Data Innovation Summit MEA 2026
Welcome to the Data Innovation Summit MEA. The most influential annual Data, Analytics and AI event in the world, bringing together the most innovative minds, enterprise practitioners, technology providers, start-up innovators and academics, working with Applied Data Innovation, Data Science, Big Data, ML, Applied AI, Generative AI, Data Management, Data Engineering, Architecture, Databases and DevOps, in one place to discuss ways to accelerate AI-Driven Transformation throughout companies, industries and public organisations. With over 50+ MEA and international speakers in this 5th MEA edition, spread across four stages, two workshop rooms, 30+ TIP sessions, and plenty of learning and networking activities in the exhibition area, the MEA Data Innovation Summit is the place to be for all professionals and organisations working with utilisation of data and AI innovation for enhancing customer experience, improve operational processes, enable future sustainability, reinventing business models, or developing data-driven products and services.
With over 1500 practical case studies presented in the past 10 editions and with geo events in Europe, MEA, APAC, and the ANZ region, the event is a worldwide movement, ushering the community of data, analytics, and AI practitioners across functions, companies, industries, sectors, countries and regions to collaborate, benchmark, share and innovate.
We welcome you to explore the event and see you at the event.
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Speakers

Guillaume Blaquiere
Group Data Architect

Bhargav Pandillapalli
Manager, Data Scientist

Altaf Patel
VP Data Analytics & AI

Shehla Tanveer
Head of Data and Analytics

Sreeram Ramesh
Senior Manager – Data Science

Selena Baset
Senior Information Architect

Ahmed Alaa
Head of AI Engineering

Brent Pienaar
Head of Digital Transformation & Automation | Finance Technology

Louis Karam
Head of Analytics and Business Intelligence

Jawad Saleemi
Director AI & Cloud ; Assistant Professor

Manjinder Singh
Head of Airline Data Science & Analytics

Sutharsan Chiranjeevi Partha Saarathy
Head of Product Management & AI

Majd Khabour
Strategic Advisor to Chief AI Officer Office

Sudhakar Nibhanupudi
Chief Data Officer

Nourah AlKhaled
Head of Data Governance
Gautam Verma
Head of Data Enablement
Faris Al Masri
Data Governance / Data Management and Data Platform Manager
Martin Mazur
Head of Government Corporate Reporting
Michael Malek
Director – Data Management





