DeepFest is an annual AI event organized by Tahaluf and powered by the

Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) is a government agency in Saudi Arabia that was established by a royal decree on 30 August 2019. The authority has three other bodies linked to it. Two of which were also created by a royal decree on the sa ...

(SDAIA). The event was held for the first time and co-located with

LEAP Tech Event LEAP is an annual tech event that was founded in 2022 by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Saudi Arabia) (MCIT), the Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones (SAFCSP) and Tahaluf, an Informa company. The ...

in February 2023 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. DeepFest consists of two stages, the main stage covers topics such as generative AI, AI policy and governance, robotics, AI ethics and regulation, human-centric AI, AI and the future of work and the DeepMedia stage, covers the integration of AI in the media industry, in collaboration with Ministry of Media.

History

DeepFest was first held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 6–9 February 2023. The event hosted over 20,000 attendees in three days. About 80 exhibitors and 50 speakers and tech experts participated in DeepFest 2023. DeepFest 2024, the second edition took place in Malham, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 4–7 March 2024. Over four days, DeepFest hosted more than 48,000 attendees, 150 speakers and 120 exhibitors.

Speakers and partners

The speaking panel has included global executives, government officials and AI experts including

Angela Kane Angela Kane (born September 29, 1948) is a German diplomat and was formerly the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and Under-Secretary-General for Management in the United Nations. Education and career Kane was born in Hamelin, Lower ...

, Mo Gawdat, Lan Guan, Michael Kratsios, Omar Hatamleh, Aparna Bawa, Kwebbelkop, Sol Rashidi,

Hiroshi Ishiguro is a Japanese roboticist and engineer. He is the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, part of the Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University, Japan. A notable development of the ...

, Cassie Kozyrkov. Greg Ombach and Mark Minevich. DeepFest's sponsors and partners include SDAIA,

Ministry of Media The Ministry of Media () is one of the governmental bodies of Saudi Arabia and part of the cabinet. The main function of the ministry is to regulate the media of Saudi Arabia and the communications between Saudi Arabia and other countries. It ...

SenseTime SenseTime is a partly state-owned publicly traded artificial intelligence company headquartered in Hong Kong. The company develops technologies including facial recognition, image recognition, object detection, optical character recognition, med ...

, Jazeera paints, Axellect,

UiPath UiPath Inc. is a global software company that makes robotic process automation (RPA) software. It was founded in Bucharest, Romania, by Daniel Dines and Marius Tîrcă. Its headquarters are in New York City. The company's software monitors use ...

, Teradata, Beyond Limits, Advanced Labs for technologies and Quality support solutions. Google, Meta, IBM, TikTok, NASA, Zoom, HTC,

Shahid ''Shahid'' ( , , ) denotes a martyr in Islam. The word is used frequently in the Quran in the generic sense of "witness" but only once in the sense of "martyr" (i.e. one who dies for his faith); the latter sense acq ...

, Microsoft, and NVIDIA were among the 200+ that attended DeepFest over the past two years.

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History

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