AI MENA Forum | Future of AI in MENA Region

Why This Forum Matters

Artificial Intelligence Is No Longer a Technology Issue

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most transformative forces shaping economies, labor markets, governments, education systems, infrastructure, and societies worldwide.

Across the Middle East and North Africa, organizations are investing heavily in AI and seeking practical strategies to harness its benefits. At the same time, countries around the world are experiencing challenges associated with rapid AI adoption, including workforce disruption, skills shortages, privacy concerns, misinformation, regulatory uncertainty, growing geopolitical competition, and increasing pressure on digital infrastructure.

The MENA region has a unique opportunity. Rather than reacting to these challenges after they emerge, the region can learn from the experiences of markets more advanced in AI-adoption, and develop a more balanced, strategic, and responsible approach to AI adoption.

The AI MENA Forum was created to help leaders understand what is coming, what is already happening, and what actions should be taken today to prepare for tomorrow.

The Questions Every Leader Should Be Asking

Will AI Create More Jobs Than It Eliminates?

Understand how AI is expected to reshape employment, workforce requirements, and future skills across the region.

Can We Trust What We See, Hear, and Read?

Examine the growing challenges posed by misinformation, deepfakes, and synthetic media.

Should MENA Build Its Own AI Infrastructure?

Learn how data centers, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and digital sovereignty are becoming national priorities.

How Should Governments Regulate AI?

Explore emerging approaches to governance, privacy, accountability, and responsible adoption.

Is MENA Ready for the Age of Artificial Intelligence?

Understand what governments, businesses, universities, and communities must do next.

Who Should Attend

Leaders Preparing for the Future

Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a technology issue. It is reshaping economies, industries, jobs, education systems, governments, infrastructure, and society itself. The AI MENA Forum is designed for leaders who recognize that understanding these changes is no longer optional.

Government Leaders & Policymakers

Explore how countries across the region are approaching AI governance, digital sovereignty, workforce readiness, public sector transformation, and national competitiveness.

Gain insights from international experiences, regional initiatives, and practical policy discussions designed to help governments prepare for the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Technology & Innovation Leaders

Gain a broader understanding of how AI is affecting business, government, society, infrastructure, and public trust.

Engage with policymakers, business leaders, and investors shaping the future direction of AI adoption throughout the region.

Universities, Educators & Workforce Development Professionals

Examine how AI is changing the skills required for future success and what educational institutions must do to prepare the next generation.

Explore workforce transformation, lifelong learning, curriculum modernization, and the future relationship between education and employment.

CEOs & Business Executives

Understand how Artificial Intelligence is transforming industries, business models, workforce requirements, customer expectations, and competitive advantage.

Learn how organizations are adopting AI, where the greatest opportunities exist, and what business leaders should be doing today to remain competitive tomorrow.

Infrastructure, Telecom & Data Center Leaders

Artificial Intelligence is creating unprecedented demand for data centers, cloud computing, connectivity, cybersecurity, energy, and digital infrastructure.

Join discussions exploring how MENA can build the infrastructure required to compete in the global AI economy while balancing sustainability, resilience, and digital sovereignty.

Future Leaders & Emerging Talent

Artificial Intelligence will shape the careers, industries, and opportunities of the next generation more profoundly than any technology in recent history.

The Forum provides students, young professionals, researchers, entrepreneurs, and emerging leaders with a unique opportunity to learn directly from policymakers, CEOs, investors, educators, and global experts who are shaping the future of AI across the region.

Gain insights into future careers, emerging industries, workforce transformation, entrepreneurship, digital skills, and the opportunities created by the AI economy.

Investors & Economic Development Leaders

Discover the industries, technologies, and infrastructure investments likely to shape the next decade of economic growth.

Explore opportunities in AI, cloud computing, data centers, digital infrastructure, workforce development, and emerging sectors across the Middle East and North Africa region.

International Organizations & Development Partners

Understand how AI is likely to influence economic development, social inclusion, education, governance, employment, and regional competitiveness.

Connect with regional stakeholders and contribute to discussions shaping the future of AI adoption across the Middle East and North Africa.

If AI Will Affect Your Organization, You Should Be Part of This Conversation

Whether you lead a government agency, business, university, investment organization, technology company, or development institution, the decisions being made today will shape how successfully the region navigates the age of Artificial Intelligence.

Learn From the Leaders Shaping the Future of AI

The AI MENA Forum brings together policymakers, business leaders, technology innovators, economists, educators, infrastructure experts, and international thought leaders who are helping shape the future of Artificial Intelligence around the world.

Gain practical insights, diverse perspectives, and real-world lessons from experts at the forefront of the most important technological transformation of our time.

Learn From the Leaders Shaping the Future of AI

Global AI Leaders

People driving the global conversation around Artificial Intelligence, innovation, and the future of society.

Business & Economic Leaders

Executives and investors who are exploring how AI is reshaping industries, competitiveness, investment, and economic growth.

Government & Policy Leaders

Ministers, regulators, and policymakers responsible for national AI strategies, digital transformation, and governance.

Infrastructure & Digital Sovereignty Leaders

Experts in cloud computing, data centers, cybersecurity, connectivity, and digital infrastructure.

Workforce & Education Experts

Leaders focused on future skills, workforce transformation, education reform, and talent development.

What You’ll Learn

Practical Insights for Navigating the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is changing the way economies grow, businesses compete, governments operate, and people work. The AI MENA Forum is designed to help leaders understand what these changes mean in practice and how to prepare for them.

How AI Will Transform Industries and Economies

Discover which sectors are likely to experience the greatest disruption, where new opportunities are emerging, and how AI is expected to influence productivity, investment, innovation, and economic competitiveness across the region.

The Future of Jobs, Skills, and Workforce Readiness

Explore how AI is expected to reshape employment, which skills will become more valuable, what new career opportunities may emerge, and how organizations can prepare their workforce for the future.

What Business Leaders Need to Do Now

Learn how organizations are approaching AI adoption, where the greatest opportunities exist, and how leaders can balance innovation, productivity, risk management, and workforce transformation.

How Governments Are Responding to AI

Examine emerging approaches to governance, regulation, public sector transformation, digital sovereignty, privacy, and responsible AI adoption from around the world and across the MENA region.

The Growing Challenge of Misinformation and Deepfakes

Understand how AI-generated content is affecting public trust, media credibility, cybersecurity, elections, corporate reputation, and social stability, and what can be done to address these risks.

Why Data Centers and Digital Infrastructure Matter

AI depends on computing power, cloud infrastructure, connectivity, cybersecurity, and reliable energy resources. Explore how countries are competing to attract AI infrastructure and what this means for economic growth, investment, and national competitiveness.

Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Water, and Sustainability

As AI adoption accelerates, demand for electricity, cooling systems, and digital infrastructure is increasing rapidly. Learn about the opportunities and challenges associated with powering the AI economy responsibly and sustainably.

Digital Sovereignty in a World Driven by Artificial Intelligence

As governments and organizations become increasingly dependent on foreign AI platforms, cloud providers, and digital ecosystems, new questions are emerging around sovereignty, resilience, security, and long-term competitiveness.

Lessons From Countries Already Experiencing AI’s Impact

Gain insights from international experiences, successes, mistakes, and emerging best practices that can help the MENA region prepare for the opportunities and challenges ahead.

A Roadmap for What Comes Next in the MENA Region

Leave with a clearer understanding of how Artificial Intelligence is likely to affect your organization, your industry, your country, and the region, along with practical insights to help guide future decisions.

The conversation about AI’s future cannot be shaped by any single sector alone. Governments, businesses, investors, educators, technology providers, and development organizations all have a role to play. That is why AI MENA Forum brings them together in one place.

Program

AI MENA Forum: Shaping the Future of AI in MENA