8:20 AM

9:15 AM

Registration Opens

9:15 AM

9:25 AM

Welcoming Notes and Orientation

Goran Cvetanovski

Founder, Data Innovation Summit

[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
[P1] - Plenum

10:05 AM

10:25 AM

KEYNOTE | From Foundations to Futures: Building the Data and AI Blueprint for the MEA Region
[P1] - Plenum

10:30 AM

10:50 AM

KEYNOTE | Operationalising AI Governance as enabler for AI value realisation

Giovanni Leoni

Al Governance Evangelist

[P1] - Plenum

10:50 AM

11:15 AM

Networking Coffee & Peer-to-Peer Meetings

11:20 AM

11:30 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Gautam Verma

Head of Data Enablement, Department of Government Enablement

[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

11:20 AM

11:30 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Faris Al Masri

Data Governance / Data Management and Data Platform Manager, Federal Tax Authority

[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

11:20 AM

11:30 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Martin Mazur

Head of Government Corporate Reporting, Department of Government Enablement

[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

Agentic Al in the Enterprise from Experimentation to Execution
[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

11:30 AM

11:50 AM

Federated Data Management for Cross Border Collaboration
[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

11:30 AM

11:50 AM

Al Augmented Analytics for Faster and Better Decision Making

Altaf Patel

VP Data Analytics & Al, PepsiCo

[M3] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

11:30 AM

11:50 AM

Architectures of Generative Al: LLMS, Diffusion Models, and Beyond
[M4] - Machine Learning, Gen.& Agentic Al Stage

12:00 PM

12:20 PM

The Al 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

The Analog to the Algorithmic: How Al is Building a Smarter, More Efficient Aviation Industry

Manjinder Singh

Head of Airline Data Science & Analytics, TUI Group

[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

12:00 PM

12:20 PM

Real Time Analytics for Continuous Business Intelligence
[M3] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

12:00 PM

12:20 PM

How the agents have colonized Carrefour

Guillaume Blaquiere

Group Data Architect, Carrefour

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

12:30 PM

12:50 PM

Building Ethical and Responsible Al Frameworks
[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

12:30 PM

12:50 PM

Building a Trust Architecture for Sovereign Cloud Environments
[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

12:30 PM

12:50 PM

Decision Intelligence for Proactive and Predictive Strategy
[M3] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

12:30 PM

12:50 PM

Scalable Deployment of Gen Al Services: Cloud, Hybrid & On-Premise
[M4] - Machine Learning, Gen.& Agentic Al Stage

12:50 PM

1:55 PM

Networking Lunch

2:00 PM

2:20 PM

Ensuring Organizational Readiness by building an Al-enabled workforce, utilizing both structured programs and organic experimentation

Brent Pienaar

Head of Digital Transformation & Automation | Finance Technology, Qiddiya Investment Company

[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

2:00 PM

2:20 PM

Data Governance in the era of Al and Gen Al

Sudhakar Nibhanupudi

Chief Data Officer, National Bank of Kuwait

Nourah AlKhaled

Head of Data Governance, National Bank of Kuwait

[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

2:00 PM

2:20 PM

Analytics Companies Actually Act On

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

Operational Models for Al Governance and Oversight
[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

2:30 PM

2:50 PM

Data Quality and Observability Across Hybrid Ecosystems
[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

2:30 PM

2:50 PM

Analytics and Al that deliver business value

Shehla Tanveer

Head of Data and Analytics, Al Futtaim Real Estate

[M3] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

2:30 PM

2:50 PM

Agentic Al as the New Software Development Operating Model

Ahmed Alaa

Head of Al Engineering, Easygenerator

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

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

Building Al Literacy and Organizational Readiness
[M1] - Al Strategy and Governance Stage

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

Treating Data as a Product for Decentralized Value Creation
[M2] - Data Strategy & Governance Stage

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

Customer 360 and Personalization in Retail and Finance
[M3] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

Optimizing Inference Performance for Real-Time Gen Al Applications
[M4] - Machine Learning, Gen.& Agentic Al Stage

3:30 PM

3:55 PM

Networking Coffee & Peer-to-Peer Meetings

4:00 PM

4:20 PM

KEYNOTE | Transformative Data Platforms: Navigating the Shift from Traditional systems to Modern Data Ecosystem
[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