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9:00 am

Doors Open

10:05 am

/function1 Opening

📍Main Stage

Speaker
Addy Crezee Founder & CEO at /function1, FORKED, CREZEE

Speaker
Victoria Neiman Co-Founder & COO at /function1, FORKED, CREZEE

10:40 am

Panel: Decentralized AI-Powered Internet: How Long Until It's There?

📍Main Stage

Moderator
Faraj Abutalibov Co-founder & CBDO at CrossCurve by Eywa

Speaker
Yusuf Goolamabbas Chief Knowledge Officer, ex. CTO at Animoca Brands

Speaker
Lane Rettig Head of Research at NEAR Foundation

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Tausif Ahmed CBDO at io.net

11:15 am

Panel: Panel: How Gen AI and Agentic AI Will Transform the Public Sector

📍Main Stage

Moderator
Faisal Iqbal Head of Innovation Programs at Amazon Web Services

Speaker
Dr. Hrshi Kapoor Head of Service Excellence at Solutions+

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Maciej Mazur CTO Artifical Intelligence (AI) at Dell Technologies

Speaker
Dr. Nabil Kenan Manager, Innovation Strategy & Partnerships at Maqta Technologies Group (part of AD Ports Group)

11:50 Am

Panel: Automation vs Human Labor: Strategies to Avoid Job Shortages

📍Main Stage

Moderator
Abhilasha Singh Professor Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at The American University in the Emirates

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Andrew Mironov Industry Technical Specialist for AI, Datacenter and Edge at Intel Corporation

Speaker
Dan Figueiredo Global Technology Strategist at Microsoft

Speaker
Santiago Erroz Ferrer Technical Lead at Lufthansa Group

12:25 pm

Panel: Building Smart Governments in MENA: Strategies, Challenges, Forecasts

📍Main Stage

Moderator
Addy Crezee Founder & CEO /function1, FORKED, CREZEE

Speaker
Dr. Marwan Alzarouni CEO of AI at Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism

Speaker
Sayasat Nurbek Minister of Science and Higher Education, The Republic of Kazakhstan

Speaker
Santeri Aramo Co-Founder at Auki Labs

1:00 pm

Keynote: Overcoming the Crysis: Paving the Way for AI to Access New Data Classes

📍Main Stage

Speaker
Dan Figueiredo Global Technology Strategist at Microsoft

1:15 - 2:15 PM

Lunch Break

2:15 pm

Hackathon Awards

📍Main Stage

2:30 pm

Panel: Shaping the Future of Creator Culture with AI-Native Influencers

📍Main Stage

Moderator
Chantel Elloway Founder & President at CEPR

Speaker
Denis Rossiev AR/AI artist, Official AR partner of Meta , Snapchat EU Ambassador, TikTok Ambassador

Speaker
Naomi D'Souza CEO & Founder at xNDigitize

Speaker
Mohamed Saieed AI Head, Regional Manager at Potensia Systems

Speaker
Amr Hussein Digital Media Expert at Ex-beIN Sports

3:05 pm

Keynote: Agentic AI: Development Challenges and Possible Architectures

📍Main Stage

Speaker
Pavel Sokolov Founder at AI/ ML API

3:25 pm

Panel: Navigating AI Investment Landscape

📍Main Stage

Moderator
Oleg Ivanov COO & Co-Founder at SecondLane

Speaker
Maciej Mazur CTO Artifical Intelligence (AI) at Dell Technologies

Speaker
Rakesh Gidwani Venture Partner & Advisor at Protagonist.co

Speaker
Ronit Ghose Head of Future of Finance at Citi

Speaker
Nader Albastaki Managing Director at Dubai Future District Fund

4:00 pm

Keynote: How to Deliver the «Great Promise» of AI

📍Main Stage, F1

Speaker
Sayasat Nurbek Minister of Science and Higher Education, The Republic of Kazakhstan

4:20 pm

Panel: Arabic Large Language Models (ALLMs): Challenges to Overcome on a Path to the Next Level

📍Main Stage

Moderator
Hadi Talje Senior Content Producer, Financial News at Moniify

Speaker
Samta Kamboj Applied Scientist at Inception (A G42 company)

Speaker
Sergey Nuzhnyy Head of DevRel at AI/ML API

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Iyad Ahmad CTO at Arabic.AI

4:55 pm

Panel: In-game AI applications: NPCs, Environments, Gameplay Loops and More

📍Main Stage

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Moderator
Dan Figueiredo Global Technology Strategist at Microsoft

Speaker
Asa Burrows Founder & CEO at 1956 Individuals

Speaker
Ishank Gupta Co-Founder at KGeN

Speaker
Grace Li Regional Sales Strategic Industry at Google Cloud

5:30 pm

Panel: How Ecosystem Creation Will Boost the Agentic AI Landscape

📍Main Stage

Moderator
Bilel Said CEO at amazit

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Mohammad Arshad Founder at Decoding Data Science

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Tudor Coman Software Development Engineer at Adobe

Speaker
Jack Chan UAE Country Manager at SleekFlow

Speaker
Tiago Henriques Head of AI/ML Technology Practice at Google Cloud EMEA

6:05 pm

Panel: Key Legal Issues for AI and How We Can Solve Them

📍Main Stage

Moderator
Dr. Yana Leonova Head of Dubai Chamber at VNTR

Speaker
Anatoly Kvitnitsky CEO & Founder at AI or Not

Speaker
Dr. Usman Tariq Associate Professor at American University of Sharjah

Speaker
Hamad Odhabi Vice Chancellor at Abu Dhabi University

6:40 pm

Officially Closing Ceremony

📍Main Stage

7:25 pm

Networking Time at /function1

8:00 pm

Doors closed, see you next time!

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