The Data Innovation Summit MEA 2026 Speakers
Data Innovation
Summit MEA Chairman
The Data Innovation Summit MEA 2026
Stage Moderators
Gautam Verma
Head of Data Enablement
Department of Government Enablement
Faris Al Masri
Data Governance / Data Management and Data Platform Manager
Federal Tax Authority
Martin Mazur
Head of Government Corporate Reporting
Department of Government Enablement
Michael Malek
Director – Data Management
The Data Innovation Summit MEA 2026
Speakers
Guillaume Blaquiere
Group Data Architect
Carrefour
Bhargav Pandillapalli
Manager, Data Scientist
Mastercard
Altaf Patel
VP Data Analytics & AI
PepsiCo
Shehla Tanveer
Head of Data and Analytics
Al Futtaim Real Estate
Sreeram Ramesh
Senior Manager – Data Science
Adidas
Selena Baset
Senior Information Architect
Hoffmann-La Roche
Ahmed Alaa
Head of AI Engineering
Easygenerator
Brent Pienaar
Head of Digital Transformation & Automation | Finance Technology
Qiddiya Investment Company
Louis Karam
Head of Analytics and Business Intelligence
C1 Network
Jawad Saleemi
Director AI & Cloud
Telenor;
Assistant Professor
Oslo Metropolitan University
Manjinder Singh
Head of Airline Data Science & Analytics
TUI Group
Sutharsan Chiranjeevi Partha Saarathy
Head of Product Management & AI
GEMS Education
Majd Khabour
Strategic Advisor to Chief AI Officer Office
Dubai Health Authority
Sudhakar Nibhanupudi
Chief Data Officer
National Bank of Kuwait
Nourah AlKhaled
Head of Data Governance
National Bank of Kuwait
