The Gulf's Home for World-Class AI Voices
Minbar.ai is the Gulf region's first curated AI speaker, training and advisory platform. We connect global AI thought leaders with Gulf organizations for keynotes, workshops, mentorship and advisory — all tailored for the GCC market. Our experts understand Vision 2030, UAE AI Strategy and Gulf business culture.
| Service | Description | Starting Price |
|---|---|---|
| Speaker Booking | Source and book world-class AI speakers for your events | 15% commission |
| Concierge Matching | White glove service — 3 hand-picked experts in 24 hours | $2,500/brief |
| Corporate Training | HRDF-compliant AI training for teams (4hr-12mo programs) | SAR 50,000 |
| Government Programs | Etimad-ready AI training for ministries and public sector | SAR 50,000 |
| Annual Partnership | Unlimited events, dedicated team, co-branded presence | Custom |
| Name | Title | Specialization | Fee Range | Gulf Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mo Gawdat | Former Chief Business Officer, Google X | AI & Human Happiness | $50K+ | 3 |
| Fei-Fei Li | Co-Director, Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute | Human-Centered AI | $50K+ | 2 |
| Yann LeCun | Chief AI Scientist, Meta | Deep Learning & AI Research | $50K+ | 2 |
| Cassie Kozyrkov | Former Chief Decision Scientist, Google | Enterprise AI & Decision Intelligence | $15K–$50K | 3 |
| Emad Mostaque | Founder, Stability AI | AI for Emerging Markets | $15K–$50K | 3 |
| Noelle Russell | Founder, AI Leadership Institute | Agentic AI & AI Leadership | $15K–$50K | 2 |
| Badr AlBadr | AI Leader, Saudi Arabia | Gulf AI Ecosystem | $5K–$15K | 4 |
| Deemah AlYahya | Secretary-General, Digital Cooperation Organization | AI Diplomacy & Digital Economy | $15K–$50K | 3 |
| Rana el Kaliouby | AI Researcher, NYU Abu Dhabi · Author, Girl Decoded | Emotional AI & Human-Computer Intelligence | $15K–$50K | 3 |
| Andrew Ng | Founder, DeepLearning.AI & Coursera | AI Education & Machine Learning | $50K+ | 1 |
| Sam Altman | CEO, OpenAI | Artificial General Intelligence & AI Strategy | $50K+ | 0 |
| Jensen Huang | CEO & Founder, NVIDIA | AI Infrastructure & Computing | $50K+ | 0 |
| Demis Hassabis | CEO, Google DeepMind | AGI Research & Scientific AI | $50K+ | 0 |
| Mustafa Suleyman | CEO, Microsoft AI | AI Policy & Responsible AI | $50K+ | 1 |
| Yoshua Bengio | Founder & Scientific Director, Mila | Deep Learning & AI Safety | $50K+ | 0 |
| Geoffrey Hinton | Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto | Neural Networks & AI Safety | $50K+ | 0 |
| Kai-Fu Lee | CEO, Sinovation Ventures | AI Superpowers & Global AI Strategy | $15K–$50K | 1 |
| Max Tegmark | Professor, MIT & President, Future of Life Institute | AI Safety & Existential Risk | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Timnit Gebru | Founder & Executive Director, DAIR Institute | AI Ethics & Algorithmic Justice | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Gary Marcus | Professor Emeritus, NYU & AI Critic | AI Limitations & Cognitive Science | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Kate Crawford | Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research | AI & Society | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Sebastian Thrun | Founder, Udacity & Kitty Hawk | Autonomous Systems & AI Education | $15K–$50K | 1 |
| Dario Amodei | CEO, Anthropic | AI Safety & Constitutional AI | $50K+ | 0 |
| Hannah Fry | Professor, UCL & Author, Hello World | Mathematics of AI & Public Understanding | $15K–$50K | 1 |
| Omar Al Olama | UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence | National AI Strategy & Digital Government | $15K–$50K | 4 |
| Hessa Al Jaber | Former Minister of ICT, Qatar | Digital Transformation & ICT Policy | $5K–$15K | 3 |
| Abdulaziz AlGhamdi | Deputy Governor, Saudi Data & AI Authority | National Data Strategy & AI Governance | $15K–$50K | 3 |
| Faisal AlKhamisi | President, Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity | Cybersecurity & AI Security | $5K–$15K | 3 |
| Ayah Bdeir | Founder, littleBits | STEM Innovation & Creative Technology | $15K–$50K | 1 |
| Ayesha Khanna | CEO, ADDO AI | Smart Cities & AI Strategy | $15K–$50K | 2 |
| Ibrahim Al Musfir | Head of AI, Qatar Computing Research Institute | Arabic NLP & Computational Research | $5K–$15K | 3 |
| Nasser Al-Nasser | Saudi Tech Entrepreneur & AI Investor | AI Venture Building & Gulf Tech Ecosystem | $5K–$15K | 3 |
| Lama Al Sulaiman | Saudi Businesswoman & AI Investor | AI Investment & Women in Technology | $5K–$15K | 3 |
| Habib Haddad | CEO, Wamda | MENA Tech Ecosystem & AI Startups | $5K–$15K | 3 |
| Aisha Bin Bishr | Former Director General, Smart Dubai | Smart Cities & AI Governance | $15K–$50K | 3 |
| Beena Ammanath | Executive Director, Deloitte AI Institute | Enterprise AI & Trustworthy AI | $15K–$50K | 1 |
| Iyad Rahwan | Director, Center for Humans & Machines, Max Planck | Computational Social Science & AI Ethics | $15K–$50K | 2 |
| Safwan Shah | Founder & CEO, PayActiv | Financial AI & Earned Wage Access | $5K–$15K | 1 |
| Rand Hindi | CEO, Zama | Privacy-Preserving AI & Homomorphic Encryption | $5K–$15K | 1 |
| Alondra Nelson | Former Director, White House OSTP | AI Policy & Science Governance | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Sara Walker | Professor, Arizona State University | Origins of Intelligence & Astrobiology | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Melanie Mitchell | Professor, Santa Fe Institute | AI & Complexity Science | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Claire Walsh | Director of Digital Education, Oxford Internet Institute | Digital Education & AI Literacy | $5K–$15K | 0 |
| François Chollet | Creator of Keras & AI Researcher, Google | Deep Learning Frameworks & AI Measurement | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Pedro Domingos | Professor Emeritus, University of Washington | Machine Learning & The Master Algorithm | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Stuart Russell | Professor, UC Berkeley | AI Safety & Human-Compatible AI | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Richard Sutton | Professor, University of Alberta | Reinforcement Learning | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Margaret Mitchell | Chief Ethics Scientist, Hugging Face | AI Ethics & Model Documentation | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Joelle Pineau | VP of AI Research, Meta FAIR | Reinforcement Learning & Reproducible AI | $15K–$50K | 0 |
| Azeem Azhar | Founder, Exponential View | Exponential Technologies & AI Economics | $15K–$50K | 2 |
| Rumman Chowdhury | Founder, Humane Intelligence | Responsible AI & Algorithmic Auditing | $15K–$50K | 2 |
| Amba Kak | Executive Director, AI Now Institute | AI Policy & Regulation | $10K–$25K | 1 |
| Safiya Noble | Professor, UCLA | Algorithmic Discrimination & Digital Equity | $15K–$25K | 1 |
| Meredith Whittaker | President, Signal Foundation | AI Accountability & Privacy | $15K–$30K | 1 |
| Nada Al-Amoudi | Saudi AI Researcher & Innovator | AI Research & Arabic NLP | $10K–$15K | 3 |
| Khalfan Belhoul | CEO, Dubai Future Foundation | Future Foresight & Government Innovation | $10K–$20K | 3 |
| Talal Abu-Ghazaleh | Chairman, TAG.Global | Digital Economy & Knowledge Society | $10K–$20K | 3 |
| Rajeev Ronanki | AI Leader & Former Deloitte SVP | Enterprise AI & Digital Transformation | $15K–$30K | 2 |
| Pascale Fung | Professor, HKUST & AI Ethics Researcher | Conversational AI & AI Ethics | $15K–$25K | 2 |
| Sophia the Robot | World's First Robot Citizen & AI Ambassador | AI Robotics & Future of Humanity | $40K–$75K | 3 |
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