AI & Data Science: Driving Innovation or Guarding Digital Borders?
summary
Panelists lay out concrete stakes: MENA AI market is about $11B now and projected to $150B by 2030, analytics AI drives ~75% of corporate use versus ~25% generative per McKinsey, and local deployment matters for banks. A commercial strategy uses a 7 billion-parameter Arabic LLM optimized for dialects and low GPU cost, already in 400+ enterprise accounts across the region, with customer churn around 5–7%. Talent analytics products stitch distributed HR data into actionable skill and job maps, and Result‑as‑a‑Service (RaaS) emerges as a new delivery model.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:25Panelists' expertise
- 3:56Generative vs analytics AI
- 8:14Regional AI models
- 11:48AI in talent management
- 17:16Corporate vs individual AI
- 21:08Defensible AI strategies
- 24:18AI impact on jobs
- 27:08Advice for students
- 32:51AI as a service
- 33:54Regulating AI
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