DISx FTDS
Finance, Telecom & Digital Services
Applied Innovation Summit
Reimagining Business & Operational Models Through AI-Led Innovation
9 april · dubai, UAE
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Welcome to DISx FTDS
Finance, Telecom & Digital Services
A one-day, practitioner-focused gathering for leaders across finance, telecom, and digital services in the MEA region. Inspired by the industry deep dives of the Data Innovation Summit, this event brings together forward-thinking decision-makers to explore how data and AI can drive real business transformation beyond theory and experimentation.
The summit focuses on how organisations can act on innovation by rethinking business models, modernising operations, and delivering intelligent services at scale. The program is structured around three key areas: operational excellence and process innovation; service delivery transformation; and customer experience and engagement. Together, these themes highlight the shift from isolated technology adoption toward end-to-end business model innovation.
Through focused keynotes and peer-led executive roundtables, participants will exchange practical experience, learn what is working today, and leave with actionable insights, meaningful connections, and a clearer path to building intelligent, agile, and future-ready enterprises.
Explore the DISx Programme
Throughout the day, we will focus on three major areas of applied transformation. Operational excellence and process innovation explores how AI is being used to reshape internal workflows, improve compliance, and reduce inefficiencies in core systems. Service delivery transformation will look at how companies across industries are using AI to build smarter, faster, and more responsive offerings. Customer experience and engagement focuses on how organisations can move from reactive service models to predictive, personalised, and value-driven interactions.
These themes are not just technical challenges. They reflect a growing need for organisations to shift their mindset from isolated technology adoption to full business model innovation. For too long, data and AI teams have operated in silos, disconnected from core decision-makers and commercial priorities. This summit is about bridging that gap. It is about creating space for AI product owners, business leaders, and functional experts to come together with a shared goal of designing intelligent, agile, and future-ready enterprises.
The event is structured around four content blocks. Each block features two short keynote-style presentations designed to spark new thinking. These are followed by executive roundtable sessions where you will engage in focused, industry-specific discussions with your peers.
Meet our DISx Speakers
The DISx Summits bring together some of the most forward-thinking leaders from operations, technology, and strategy to explore how AI and data can become the backbone of next-generation industrial performance.
On the DISx FTDS we’re bringing together finance, telecom, and digital services in a single shared space because these sectors face many of the same challenges and opportunities. All three industries are rich in data, complex in structure, and under pressure to modernise. They are also uniquely positioned to lead in applied AI innovation.
Together, we will explore how AI is transforming the way industrial systems operate, how services are delivered, and how people make decisions across complex environments.
Who should attend?
If you are working in finance, telecom, or digital services and play a role in business transformation, innovation, AI product development, or data-driven decision-making, the DISx FTDS Summit is designed for you. This is a platform for senior professionals who want to move beyond experimentation and start embedding AI into how their organisations operate, deliver services, and engage customers.
The event is where AI leaders and business domain experts come together to exchange ideas, showcase real-world case studies, and explore what it truly means to reimagine operational excellence, service delivery, and customer engagement with data and AI.
You should attend if you are involved in:
· Data and AI strategy and leadership
· Business and digital transformation
· Operations, finance, or risk management
· Customer and product experience
· Innovation, platform or service design
· Technology and infrastructure modernization
· Governance, compliance, or data quality
Whether you lead business units, manage digital products, oversee data and analytics, or drive enterprise architecture, this event will connect you with peers and pioneers who are putting AI to work at scale.
Why should you attend?
Join us at the DISx FTDS Summit to explore how applied AI and data innovation are transforming the core of asset-intensive industries. This one-day executive program is designed to accelerate real business impact by focusing on what delivers measurable, scalable results — not just what’s possible.
At DISx FTDS Summit, you will:
· Learn from real enterprise case studies across finance, telecom, and digital platforms – Explore how organisations are redesigning processes, launching intelligent services, and personalising customer journeys using applied AI.
· Discover what it takes to move from pilots to platforms – Gain insight into the success factors behind scaling AI within complex, regulated, and data-intensive environments.
· Connect business and AI teams to unlock shared outcomes – Engage in conversations that bridge the gap between technical capability and business strategy, and explore how to lead innovation cross-functionally.
· Take part in executive roundtables and peer discussions – Share your challenges and learn from others in industry-specific roundtables focused on solving real operational, service, and customer experience problems.
· Stay ahead of regulatory and ethical developments – Understand how leading organisations are addressing trust, transparency, and responsible AI at a practical level
· Join a growing regional and global community – Network with peers from across the MEA region who are leading business and AI transformation in some of the world’s most dynamic industries.
DISx FTDS Summit is not a showcase of AI hype. It is about what works. It’s a summit designed to help business and technology leaders deliver practical, scalable, and high-impact innovation.
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Data, Innovation, and Strategy Exchange
DISx stands for Data, Innovation, and Strategy Exchange – a regional event series designed to help organisations turn data and AI into real business transformation.
Unlike traditional tech conferences, DISx focuses on applied innovation where AI and data are not just explored as technologies, but leveraged as tools for reimagining how industries operate, deliver services, and engage customers.
Each DISx event is built to support business and technology leaders who are leading change across complex, data-rich environments. With a focus on real-world use cases, executive perspectives, and cross-functional collaboration, the series creates space for meaningful conversation, shared learning, and scalable strategy.
sector-focused, strategy led
sector-focused, strategy led
DISx brings together industries with shared transformation challenges such as finance, telecom, and digital services for ex. where AI is not just a tool, but a competitive imperative.
One Day, High Value
One Day, High Value
Each summit is a compact, high-impact experience. One day. Four thematic blocks. Eight powerful keynotes. Three industry roundtables. Zero filler.
Where AI Meets Business
Where AI Meets Business
We bring AI leaders, business domain experts, product owners, and transformation executives into the same room to solve the same problems, together.
Built for Scale
Built for Scale
Every session is designed to move beyond theory. We focus on what it takes to turn pilots into platforms and build sustainable, AI-powered capabilities at the heart of the enterprise.
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