Invited Talk 1 by Ahmed Elmagarmid (Executive Director of Qatar Computing Research Institute): AI Beyond the Hype: Building a Sustainable Tech Future in Qatar

Ahmed K. Elmagarmid is the Executive Director, Qatar Computing Research Institute Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University (US), and a former chief scientist at Hewlett-Packard HQ in Palo Alto, CA. He serves on the boards of MEEZA, a leading national/regional IT leader, the Board of Qatar Personalized Health Institute and the Qatar Genome Program, Joint advisory board for Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, and Sidra Medicine Research Committee. He serves on the Arab League ministerial level committee for AI, and co-chairs the Qatar National AI committee. He is an accomplished and well-published scientist, authoring six books and more than 180 papers, and has directed several well-funded research programs. In 2019, Dr. Elmagarmid received the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award. In 2020, he was chosen to serve on the Washington Institute’s Council of Advisors and selected to be distinguished fellow. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, an ACM Fellow, and an AAAS Fellow.