Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates

تحت رعاية صاحب السمو الشيخ محمد بن زايد آل نهيان، رئيس دولة الامارات العربية المتحدة

Supported by

Rami E. ElDebs

Global Data & AI Strategy Lead

Accenture

Rami
Rami

Rami leads Accenture’s Global Data & AI strategy practice as well as Accenture’s global AI efforts for industries and functions. In his role, he leads Accenture’s thinking on the role of AI in business, its value potential across 30 industries and functions, its impact on talent and ways of working, and strategic execution pathways. He also has the privilege to partner with and advise our top C-suite clients on their AI transformations. He has also been personally involved in leading some of the most cutting-edge transformations with AI across multiple sectors, leveraging the latest tech stacks and techniques. Rami has over 15 years of experience in technology and in strategic advisory, with a focus on energy and national security. He was previously a leader in Accenture’s Energy Strategy practice, leading the value chain optimization and cloud offerings. In his energy roles, he has served many of the world’s leading energy companies on their strategic technology agendas from applying data and AI for margin optimization, to portfolio optimization, digital growth strategy, and operating model design. He is a co-inventor of the Accenture Energy System Model, a patent-pending AI-driven approach for dynamically optimizing portfolios in the energy transition. Prior to that, he setup and ran Accenture’s national security practice in the Growth Markets, with a focus on the Middle East. Rami has always had a deep foot in technology, from the early days of his career at Google in Switzerland up to this day, always staying at the forefront of tech development and its impact on businesses, governments, and people’s lives.

Session Overview
Monday, 4 November
15:35
Strategic Conference Conference Room B 15:35 - 15:55
The future of AI: Where are we heading?

The power of AI to accelerate research and development in fields such as climate science, physics and quantum computing—as well as the way the work is conducted—is immense. In addition, AI can also support and accelerate societal agendas, driving substantial economic growth and productivity gains, reducing social inequalities while increasing opportunities, and more. AI is also transforming the energy sector, driving change across operational optimisation, renewable energy integration, energy efficiency sustainability, and more.

Attendee insights:

In this Energy Talk, Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences from Caltech, until recently, AI research head at NVIDIA, will discuss the future of AI—in particular, its potential for accelerating the energy transition—key challenges for the emerging AI industry, and energy sector as well as how AI innovations are driving the energy transition towards a decarbonised future at speed and scale.

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