Gary Marcus
✅ Accepting Gulf InquiriesProfessor Emeritus, NYU & AI Critic
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Gary gave our investors the reality check they needed before committing billions to AI. Invaluable perspective.
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📦 Exactly What You Receive
- 📋Signed Letter of Engagement (48 hours)
- 📄Expert bio + photo in your format
- 🌍Gulf Cultural Briefing (8-page PDF)
- 📊Audience profile sent to expert
- 📞30-min prep call (14 days prior)
- 🎯Keynote angle tailored to your audience
- 📡AV and technical requirements
- 📈Post-Event Impact Report (7 days)
- 🎓Certificate of Completion (HRDF)
- 💰Final VAT invoice (SAP-compatible)
- 📹Recording coordination (if applicable)
- 📋HRDF submission documentation
- ⭐Review request to your team
- 🔄Follow-up session available on request
Cancellation: Full refund 21+ days before event · 50% refund 14–21 days · Speaker cancellation: replacement within 48 hours at zero cost to you
💰 Gulf Engagement Fees
USD. Travel additional. 15% Minbar.ai fee included.
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Why Book Through Minbar.ai?
| Direct | Bureau | Minbar.ai | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Response | Weeks | Days | 4 Hours |
| Commission | Complex | 30-40% | 15% |
| Gulf context | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Arabic | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Cultural brief | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| HRDF | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Fee protection | ❌ | Partial | ✅ |
Cultural briefing · Agreement · Audience profile · Pre-event call · Report · Topic tailoring
🏆 Gulf Voice Score™
Excellent
11 verified Gulf engagements
Gary is recording a personal 90-second message for Gulf event organizers.
About
NYU professor emeritus and one of AI's most prominent skeptics. Author of 'Rebooting AI,' Gary provides the essential counterbalance to AI hype that Gulf decision-makers need for sound investment and policy decisions.
🎤 Keynote Topics
🏆 Recognition
📺 Media
📺 Television
CBS
CBS Morning
🎙️ Podcasts
TED
The TED AI Show
📰 Press
The New Yorker
The New Yorker
🌍 Organizations
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Leave a review →“Gary's ability to connect global AI trends to Gulf context was remarkable.”
— Chief Innovation Officer, ADNOC“One of the best keynotes we've hosted. Gary understood our audience perfectly.”
— Director of Events, Dubai Future Foundation📚 Related Insights
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