8:20 AM

9:15 AM

Registration Opens

9:15 AM

9:25 AM

Welcoming Notes and Orientation

Goran Cvetanovski

Founder, Hyperight AB

[P1] - Plenum

9:30 AM

9:40 AM

Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Armin Kech

Director, Lead Data & Records Governance CoE, Swiss Re

[P1] - Plenum

9:40 AM

10:00 AM

Future Outlook Session | Beyond the AI Race: Where Will Real Enterprise Value Be Created Next?

Goran Cvetanovski

Founder, Hyperight AB

Giovanni Leoni

Al Governance Evangelist

Alexis Jean Baptiste

Strategic AI Lead, Women in AI

[P1] - Plenum

10:05 AM

10:25 AM

KEYNOTE | From AI Strategy to AI at Scale: Closing the Execution Gap in the GCC

Nizar Hneini

Senior Partner and Managing Director, Roland Berger

[P1] - Plenum

10:30 AM

10:50 AM

KEYNOTE | | Responsible Autonomy: Governing the Age of Agentic and Generative AI

Waqas Hashmi

Area Vice President – GCC & Pakistan, Teradata

[P1] - Plenum

10:50 AM

11:15 AM

Networking Coffee & Peer-to-Peer Meetings

10:50 AM

11:20 AM

[TIP] - Autonomous AI in Practice: Activating Enterprise Knowledge with AI Agents - Teradata A03

10:50 AM

11:20 AM

[TIP] - Can your AI trust your data? Agentic data trust in action - Ataccama - B8

10:50 AM

11:20 AM

[TIP] - Context for Agents: Building and enriching an Enterprise Grade Semantic Model - Collibra - B09

10:50 AM

11:20 AM

[TIP] - From Dashboard to Dirhams: Monetizing Insight with our accelerator - 7Dxperts - B20

10:50 AM

11:20 AM

[TIP] - From Data Pipelines to AI Answers: Building a Governed Context Layer with Fivetran + dbt Labs - A05

10:50 AM

11:20 AM

[TIP] - Governed AI on data you control - BBI - A04

10:50 AM

11:20 AM

[TIP] - How open source is re-shaping the cloud data warehouse landscape - Clickhouse - B21

10:50 AM

11:20 AM

[TIP] - Profisee Live: Trusted Data in 30 Minutes - Profisee - B11

10:50 AM

11:20 AM

[TIP] - The AI Data Layer in Action: Every Agent. Every Person. One Business Context. - Denodo - B10

10:50 AM

11:20 AM

[TIP] - The Intelligence Layer for the Modern Enterprise - Dremio - A02

11:20 AM

11:30 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Pierre Sakhian

Senior Strategy & AI Transformation Leader , Confidential

[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

11:20 AM

11:30 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Mohamed Adil Elsayed Elmaki

Senior Manager, Data Analytics & AI, EY

[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

11:20 AM

11:30 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Gopi Maren

Global Alliance for Artificial Intelligence, Global AI Delegate - UAE

[M3] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

11:20 AM

11:30 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Michael Malek

Director - Data Management

[M4] - Machine Learning, Gen.& Agentic Al Stage

11:30 AM

11:50 AM

From AI Ambition to Business Value: Building Financial Services Around Data Products and Context

Aleksandras Tkacenko

AI Industry Specialist - Banking, Teradata

[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

11:30 AM

11:50 AM

Context, Not Just Data: Building the Open Context Layer for AI Agents

Mike Burke

Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture, Fivetran + DbtLabs

[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

11:30 AM

11:50 AM

The Agentic Data Stack: Conversing with Your Data

Siddharth Dwivedi

Senior Solutions Architect, Clickhouse

[M3] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

11:30 AM

11:50 AM

From Zero to Agents: Building End-to-End Agentic Pipelines for Enterprise

Frederick Khoury

Senior Solution Engineer, Snowflake

Tarek Kaddoumi

Senior Partner Solution Engeineer, Snowflake

[M4] - Machine Learning, Gen.& Agentic Al Stage

12:00 PM

12:20 PM

The AI Execution Gap: What the Top 5% Actually Do

Jawad Saleemi

Director Al & Cloud, Telenor; Oslo Metropolitan University

[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

12:00 PM

12:20 PM

One Definition, One Number: Fixing Trust in Our Data Before We Let AI Near It

Ibrahim Colak

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, InsuranceMarket.ae

[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

12:00 PM

12:20 PM

From AI “all over the place” to Strategic intent with Big Bets at Novo Nordisk

Altaf Patel

VP AI Reinvent & Engineering, Novo Nordisk

[M3] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

12:00 PM

12:20 PM

The Difference Is the Coupling: How Humans and AI Become a Working System

Steyn Van Zyl

Business Intelligence Director, Aujan Coca-Cola Beverages Company (ACCBC)

[M4] - Machine Learning, Gen.& Agentic Al Stage

12:30 PM

12:50 PM

Dark Matter AI: Why the Data Underneath Your Use Cases Changes Everything

Chris Unwin

Field CTO - Data Governance, Collibra

[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

12:30 PM

12:50 PM

Operational Context: The Hidden Engine of Enterprise AI

Alexey Sidorov

Chief Data Evangelist, Denodo

[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

12:30 PM

12:50 PM

Engineering for Autonomy: Low-ETL, Open Formats, and the Return of the Semantic Layer

Will Martin

Data & AI Evangelist, Dremio

[M3] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

12:30 PM

12:50 PM

When AI Makes the Wrong Decision: Engineering Trustworthy Enterprise AI

Usman Arshad

Senior AI Engineer, Imdaad

[M4] - Machine Learning, Gen.& Agentic Al Stage

12:50 PM

1:55 PM

Networking Lunch

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

[Workshop] AI That Respects Your Data: Building a Sovereign Data Platform

Anis Sayed

DevOps Lead, BBI INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY L.L.C

Dipti Dash

Senior Partner Solutions Engineer, Cloudera

2:00 PM

2:20 PM

To AI or Not to AI? When Intelligence Gets Permission to Act

Omar Abdelaziz

VP, Head of Digital products, Financial Services &AI, Al Ramz Corporation PJSC

[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

2:00 PM

2:20 PM

Guardrails That Accelerate: Adopting Agentic AI in a Safety-Critical Enterprise

Ramachandra Yermal

Head of Solution Architecture, ENEC

[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

2:00 PM

2:20 PM

Promoted My 5-Year-Old Nephew to Head of Analytics

Louis Karam

Head of Analytics and Business Intelligence, C1 Network

[M3] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

2:00 PM

2:20 PM

Unlocking Al Value: Engineering What You Control

Sreeram Ramesh

Senior Manager - Data Science, Adidas

[M4] - Machine Learning, Gen.& Agentic Al Stage

2:30 PM

2:50 PM

Rewiring a Global Company: From AI Ideas to Scaled Business Transformation

Hajar El Hanafi

AI & Data Transformation Lead, Electrolux Group

[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

2:30 PM

2:50 PM

From Governance to Growth: Embedding Data Products into Data Strategy

Olga Ilunga

Head of Data Analytics, MetLife Gulf

[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

2:30 PM

2:50 PM

Separating Signal from Noise: Using Data and AI to Unlock Access To The Best Investable Real Estate Opportunities

Jad Kachmar

Head of Operations, PRYPCO

Juan Ignacio Colombo

Senior Operations Manager, PRYPCO

[M3] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

2:30 PM

2:50 PM

Scalable Deployment of Gen AI Services: Cloud, Hybrid & On-Premise

Arockiaraj Arockiam

Head of Data & AI, Multibank Group

[M4] - Machine Learning, Gen.& Agentic Al Stage

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

Responsible Autonomy: Governing the Age of Agentic and Generative AI

Shashank Sridharan

Head of Enterprise Analytics & Intelligence, Allianz Partners

[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

Treating Data as a Product for Decentralized Value Creation

Lakshmi Krishnamurthy

Head of Data Management, Architecture & Governance, AW Rostamani Group

[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

Analytics and AI that deliver business value

Shehla Tanveer

Head of Data and Analytics, Al Futtaim Real Estate

[M3] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

GraphRAG in Practice: From Prototype to Enterprise Scale

Harikrishna Jiju

AI Engineer, Standard Chartered Bank

[M4] - Machine Learning, Gen.& Agentic Al Stage

3:30 PM

3:55 PM

Networking Coffee & Peer-to-Peer Meetings

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

[TIP] - Autonomous AI in Practice: Activating Enterprise Knowledge with AI Agents - Teradata A03

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

[TIP] - Can your AI trust your data? Agentic data trust in action - Ataccama - B8

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

[TIP] - Context for Agents: Building and enriching an Enterprise Grade Semantic Model - Collibra - B09

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

[TIP] - From Dashboard to Dirhams: Monetizing Insight with our accelerator - 7Dxperts - B20

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

[TIP] - From Data Pipelines to AI Answers: Building a Governed Context Layer with Fivetran + dbt Labs - A05

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

[TIP] - Governed AI on data you control - BBI - A04

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

[TIP] - How open source is re-shaping the cloud data warehouse landscape - Clickhouse - B21

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

[TIP] - Profisee Live: Trusted Data in 30 Minutes - Profisee - B11

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

[TIP] - The AI Data Layer in Action: Every Agent. Every Person. One Business Context. - Denodo - B10

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

[TIP] - The Intelligence Layer for the Modern Enterprise - Dremio - A02

4:00 PM

4:20 PM

KEYNOTE | Beyond the AI Boom: The Real Economics of AI: Tokens, technology budgets, workforce change and the decisions leaders must now make

Vanessa Eriksson

AI & Cybersecurity Strategy Advisor

[P1] - Plenum

4:20 PM

4:40 PM

Chairman’s Closing Remarks in the Plenum Area

Armin Kech

Director, Lead Data & Records Governance CoE, Swiss Re

[P1] - Plenum