Keynotes

• KAUST Center of Excellence - Bernard Ghanem (Chair of KASUT Center of Excellence), KAUST

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• The Next Generation of Arabic LLMs - Nour Al Hassan (CEO) and Iyad Ahmad (CTO) Tarjama

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• LLMs for Code and Science - Shibl Mourad (Director of Research), Google DeepMind

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• For What Should the Bell Toll? The Future of Supercomputing - David Keyes (Professor), KAUST 

  • Algorithmic Compression: Saving Energy in High-Performance Computing

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• Red Teaming LLMs - Hamed Hassani (Senior Staff Researcher), Google Research

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Tutorials

• LLM Reasoning - Hadi Salman, OpenAI

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• A Primer on Embodied and Interactive Foundation Models - Omar Attia, Apple

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• Turning research ideas into startups by TAQADAM (KAUST Accelerator) - Omar Khasawneh , KAUST

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• Building Trustworthy ML - Jessica Schrouff, GSK

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• LLM Evals and Guardrails - Mohamed Shaaban, Scale AI

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Research Talks

• Optimization in ML - George Turkiyyah, KAUST

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• AI & Diffusion Models - Ruba Haroun, Google DeepMind

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• The Rise of Multi-Agent Systems - Carlos Hinojosa, KAUST

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• Modeling Diseases with AI - Robert Hoehndorf, KAUST

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• Generative Modeling with Flow Networks and Applications in Sciences - Salem Lahlou, MBZUAI

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• AI for Physics, Discovery of Unstable Singularities - Mehdi Bennani, Google DeepMind

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• AI for Fusion - Tamara Norman, Google DeepMind

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• AI for Society - Miruna Pislar, Google DeepMind

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• AI for Tropical Cyclone Forecasting - Andrew El-Kadi, Google DeepMind

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• Security & Privacy of Agentic Systems - Sharon Lin, Google DeepMind

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• [Scholar spotlight] Quantum ML - Yousra Farhani

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• [Scholar spotlight] The Era of Interdisciplinary and socio-technical AI - Mennatullah Hendawy

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• [Challenge] Poster challenge winners

  • Reasoning with Vision-Language models for Meme understanding via GPRO - Mohammed Bayan 

  • MixANT: Observation-dependent memory propagation for stochastic dense action anticipation - Hamid Suleman

  • Video-Panada: Parameter-efficient alignment for Encoder-free Video-Language models - Syed Talal Wassim 

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• MENA AI Frontier: A Deep Dive into Regional Opportunities

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  • Moderator:

    • Nafez Aldakkak - Managing Partner, Anara Impact Capital

  • Panelist:

    • Waleed Al Balla - Managing Partner, Sukna Ventures

    • Mohammad Ebrahim - Chief Scientist, Mozn

• Bridging Research and Industry in AI: Building a Unique MENA Narrative 

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  • Moderator:

    • Nour Alkhalil - Head of Product, Clarity

  • Panelist:

    • Dr. Manar Abu Talib - Associate Professor and Research Operations Coordinator, University of Sharjah

    • Deena Alabed - Senior Data Scientist at Careem

    • Rema Algunaibet - Senior AI Solutions Architect at Groq

• AI Governance, Policy, and Aspirations in the MENA region

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  • Moderator: 

    • Poliana Geha - Government Affairs & Public Policy Lead, Middle East, North Africa & Turkey, Google Cloud

  • Panelist:

    • Dr. Noha Adly - Professor Computer Engineering Alexandria University / Advisor to ICT Minister for R&D, Alexandria University / Ministry of ICT

    • Dr. Sanjay Chawla - Chief Scientist, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)

    • Mehdi Ghissassi - Chief Product & Technology Officer, AI 71

• Q&A with KAUST Recruitment Team

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      • Jon Beard, Director of admissions and student recruitment at KAUST

      • Shahad Alandijani, Student Recruitment Specialist