9 World-Class AI Voices — Curated for the Gulf
| Name | Title | Specialization | Engagements | Fee Range | Gulf Events | Express |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mo Gawdat | Former Chief Business Officer, Google X | AI & Human Happiness | Keynote, Mentor, Author | $50K+ | 🏆 3 | - |
| Fei-Fei Li | Co-Director, Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute | Human-Centered AI | Keynote, Advisor, Researcher | $50K+ | 🏆 2 | - |
| Yann LeCun | Chief AI Scientist, Meta | Deep Learning & AI Research | Keynote, Researcher, Advisor | $50K+ | 🏆 2 | - |
| Cassie Kozyrkov | Former Chief Decision Scientist, Google | Enterprise AI & Decision Intelligence | Keynote, Workshop, Consultant | $15K–$50K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Emad Mostaque | Founder, Stability AI | AI for Emerging Markets | Keynote, Advisor, Mentor | $15K–$50K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Noelle Russell | Founder, AI Leadership Institute | Agentic AI & AI Leadership | Keynote, Workshop, Educator | $15K–$50K | 🏆 2 | - |
| Badr AlBadr | AI Leader, Saudi Arabia | Gulf AI Ecosystem | Keynote, Advisor, Mentor | $5K–$15K | 🏆 4 | - |
| Deemah AlYahya | Secretary-General, Digital Cooperation Organization | AI Diplomacy & Digital Economy | Keynote, Advisor, Roundtable | $15K–$50K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Rana el Kaliouby | AI Researcher, NYU Abu Dhabi · Author, Girl Decoded | Emotional AI & Human-Computer Intelligence | Keynote, Researcher, Mentor | $15K–$50K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Andrew Ng | Founder, DeepLearning.AI & Coursera | AI Education & Machine Learning | Keynote, Workshop, Educator | $50K+ | 🏆 1 | - |
| Sam Altman | CEO, OpenAI | Artificial General Intelligence & AI Strategy | Keynote, Advisor | $50K+ | - | - |
| Jensen Huang | CEO & Founder, NVIDIA | AI Infrastructure & Computing | Keynote, Advisor | $50K+ | - | - |
| Demis Hassabis | CEO, Google DeepMind | AGI Research & Scientific AI | Keynote, Researcher, Advisor | $50K+ | - | - |
| Mustafa Suleyman | CEO, Microsoft AI | AI Policy & Responsible AI | Keynote, Advisor, Author | $50K+ | 🏆 1 | - |
| Yoshua Bengio | Founder & Scientific Director, Mila | Deep Learning & AI Safety | Keynote, Researcher, Advisor | $50K+ | - | - |
| Geoffrey Hinton | Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto | Neural Networks & AI Safety | Keynote, Researcher | $50K+ | - | - |
| Kai-Fu Lee | CEO, Sinovation Ventures | AI Superpowers & Global AI Strategy | Keynote, Advisor, Author | $15K–$50K | 🏆 1 | - |
| Max Tegmark | Professor, MIT & President, Future of Life Institute | AI Safety & Existential Risk | Keynote, Researcher, Author | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Timnit Gebru | Founder & Executive Director, DAIR Institute | AI Ethics & Algorithmic Justice | Keynote, Researcher, Advisor | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Gary Marcus | Professor Emeritus, NYU & AI Critic | AI Limitations & Cognitive Science | Keynote, Author, Advisor | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Kate Crawford | Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research | AI & Society | Keynote, Researcher, Author | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Sebastian Thrun | Founder, Udacity & Kitty Hawk | Autonomous Systems & AI Education | Keynote, Advisor, Mentor | $15K–$50K | 🏆 1 | - |
| Dario Amodei | CEO, Anthropic | AI Safety & Constitutional AI | Keynote, Advisor, Researcher | $50K+ | - | - |
| Hannah Fry | Professor, UCL & Author, Hello World | Mathematics of AI & Public Understanding | Keynote, Author, Educator | $15K–$50K | 🏆 1 | - |
| Omar Al Olama | UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence | National AI Strategy & Digital Government | Keynote, Advisor | $15K–$50K | 🏆 4 | - |
| Hessa Al Jaber | Former Minister of ICT, Qatar | Digital Transformation & ICT Policy | Keynote, Advisor, Mentor | $5K–$15K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Abdulaziz AlGhamdi | Deputy Governor, Saudi Data & AI Authority | National Data Strategy & AI Governance | Keynote, Advisor | $15K–$50K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Faisal AlKhamisi | President, Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity | Cybersecurity & AI Security | Keynote, Advisor, Workshop | $5K–$15K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Ayah Bdeir | Founder, littleBits | STEM Innovation & Creative Technology | Keynote, Mentor, Educator | $15K–$50K | 🏆 1 | - |
| Ayesha Khanna | CEO, ADDO AI | Smart Cities & AI Strategy | Keynote, Advisor, Workshop | $15K–$50K | 🏆 2 | - |
| Ibrahim Al Musfir | Head of AI, Qatar Computing Research Institute | Arabic NLP & Computational Research | Keynote, Researcher, Workshop | $5K–$15K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Nasser Al-Nasser | Saudi Tech Entrepreneur & AI Investor | AI Venture Building & Gulf Tech Ecosystem | Keynote, Mentor, Advisor | $5K–$15K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Lama Al Sulaiman | Saudi Businesswoman & AI Investor | AI Investment & Women in Technology | Keynote, Advisor, Mentor | $5K–$15K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Habib Haddad | CEO, Wamda | MENA Tech Ecosystem & AI Startups | Keynote, Mentor, Advisor | $5K–$15K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Aisha Bin Bishr | Former Director General, Smart Dubai | Smart Cities & AI Governance | Keynote, Advisor | $15K–$50K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Beena Ammanath | Executive Director, Deloitte AI Institute | Enterprise AI & Trustworthy AI | Keynote, Workshop, Author | $15K–$50K | 🏆 1 | - |
| Iyad Rahwan | Director, Center for Humans & Machines, Max Planck | Computational Social Science & AI Ethics | Keynote, Researcher, Advisor | $15K–$50K | 🏆 2 | - |
| Safwan Shah | Founder & CEO, PayActiv | Financial AI & Earned Wage Access | Keynote, Advisor, Author | $5K–$15K | 🏆 1 | - |
| Rand Hindi | CEO, Zama | Privacy-Preserving AI & Homomorphic Encryption | Keynote, Researcher, Workshop | $5K–$15K | 🏆 1 | - |
| Alondra Nelson | Former Director, White House OSTP | AI Policy & Science Governance | Keynote, Advisor, Author | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Sara Walker | Professor, Arizona State University | Origins of Intelligence & Astrobiology | Keynote, Researcher | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Melanie Mitchell | Professor, Santa Fe Institute | AI & Complexity Science | Keynote, Researcher, Author | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Claire Walsh | Director of Digital Education, Oxford Internet Institute | Digital Education & AI Literacy | Keynote, Workshop, Educator | $5K–$15K | - | - |
| François Chollet | Creator of Keras & AI Researcher, Google | Deep Learning Frameworks & AI Measurement | Keynote, Researcher, Workshop | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Pedro Domingos | Professor Emeritus, University of Washington | Machine Learning & The Master Algorithm | Keynote, Author, Researcher | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Stuart Russell | Professor, UC Berkeley | AI Safety & Human-Compatible AI | Keynote, Researcher, Author | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Richard Sutton | Professor, University of Alberta | Reinforcement Learning | Keynote, Researcher | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Margaret Mitchell | Chief Ethics Scientist, Hugging Face | AI Ethics & Model Documentation | Keynote, Researcher, Workshop | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Joelle Pineau | VP of AI Research, Meta FAIR | Reinforcement Learning & Reproducible AI | Keynote, Researcher, Advisor | $15K–$50K | - | - |
| Azeem Azhar | Founder, Exponential View | Exponential Technologies & AI Economics | Keynote, Author, Advisor | $15K–$50K | 🏆 2 | - |
| Rumman Chowdhury | Founder, Humane Intelligence | Responsible AI & Algorithmic Auditing | Keynote, Workshop, Advisor, Panel | $15K–$50K | 🏆 2 | - |
| Amba Kak | Executive Director, AI Now Institute | AI Policy & Regulation | Keynote, Advisor, Researcher, Panel | $10K–$25K | 🏆 1 | - |
| Safiya Noble | Professor, UCLA | Algorithmic Discrimination & Digital Equity | Keynote, Researcher, Author, Panel | $15K–$25K | 🏆 1 | - |
| Meredith Whittaker | President, Signal Foundation | AI Accountability & Privacy | Keynote, Advisor, Researcher, Panel | $15K–$30K | 🏆 1 | - |
| Nada Al-Amoudi | Saudi AI Researcher & Innovator | AI Research & Arabic NLP | Keynote, Researcher, Mentor, Panel | $10K–$15K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Khalfan Belhoul | CEO, Dubai Future Foundation | Future Foresight & Government Innovation | Keynote, Advisor, Panel | $10K–$20K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Talal Abu-Ghazaleh | Chairman, TAG.Global | Digital Economy & Knowledge Society | Keynote, Advisor, Author, Panel | $10K–$20K | 🏆 3 | - |
| Rajeev Ronanki | AI Leader & Former Deloitte SVP | Enterprise AI & Digital Transformation | Keynote, Advisor, Workshop, Panel | $15K–$30K | 🏆 2 | - |
| Pascale Fung | Professor, HKUST & AI Ethics Researcher | Conversational AI & AI Ethics | Keynote, Researcher, Advisor, Panel | $15K–$25K | 🏆 2 | - |
| Sophia the Robot | World's First Robot Citizen & AI Ambassador | AI Robotics & Future of Humanity | Keynote, Panel | $40K–$75K | 🏆 3 | - |
Our experts have collectively spoken at: GITEX Global • Dubai Future Forum • World Government Summit • LEAP • Dubai AI Festival • FinTech Abu Dhabi • Saudi Vision 2030 Summit • GovTech Summit Riyadh • IGF • Digital Cooperation Forum • Abu Dhabi Science Festival • Emirates Literature Festival • Dubai AI Assembly • Global AI Summit Riyadh • Qatar National Vision Forum • QITCOM • Global Cybersecurity Forum Riyadh • ArabNet Digital Summit • Smart Dubai Summit • ArabWIC Conference • Qatar National Research Fund Symposium • 24 Fintech Riyadh • Biban Forum • Future Investment Initiative • Misk Global Forum • Step Conference Dubai • ArabNet Riyadh • Saudi AI Summit • World Economic Forum MENA • Arab ICT Forum • UAE Innovation Week
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