Bivek Sharma, PwC Middle East's Chief Technology & AI Officer, will be exploring how the Middle East, and Saudi Arabia in particular, can move from AI experimentation to true AI industrialisation by embedding intelligence into the operating fabric of governments, industries, and economies. Regional leadership will not be defined by compute capacity alone, but by the ability to convert AI investment into scalable value through sovereign platforms, engineering capability, governance, and sector-specific IP. This positions the Middle East as a potential global benchmark for building the world’s first AI-industrialised economy.