AI Community Event

Accelerated AI: Why Inference Speed is the key to Sustainable Success

February 26, 2025

08:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Auditorium, Building A5
Dubai Silicon Oasis

Top AI leaders from across the Middle East, will discuss how faster AI inference drives efficiency, cost savings, and long-term scalability. As businesses increasingly rely on AI, the ability to process data in real-time while optimizing energy consumption is becoming a critical factor for success. This discussion will highlight the latest advancements in AI infrastructure, the role of specialized hardware, and how organizations can balance performance with sustainability to stay ahead in a competitive landscape.

The Speakers
Harry Ault

Harry Ault
Chief Revenue Officer, Sambanova Systems

With over 20 years of experience in revenue leadership, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market strategy, Harry is passionate about creating winning teams, trusted relationships, and scalable solutions that deliver value and growth for customers and partners. Proven track record of driving above-market performance, executing successful M&A integrations, and developing global GTM strategies across diverse industries and global markets. As the Chief Revenue Officer of SambaNova, he leads an AWESOME WW team of our company's Field and Field Engineering folks inclusive of Global Support and Customer Success. SambaNova is an industry pioneer in GenAI - delivering both on premise and managed cloud training, fine tuning, and blazing fast inference to Enterprises, Governments, and Developers leveraging open source models. 10x the performance of Nvidia at 1/10th the power.

Kirk Compton
Director Business Development, Sambanova Systems

A business outcome executive working with C-suite leaders thru empathic workshops to align organizational strategies. Proven track record of continued success and growth in global and regional leadership roles. A market leader in client focused solution development, delivery and management. Driving enterprise growth by aligning corporate strategy ahead of market conditions and ever-changing technology solutions. Expansive roles from global and regional leadership to vertical leadership across multiple technology platforms including but not limited to ERP, hyperscaler’s, private cloud and most recently Smart Solutions.

Carrington Malin Founder, Middle East AI News

Carrington Malin
Founder, Middle East AI News

Carrington Malin is an entrepreneur, marketer, writer and consultant, who has worked across almost every sector of technology and communications. Middle East AI News provides AI decision-makers across all sectors with news and insight on how AI is transforming the Middle East.

Felicien Matthieu Chief Technologist EMEA, World Wide Technology

Felicien Mathieu
Chief Technologist EMEA, World Wide Technology

As CTO for the EMEA region, Felicien Mathieu leads WWT Technical strategy GTM in EMEA with key technology partners that enables our customer Digital transformation journey. The team is backed by WWT Advanced Technology Center with over 500 Million dollar in investment across 4 Data Centres used for R&D, PoC and Solution integration. Prior to WWT Felicien worked at Dell Technologies where he was leading multi-million cloud transformation projects, enabling customer to leverage hybrid Cloud Architecture and PaaS to enable new business model through operating model transformation.

Mark Hamill
CEO, ARCET Global

Mark is serial Entrepreneur based in the UAE, CEO of ARCET Global, a business community and events organisation which runs one of the largest CX and AI conferences in the World. CRO at RAIZOR AI, a cutting-edge AI Service Delivery Company and President of the AI for Business Institute in the UAE. Mark’s has Project Managed Transformation programs across the world as a consultant. His entire career has been centred on Customer Experience, Leadership and Communications, creating successful businesses around the World.

Rob Hayes
Founder, Koshima.ai

With +10 years in tech strategy, he co-founded Koshima to help companies embrace AI. Having worked for both large tech companies and startups, he brings a unique perspective that combines strategic vision and hands-on agility, essential for navigating today’s complex technological landscape. He believes that successful AI adoption starts with a deep understanding of the business problems and challenges. As an active member of the AI community, he is dedicated to guiding businesses through the transformative potential of AI, ensuring solutions are tailored to their specific needs.

Savio Tovar Dias
VP AI Solutions ME, Raizor

Savio is a global technology services and technical sales leader leveraging +27 years of excellence in customer and employee experience solutions, building robust client relationships, driving revenue and value realisation +12 years of leadership, spearheading innovative transformations, shaping business visions and influencing the tech industry landscape.