FUTURE AI MIDDLE EAST 2026 SPEAKERS
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Christopher Nicolas
Project delivery, planning and delay specialist
Ahmed Youssef
General Manager, Development, Dragon Oil
Abdalla Magdy Darwish
Senior Engineer, Well Integrity (Field)
Asset Integrity
Ibrahim Letaief
Senior Well Integrity Engineer | ADNOC Onshore
Omar Al Bahdoor
Process Control Engineer, OQ Base Industries (OQBI)
Suryaveer Singh
Head of Loyalty CRM & Data, ENOC
Artem Titarenko
Lead Technology Strategist, Saudi Aramco
Anna Spektor
Head of Oil & Gas, Middle East & Eastern Europe, Linde
Hajer Ben Charrada
VP, Investment Management, TAQA Group
Mahmoud Elhusseiny
Senior Drilling Engineer, ADNOC
Dr. Mikael Berthod
General Manager, Refining & Marketing, OMV
Omar Al-Badoor
Senior Process Control Engineer, OQBI
Wassim Ghadban
Global SVP, AI & Digital Energies, Kent
Richard Mohan
Senior Specialist, Technology Deployment, ADNOC
Maryvi Yabet Santiago
Senior Engineer, Reservoir Management, ADNOC
Fernando Landaeta Rivas
Senior Drilling Performance Engineer, ADNOC
Awad Ahmed Ali El-Sidiq
Head of AI & Analytics, ADNOC Distribution
Ahmed Mostafa
AI & Analytics Expert, Abu Dhabi Government Services Ecosystem
Nagaraju Reddicharla
Program Director, Agentic & Data Science, ADNOC
Anurag Dubey
Senior Engineer, Drilling Performance, ADNOC
Dr. Lina Bariah
Adjunct Professor & Lead AI Scientist, Khalifa University
Dr Christopher Cooper
Executive Advisor, Former CEO of AIQ
Partha Pratim Dev
Venture Manager, Offshore Engineering Structures, Rosenxt Group
Shane McArdle
CEO, Falkor
Mostafa Mobasher
Assistant Professor, New York University Abu Dhabi
Professor Borja Garcia De Soto
New York University Abu Dhabi
Mo. Sadiq
Performance Advisor at SLB
Christoph Siemer
Co-Founder & COO, Deeplify
Arvin Singh
Partner, Head of Digital Advisory, ME & SE Asia, Wood
Michiel Van Haersma Buma
CCO, Whitespace Solutions
Interested In Speaking
Future AI offers a platform for forward-thinking professionals to share insights, drive innovation, and spark meaningful collaboration across industries. The conference will explore cutting-edge themes including AI-driven automation, agentic systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), digital twin governance, and the future of AI in industrial operations.
With a speaker lineup of over 40 influential voices—from industry leaders to pioneering technologists—you’ll join a community committed to advancing real-world AI adoption. Share your expertise, shape critical conversations, and help define the next chapter of AI transformation.