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Where world-redefining public-private partnerships take shape

Only event to engage with 200+ government entities in pursuit of a tech-prevalent future

The Ministry of Interior KSA has always been a leading GITEX innovator, showcasing the latest technological innovations, systems, and applications, as well as many smart initiatives supporting data-driven and AI-based digital transformation efforts. We’re very excited to discover what’s in store for 2021.

Tech leaders from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Driving Innovation On A Mega Scale

GITEX Global Visions

Marking the UAE’s Golden Jubilee, GITEX Global mobilizes the pioneering tech visions, initiatives and collaborations of government leaderships across the Middle East and African continent. Our inaugural Visions programme will drive and expand on the emergence of fiercely innovative economies across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Africa.

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Reinforcing the regions digital transformation building blocks, "GITEX YOUTHX" contributes to the cultivation of young tech talents with a creative programme aimed at bringing them closer to the practitioner ecosystem annually.

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Students today, inspiring tech leaders tomorrow – our objective is to nurture young tech talents to help them realize their full potential and become the chief architects of the future by providing them the much-needed platform

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The region’s one and only springboard to launch the world’s most potent tech talents and as - yet - undiscovered geniuses for the betterment of industry, society and the world.

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In partnership with Teens in AI UK, this UAE wide high school student 3-month pre GITEX engagement and challenge initiative aims to provide easy access to learning opportunities in AI, programming, design thinking and early entrepreneurship.
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BOOTCAMP Immersive experience for high school and universities’ tech teens to learn, interact and be inspired by global practitioners through talks, workshops, tech tours with certification recognition by Office of Ai.
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GITEX Creative Economy

Manifesting the creative universe of innovation in a multi-sensory, hyper-experiential format. Our re-imagined Creative Economy circle brings together the most dynamic difference-makers and tech revolutionaries in the fields of art, fashion, music and sports. Startups showcase, high-energy talks and interactive features take centre stage here.

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GITEX Data Economy

The data revolution that has altered business, society and the world as we know it moves ahead with decisive pace at GITEX 2021. Sharing insights into data scientism, coding, development along with live hacks.

Welcome to the region's only developer event. The world belongs to the sharpest, most dynamic developers. With the most ambitious tech transformation plans and investments. MENA is in need for a large pool of developer and engineering talent. UAE’s One Million Coders reflects the current focus.

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On research, learning, certification across variety of industries including banking & finance, retail, healthcare, energy, public administration.

A three day intensive hack complemented by workshops, mentorship and training sessions – come together with your community to learn, practice and be part of delivering a real time solution to a real world challenge.

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Dr. Seth Dobrin
Chief Data Officer IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software, Vice President & Chief Data Officer, IBM Analytics, IBM & AI, (USA)
Established the Data Science Elite team that has grown to almost 100 data scientists around the world. Deployed on more than 130 AI, Data Science and ML projects

Dr. Saket Kumar
Chief Data Scientist Premium Services, Google (USA)
Super-brains behind Google’s empowering AI initiatives to make the tech accessible to all

Carol Reiley
AI Robotist & Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum; Co-Founder, Deepmusic.ai (USA)
Listed as Forbes top 50 women in Tech in 2018. Built products for surgical robotic systems at Intuitive Surgical, space robotic systems at Lockheed Martin, and self-driving cars at drive.ai and pioneer in teleoperated and autonomous robot systems in applications such as surgery, space exploration, disaster rescue and self driving cars

Ott Velsberg
Government Chief Data Officer, Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs & Communications (Estonia)
Managing data for Estonian e citizenship, for citizen from 165 countries including e-citizenship of Barrack Obama and working on an ambitious plan to personalise and create seamless e governance services leveraging AI, right from the time a baby is born, to health benefits, education admissions, car renewals etc.

Dr. Mayur Datar
Chief Data Scientist, Flipkart (India)
Joined Flipkart from Google to lead efforts at engineering the data mining engines that will target the next 200 million users

The first mega international event to take place right after the opening of Expo Dubai
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Global tech leaders and industry elites to take the stage at GITEX 2021

Ajay Bhalla

President - Cyber & Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard United Kingdom
In charge of 70 billion digital transactions annually, launched the Principles of Digital Identity frameworkto enable seamless digital interactions between government agencies and businesses internationally.
Akon .

Artist & Futurist
Akon is currently working on Akon City, a $6 billion dollar project with water-like designs inspired by the shapes of traditional African sculptures that will be a seaside resort, a tech hub, recording studios, and “Senewood” for Senegal’s film industry.
Andrew Garrihy

Global CMO, DiDi China
A winner of 4 Cannes Gold Lions for the Story Sign Project, an AI based initiative that facilitates parents to read stories to 32 million deaf children below the age of 6
Antonio Sanfilippo

Chief Scientist & Program Director, Qatar Foundation Qatar
With 8 patents to his name, is driving Qatar’s energy management strategy using AI and other emerging technologies; Winner of the Lab Laboratory Director’s Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
Arnel David

U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
Developed an innovative partnership with Hollywood to bring the latest VR, CGI, and AI technology to its soldiers with an approved pilot for the Human Domain Matrix VR simulation
Bernard Ghanem

Associate Professor & Lead of AI Initiatives, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) Saudi Arabia
A winner of the Shoman Award for Arab Researchers for ML and big data for 2020, has three issued patents.
Bruce Pon

Co-Founder & Board Member, Ocean Protocol Germany
A speaker at World Economic Forum, a pioneer to kickstart a Web3 Data Economy by focussing on getting AI and data together in blockchain startups; An expert that helped build 20 banks globally for Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Mitsibushi & Jaguar LandRover
Chris Voss

CEO & Author
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As if Your Life Depended on it (US) – The 24-year FBI veteran who has assembled a toolbox of effective tactics for high-pressure negotiations.
Dr. Aviv Zeevi Balasiano

Israel Innovation Authority
Part of OECD team of One AI Wonk, leading the framework in Israel for Joint National Infrastructure for computing and storage in multiple domains like Food, Agriculture, Autonomous vehicles.
Dr. Juergen Rahmel

HSBC (Germany)
Served as the Head of AI in the Applied Innovation Team of HSBC Hong Kong; Worked on ethical frameworks for AI and is a frequent lecturer and speaker about Applications of AI in Finance
George Hotz

Founder and CEO, Comma AI United States
Hani Ragab

Associate Professor at the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Director of the Institute of Applied Information Security, Heriot-Watt University United Arab Emirates
Has developed an exceptional used case study that uses deep and machine learning to detect malware attacks on critical infrastructure; Has developed an AI model that uses X-Ray scans for COVID detection.
Jean-Baptiste` Alliot

Innovation Strategy Specialist, UEFA Switzerland
Using AI to improve data usage and assist evidence-based decision-making in addition to designing its competitions: Champions League and Europa League, as well as EL2 from 2021/2022
John Gray

Author
The #1 bestselling relationship author of all time. He is the author of over 20 books, including The New York Times #1 Best-Selling Relationship Book of All Time: MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS. His books have sold over 50 million copies in 50 different languages around the world.
John Kamara

Director of Machine Learning, Institute of Africa & Co Founder, Ada Labs Africa
Delivering an ambitious plan to train young engineers in Africa in AI and ML to increase Africa's share that currently stands at 5% to support future societies; Developing one of the largest AI startup hubs across East and West Africa
Jose Pedro Alemida

Data Intelligence Director, Unilabs Portugal Portugal
Named in the Top 20 Portuguese World-Changer and World's Top 70 Health AI Brains by MedicineAI, is leveraging AI, DL & ML to operate a 1200 healthcare diagnostic centres in a retail fashion.
Juan Bernabé-Moreno

Chief Data Officer & Global Head of Analytics & AI, E.ON Germany
Developing data and algorithms to achieve a 100% carbon free goal for one the largest investor owned electric utility companies in the world
Kareem Ayyad

Founder, Cerebian United Arab Emirates
Winner of the NASA Space App Challenge, amongst his patented applications is the world’s first Dream Recorder that seamlessly augments human and machine intelligence, also developed BrainOS that enables incapacitated patients to communicate silently using brain signals and whose applications can be extended across multiple sectors.
Konrad Dobschuetz

Head of Customer Solutions, (Digital) Health Innovation and BIOME Lead UK, Novartis United Kingdom
Creating proofs of concept and scaling AI deployment across the healthtech space; Leveraging AI for digital and omni-channel marketing and strategy development
Koo Ping Shung

President, AI Professionals Association Singapore
Co-founder of DataScience.Sg, a 10,000 strong AI and data scientists community in Singapore, building general AI to continue developing a smart nation.
Lee Glazier

Head of Service Integrity, Rolls-Royce United Kingdom
The creator of the Rolls-Royce process and framework for Governing AI Ethics and Data Ethics - collaborating with HR, Ethics, Data Scientists, Manufacturing and the Trades Unions
Minesh Kaja

Solicitor-Advocate and Global AI Lead, Simmons & Simmons (UK)
Launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI) compliance framework and advisory service
Mohamed El-Geish

AI Director, CISCO
Introduce AI for call centers that empower 3 million agents across 30,000 different enterprises to deliver customer experience
Ott Velsberg

Government Chief Data Officer, Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs & Communications Estonia
Managing data for Estonian e-citizenship, for citizen from 165 countries including e-citizenship of Barrack Obama; is now working on an ambitious plan to personalise and create seamless e-governance services leveraging AI, right from the time a baby is born, to health benefits, education admissions, car renewals etc
Raffi Tchakerian

Assistant Professor, Dubai Institue of Design and Innovation United Arab Emirates
Collaborated with a large number of leading international designers, including the design studio, Architecture and Vision, and space architects, Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler to bring cross-fertilization of design between humans and technology.
Salman Arif

Group Product Manager, Borealis AI (Royal Bank of Canada) Canada
Champion in deploying supervised, unsupervised, generative and reinforcement learning algorithms in capital markets across equity & commodity algo trading, high-frequency relative-return predictions and sensitivity calculations of complex derivative contracts
Simon See

Senior Director of AI Technology Centre & AI Nation, Nvidia
Heavily leveraging AI to make Singapore and cities in China smarter across its key projects, an important contributor to the development of Cambridge 1, the world's fastest supercomputer.
Thomas Debass

Managing Director of the Office of Global Partnerships, U.S. Department of State United States
Has played a leading role in promoting and institutionalizing the role of public-private partnerships as a tool for advancing foreign policy and development objectives
Timothy Draper

Founder, Draper University United States
Entrepreneur for the World, Commonwealth Club's "Distinguished Citizen," Independent Institute's "Toqueville Liberty Award," Forbes' "Midas List. Worth's "100 Most Powerful People in Finance." Top 100 most influential Harvard Alumni. AlwaysON's #1 Networked Venture Capitalist.; Venture Successes include Skype, Baidu, Tesla, Overture, PTC, Hotmail, Twitch, Robinhood, Carta, Coinbase, Theranos.
Wafae Bakkali

Senior AI & Data Scientist, Groupe Credit Agricole France
Leading the AI and ML fairness campaign for one of the largest retail and agriculture funding banks from France
Yong Hua Lin

Founder and CEO, V-Origin Technology China
2021’s top 10 most influential women in technology as per Analytics Insight Magazine A holder of 50 patents, innovated the "AI for AI" concept for Computer Vision and Deep Learning, and led the R&D of PowerAI Vision, IBM's "AI brain" for deep video and image analytics, that won International Spark Design Glod Award.
Yuan Alan Qi

Vice President and Chief Data Scientist , Ant Financial China
The rockstar who built a core AI team at Ant Financial and applied ML to micro-lending, insurance, intelligent recommendations, marketing and wealth management. His intelligent customer service system has saved $15 Million year on year from 2016.

A power line-up of women in tech

Ana Chubinidze

Social Scientist & Founder , AI Governance International Germany
Member of the European AI Alliance, by European Commission that influences its AI ethics guidelines
Carol Reiley

AI Robotist & Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum; Co-Founder, DeepMusic.ai United States
Built products for surgical robotic systems at Intuitive Surgical, space robotic systems at Lockheed Martin, and self-driving cars at drive.ai.
Carolina Pinart

Global Product Director for New Generation Technologies, Nestle Spain
Leading Nestle's company-wide AI strategy, aimed to transform Nestle into an unbiased cognitive company by 2025.
Claire Matuka

Co-Founder of AI Centre of Excellence (AICE) & Data Scientist, Ada Labs Africa
An AI youth champion from Africa; a founder at the age of 23, is now working on an ambitious plan to train young engineers in Africa in AI and ML to increase Africa's share that currently stands at 5% to support future societies
Dina Mohammad-Laity

Director of Data Science, Talabat United Arab Emirates
Using AI and data science to become the region's largest food and grocery delivery app with a network of 24800 restaurants and 44,675 branches delivering in less than 30 minutes.
Erica Kerner

SVP, One Championship Singapore
Deployed AI to assess martial arts fan behaviour across 150 countries; Using data analytics to improve immersive experience, bolster streaming services and deliver personalized content offers via an over-the-top platform.
Fatmah Baothman

Board President, AI Society Saudi Arabia
First Woman in the Middle East to earn a Ph.D in AI; an expert in phonology-based automatic speech recognition for Arabic; dedicating her life's work to develop more women AI engineers in Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030
Heba Qadri Al Masri

MD of Startups Bootcamp & MD, Qatar Sportstech Qatar
Leads Qatar SportsTech, a sports tech AI accelerator, initiated by Qatar Development Bank, powered by Startupbootcamp and supported by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, Qatar Stars League, beIN Media Group, Qatar Financial Centre, Aspire Zone Foundation, MBK Holding and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Jennifer Prendki

Founder & CEO, Alectio France
Developed a software that helps ML teams save 70% on their data preparation and processing costs while getting a significant performance boost.
Katie Traxton

Chief Communications Officer, Formula E United Kingdom
When working at WeAreFearless reached an organic social reach of 2.3 billion in one weekend
Lydia Kostopoulos

AI Policy Member for IEEE-USA & Strategy & Innovation Advisor, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
Launched #ArtAboutAI, an initiative to make AI more accessible and to inform civic debate, through a medium that transcends language and culture – art.
Megha Yethadka

Director of Program Management, Uber United States
Used ML successfully to marketplace forecasting to safety initiatives, and from ops automation to enhancing customer experience to serve a population of 1.3 billion.
Renata Morais

Associate Professor - Multimedia Design, Dubai Institue of Design and Innovation United Arab Emirates
Is part of the Complex Human Data Hub research center, investigating the psychological implications of current innovations in data gathering devices and wearables.
Soo Moo Kim

Former Miss Korea 2018, Content Creator & Broadcast Host, The Hankookilbo Korea, Republic of
Miss Korea 2018, Mecenat New Year Concert Host for Vietnam, a vocal critic of beauty standards and body-shaming culture, an inspiration for design of AI algorithms in the luxury and beauty sectors.
Yong Hua Lin

Founder and CEO, V-Origin Technology China
2021’s top 10 most influential women in technology as per Analytics Insight Magazine A holder of 50 patents, innovated the "AI for AI" concept for Computer Vision and Deep Learning, and led the R&D of PowerAI Vision, IBM's "AI brain" for deep video and image analytics, that won International Spark Design Glod Award.