Nitin Akarte
Microsoft
AI Network Director
United States
17–19 November 2026 · Dubai
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Voices Across the AI Ecosystem
Keynote Speakers
Enterprise & Industry Leaders
AI & Technology Experts
Founders & Entrepreneurs
Investors & Venture Capital
Previous Edition
Previous Edition Speakers
Leaders, founders and innovators who have taken the World AI Expo stage. Shown for reference — not presented as confirmed 2026 speakers.
Akshay Singh Dalal
Google
Head of Regional Risk & Compliance
United Arab Emirates
James Hunter
IBM
Program Director @ IBM | Driving DevOps Automation and AI
United Kingdom
Abhinav Sharma
Cisco
CTO & Director - AI & Automation Leader
India
Dr. Nader M. Ghazal
African-Asian Council for AI and Cybersecurity /Intelligent Digital Transformation organisation
Managing Director
United Arab Emirates
Diksha Shrivastava
Mastercard
Manager, Data Scientist
United Arab Emirates
Mario Sauke
Impala & Pergamon Labs
Co-Founder and CFO
United Kingdom
Andreas Blumauer
Graphwise.ai
SVP Growth
Austria
Mohamed Elsaied
Cognizant
GenAI Practice Head - AIA CEME
Anwesha Kar
NVIDIA
System Software Engineer
India
Santhoshkumar Srinivasan
AWS
Senior Cloud Architect
United States
Padma Priya
PayPal
Senior Engineering Manager - Machine Learning
India
Priscila Bossi
Philip Morris International
VP IT SSEA, CIS & MEA
United Arab Emirates
Aniket Patange
HCL Tech
Head of Engineering, R&D Services, and Digital Services for HCL Tech
United Arab Emirates
Prasad Sumant Banavalikar
Philip Morris International
Director Commercial Operations
United Arab Emirates
Faraz Shafiq
AWS
Enterprise Technologist - Agentic AI and Gen AI
India
Manish Vaidya
DCT
Data Science & Analytics Head | Business Intelligence - Department of Culture and Tourism
United Arab Emirates
Elizabeth Pearson
AECOM
Director & PMO for Oscar (Artificial Intelligence)
Prerit Mishra
DHL
Head of DHL Data & AI, Asia Pacific
Singapore
Imran Sheikh
Abu Dhabi Media Network
Head of Unit - Artificial Intelligence
United Arab Emirates
Jean Paul Sacy
Wand AI
Head of Middle East and Africa
United Arab Emirates
Khalid Akande
Akadis Global
Founder and Solutions Architect
United Arab Emirates
Luis F. Gonzalez
Aboitiz
Chief Operating Officer for Power and Industrials & Head of Applied Research, Aboitiz Data Innovation and Chief Data & AI Officer, Aboitiz Power Corporation
Singapore
Pritam Roy
Capgemini
Senior Manager Data Analytics & AI
Tony Pagliocco
Aldar Properties
Senior Vice President - Product Management
Awadesh Tiwari
Tata Consultancy Services
Program Director - Advanced Analytics
Sreeram Potukuchi
Spintheory Inc
Chief Data and AI Officer
Erfan Azimi
EA Eagle Digital, LLC
Founder
United States
Salma Noun
Accenture
AI Strategy Manager
United Arab Emirates
Vishal Mishra
Inception AI (G42 Company)
Director of AI Software Engineering
DEEPAK VYAS
Anax Holding
Group Director of Engineering & Technology
Adel Miran
Dubai Holding Real Estate
Director of Administration & Facilities Management
Thomas Zimmerer
AIIZATIONBOARD LLC
CEO and AI & Digital Board Advisor
United Arab Emirates
Sunil Kumar Goyal
Microsoft Inc
Software Technology Executive
India
Mayank Tyagi
Indigo Airlines
Vertical Head - Digital Centre of Excellence
Omotayo Olasunkanmi Aina
Vodafone Group
Senior Solutions Architect, AI
United Kingdom
Dr. Behrang Parhizkar
Chamrun Digital / Chamrun Ai
CEO
Larissa Murmann
Unilever
Digital Chief HR Officer, Unilever International
Fahed Bizzari
Bellamy Alden AI Consulting
Founder
Kamran Ali
GE HealthCare
Senior Technology & Transformation Leader
United Arab Emirates
Senthil Kumar Mothilal
itTrident
Founder
India
Malavika Lakireddy
Uber
Director of Product Management
India
Sritharan Commarasamy
RVV Networks
CEO
India
Bakir Najjar
Microsoft
Sr. Technical Specialist Azure App Innovation and AI
United Arab Emirates
Ramkumar Sambasivan
BootLabs Technologies
Founder & CEO
India
Balaji Nagaraj Kumar
RVV Networks
Chief AI Officer
India
Matt Lemay
Lemay.ai
CEO and Co-Founder
Canada
Ankit Chhajer
Barclays
Managing Director and Head of AI
Azer Karimov
Wealthdoor
CEO
United States
Umair Riaz
Pure Storage
Field Solutions Architect
Julia Marie Victori
iRiseup.AI
Chief Operating Officer
Gabriel Diaz Rodriguez
AICelerant
Senior Executive
Sher Ali
Majid AL Futtaim
Associate Director of Data and AI
United Arab Emirates
Tia Lancaster
Revaluate180
Founder and CEO
England
Shailesh Dhuri
Decimal Point Analytics
Chief Executive Officer and Board Member
India
Roman Mironenko
Robbox
Partner
Canada
Karthik Jagannathan
Gallabox
Co-founder and CEO
India
Dr. Christopher Abraham
SP Jain
CEO & Head
United Arab Emirates
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