FUNCTION1 | Dubai Festival City - Al Badia Blvd - Al Kheeran - Dubai Festival City - Dubai

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Function1 2025 is a flagship AI Conference & Exhibition scheduled for November 18–19, 2025, at the Festival Arena in Dubai, bringing together the global AI community under the banner “Where the AI World Gathers.” The event is expected to host more than 150 speakers, 100+ exhibitors, and around 10,000 attendees from over 100 countries, with a strong representation from founders and C-level executives (~64 %). Across three stages, participants will explore themes like decentralised AI, human–AI collaboration, robotics, AI agents, and industry-specific AI applications. In addition to the conference and exhibition, /function1 will host supporting programs such as a large-scale hackathon (AI Genesis), a Founders program, and the AI Futures Lab for youth and students. Startups can also apply for special packages that include exhibition booth space, founder passes, and branding exposure.

The event is created by CREZEE, a well-known production and consulting company founded in 2014. The team at CREZEE has deep experience in organizing global tech and crypto events. In the past, they have hosted top speakers like Vitalik Buterin, the Winklevoss twins, Tim Draper, Ben Goertzel, CZ (Binance), and Yat Siu.

FUNCTION1 2025 is more than a conference — it’s where the future of AI, Web3, and crypto comes alive. Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or creator, this is the place to connect, learn, and build what’s next.

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Dr. Vivek Lall

Chief Executive at General Atomics Global Corporation General Atomics Global Corporation

Ron Levin

Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures Alumni Ventures

Bimal Mehta

Bimal Mehta Head of AI/ML Engineering at Vanguard Vanguard

Jeanie Fang

Director of Data & AI Management at Crunchbase Crunchbase

Yuki Shirato

Managing Director at Techstars. Senior Advisor at Pangaea Ventures Pangaea Ventures

Omnia Mohieldine Mohamed Ali Hamed

Senior Director at Seed Group & The Private Office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum The Private Office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum

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Ankit Lathigara

AVP Client Services at Nasdaq Nasdaq

Sundas Khalid

Principal Analytics Lead at Google Google

Ahmed Mostafa

Regional AI Adoption Lead at NVIDIA NVIDIA

Mohammed Benzakour

Senior Customer Success Manager at LinkedIn LinkedIn

Faisal Iqbal

Head of Innovation Programs at Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Lydia Andresen

Executive Director of AI Research at Invisible Technologies Invisible Technologies

Rana Gujral

CEO at Behavioral Signals Behavioral Signals

Tiago Henriques

Head of AI/ML Technology Practice at Google Cloud EMEA Google Cloud

Amr Hussein

Digital Media Manager at Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Guggenheim

Dr. Aleksei Minin

Head of Deloitte ME AI Institute Director of AI Strategy at Deloitte Deloitte

Ayaz Baetov

Minister of Justice, Professor of Law at Kyrgyz Republic

Priyanka Vijayan

Director at SEED Ventures Seed Group

Sammar Farooqi

VP AI Strategy and Transformation at SAP SAP

Ashhar Ashrafi

Director of Data Analytics & AI at KPMG Lower Gulf KPMG Lower Gulf

Brian Kinane

Founding Partner at Sure Valley Ventures SVV (Sure Valley Ventures)

Shanth Kumar

Head Digital and Ecommerce-GCC North America China at Britannia Industries Limited Britannia Industries Limited

Khalid Al Naqbi

VP Product & Engineering at Space42 Space42

Felix Kues

Managing Partner and GP at Aurelia Ventures Aurelia Ventures

Sameer Sortur

Founding Partner at SquareCircle Ventures SquareCircle Ventures

Alexandr Danilov

Co-founder at Astana Open Dialogue Astana Open Dialogue

Alex Brunori

VP Brand & Brand Experience at G42 G42

Hind AbuAlia

Head of Marketing, EMEA & APAC Expansion at Amazon Ads Amazon

Karan Soni

Associate Partner at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey McKinsey & Co

Ismail Issa

Head of AI & Web3, Innovation & New Technology at Emirates Group Emirates Group

Sarah Saddouk

Director of Innovation and Strategy at Entrepreneur Middle East Entrepreneur Middle East

Salman Amiri

Manager of AI Centre at DMCC Dubai Multi Commodities Centre

Maciej Mazur

Chief AI Architect at AI Pathfinder AI Pathfinder

Andrew Mironov

Industry Technical Specialist for AI, Datacenter and Edge at Intel Corporation Intel Corporation

Rana Farag

Head of Google Cloud AI Architecture for EMEA South at Google Cloud Google Cloud

Tudor Coman

Machine Learning Engineer at Adobe Adobe

Andre Zayarni

Co-founder & CEO at Qdrant Qdrant

Pavel Sokolov

Founder at AI/ML API AI/ML API

Abhilasha Singh

Dean, College of Business Administration at The American University in the Emirates (AUE) The American University in the Emirates (AUE)

Phillip Kingston

CTO at AppliedAI AppliedAI

Pawel Czech

CEO at Surge, Founder and CEO at NativelyAI NativelyAI

Anwesha Kar

System Software Engineer at NVIDIA NVIDIA

Alexei Filippov

Global Business Development at Yango Tech Robotics Yango Tech Robotics

Hamad Odhabi

Vice Chancellor at Abu Dhabi University Abu Dhabi University

Andrea Marazzi

Founder and CCO at NativelyAI NativelyAI

Marisha Lakhiani

Chief Growth Officer at Mindvalley Mindvalley

Vidit Baxi

Co-founder & CISO at Safe Security Safe Security

Nikhil Nainani

Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Palantir Tech

Maryam Ahmed Hassani

Co-Founder at Zealous Zealous

Petar (Prem Sangeet) Savic

Director at Startup Grind Startup Grind Las Vegas

Rajesh Iyengar

CEO & Co-Founder at Lincode Labs Inc. Lincode Labs Inc.

Mazen Mohsen

Chief Robotics Scientist at isento isento

Casper Guldager

Director at KPMG Denmark KPMG

Will Hayes

Commercial Director at Oxford Insights Oxford Insights

Srivalsan Mannoor Sudhagar

Cloud Infrastructure Architect at AWS Professional Services Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Ishank Gupta

Co-Founder at KGeN KGeN

Hussein Takch

Senior Program Manager, Head of Business Transformation at MBC Group MBC GROUP

Uptin

Creator & Founder at Up10Media Up10Media

Matt Kesby

Founder at AiCoaches.com AiCoaches.com

Matt Kesby

Founder at AiCoaches.com AiCoaches.com

Luís Rodrigues

CPO & Regional Head of Middle East at Lab49 Lab49

Sadiya Kauser Ahmad

Co Founder & Community Builder at Decoding Data Science Decoding Data Science

Karim Chaanine

Co-Founder at FitEcho.ai FitEcho.ai

Peter Zemsky

Professor of Strategy and Innovation at INSEAD INSEAD

Denis Rossiev

Official AR partner at Meta, EU Ambassador at Snapchat, Ambassador at TikTok Meta

Nidhima Kohli

CEO at The AI Accelerator The AI Accelerator by Nidhima Kohli

Adil-Ul Islam

AI Skilling Specialist at Microsoft Microsoft

Omar Aloyoun

Global Startup Advisor at Techstars NYC Techstars NYC

Elakkiya Rajasekar

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus. Associate Head at APPCAIR Birla Institute Of Technology and Science, Pilani Dubai

Ahmed Hamed Attia Kotb Hussein

Assistant Professor at Plekhanov University UAE Plekhanov University UAE

Claude Fachkha

Associate Professor at University of Dubai University of Dubai

Hemant Pandey

Founder at The Hustling Engineer, Senior Software Engineer at Meta Meta

Laura Inamedinova

Chief Global Ecosystem Officer at Gate Gate.io

Claude Fachkha

Associate Professor at University of Dubai University of Dubai

Hamid Mukhtar

Associate Professor at University of Birmingham Dubai University of Birmingham Dubai

Chantel Elloway

President & Founder at CEPR CEPR

Nikola Petrovic

CEO at AVM (Agents Virtual Machine) Agents Virtual Machine

Alfonso Bonillas

CEO & Founder at ALIO IT Solutions ALIO IT Solutions

Sergey Nuzhnyy

Head of DevRel at AI/ML API AI/ML API

Jerry Ropero

CEO at Jerry Ropero Verlackt

Mohaned Elahwal

Lead Intelligent Systems Designer | Consultant at Google Google

Hershey Khan

Founder and CEO at Ignite AI Ignite AI

Rohit Anabheri

CEO at LotusPetal AI LotusPetal AI

Rui Vasconcelos

Founder at Altavella Altavella

Elaine Lou Cartas

Business & Executive Coach at Elaine Lou LLC

Michael Leybovich

CTO at Hirundo Hirundo

Anna Rayskaya

CEO & Founder at AIVOLUTE AIVOLUTE

Atif Siddiqui

Founder & CEO at Cradle Labs Cradle Labs

Ana Robakidze

Founder & CEO at Theneo Theneo

Raakin Roll

Co-Founder & CEO at Nucleus AI Nucleus AI

Deborah Webster

Founder & CEO at AmaniLabs AmaniLabs

Mohammad Raza

Managing Director at OCO Global OCO Global

Aalia Mehreen Ahmed

Features Editor at Entrepreneur Middle East Entrepreneur Middle East

Jonathan Foltz

CEO & Co-Founder at Collective Technologies The Collective AI

YUVAL DVIR

Chief Commercial Officer at brain.space brain.space

Sanki King

Multidisciplinary Artist in Louvre AD Collection. AI, AR, Web3 Oversight, Advisory, and Content. Sanki King Studio

Gowri Shankar Sivabala

Director, CIA Global LLC FZ at Dubai AI Community Dubai AI Community

Danish Muti

Digital CS & AI Programs Manager at Vidyard Vidyard

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