Harvard Hosts Landmark AI Conference in Dubai, Addressing Transformative Potential and Challenges

Harvard University’s Digital Data Design Institute in collaboration with HBS Club, GCC organized its first International AI Conference at the Museum of the Future in Dubai. The educational event brought together more than 400 leaders, academics, and innovators from around the world to address the prospects of artificial intelligence (AI) for transforming industries, organizations, and societies while discussing the opportunities and issues arising from the application of AI solutions.

During his keynote, Omar Sultan Al Olama the UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence underlined the UAE’s three-levels approach to AI. There he also touched on how AI has made its way into key industries including energy, education, and health with more than 147 governmental applications Adopted. The UAE’s strategy, Al Olama said, is not to disrupt society with AI but to improve the quality of life, such as using AI to enable touchless immigration in UAE airports and potentially save 25 percent or more on large-scale construction projects.

Karim Lakhani of Harvard University’s Digital Data Design Institute launched an AI native online course as well as an AI conference bot to create a linguistic database record of event conversations. Larkin emphasised the importance of strategic progressive apply and deployment of AI applied sciences by senior leaders of organisations, as they can result in capability enchancmentLicensed by means of a 99% effectiveness lane charge.

Another regional personality to speak positively regarding the gulf region’s standing as the conductor of the AI revolution is Saleh Lootah, now the President of the Harvard Business School Club of the GCC. He urged the participants to endeavour to come up with programmes that are real and sustainable in line with the vision of Innovation of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

The conference theme, AI Elevate: Four of the 5 theses, From Readiness to Exponential Growth pointed toward ethical and meaningful AI implementation. Spearheaded by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, the event kicked off the Gulf as the region that will be at the heart of bringing revolutionary technological innovations in the coming years.

It means that the further destiny of AI is defined not only by governments, market players and IT Academia but also all together as one global unified Academic and Market player.