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Each week, I invite expert guests from business, government and technology to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region.

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I’ll be talking to Falcons AI founder & CTO Michael J. Stattelman. We’ll talk about:

📰 The founding of Falcons AI in the UAE

📰 The growing enterprise issue of content control

📰 The Falcons AI NSFW computer vision model

📰 One billion downloads and the impact on Falcons AI

📰 Falcons AI vision for Control Fabric AI

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🎙️ Michael J. Stattelman is co-founder and CTO of Falcons AI, where he leads advanced AI research and open-source innovation. He has driven breakthroughs across gaming, pharma, and precision agriculture. Under his leadership, Falcons.ai’s billion-download NSFW model set new standards for open-source AI, inspiring the next evolution—Control Fabric AI.

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Join me on Thursday, October 30th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we’ll find out about OnDemand‘s new certification from Supermicro, the Supermicro AS-2115HV-TNRT Workstation, and how hardware partnerships impact global sales!

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I’ll be talking to AIREV founder & CEO Muhammad Khalid. We’ll talk about:

📰 AIREVs collaboration with Supermicro

📰 The certification of OnDemand for Supermicro’s AS-2115HV-TNRT Workstation & what this means for Supermicro customers

📰 Creating a sovereign, air-gapped AI environment with OnDemand

📰 Exporting Made in the UAE AI technology

📰 AIREV’s expansion strategy

Special Guest

🎙️ Muhammad Khalid is Founder of AIREV HOLDING LIMITED, the creators of School Hack AI, the UAE-based ChatGPT-powered students platform, and OnDemand, the innovative Agentic AI platform which enables you to fast-track AI product development and seamlessly integrate AI and IoT apps into your environment.

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Join me on Thursday, October 23rd at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we’ll find out about HP’s new computer manufacturing facility in Riyadh — the first of its kind in Saudi Arabia — and the launch of HP’s AI R&D Center of Excellence in Dhahran..

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I’ll be talking to Fadle Saad from HP. We’ll talk about:

📰 How HP supports our new world of AI

📰 HP’s opening of a new AI R&D Centre of Excellence in Dhahran

📰 HPs new manufacturing facility in Riyadh

📰 HPs portfolio of next gen AI PCs

📰 HP’s investment in AI education

Special guest

• Fadle Saad is Managing Director of HP MENA Regional Headquarters, leading the company’s strategic growth across Saudi Arabia. With over 15 years at HP, he has played a key role in expanding the company’s footprint in the Middle East and Africa. Today, he champions HP’s mission to build local innovation capacity through AI research and advanced manufacturing.

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Join me on Thursday, October 2nd at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we’ll find out about Qualcomm’s new Global Engineering Centre in Abu Dhabi and Qualcomm’s AI infrastructure initiatives in the Middle East.

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I’ll be talking to Dev Singh from Qualcomm. We’ll talk about:

📰 Qualcomm’s expansion in the Middle East

📰 How the company is enabling AI from the core to the edge

📰 Industrial IoT and automation

📰 Qualcomm’s new Global Engineering Centre in Abu Dhabi

📰 Qualcomm partnerships in the Middle East

Special guest

• Dev Singh is VP Industrial IoT Solutions and Global Head – O&G, Smart Cities, Construction & Mining at Qualcomm. Recently relocated from Silicon Valley to Abu Dhabi, he is also UAE Site Lead and General Manager. With over 20 years in the semiconductor industry, he leads Qualcomm’s global Robotics and Intelligent Machines business. His focus spans AI, IoT, robotics, and smart cities, and building and scaling Qualcomm’s presence in Abu Dhabi — including the company’s new Global Engineering Centre.

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12:05 — A word with Sharif Berdi, Senior Director Data and Machine Learning Engineering, Inception
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12:30 — Regional AI news roundup from Carrington Malin

12:40 — A chat with Andrew Jackson, Group Chief AI Officer, G42
Responsible AI is a journey being pioneered by G42

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Why the public sector partners with Presight + The company’s record growth!

12:30 — Regional AI news roundup from Carrington Malin

12:40 — A chat with Sam Vaughan, VP Partnerships, Core42
Managing the spiraling costs of using AI

13:10 — Discussion: Sherif Tawfik, Chief Partnership Officer, Microsoft– G42 The global Microsoft-G42 alliance

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How AI is reshaping the enterprise

12:30 — Regional AI news roundup from Carrington Malin

12:40 — A chat with Dennis Jol, CEO, AIQ
AI is disrupting the global energy sector faster than you’d think

13:10 — Discussion: Steve Nouri, CEO, Generative AI
Can we control Agentic AI?

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12:04 — A word with Magzhan Kenesbai, Chief Growth Officer, Presight
Transforming public sectors around the world

12:30 — Regional AI news roundup from Carrington Malin

12:40 — A chat with Alex Kipman, Founder, Analog
The future of smart cities with AI

13:10 — Discussion: Mihai Marcuta, founder, Nodeshift
Everyone wants sovereign AI

13:40 — Regional AI news roundup from Carrington Malin

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Join me on Thursday, September 18th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out about the first UAE Executive Programme for Chief AI Officers, just launched by The AI Academy - a joint initiative from Abu Dhabi School of Management (ADSM) and Polynome Group.

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I’’ll be talking to Dr Ahmed Dabbagh, managing director of Polynome AI Academy. We'll talk about:

📰 The UAE’s rising demand for AI education

📰 The joint initiative created by Abu Dhabi School of Management & Polynome

📰 The need for Chief AI Officers in the UAE

📰 The goals of The AI Academy’s Executive Programme for CAIOs

📰 What makes the new programme different from others

Special guest

• Dr Ahmed Dabbagh is the Managing Director for Polynome AI Academy, leading the development of the pioneering Executive Programme for Chief AI Officers. He was previously the Director of Professional Services and Executive Education at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), where he established a world-class Executive Programme for senior leaders in government and industry. A pioneer in educational technology, Dr. Dabbagh also played a pivotal role in launching the UAE Educational Cloud.

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Join me on Thursday, September 11th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out about Riyadh-based speech intelligence company Intella’s $12.5 million Series A funding to scale Arabic conversational AI across the Arab world.

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I’’ll be talking to intella c-founder and CEO Nour Taher. We'll talk about:

📰 Intella’s $12.5 million Series A funding round

📰 Intella’s Arabic AI speech platform

📰 The company’s AI voice assistant

📰 How the company will scale its platform to serve MENA

📰 The future of Arabic language AI

Special guest

• Nour Taher is the co-founder and CEO of intella, an Arabic-first AI company pioneering conversational AI and speech technology for the Arab world. With a background spanning banking, customer experience, and digital health, she now leads Intella’s mission to deliver cutting-edge Arabic voice AI at scale. This month Intella announced a $12.5 million Series A funding round.

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Join me on Thursday, September 4th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE - the first show of the new season! We'll be rounding up Summer 2025 Middle East AI news and discussing some of the most interested stories from June, July and August

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

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On this week’s show, I’ll be joined by technology journalists Talal Al Hammad and Sammer Batter! We'll talk about these topics:

📰 Saudi Arabia and UAE school AI curricula!

📰 The launch of the Arabic language HUMAIN Chat!

📰 Summer AI startup funding!

📰 And much more!

Special guests

• Talal Al Hammad is a serial entrepreneur and journalist who has his finger on the pulse of Saudi Arabia's tech ecosystem. He is CEO and founder of Saudi-based media platform entARABI (إنت عربي) , spotlighting MENA’s entrepreneurship ecosystem through news, events, and podcasts.

• Sammer Batter is the host of AI Reef podcast and is also currently acting editor of Arabian Business Arabic. As a journalist he has been covering the Arab world's technology market for more than 20 years.

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Join me on Thursday, November 7th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out about the Sultanate of Oman's new National Artificial Intelligence Programme, Oman's plans to establish an Open Data platform and some of the country's new AI and remerging technology initiatives!

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

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I’’ll be talking to Dr. Nasser Mohammed Al-Fannah, Director of Technology Programs, at the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology - Oman (MTCIT). We'll talk about:

📰 Oman's new National AI Programme.

📰 The goals and drivers behind the National AI Programme

📰 Oman's upcoming Open Data platform

📰 Oman's plans to build a national Large Languge Model

📰 The future developments

Special guest

• Dr. Nasser Mohammed Al-Fannah is the Director of Technology Programs, at Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT), where he oversees the National Program for Digital Economy. He is also the Acting Deputy Director General of the National Center for Space, Advanced Technology, and AI. Additionally, he serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences and is actively engaged in research and review within the fields of Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence.

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Join me on Thursday, October 31 st at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out about AI Agents, they hype versus reality, how AI agents really will revolutionise business and what organisations can do about this new wave of AI today!

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

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I'll be talking to Muhammad Khalid, Founder of AIREV HOLDING LIMITED, the creators of School Hack.AI and OnDemand. We'll talk about:

📰 AIREV and OnDemand's growth this year

📰 What are AI Agents?

📰 What can AI agents do for business

📰 How AI agents will change the workplace

📰 How organisations can start creating their own AI agents

📰 Use cases for AI agents

Special guest

• Muhammad Khalid, Founder of AIREV, the creators of School Hack AI, the UAE-based ChatGPT-powered students platform, and OnDemand, the innovative AI platform which enables you to fast-track AI product development and seamlessly integrate AI and IoT apps into your environment.

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Join me on Thursday, October 24th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out about Arabic language LLMs, the state of Arabic language translation and Tarjama&'s new Arabic LLM: Pronoia!

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

This show’s hot topic

I'll be talking to Nour Al Hassan, Founder and CEO of language technology and translation services provider Tarjama& We'll talk about:

📰 The development of machine translation for the Arabic language.

📰 The potential of Arabic GenAI & enterprise needs

📰 The current Arabic language LLM landscape

📰 The launch of Tarjama&'s Arabic LLM, #Pronoia!

📰 What the new LLM means for users and developers 

📰 Future developments

Read more about Tarjama&’s new Arabic LLM here.

Special guest

• Nour Al Hassan is Founder and CEO of language technology and translation services provider Tarjama& and online freelancer marketplace Ureed. Founding the business in 2008 in Amman as a translation agency, she has led Tarjama to become a pioneer in Arabic language technology development.

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Join me on Thursday, September 26th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out about Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence's 16-week intensive Executive Programme and the role of executive education in the era of AI!

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

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I'll be talking to Dr. Ahmed Dabbagh from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence! We'll talk about:

📰 The development of MBZUAI's Executive Programme, the goals behind it and the contribution that it makes to the UAE's national AI strategy.

📰 The need for executive education in the era of AI

📰 The structure of the Executive Programme

📰 What participants can gain from the programme

📰 The Executive Programme's latest cohort of government and business leaders, their graduation projects

📰 The Executive Programme's upcoming programmes and future plans.

Special guest

• Dr. Ahmed Dabbagh is the Director of Professional Services and Executive Education at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), where he has led the development of a world-class Executive Programme for senior leaders in government and key industry sectors over the past four years. A pioneer in educational technology, Dr. Dabbagh also played a pivotal role in launching the UAE Educational Cloud and Distributed Computing.

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Join me on Thursday, September 19th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out about Saudi Arabia’s Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), the end of the 12 month transition period announced for the new law, and what the law means for organisations collecting Saudi consumer data.

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

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I'll be talking to Osama El-Masry, Middle East Lead - Data Responsibility & Privacy at Cognizant about:

📰 The Saudi Personal Data Protection Law

📰 What the end of the 12 month transition period means

📰 Other recent data guidelines and regulations

📰 The top priorities for organisations affected by the law

📰 What we can expect moving forwards

Special guest

• Osama El-Masry, is Middle East Lead - Data Responsibility & Privacy at Cognizant, a global technology services and consulting company, and IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) KnowledgeNet Chapter Chair- Saudi Arabia. He works with customers in Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East to design and implement privacy and data protection compliance programmes according to the Saudi PDPL, Egyptian PDPL, UAE PDPL, and EU GDPR.

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• Data Protection Law landing page (English, SDAI)

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Join me on Thursday, August 29th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out about crowdsourcing training data for large language models, the challenges of training in AI in colloquial Algerian Arabic (Daridja) and the Berber language Tamazight, and Hadretna - a new project to build an Algerian local language LLM!

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

This show’s hot topic

I'll be talking to Moussab Djerrab, CSO and co-founder at Fentech, and co-founder of the Hadretna research project.

📰 Hadretna, a project formed to build an Algerian LLM

📰 Algeria's growing AI ecosystem

📰 Goals for building an LLM capabile in Algerian Arabic and Tamazight

📰 Using crowdsourcing to acquire colloquial language data

📰 All about Hadretna's planned large language model

Special guest

• Moussab Djerrab, CSO and co-founder at Fentech, a Paris-headquartered AI development company, and co-founder of the Hadretna research project, which is developing a large language model, trained on crowdsourced data for the Algerian Arabic dialect Daridja and the Berber languages.

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Join me on Thursday, August 15th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out all about the future of healthcare and the new RenAIssance advanced AI research lab at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City - SSMC in Abu Dhabi!

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

This show’s hot topic

I’ll be talking to Dr. Siddiq Anwar, Consultant Physician-Nephrologist Consultant at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City - SSMC, about:

📰 Introduction to SSMC and the RenAIssance AI lab

📰 Global healthcare challenges and the role of AI

📰 The story of the RenAIssance Lab

📰  All about the lab (location, facilities, people, structure)

📰  UAE healthcare innovation and ecosystem

Special guest

• Dr. Siddiq Anwar, Consultant Physician-Nephrologist Consultant at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City - SSMC, Adjunct Associate Professor at Khalifa University, and a visiting fellow at ADIA Lab (seasonal).

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Join me on Thursday, August 15th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out all about the 20 new Jais Arabic-centric large language models released by Inception - part of the G42 Group - under open source licences this month!

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

This show’s hot topic

I'll be talking to Dr. Neha Sengupta, Principal Applied Scientist at Inception about:

📰  The story of Jais Arabic LLM

📰  The growing need for Arabic Generative AI

📰  The 20 new Jais AI models released this month

📰  How the new models were developed and trained

📰  How organisations and developers can use the 20 Jais models

📰  Potential impact on the region’s AI ecosystem

Special guest

• Dr. Neha Sengupta, Principal Applied Scientist at Inception, who leads the large language model development team, bringing cutting-edge AI technology applications to the domain of Arabic and other non-English languages. She joined Inception in September 2018 after her PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

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Join me on Thursday, August 8th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out more about transforming the energy sector with AI systems, autonomous oil wells and #innovation in Abu Dhabi

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

This show’s hot topic

I'll be talking to Dr. Chris Cooper, CEO at AIQ about:

📰 The story of AIQ

📰 AIQ's RoboWell and how its changing the industry

📰 AIQ's R&D and cutting-edge technology projects with ADNOC

📰 Innovation in Abu Dhabi

📰 AIQ's growth and global ambitions

Special guest

• Dr Chris Cooper, is CEO of AIQ, an AI champion accelerating the transformation of the energy sector, by applying AI insights based on real-world operational data. Dr Cooper is leading the Abu Dhabi-based AI specialist into its next phase of growth, taking its growing portfolio of cutting-edge AI solutions into new markets.

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Join me on Thursday, August 1st at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out more about aiXplain's $6.5 million funding round, the company’s no-code AI development platform and its expansion in MENA.

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

This show’s hot topic

I'll be talking to Husni Khuffash, regional managing director of aiXplain about:

📰 aiXplain's growth and development story

📰 Recent $6.5m pre-Series A funding round led by Wa'ed Ventures

📰 aiXplain's no-code AI development platform

📰 The company's plans to support Arabic AI models

📰 Expansion plans in Saudi Arabia and across MENA

Special guest

• Husni Khuffash is managing director for the Middle East and North Africa at aiXplain, a leading provider of infrastructure for activating AI agents. aiXplains no-code platform makes building tailored AI solutions easier and faster for businesses across all domains.

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Join me on Thursday, July 18th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out more about AI research at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), plans for the Centre of Excellence in Generative AI and goals for a GenAI Factory!

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

This show’s hot topic

• KAUST and the university's AI research

• Plans for the Centre of Excellence in Generative AI

• The goals of the GenAI Factory

• AI research for health & wellness, energy and industry, sustainability, and for economies of the future

• Partnerships and collaborations

Special guest

• Professor Bernard Ghanem, is a Professor in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division, a theme leader at the Visual Computing Center (VCC), and the Chair of the Centre for Excellence in Generative AI at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology). He is also now a programme chair for ICCV29.

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Join me on Thursday, June 27th at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll find out more about local AI product development in the UAE, UAE-based AIREV's success story and how AIREV’s OnDemand is making developing and integrating AI apps child's play!

Each week, I invite guests to help me break down the latest AI and emerging technology news, events and trends from the region. We'll look at the top news from the week, providing comment, opinion and analysis.

This show’s hot topic

• AIREV's success story!

• AI product development in the UAE

• The launch of AIREV's OnDemand AI innovation platform

• Why OnDemand makes creating and integrating apps child's play!

• Making AI app creation more accessible for large organisations

• Other AI trends and developments

Special guest

• Muhammad Khalid, Founder of AIREV, the creators of School Hack AI, the UAE-based ChatGPT-powered students platform, and OnDemand, the innovative AI platform which enables you to fast-track AI product development and seamlessly integrate AI and IoT apps into your environment.

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Links

• The rise of School Hack - AI chat for education! (Thursday Deep Dive 21-Dec-24)

• OnDemand website

• Schoolhack.ai website