Tokenizer for pre-processing and encoding of the dataset

Colonel Sunil Prem

Founder

Brisk Olive Business Solutions Private Ltd

Founder of India's largest Field Force startup of 25,000 Veteran ex-soldiers successfully completing projects in technology, AI, Python software, Java, DevOps, Ruby etc with organisations such as Navyug Infosolutions (a custom software development firm), Arnima Ventures LLP (a counter-terrorism and counter-IED firm)

Caroline Gorski

Chief Executive

United Kingdom

R² Factory at Rolls-Royce

Driving the digital readiness and digital culture of Rolls Royce globally with initiatives such as digital twin, industrial AI & ML, virtual reality maintenance software management, air refueling optimisation, automated tip clearance inspection service to name a few

William Thompson

Chief Strategy Officer

United States of America

Forbes Ignite

Nicole Cacal

Professor at Parsons School of Design & Founder & CEO

United States of America

Forbes Ignite

Driving initiatives for Purposeful AI and key advisor Global 2000 corporations and venture-backed start-ups on communicating to C-level executives about digital technologies and transformation

Dr. Eric Xing

President and Professor

United Arab Emirates

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Koo Seng Meng

Sr Deputy Director

AI Singapore

Shaped the billion-dollar APAC games industry and launched Singapore's first mobile experiential platform – Lab on Wheels – demystifying MxR and AI/ML to students and masses; Has been an effective contributor to Singapore's rise in the top 10 countries of AI index

Mohamed Zouari

GM - MENAT

United Arab Emirates

Snowflake

Industry veteran known to impact customer data driven journeys by unlocking the power of the data cloud

Niels Bantilan

Creator

Pandera

Creator of a dataframe validation library for scientists, engineers, and analysts seeking correctness, the system integrator for the world's most popular Python based software ""FastApi"" with Geopandas; Core Member of Flyte OSS software, used by Lyft

Haytham Abuel Futuh

CTO

Union.ai

Co-Creator of Flyte, used by Lyft, the workflow automation platform for complex, mission-critical data and ML processes at scale, Flyte has been battle-tested at Lyft, Spotify, Freenome, is an entirely open-source with an Apache 2.0 license under the Linux Foundation

Ketan Umare

Creator of Flyte, Co-Founder & CEO

Union.ai

Co-Creator of Flyte, used by Lyft, the workflow automation platform for complex, mission-critical data and ML processes at scale, Flyte has been battle-tested at Lyft, Spotify, Freenome, is an entirely open-source with an Apache 2.0 license under the Linux Foundation

Mathias Goyen

Chief Medical Officer EMEA

GE Healthcare

Leveraging AI to personalise healthcare, diagnose big data for patients for a $16 billion division of GE

Dr. Scott Nowson

AI Leader

United Arab Emirates

PwC

Leading and growing PwC's AI teams and capabilities in the Middle East region

Samrat Kokkula

Data Science Leader

United States of America

Walmart Global Tech

Deployed 15+ ML and deep learning based systems

Caroline Lair

CEO

The Good AI

Top 50 Women Pioneers in Tech in France; Co-Founder of Women in AI, a 30K strong community

Al Anoud Al Hashmi

Chief Executive Officer

SDG Global

Futurist Emirati, Entrepreneur, Top 10 Inspiring Women Entrepreneurs Revamping the Future 2021

Shailesh Davey

Co-founder & VP Engineering

India

Zoho Corporation (ManageEngine)

Currently working on large scale data handling problems; previously developed the Rapid Application development tool for network management

Valeria Cagnina

Robotics Engineer & Co Founder

OFpassiON

Child prodigy, A robotics engineer, in the top 100 under30 Forbes list, built her first robot at the age of 11, delivered a TED talk at the age of 14, Inspired by MIT, Founded a robotics school at the age of 16 that collabarates with MIT, Cisco, Allianz, Michelin, Enel, Disney, IBM, Github, National Geographic, Forbes, Ted X and Wired to name a few. Francesco Baldassarre, Co-Founder, OFpassiON (Italy) Launched robotics, tech and digital software and hardware courses starting from 3 years old for children not literate yet. The school now collaborates with MIT, Cisco, Allianz, Michelin, Enel, Disney, IBM, Github, National Geographic, Forbes, Ted X and Wired to name a few.

Francesco Baldassarre

Co-Founder

OFpassiON

Launched robotics, tech and digital software and hardware courses starting from 3 years old for children not literate yet. The school now collaborates with MIT, Cisco, Allianz, Michelin, Enel, Disney, IBM, Github, National Geographic, Forbes, Ted X and Wired to name a few.

Alex Mitchell

Founder & CEO

Boomy Corporation

Launched Boomy, a music creation and distribution platform where over 500,000 creators make, publish, and monetize instant songs. Boomy creators have already released over 200,000 songs, earning hundreds of millions of streams

Bryan Tan

Chief Scientist

Carro

The AI expert who introduced in Singapore the first usage-based insurance by using Telematics; first contactless car viewing, first Computer Vision model to analyse defects in cars; formally introduced its Carro x AWS Scholarship for Singaporean undergraduate students to develop AI & ML competencies; With over $1 billion transactions Carro is one of the largest- funded automotive marketplaces in the world, backed by venture capital firms such as SoftBank Ventures Asia, B Capital Group, EDBI Pte Ltd and Insignia Ventures Partners

Steve Nouri

In2iTy Lab

Chief Data Scientist

Top 21 Influencers in data for 2021 by Rivery, Top 20 Industry Key Opinion Leaders 2021 by Onalytica. His Linkedin had 500 million views in 2021

Lauri Haav

MD - E - Residency

Estonia

Republic of Estonia

Heads up Estonia’s e-Residency programme in the world’s most digital society delivering 12,000 new E-residents in 2021 and generating €32.5 million in tax revenue

Shrijeet Mishra

Chief Innovation Officer

India

Aditya Birla Group

Leads data analytics for a Fortune 500, $46 Billion Conglomerate; works with leading global Universities such as MIT, Wharton , TiE; Advisor to several state and national governments on creating sustainable innovation ecosystems

David Foy

Head of Sector Development - Digital Economy at Luxinnovation GIE

Luxembourg

Government of Luxembourg

25 years of working in Luxembourg in the fund, banking and insurance business as CIO and in international development

William Thompson

Chief Strategy Officer

United States of America

Forbes Ignite