40+
Experts and speakers
5500+
Attendees Both Offline and Online
13
Keynotes
4
Panel Discussions
Alexander Khanin
CEO and Founder Polynome Events FZE
Opening
Opening speech
Aleksandar Linc-Djordjevic
Managing Director of Data Science Conference
Opening
Opening speech
H.H. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan
Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence
Opening
Welcome Speech
H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama
Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications
Opening
Welcome Speech
Luc Julia
Chief Scientific Officer at Renault Group
Keynote
There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence
Tiago Henriques
Head of AI/ML Technology Practice for EMEA at Google Cloud
Keynote
Computer Vision in the Generative AI Era
Shilpa Kolhatkar
Global Head of AI Nations at NVIDIA
Keynote
Digital Transformation in the Age of AI
Heather Domin
Global Leader for Responsible AI Initiatives at IBM
Keynote
Responsible AI in Practice
Charbel Aoun
Smart City and Spaces Director for EMEA at NVIDIA
Keynote
How AI Is Transforming Cities
Alon Halevy
Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS
Keynote
Will machines be able to see you?
Sergey Tulyakov
Principal Research Scientist at Snap
Keynote
Video Generation: Past, Present, and a New Hope
Nicu Sebe
Professor at University of Trento
Keynote
Cross-modal understanding and generation of multimodal content
Ali Farhadi
CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and Professor at the University of Washington
Keynote
What Is the Language Model of a Crow?
Yaser Sheikh
VP at Meta Reality Labs
Keynote
Photorealistic Telepresence
Irfan Essa
Professor at Georgia Tech
Keynote
Generative Video: New Models, Applications and Challenges
Merouane Debbah
Senior AI Advisor at TII
Keynote
Generative AI in the Open Source World
Pascal Fua
Professor at EPFL
Keynote
Deep Surface Meshes
Professor Fahad Khan
Deputy Department Chair of Computer Vision at MBZUAI
Keynote
Towards Detailed Understanding of the Visual World
Laurens van der Maaten
Distinguished Research Scientist at META AI Research
Keynote
From Llama to Emu: Developing Generative AI at Meta
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Panel Session
Fostering the Next Wave of AI Talents
Philip Torr
Professor at Oxford University
Sir John O’Reilly
President of Khalifa University
Timothy Baldwin
Acting Provost, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at MBZUAI
David Toman
Professor, Vice Chancellor For Research and Graduate Studies at University of Sharjah
Panel Session
Unhyping GenAI: research frontiers, business impact, and talent value elaborated by experts
Andrew Jackson
EVP, Chief AI Officer at Core42
Ignacio Floristan
Director of GenAI for EMEA and APAC at Google
Dr. Abrar Abdulnabi
Head of Artificial Intelligence at Saal.ai
Dr. Ahmed Al-Ali
Co-founder of DeepOpinion AI
Victor Erukhimov
Co-Founder and CEO of Itseez3D
Panel Session
Women in AI
Aseel Addawood
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning KSA Leader at Oracle
Geetha Manjunath
Founder, CEO and CTO of NIRAMAI Health Analytix
Heather Domin
Global Leader, Responsible AI Initiatives at IBM
Shilpa Kolhatkar
Global Head of AI Nations at NVIDIA
Panel Session
Invest in Your AI Future
Andrew Filev
Founder of Wrike
Azzan Al-Kindi
CEO and Co-Founder of Rihal
Pawel Czech
Founder and CEO of GAIA Accelerator
Amin Al Zarouni
CEO of BEDU
Hao Li
CEO and Co-Founder of Pinscreen, Associate Professor at MBZUA
Generative Interior Design Challenge, a pioneering contest at the intersection of Computer Vision, Generative AI, and Design
glass table
ultra realistic render
interior design
neoclassical
3D render
domestic interiors
high resolution
photorealistic
coating example
1 wall art
This competition aimed to leverage the power of AI and supplied designers with innovative and creative tools, where algorithms turned images of empty rooms into fully furnished spaces guided by text descriptions.
Prize pool
USD 15,000
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Special awards
by NVIDIA
Sponsors and partners