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Ai Everything Global 2025: Insight-fuelled debates & thought-provoking discussions show AI’s divisive power on enthralling first day in UAE capital

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After weeks of rising excitement across the international AI community, Ai Everything GLOBAL is officially underway in the UAE after a thrilling opening day kicked off the year’s largest public-private global AI gathering.

Organised by Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) and KAOUN International in affiliation with GITEX GLOBAL, Ai Everything Global is the world’s premier AI event. It welcomes the most influential AI stakeholders across Abu Dhabi and Dubai from February 4-6 – paving the way for participants to examine the technology’s global impact, propel cross-continental collaboration, and define new boundaries for AI innovation.

Live from the St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, the Ai Everything Summit headlined the Tuesday programme as a capacity crowd and action-packed agenda marked a sensational start to the AI industry’s 2025 international events and exhibitions calendar.

H.E. Faisal Al Bannai, Adviser to the UAE President & Secretary General of the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), hailed the influence and impact of AI globally during an inspirational keynote speech. H.E. declared: “Every generation throughout human history likely said they lived during an interesting time; however, I believe we can truly say that we are living in a world where AI innovation is redefining and reshaping what’s possible like never before. The Age of Intelligence is just beginning – and there is still so much to transpire and achieve in terms of AI. The possibilities are increasingly immense with how fast the AI ecosystem is innovating and evolving – and open source is one of many aspects encouraging collaboration and empowering all to harness AI capabilities.”

H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy & Remote Work Applications, also emphasised AI’s vital role in the UAE’s future socio-economic development. He said: “We want to deploy things that benefit quality of life. If we want this technology to proliferate, if we want AI to be part of each and every one of our lives, we have to make sure it is also economic in terms of ability to access it, with a good economic value.”

It’s Ai in Everything: Diverse Perspectives Amidst Tectonic Market Shifts

Featuring distinguished government heads, technology directors, and Chief AI Officers alongside market-leading AI innovators, executives, and policymakers, the Ai Everything Summit staged an enthralling series of the most thought-provoking, insight-fuelled debates and discussions surrounding current AI dynamics and the industry’s future trajectory.

As a unifying platform for addressing pressing industry challenges and analysing the most incredible opportunities amidst deep structural market shifts, the Summit welcomed renowned visionaries from a wide variety of increasingly AI-critical industries. Alongside the energy, education, healthcare, finance, government, Industry 4.0, and creative economy sectors, Ai Everything Global cast a unique spotlight on AI’s rising influence across film, television, and digital entertainment. 

Amongst the many major Day 1 highlights was an incredible interactive presentation by Jonathan Bronfman, the world-famous creator of Vanity AI tech used in Hollywood Blockbusters like ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ and Netflix’s record-breaking viewership series ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Squid Game’. The Co-Founder of Canadian VFX studio Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (MARZ) shared fascinating insights surrounding the movie industry’s AI-driven revolution during ‘The Death of Retakes: How AI is Rewriting Hollywood in Minutes’.

Bronfman spoke in glowing terms regarding AI’s future in film, insisting the industry will benefit tremendously from the technology’s revolutionary capabilities. He said: “Gen AI will impact Hollywood in a massive way. The spectacle traditionally seen in movies like Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, and Star Wars is expensive and time-consuming. GenAI will make film production and development more affordable which studios desperately need – while still attracting audiences to the big screen.”

Whilst advocating AI-Hollywood collaboration, Bronfman assured audiences that people will always be essential, despite rising concerns regarding AI displacing industry jobs: “A fully GenAI movie or series is not a threat to Hollywood. The human touch will never disappear because human creativity and intelligence are unmatched. If you look at YouTube influencers and the way they’re pulling eyeballs away from Hollywood already; consumption habits are changing massively. That’s the biggest threat facing the industry.”

From governance frameworks, commercialisation requirements, and cross-industry pivots to market-altering developments, first-hand projections, and the global AI leadership race, the summit was met with critical acclaim as attendees examined the radical winds of change reverberating across digital economies globally. With AI proving both unifying and divisive globally, audience members witnessed world-leading experts present a range of broad perspectives.

Amongst the many was a panel discussion titled ‘How is AGI Accelerating? Navigating the Growing Pressure to Fast-Track AI Innovation’. Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, stressed an urgent necessity for stringent AI industry regulations, revealing: “This narrative that regulation stifles innovation is toxic – the record shows us that unregulated digital technologies can cause severe harm. We – as experts in AI – do not understand how this technology works. And when it doesn’t work, nobody has a way of fixing it. Nodody really knows what’s next. Whether making the next generation of large language models bigger will produce AGI is just speculation at the moment.”

Another standout session involved Kate Darling, Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab in the US. During an interactive presentation and robot demo, she shed light on groundbreaking research surrounding a future where robots and people work and co-exist in harmony: “Engineers have been working for decades to produce a robot that’s robust, reliable, and safe enough to roll out on the public street. For me personally, the most interesting thing isn’t necessarily the technical developments that we’ve seen. The really interesting thing is what happens when you take AI and robotics and put them together with people. Because as people start to encounter these technologies in their daily lives, we see some really interesting reactions.”

Examining the Winds of AI-Driven Change Globally

As the first AI-focused event following recent era-defining AI developments – from the $500 billion Stargate announcement to DeepSeek’s emergence and divisive debates at the 2025 World Economic Forum – Ai Everything Global provided the perfect platform to examine evolving global power dynamics.

Whilst fulfilling its critical touchpoint pledge for the technologically ambitious to broaden industry acumen, engage with AI leaders, and accelerate strategies through prolific public-private networking, a unique spotlight was cast on regional AI integration and deployment progression.

Stephen Burt shared positive insights when elaborating on whether affordable AI is the key to breaking a perceived big tech power concentration and driving innovation. The Government of Canada’s Chief Data Officer said: “We can get there, and we’ve actually done the basics in ensuring we have the core data in the right places alongside required infrastructure. Whether the big AI winners are in Silicon Valley, from the venture capital area, or elsewhere around the world, achieving desired results is possible because AI models are becoming so much more accessible.”

Ott Velsberg, the Estonian Government’s renowned Chief Data Officer who oversees data and AI governance in Europe’s top-rated country for digital public sector services, also revealed how countries globally could thrive following successful AI and data analytics utilisation: “A more proactive government is the way to go – actively collaborating with the private sector whilst educating the public sector. Over the last two years, data-intensive companies have grown their revenue by 60% on average, which amounts to €5.7 million daily. International collaboration has grown stronger than ever before – and different universities and countries are also pulling their resources together when faced with adversity.”

Next Up at Ai Everything Global 2025

After a defining first day in Abu Dhabi, the Ai Everything Global programme switches to another of the UAE’s rising AI capitals of the world as Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC) hosts a highly anticipated Exhibition Showcase (5-6 February).

Live from Expo City, Wednesday and Thursday will highlight groundbreaking R&D use cases alongside the most transformative real-world applications covering governments, business, society, and core pillars of global economies.

Awaiting visitors is an exclusive first-hand discovery of the most patented and award-winning AI innovations from 70-plus countries, featuring a highly curated selection of over 500 exceptional pure AI companies and fastest-rising startups, with 70% marking their regional debut.  

Among the many world-leading tech powerhouses exhibiting are ASUS, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Dell, e&, Fortinet, G42, HP, and IBM. Others include Intel, Lenovo, Nokia, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, Technology Innovation Institute (TII), and Zoom.

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New Rubrik Agent Cloud Accelerates Trusted Enterprise AI Agent Deployments

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New Rubrik Agent Cloud Accelerates Trusted Enterprise AI Agent Deployments

AI agents represent the biggest opportunity and the biggest threat to organizations everywhere. Rubrik, Inc., the Security and AI Operations Company, today announced the launch of the Rubrik Agent Cloud to accelerate enterprise AI agent adoption while managing risk of AI deployments.

AI transformation is now mandatory for most organizations. However, IT leaders are constrained because Agentic AI has significant risks including hallucination as well as compromise by threat actors. Rubrik Agent Cloud is designed to monitor and audit agentic actions, enforce real-time guardrails for agentic changes, fine-tune agents for accuracy and, finally, undo agent mistakes. Built on the Rubrik Platform that uniquely combines data, identity and application contexts, Rubrik Agent Cloud gives customers security, accuracy, and efficiency as they transform their organizations into AI enterprises.

“IT and security leaders often don’t know what their AI agents are doing or how to undo their mistakes. Rubrik wants to help them answer: ‘What agents do I have?’ ‘What are they capable of doing?’ ‘How are they performing?’ ‘What did they do?’ and ‘Can I undo that when they screw up?’ said Bipul Sinha, CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Rubrik. “AI agents have the potential to cause 10x the damage in 1/10 of the time. With Rubrik Agent Cloud, we uniquely address this challenge by leveraging our leadership in data, identity, and resilience to help our customers deploy AI agents with peace of mind.”

Accelerate Enterprise AI Deployment and Resilience 

Rubrik Agent Cloud will offer comprehensive agent management capabilities that encompass the entire AI agent lifecycle – from observability and control to performance management and simulation. 

  • Agent Monitor:
    • Auto-discovers both infrastructure-as-a-service (Azure/AWS) agents as well as platform-as-a-service (M365/AgentForce) agents. 

○ Automatically discovers and maps active agents across popular agent builders such as OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Amazon Bedrock and other popular agent building tools. 

○ Continuously monitors agent activity and data access, and maintains immutable audit trails capturing context from data, identity, and applications. 

  • Agent Govern:
    • Tracks agent usage, evaluates performance against prompts, and gives teams the tools to control destructive/undesired actions.

○ Defines and enforces agent behavior, access, and action policies in real-time. 

○ A centralized tool to provide integration with enterprise identity systems—helping ensure secure, compliant, and controlled innovation.

  • Agent Remediate:
    • Announced in August 2025, Agent Rewind integrates with Rubrik Security Cloud to provide the industry’s only solution for precise time and blast radius rollback of undesirable or destructive actions.

○ Goes beyond observability to allow organizations to instantly undo unwanted or destructive actions, without any downtime or data loss. 

○ Selective rollback of agent-driven changes ensures continuous protection for critical data and systems, and immutable recovery.

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UAE’s AI market set to soar to Dh170 billion by 2030, driving MENA’s Dh610 billion Artificial Intelligence boom

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UAE’s AI market set to soar to Dh170 billion by 2030, driving MENA’s Dh610 billion Artificial Intelligence boom

The UAE’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) market is forecast to hit Dh170 billion (USD 46.33 billion) by 2030, according to new data from Grand View Research (GVR) in a study that underscores the country’s accelerating dominance in the region’s USD 166 billion (Dh610 billion) AI boom.

Close on the heels of the UAE unveiling its first Arabic-language AI model earlier this year, the new research by the California headquartered- firm reveals that the MENA AI market, valued at USD 11.92 billion (Dh43.7 billion) in 2023, is set to expand almost fifteen-fold to USD 166.33 billion (Dh610 billion) by 2030, growing at an annual rate of 44.8 percent.

“The Middle East, and especially the UAE, is no longer just an adopter of global AI technologies – it’s, in fact, shaping its own playbook,” said Swayam Dash, Managing Director at Grand View Research. “With sovereign funds backing innovation, and policies like the UAE’s new Strategic Plan 2031 leading the way with focus on utilising artificial intellegence in achieving greater financial efficiency for the federal government, the region is becoming a laboratory for how AI can drive both governance and growth.”

GVR’s report further highlights that nearly three in four UAE companies have maintained or increased their AI investments in the past year. Machine learning and deep learning remain the backbone of this transformation, particularly in healthcare, logistics, and financial services.

According to the report, the AI in Healthcare market in the Middle East and Africa, valued at USD 193.1 million (Dh 709 million) in 2023, is projected to reach USD 1.47 billion (Dh 5.39 billion) by 2030 growing at a CAGR of 33.6 per cent, while the region’s legal AI sector – currently at USD 43.3 million (Dh 159 million) – is expected to almost triple to USD 121.5 million (Dh 446 million) at a CAGR of 18 per cent over the same period.

“The release of region-specific AI metrics for the first time quantifies what many have sensed – that the UAE and its neighbours are at the tipping point of a generational transformation,” Dash added. “And the next wave of opportunity will come from specialisation. Sectors like healthcare and legal technology are still emerging here and hence the potential is immense. With the AI in regional healthcare market alone projected to touch USD 8.39 billion (AED 30.8 billion) by 2033, we’re looking at a decade of exponential growth. Likewise, the legal AI space, though currently small, represents a first-mover opportunity in digitising governance, compliance, and regulatory frameworks – areas where the Middle East can define its own benchmarks rather than follow global ones.”

The study also notes how the MENA region is further emerging stronger as one of the world’s most dynamic AI frontiers driven particularly by government-led digital transformation agendas, rapid urbanisation, and the rollout of AI-enabling technologies such as 5G, cloud, and IoT,

“Machine learning and deep learning continue to dominate adoption across smart-city initiatives, healthcare, and urban management ­– with the UAE leading the charge in real-world integration,” said Dash.

The full Grand View Research MENA AI Market Report offers an in-depth analysis of these evolving trends, uncovering how data, policy, and innovation are converging to redefine the region’s digital economy.

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FVC and SearchInform Join Forces to Boost Insider Threat Prevention and Data Protection in MENA

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FVC and SearchInform Join Forces to Boost Insider Threat Prevention and Data Protection in MENA

FVC, a prominent distributor specialising in innovative technology solutions, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with SearchInform, a leader in information security and insider threat prevention solutions. Together, they are committed to strengthening organizations’ defenses against data leaks, corporate fraud, human-factor related risks.

K.S. Parag, Managing Director, FVC:

“We are excited to welcome SearchInform to our cybersecurity portfolio. The company offers the most powerful and localized DLP on the MENA market. SearchInform solution stands out from the competition due to a number of advantages. The system can be deployed within a few hours, protects the maximum number of data transfer channels, provides smart content-based blocking for all controlled channels and also use digital watermarks to trace the source of potential leaks. SearchInform DLP supports analysis of data in Arabic and has security policies, tailored for requirements of local organizations, enabling timely detection and prevention of confidential data leaks. The solution leverages AI to monitor atypical data transfer channels, recognize graphic elements, transcribe audio into text, detect attempts to photograph PC screens with smartphones.”

SearchInform offers a range of products, including DCAP, DLP, and SIEM. All the tools are seamlessly integrated. Technical support is provided through a specialist assigned to the company, who has extensive experience thanks to clients from various fields.

Commenting on the Partnership, Artem Volodin, CEO SearchInform MENA, stated:

“We are proud to collaborate with FVC, whose expertise in the Middle Eastern market will strengthen our efforts to combat insider threats and data leaks. The region needs a comprehensive solution that will enable organizations to meet regulatory standards, including SAMA, PDPL, DCC, ECC, UAE Information Assurance (IA) Regulation etc. and global ones, such as GDPR, PCI DSS. SearchInform delivers tools for data protection and risk mitigation across all levels: FileAuditor secures file systems, DLP covers workstations and human risks, Risk Monitor addresses corporate fraud, and SIEM protects IT infrastructure.”

The partners are currently conducting expert training, partner enablement sessions, and are also negotiating the implementation of SearchInform products in local companies.

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