Dr. Ali Abusnina

Twenty years ago Dr. Ali Abusnina was on the plant floor, commissioning control systems in oil and gas. Today he heads the Future AI Technologies Division at Saudi Aramco, where the frontier AI agenda for the energy value chain is his to set. Between those points sit a consulting career across aviation, pharmaceuticals and automotive, AI research in specialty chemicals, a doctorate in data-driven modelling, and AramcoMETABRAIN — the industrial large language model he built for the energy and process industries. He is impatient with proofs of concept, unimpressed by procurement, and blunt about the stakes: organizations unwilling to rebuild themselves will not survive the decade — they will be the case study.