Agenda
AI Leadership Summit & Awards Saudi Arabia
Tue, Apr 20
Breakfast Roundtable
Registration & Networking
Arrive, Register and Connect Over Coffee
Welcome Address
IDC Keynote: State of AI in the Region
IDC’s view of what tops the boardroom agenda: the investment priorities, governance shiftsand leadership moves that define competitive position this year.
Vision Keynote: Change Management for the AI-Fueled Enterprise
Will our familiar change-management approaches still work? What to keep,what to modify, and where AI fundamentally rewires how change is executed across the workforce.
Panel Discussion: AI at Scale Pilots to Production
Panellists share how Saudi enterprises are moving AI beyond pilots into production, covering governance, operating models, investment discipline and measurable business returns.
Beyond the AI Toolkit: How the Best Enterprises Are Connecting It All
In Saudi Arabia, where AI budgets are concentrated under IT/CIO, the challenge is building a coordinated operating model that delivers value across the board.
Rethinking Data, and What to Do About It
Saudi organizations cite fragmented data foundations as a top barrier. The data decisions made now, including architecture, governance, and sovereignty, will determine whether AI ambitions translate into enterprise outcomes.
Building Accountability Into the System Before It Becomes a Crisis
With SDAIA’s AI governance frameworks and the Personal Data Protection Law setting the compliance baseline, Saudi enterprises need ethics and explainability embedded at the design stage, not added later.
Agentic AI Without the ROI Trap
How to keep agentic initiatives from collapsing under their own ambition.
Sovereign AI for the Regulated Enterprise
Saudi Arabia is building sovereign compute through Humain, and global partnerships. Sovereignty is a design choice, not a fallback, and it must work alongside enterprise AI at scale.
FinOps for AI
Controlling token economics, model routing and AI-specific consumption costs so the AI P&L remains defensible to the CFO.
Networking Break – Showcase & AI Labs
Panel Discussion: The Value Signal: LOB Perspectives on AI
Line-of-business leaders explain where AI is delivering measurable value in their functions, which results convinced them, and what it takes to scale.