10.00-10.30
Welcome
Ballroom
Welcome Remarks
H.H. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan
Minister
Ministry of Tolerance and Coexistence
Alexander Khanin
Founder of Machines Can See and Polynome
Polynome
10.30-11.00
Keynote
Ballroom
The Next AI Datacenter: Accelerated, Energy-Aware, Everywhere
Marc Hamilton
VP Solutions Architecture and Engineering
NVIDIA
11.00-11.40
Session
Ballroom
Artificial Intelligence in Action: From Compute to Solution
Marc Hamilton
VP Solutions Architecture and Engineering
NVIDIA
Sabir Saleem
CEO
MBUZZ
Nada K. Al Maqbali
VP Future Foresight and Creative Lab
ADNOC
Atul Vidwansa
Vice President For Worldwide
DDN
Workshop
Autonomous Delivery in the UAE: From Smart-City Vision to Everyday Quick Commerce
YANGO GROUP
Workshop
Workshop
Unlocking the Value of AI for Business
e& GROUP
Workshop
11.40-12.00
Keynote
Ballroom
From Perception to Action: Closing the Loop in Production Systems
Dr. Ahmed Sulaiman Al Dhaheri
Director of the AI Center
Abu Dhabi Police
12.00-12.30
Keynote
Ballroom
From Perception to Action: Closing the Loop in Production Systems
Manohar Paluri
VP of AI
Meta
Workshop
Physical AI: From Generative AI to Digital Twins
NVIDIA
Workshop
Workshop
How Data Intelligence Powers Real-World AI?
DDN
Workshop
12.30-13.00
Keynote
Ballroom
Generative AI & Magical Thinking
Serge Belongie
Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Copenhagen University
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-14.40
Session
Ballroom
AI-Powered Telco 2026: From Network to Experience
Prof. Merouane Debbah
Director of 6G Research Center
Khalifa University
Fayez Abu Awad
Policy Director, MENA
GSMA
Amit Gupta
Vice President and Head of Data, AI and Fintech Practice
e& enterprise
Samer Geissah
Head of AI, Mobile Networks
Nokia
Luis S. Cisneros
Chief Information Officer EMEA instead of Innovation
Ericsson
Workshop
Beyond the Hype: Leading Ethical AI in Education
Women in AI
Workshop
Pitch Session
The Startup Contest Day
The Startup Contest Day is a high-stakes, moderated pitch session designed for maximum exposure and quality interaction. As one of 12 selected teams, you will present your project in a concise format followed by direct Q&A with our expert jury
15.00-16.00
Session
Ballroom
AI Runs on Data: why most pilots fail to go into production — and what the Enterprise Leaders Should Do about this
Dr. Mike Roshchin
Senior Vice President, Solution Engineering
Inception (G42)
Anton Melnik
Managing Director for AI and HPC
Databorn
Workshop
How to build proprietary speechtech from ground up
Aiphoria
Workshop
Pitch Session
The Startup Contest Day
(continued)
16.00-17.00
Session
Ballroom
The Voice Quality Myth: What Makes AI Agents Actually Win?
Lara Varlamova
Seasoned B2B media strategist and founder
Vision Voices
Divya Unnikrishnan
Co-Founder
Noorconnect
Valentin Dedkov
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Aiphoria
Yannick Janssen
Acting Chief Technology Officer
Wio Bank
Mostafa Hammam
Senior Director, Head of IT
Emirates Islamic Bank
Workshop
AI fluency for leaders
Polynome AI Academy
Workshop