Summit

Kuwait AI-Ready Summit: The Scale Agenda | ZainTECH x Microsoft

November 12, 2026 · Waldorf Astoria Kuwait | Kuwait City
Kuwait AI-Ready Summit: The Scale Agenda | ZainTECH x Microsoft

Kuwait AI-Ready Summit: The Scale Agenda
Making AI Matter to the Business

AI is moving beyond experimentation. The next challenge is scale, turning AI investments into secure, measurable business value.

Join ZainTECH and Microsoft for an executive summit bringing together government, business and technology leaders to explore how organizations can move AI from pilots to production and from insight to action.

What you’ll take away
  • A clearer AI agenda: identify where AI can create meaningful business value.
  • A path to scale: understand the foundations required to move from pilots to production.
  • Practical perspectives: learn from real-world AI deployments and executive experiences.
  • A 90-day action plan: define practical next steps for your organization’s AI readiness.
  • Join the scale agenda: connect with the leaders shaping Kuwait’s AI journey. Explore practical use cases, exchange perspectives and discover what it takes to make AI matter to the business.
The Agenda

9:30 – 10:00 | Registration, coffee and networking

10:00 – 10:10 | Opening: Kuwait’s Next Chapter in AI, ZainTECH Keynote

10:10 – 10:30 | From AI Experimentation to AI at Scale, Microsoft Keynote

10:30 – 10:50 | From Data to Decisions: The Microsoft IQ Era, Microsoft + ZainTECH

10:50 – 11:10 | Build the Foundation: Secure, Sovereign and Resilient Cloud, ZainTECH

11:10 – 11:30 | Coffee break

11:30 – 11:50 | Kuwait in Action: Customer perspectives from: Warba Bank | PAET | Boubyan Bank | Oil & Gas

11:50 – 12:15  | Executive Panel: Beyond the AI Pilot. What Will It Take to Scale AI in Kuwait?

12:15 – 12:40 | The 90-Day AI Readiness Plan

12:40 – 1:30 | Executive Networking Lunch & 1:1 Meetings

Why attend

Scaling AI takes more than technology. It requires the right data, infrastructure, security, governance and business priorities.

At the summit, you will:

  • Move AI from pilot to production

Explore the technologies and approaches needed to scale GenAI, agents and Copilots across the enterprise.

  • Make AI deliver business value

Discover practical use cases and how organizations are measuring productivity, customer and operational outcomes.

  • Connect data, AI and people

See how Microsoft’s IQ capabilities bring context to data and intelligence to help turn insights into action.

  • Build an AI-ready foundation

Explore secure, sovereign and resilient cloud, connectivity and cybersecurity foundations for AI at scale.

  • Plan your next 90 days

Take away a practical framework for prioritizing use cases, strengthening your foundation, establishing governance and measuring outcomes.

Who will be there?

C-level executives
CIOs
CTOs
Heads of IT
Government leaders
Digital and transformation leaders
Business and innovation leaders