300 AI leaders to convene in Riyadh next week for GAIN 2024
SDAIA confirms headline speakers for Global AI Summit 2024
#Saudi #GAIN2024 - The headline speakers for the upcoming Global AI Summit 2024 (GAIN) have been confirmed by Saudi Data & Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA). Taking place from September 10 to 12, GAIN will bring together more than 300 AI leaders from around the world in Riyadh. Key speakers at the summit will include Cristiano Amon, President & CEO, Qualcomm Inc.; Nick Studer, President and CEO, Oliver Wyman Group; Dr. Marc Raibert, Chairperson, Boston Dynamics; Julie Sweet, CEO, Accenture; Kathleen Kennedy Executive Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence; Andrew Feldman, Founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems; and Jonathan Ross, Founder and CEO, Groq.
SO WHAT? - The Global AI Summit is one of the new government-backed international events, launched during the past few years, that is designed to help focused technology industry attention on Saudi Arabia. This year’s LEAP technology event, which took place in Riyadh in March featured a platform of key Saudi government innovators and global tech leaders such as NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Groq CEO Jonathan Ross. The Global AI Summit, now rebranded to GAIN, draws together dozens of global speakers to share the latest perspectives on AI and get a first-hand update on the Kingdom’s AI progress from government leaders.
Speakers confirmed for GAIN 2024 include:
Prof. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Canada Research Chair University of British Columbia & MBZUAI
Bader Almadi, Country Manager, Google Cloud
Ayman AlRashed, Regional Vice President, IBM Saudi Arabia
Cristiano Amon, President & CEO, Qualcomm Incorporated
Eng. Namir Anani, President & CEO Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC)
Ash Ashmawy, Founder & CEO, Kemet Trading
Prof. Rajesh Balan, Professor, Singapore Management University
Prof. Graham Ball, PhD FRSB, CSO, Intelligent Omics Ltd
Dr. Richard Benjamins, Co-CEO, RAIght.ai
Tanuj Bhojwani, Head, People+AI
Paul Bloch, President & Co-founder, DDN Storage
Antoine Blondeau, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Alpha Intelligence Capital
Charles-Edouard Bouée, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Adagia Partners
Laetitia Cailleteau, Managing Director & EAMA Responsible AI Lead, Accenture
Dr. Junyoung Choi, Director of Future Urban Space Research, Seoul Institute
Omar Christidis, CEO & Founder, Arabnet
Marcelo Claure, Founder & CEO, Claure Group
Antony Cook, Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft
Alain Le Couédic, Senior Partner, Artificial Intelligence Quartermaster (AIQ)
Fadi Daou, CEO, MultiLane
Anastasia Denisova, Tech Entrepreneur & Realiste Shareholder
Dr. Seth Dobrin, CEO, Qantm AI
Prof. James Doty, Founder & Director, Stanford University Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
Dina el-Shenoufy, Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Flat6Labs
Muhammad Ebraheem, Chief Data Scientist, Mozn
Mostafa ElBermawy, Founder & CEO, NoGood
Andrew Feldman, Co-founder & CEO, Cerebras Systems
Nancy Giordano, Author, Play Big Inc
Enrique Gomicia-Murcia, Director of Products, SCAI
Gordon Gould, Co-CEO, NewAtlantis
Carol Hilsum, Co-founder, StudioThree
Dr. Daniel Hulme, Chief AI Officer, WPP
Jong Sung Hwang, President, National Information Agency (South Korea)
Tala Al Jabri, Board Member, Middle East VC Association
Arvind Jain, CEO, Glean
Dr. Antonio Jara, CSO, Libellium
Prof. Nick Jennings, Vice-Chancellor & President, Loughborough University
Shafiq Joty, Director Director, Salesforce AI Research
Dr. Abdalla Kablan, Founder & CEO, DELTA Wealth Partners
Kate Kallot, CFO & Founder, Amini
Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli, Director, NUS AI Institute
Kathleen Kennedy, Executive Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Fahad Khan, Deputy Department Chair, MBZUAI
Sohaib Khan CEO, Hazen.ai
Dr. Kevin Knight, Chief Scientist, Threeven Labs
Martin Kon, President & COO, Cohere
Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO, Cropin Technology
Su Lee, Chief Growth Officer, SambaNova Systems
Dr. David Leslie, Professor & Director of Ethics & Responsible Innovation Research, The Alan Turing Institute
Rodrigo Liang, Co-founder & CEO, SambaNova Systems
Prof. Jiebo Luo, Professor, University of Rochester
Joe Youssef Malek, Vice President, Executive Technology Programs, Gartner
Dr. Michael May, Head of Data Analytics & AI, Siemens AG
Donal McElwee, Managing Partner, Portas Consulting
Dr. Tao Mei Founder & CEO, HiDream.ai
Dr. Chris Miller, Director, Greenmantle
Alexander Mordvintsev, Research Scientist, Google
Dr. Samer Al Moubayed, Co-founder & CEO, Furhat Robotics
Dr. Eva-Marie Muller-Stuler, Data & AI Leader, EY
Priya Nagpurkar, Vice President, IBM Research
George Nazi, Chief Executive Officer, SCAI
Dr. Jean Nehme, Co-founder, Digital Surgery
Deniz Özgür, Co-founder Evercopy & Space Runners
Jason Pontin, General Partner, DCVC
Cameron Porter, General Partner, Steel Atlas
Lorena Puica, Founder & CEO, syd.life
Alan Qi, President, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia Region
Prof. Yuan Qi, Founder, INF
Dr Marc Raibert, Founder and former CEO of Boston Dynamics and Executive Director, The AI Institute
Alain Richardt, CEO & Founder, Atomic Tessellator
Ramzi Rizk, Founder & Angel Investor, Rizky Ventures
Jonathan Ross, CEO and Founder, Groq
Jawad Sardar, CEO, SUM Global
Lord Sarfraz of Kensington, House of Lords, UK Parliament
Sabrina Salama, Head of MENA Partnerships, Seedstars
Yama Saraj, Founder, SensAi Technologies
Hassan Sawaf, Founder & CEO, aiXplain
Asha Saxena, Founder & CEO, Women Leaders in Data and AI
Dr. Ruchi Saxena, Founder-Director Caerobotics
Stefan Schnorr, State Secretary, German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport
Dr. Evan Shellshear, Managing Director Ubidy
Professor Simon See, Coventry University and Global Head Nvidia AI Technology Centre NVIDIA
Arvind Sethumadhavan, Senior Partner, Gain Theory
Dr. Amandeep Singh-Gill, Secretary-General's Envoy for Technology, United Nations
Prof. Alan Smeaton, Professor, Dublin City University
Craig Smith, Host, Eye on AI
Alex Smola, CEO, Boson AI
Dr. Joanna Soroka, Principal, Hitachi Ventures
Nick Studer, President & Chief Executive Officer, Oliver Wyman Group
Julie Sweet, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Accenture
Kok-Chin Tay, Chairman, Smart Cities Network
Dr. Jake P. Taylor-King, Co-founder, Relation
H.E. Philip Thigo, Special Envoy on Technology Goverment of Kenya
Vijay Tirathrai, Managing Director & Regional Head of MENAPT, Techstars
Simon Turner, Partner, Sofinnova - Digital Medicine Fund
Dr. Muhammad Usman, Director & Professor, RISETech & NUST
Topher White, Founder, Squibbon & Rainforest Connection
Dr. Fang Xu, AI Lead, Deutsche Telekom
Caroline Yap, Global Managing Director, Google Cloud
David Yarowsky, Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Speakers listed in alphabetical order of last name. For a full list of confirmed speakers, please visit the GAIN website.
Updated 03-Sep-24