Keynote Speakers

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Professor Hend Al-Khalifa

Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University

Saudi Arabia

Keynote Lecture

Arabic Lives in People, Not in Tokens: Bringing Arabic NLP Together with the Sciences of Language, Mind, and Society

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Dr. Sakhar Alkhereyf

Technical Expert, AI Research, HUMAIN

Saudi Arabia

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From Benchmarks to Real-World Impact: Deploying LLMs in Production

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Professor Islem Rekik

Department of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London

United Kingdom

Keynote Lecture

The Future We Build: Inclusive, Equitable, and Safe AI

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Prof. Emeritus Dr. Abdul Razak Hamdan

Centre for Artificial Intelligence Technology, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Malaysia

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AI the Big Picture and the Small Picture

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Prof. Dr. Shahrul Azman bin Mohd Noah

Center for Artificial Intelligence Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Malaysia

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Bridging Data and Semantics: The Role of Knowledge Graphs in Recommendation

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Prof. Dr. Shadi Basurra

Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology of the Republic of Yemen; Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Reading, United Kingdom

Yemen

Keynote Lecture

Digital Transformation Through AI in Healthcare and the Built Environment

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