9th Middle East Banking AI &
Analytics Summit 2025


LEADING SUMMIT & AWARDS FOR LEADERS IN BANKING

February 26th (Wednesday) 2025
JW Marriott - Marina

"Summit At A Glance"

The banking industry continues to showcase resilience and innovation in navigating the fast-changing market dynamics& business landscape. By 2025, GenAI is expected to contribute up to $340 billion annually to the global banking industry through enhanced productivity and decision-making.

By integrating AI and Analytics inareas like data driven decision making, regulatory compliance, risk management, customer engagement, marketing, and fraud detection, many banks have positioned themselves asleading institutions committed to providing modern banking innovations and solutions that meets customer satisfaction.However, they face challenges such as data security, lack of quality data, sustainability, AI biases and explainability challenges which make it hard to fully implement and scale AI technologies within business processes.

Join us at the 9th Annual Middle East Banking AI & Analytics Summit 2025 to explore the latest advancements in AI, uncover actionable insights, discover roadmap, future developments and strategies that are shaping the future of banking. This one-day event will bring together senior executives, industry innovators, and technology leaders to share their knowledge, discuss challenges, and foster collaborative opportunities with major industry leaders who share your vision.

In addition to exclusive networking opportunities, the #MEBANKINGTECH Awards will honour pioneering institutions and solution providers for their contributions in advancing sustainable financial ecosystem through cutting-edge technologies.

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Why To Attend?

2025 Speakers

BAHAA AWARTANY

Group Chief Data Officer

Capital Bank of Jordan

MAHENDRA DHILLON

Chief Technology Officer

National Bank of Fujairah

KARTIK IYER

Chief Data Officer

Arab Bank

DR. JOSEPH GEORGE

Chief Digital & Information Officer

Doha Bank

SAKET SAITH

Group Chief Technology & Data Officer

RAKBANK

SUDHAKAR NIBHANUPUDI

Deputy General Manager - Group Chief Data Officer

National Bank of Kuwait

ABDUL WAHEED RATHORE

Group Chief Compliance Officer

Dubai Islamic Bank

TONY CHACKO JOSEPH

Chief Information Officer, ePayments

Ministry of Finance, UAE

MARK COLLIN

Chief Data Officer

Vision Bank

AMNA AL-BALUSHI

Chief Information Security Officer

Bank Nizwa

AREG AZARIAN

Head of Data Governance & Engineering

Commercial Bank

SRIDHAR KARLAPUDI

Chief Operating Officer

Bank of Sharjah

MUHAMMED IQTADAR

SVP & Head of Risk and Compliance

Ajman Bank

RASHA SALAMA

Head of Data Risk Management, International Wealth & Premier Banking, UAE & MENAT

HSBC

Paul Marshall

CTO EMEA

SS&C Blue Prism

HAISHAN WU

Head of AI, Data & Innovation

Zand

ASIM SARWAR

Business Development Manager

Caiz

Series Speakers

Arif Shaikh

Board Member, Senior Risk Advisor, Investor

Summit Advisor & Jury

Ellis Wang

Managing Director - Asia Gulf Synergy Ventures

Summit Advisor/Jury

Jamal Saleh

Director General

UAE Banks Federation

Saket Saith

Group Chief Technology & Data Officer

RAKBANK

Nitin Bhargava

Chief Operating Officer

Al Masraf

Ayman Alqudsi

Chief Information Officer

United Arab Bank

Srinivasan Sampath

Acting Group Chief Technology Officer

First Abu Dhabi Bank

Ray Richardson

Chief Data Analytics Officer

Emirates NBD

Ozkan Kosegil

Chief Information Officer, MENAT Wholesale Technology

HSBC

Fernando Plaza Lopez

Group Chief Digital Officer

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank

George Harrak

Chief Information Officer

Al Hilal Bank

Mamoun Alhomssey

Chief Information & Technology Officer

Ajman Bank

Arun Mehta

Chief Data Analytics Officer

First Abu Dhabi Bank

Devid Jegerson

Chief Operating Officer

Invest Bank

Adil Belhouari

SVP, Head of AI, Data Science & Analytics

Riyad Bank

Zahoor UL Islam

VP - Head of Customer Engagement Technologies

Dubai Islamic Bank

Thomas Cherian

Chief Information Officer

Commercial Bank of Dubai

Zsombor Brommer

Chief Compliance Officer

United Arab Bank

Ken Coghill

Director, Innovation & Technology Risk

Dubai Financial Services Authority

Bechir Sellami

Head of Artificial Intelligence

Commercial Bank of Dubai

Geethy Panicker

SVP and Head of Risk Strategy and Risk appetite

First Abu Dhabi Bank

Samaneh Khaleghi

VP- Senior Enterprise Architect and API platform lead

RAKBANK

Sajid Iqbal

Vice President - Risk Management

Habib Bank AG Zurich

Hariprasad Chede

Chief Information Security Officer

National Bank of Fujairah PJSC

Key Topics

Unveiling the AI revolution in banking industry

The power of AI and analytics in decision making

Leveraging AI and cloud-based solutions for banking transformation

The Generative AI revolution in business operations

AI powered regulatory compliance in the banking sector

Integrating AI for enhanced customer trust and personalization

Best practices in AI risk management framework

AI driven payment solutions

Sustainable banking practices using AI and Analytics

Unlocking the future opportunities with Quantum AI

2024 Summit Highlights

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The summit will attract key decision-makers and influencers from the banking industry, including:

C-Suite Executives: CIOs, CTOs, COOs, CDOs, CROs, CAOs and more.

AI & Analytics Leaders: Heads of AI, Analytics, Cloud Integration, Automation, Data Science, and Digital Transformation.

Risk, Compliance, and Fraud Prevention Experts: Leaders driving secure and compliant banking environments through technology.

Innovation & Strategy Teams: Those focused on the future of banking operations through AI, cloud solutions, and data-driven decision-making.

• Retail Banking

• Digital Banking

• Digital Transformation

• Consumer Banking

• Capital Markets

• Securities

• Private Banking

• Wealth Management

• E-Channels

• FinTech’s

• Digital Transformation

• Customer Experience & Business Intelligence

• Data Analytics, Modelling & Mining

• Innovation, Data Architects & Scientists

• Data Science & Predictive Analytics

• Risk Management & Data Analysts

• Sales & Marketing

• Technology & Operations

• Information Technology

• Online Services & Business Innovation

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  • #MEBANKINGAI AWARDS

    February 26, 2025

Understand which processes can be quickly automated and how to use new tech, such as chatbots, to improve customer visualization and productivity and reduce human errors

Uncover the major impacts of AI, improving the customer experience and turbocharging data analytics.

Develop a robust business intelligence infrastructure, achieve data integrity and a 360-view of the customer.

Discover where and how AI is banking: highlighting the opportunities and challenges of commercializing AI and applications.

Identify and create business efficiencies for immediate gains.

Turn your organizations vision into reality through excellent planning and real time use case of contextual intelligence.

Deliver a seamless and connected customer experience by integrating new technologies into legacy systems to meet and exceed customer expectations with outstanding service, from onboarding and everything in between.

Build viable relationships through f2f meetings: Pre-event access to the delegate profiles to make the right selection of whom you would like to meet with and we then set up your meetings, and ensure they run smoothly onsite.

Brand Visibility: Deliver your unique message to this highly targeted group of decision makers, providing a highly qualified platform to build brand awareness. Sponsors receive significant brand exposure through pre-promotion of the event through print and digital exposure.

Pre-qualified end-user audience: We pre-qualify all attendees to ensure our audience is actively exploring or involved in implementing AI

Leadership exposure: The event will tackle key issues and challenges that AI adopters are facing. We tailor our agenda’s to answer these questions allowing end users to effectively deploy solutions.

Leading Edge Discussions: AI & Analytics Experts & Innovators: Hear success stories and initiatives from all the stakeholders and partners of the value chain. Forward-looking insights from the best in the business will help you plan future strategies. Inspiring Keynotes, Banking Case Studies, Reformative Panel discussions offering insights and valuable learning opportunities.

Social Breakout Sessions Your opportunity to customize your learning! Interact with your industry peers in a closed roundtable discussion. Choose the track that is most applicable to you, share your success stories, discuss your challenges, identify future trends- helping you to structure your event experience to your learning requirements.

Digital Age Tech Case Studies & Your Tech Zone Hear from leading AI & analytics organizations sharing their client's success stories and explore dedicated Tech Zones for new ideas & solutions and mapping your business/project needs.

Network & connect - The Hybrid Way Being in a room of people who are enthusiastic about sharing what they have learned and helping others enhance their knowledge and skills. Join your peers from across the MENA region in Dubai or meet & chat with them virtually.

The first of its kind and biggest independent MENA Annual Achievement Awards for AI & Analytics in Banking has its own team of expert judges and a program of activities and events throughout the year including Showcase events.

MENA Annual Achievement Awards for AI & Analytics in Banking is the first and biggest global annual achievement award for AI & Analytics. Our focus is to support the AI community within the MENA recognizing the hard work and dedication of those working in the field which range from start-ups, to established companies and individuals.

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