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8:00 am – 8:45 am Registration and Light Breakfast
8:45 am OPENING REMARKS by Harvard Business School Club of the GCC and Harvard Faculty Chairs
Karim Lakhani
Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, Co-founder and Chair of the Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard
Saleh Lootah
HBS Club President, Chairman of the Lootah Holding, Founding Member of Souq Extra LLC, Managing Director of Al Islami Foods and the CEO of IFPA
Jaqueline Lane
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Tsedal Neeley
Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research
Harvard Business School
Feng Zhu
MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Event MC:
Zain Verjee
CEO, The ZVG, and Co-Founder, The Rundown Studio
9:00 am ACADEMIC FLASHTALKS with Harvard Business School Faculty
AI is Transformation
Speaker:
Tsedal Neeley
Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research
Harvard Business School
AI for All
Speaker:
Rembrand Koning
Mary V. And Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor Of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
From Sparks to Solutions: Generative AI for Creative Problem Solving and Evaluation
How is generative AI reshaping creative problem-solving? In this talk, I will discuss the potential for augmenting the generation and evaluation of innovative ideas using LLMs and how to foster synergistic human-AI collaboration for creative tasks.
Speaker:
Jaqueline Lane
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
10:00 am Flashtalk: AI PRIVACY, VERIFIABILITY AND PROTECTION
Speaker:
Dr. Najwa Aaraj
Chief Executive Officer
Technology Innovation Institute
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Fireside Chat: UAE: AI Readiness and Exponential Growth
Speaker:
H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama
Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications
Director General of the Prime Minister’s Office, United Arab Emirates
Moderator:
Karim Lakhani
Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, Co-founder and Chair of the Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard
11:00 am Panel: REIMAGINING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Speakers:
H.E. Younus Al Nasser
Chief Executive
Dubai Data & Statistics Establishment
Digital Dubai
Awadh AlMur
Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation
H.E. Saood Abdulaziz Al Hosani
Undersecretary
Department of Culture and Tourism
Abu Dhabi
Moderator:
H. E. Raja Al Mazrouei
CEO, Etihad Credit Insurance
Chairperson of the Harvard Business School MENA Advisory Board
11:30 am Fireside chat: AI FOR GOOD: Global Collaboration for Responsible Innovation
Speaker:
Dr. Ebtesam Almazrouei
CEO and Founder, AIE3
Chairperson, UN AI for Good Impact Initiative
Previously Executive Director, Acting Chief AI Researcher, and Founder of the AI Cross Center at the Technology Innovation Institute (development of Falcon LLM)
Moderator:
Jaqueline Lane
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
12:00 pm Panel: STARTUP ECOSYSTEM AND INNOVATION
Speaker:
Saman Darkan
Chief Product & Technology Officer/Co-Founder
Kitopi
Nitin Jayakrishnan
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Pando
Helen Wang
Founding Partner, TecoGlobal Group
Visiting Scholar and Mentor,
Harvard Wyss Institute
Moderator:
Andrea Prazakova
Founder and CEO
AndreaNow
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Lunch
2:15 pm Panel: STRATEGY AND THE DECLINING COST OF EXPERTISE
Read the article.
Speaker:
Bobby Yerramilli-Rao
Chief Strategy Officer
Microsoft
Moderator:
Karim Lakhani
Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, Co-founder and Chair of the The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard
2:45 pm Fireside chat: THE DEEP ENTERPRISE: The Emergence of Foundation-Based Core AI
Speaker:
Devesh Mishra
President and Chief Product and Technology Officer, CoreAI
Keystone
Moderator:
Marco Iansiti
David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
3:15 pm INDUSTRY FLASHTALKS
Learning to Unlearn: Nissan Experience with Algo Verde
Speakers:
Vladimir Jacimovic
CEO and Founder, ContinuumLab.ai
Advisory Council Member and Co-founder, Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
Robert Farmer
Senior Director, Chief Market Intelligence Officer
Nissan Motor Corporation
Federated AI Innovation: Building Collaborative Intelligence
Speaker:
Mohamed Khalifa
Head of AI & Innovation for the US Private Bank
J.P. Morgan Private Bank
The Legacy of Falcon: An Overview of Open-Source AI at the Technology Innovation Institute
The globally ranked Falcon series of large language models by the Technology Innovation Institute has helped set a precedent in AI development. By embracing open-source principles, Falcon is fostering community-based innovation, democratizing access to AI, and ensuring AI is being used to address real-world challenges. This talk explores Falcon’s legacy, highlighting the strategic, ethical, and practical motivations for open access to A
Speaker:
Dr. Hakim Hacid
Chief Researcher
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Science Research Center Technology Innovation Institute
4:15 pm Break
4:30 pm INDUSTRY FLASHTALKS
Visual Intelligence
The rise of “intelligent” ChatBots, capable of natural language processing, has launched AI into the public consciousness. But these chatbots are disembodied agents interacting through text and do not interact with the visual or physical world. Computer vision is the field of study which aims to endow computers and robots with the ability to understand images, video, and the visual world. I will give a brief introduction to the deep and historic links between Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and then discuss current challenges and opportunities for visual intelligence and how we are addressing many of these issues at Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi.
Speaker:
Ian Reid
Department Chair of Computer Vision
Professor of Computer Vision
Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
4:45 pm Panel: AI AND GLOBAL COMMERCE
Speakers:
Shailesh Jain
Global Head of Data & Analytics
Landmark Group
Anjana Wijegunasinghe
Group Director Data Audit and Digital Assurance Solutions
DP World
Dino Varkey
GEMS Group Chief Executive Officer
GEMS Education
Moderator:
Feng Zhu
MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
5:15 pm Panel: FUTURE OF AI INVESTMENTS
Speaker:
Betsy Alexander-Chinai
CFO
Microsoft Middle East
Said Murad
Senior Partner
Global Ventures
Millie Liu
Founder and Managing Partner
First Star Ventures
Moderator:
Jen Stave
Launch Director
Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
5:45 pm Panel: DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE AND AI
Speakers:
Raisa Mahomed
Chief Technology Officer
OpusDigitech
Faranak Farahmand Pour
Director
Global Strategic Initiatives
Google
Moderator:
Rembrand Koning
Mary V. And Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor Of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
6:15 pm CLOSING KEYNOTE
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Networking Reception
Join Harvard Business School professors for exclusive virtual-only sessions beginning at
6 p.m. GST (this session will begin when the closing remarks finish).
In the virtual conference platform, join via the “Networking Lounge” and then click “Join Meeting” at the right side.
At 6 p.m. GST On his Harvard Business Review publication “Keeping Your AI Projects on Track”and his brand new publication “Want Your Company to Get Better at Experimentation?”
Iavor Bojinov
Assistant Professor of Business Administration and the Richard Hodgson Fellow, Harvard Business School
Principal Investigator, D^3’s AI and Data Science Operations Lab
At 7 p.m. GST How digital technologies are helping developing countries deal with extreme heat.
Tarun Khanna
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School,
Principal Investigator, D^3’s Tech for All Lab