Deadline looms for this year's AI World Series Awards
AI World Series Awards receives submissions from 30 countries
#UAE #awards – The deadline to enter the 2025 AI World Series Awards is fast approaching, with submissions closing January on 31st. Organised by Artificial Intelligence for Business Institute and hosted by Dubai Silicon Oasis, the awards celebrate outstanding AI innovation and implementation. To-date, awards entries have been received from over 30 countries across various industries, showcasing transformative use cases. The awards ceremony will take place in Dubai on 8 May, alongside the annual AI World Series conference.
SO WHAT? – Many organisations, both in the Middle East and globally, have increased their focus on implementation of AI strategies during the past 18 months, giving rise to a new wave of AI use cases and case studies. The AI World Series Awards highlights leadership and success in AI innovation, offering enterprises a platform to gain recognition for their impactful solutions. Therefore the timing of this year’s awards couldn’t be better, with many enterprises ready to showcase the first iterations of their AI-powered solutions and services..
Here are some key points about the AI World Series:
First taking place in 2024, this year’s AI World Series Awards is to be held in Dubai on May 8th, with a final awards entries deadline of January 31st. Organised by the Artificial Intelligence for Business Institute and hosted by Dubai Silicon Oasis, the annual awards recognise exceptional AI innovation and implementation globally.
The World AI Series Awards has 27 categories available to enter for companies of all sizes, from tech companies through to private organisations and government bodies. Entries to-date include organisations from more than 30 countries.
The programme culminates in an awards ceremony on 8 May, which takes place alongside the AI World Series conference at the Radisson RED Dubai Silicon Oasis.
This year’s award programme is sponsored by AstroLabs, Conversion Design Institute, CX Arabia, NRS Marketing, RAIZOR, SambaNova, Social Station, and University of Westminster.
The AI World Series awards uses ARCET's global scoring model with criteria developed to ensure that all entries are scored accurately and effectively. The scoring model has received the endorsement of top English business school University of Westminster and is certified by the Customer Institute.
Judging involves more than 100 experts, including executives from AWS, Palo Alto Networks, Google, and more.
The AI World Series 2025 judges include; Moe Abeidat, Group VP of Technology at Aramex; JD Ackley, Co-founder, RAIZOR; James Buscaglio, Strategic Programs Lead - Global Sales at AWS; Rob Hays, Co-Founder, Koshima; Puneet Jain, Chief Strategy Officer, RAKEZ (Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone); Craig Lee, Partner at Kinetic Consulting; Akash Parmar, EMEA Contact Center AI Lead - Customer Engineering, Google; Sergei Rakov, CTO at Allsopp & Allsopp; Samantha Richardson, Executive Engagement Director EMEA & APAC at Twilio; Professor Graham Shapiro, CEO, GSD; and Ganapathy Subramanian, Senior Principal Architect, Palo Alto Networks
The 2024 awards saw 100+ entries from 22 countries and showcased leading-edge AI implementations.
ARCET Global, the parent company of the AI For Business Institute, has managed award programmes for over a decade, with 2,500 entrants and 400 global judges. The organisers expect this year’s competition to set benchmarks for AI-driven solutions across sectors.
ZOOM OUT – Although global AI investments are expected to exceed $300 billion by 2026, there are still relatively few awards programmes and events focused on highlighting and recognising successful AI projects. So, the AI World Series Awards helps serve an important niche, recognising global and local innovation in artificial intelligence. The up and coming global AI hub of Dubai provides the perfect venue for the event, with more than 800 AI-specialised companies in the city, It’s also noteworthy that the 2025 awards event will take place in Dubai Silicon Oasis, one of the regions fast-growing innovation centres, and an increasingly popular location with AI firms setting up in the emirate.
Note: Middle East AI News is a media partner for the 2025 AI World Series awards.
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