MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East

10/10/2025

MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East will be reporting live from the 45th edition of GITEX GLOBAL 2025, one of the world’s most iconic tech exhibitions.

We will dive deep into how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are transforming organizations at scale. Join us at Hall 17, Booth 172 for insightful, impact‑driven conversations around reshaping strategy and leadership in the digital age.

Expect expert interviews and spot discussion on themes like governance, inclusion, and the evolving role of leaders amid disruption.
Watch this space—we’ll bring you the top highlights from as they unfold.

🗓️ 13-17 October 2025
📍 Dubai World Trade Centre

10/10/2025

At the AI Research Forum, hosted by MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Assistant Professor, MIT Computer Science & AI Lab, explored what happens when artificial intelligence mirrors your preferences.

On another note, he explained how “alignment in AI system goals means ensuring that the actions we take are the ones we intend for it to take and they serve our ultimate purpose. Some promising techniques to allow humans to stay in the loop without micromanaging intelligent agents are ‘leveraging AI systems’ and ‘tracking uncertainty about the goals’ so the agent can choose to come to you to point out uncertainties,” Dylan added.

Consulting Partner: Roland Berger
Gold Partner: Darwin Box
Panel Partner: BCG
Education Partner: Coursera
Exhibitors: Manage Engine, Sana



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07/10/2025

OpenAI on Monday struck a multi-year deal with AMD to supply chips and build AI datacenter capacity, beginning with 1 gigawatt (GW) of Instinct MI450 GPUs in the second half of 2026 and growing to 6GW. This strategic alliance will directly compete with chip leader Nvidia.

The announcement comes weeks after Nvidia committed $100 billion to the ChatGPT-maker.
“This partnership is a major step in building the compute capacity needed to realize AI’s full potential,” said Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI.

Multi-year AMD deal scales compute toward 6GW while AgentKit and ChatKit pull third-party apps and developer agents inside ChatGPT.

07/10/2025

In the Middle East and around the globe, digital infrastructure is rapidly evolving to support a new era of AI-driven transformation. But as data centres expand to meet surging demand, operators face a dual challenge: scaling capacity while staying within sustainability boundaries.

For governments and enterprises across the region, particularly in GCC countries investing heavily in digital economies, this balancing act is becoming increasingly strategic.

According to a new report by data and analytics firm GlobalData, the surge in AI workloads is transforming the data centre landscape—accelerating investment, expanding infrastructure, and intensifying the need for sustainable solutions.

Data centres are scaling at record-breaking speeds. But along comes the urgent mandate of balancing growth with environmental responsibility.

02/10/2025

Explore the highlights from AI Research Forum 2025, where experts unpacked the future of leadership, innovation, and decision-making in the era of agentic AI. Catch the best moments from with us.

Thought Leaders:

Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Assistant Professor, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Tim Kraska, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Industry Experts:

Anirudh Narayan, Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer, Lyzr AI

Kaustubh Wagle, Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Nizar Hneini, Senior Partner, Roland Berger

Geoffrey Alphonso, Chief Executive Officer, Alef Education

Paul Potgieter, Director – Technology and Platforms, NEOM

Rahul Lakhanpal, Vice President of Product Marketing, Darwinbox

Srimanth Rudraraju, Group Director of Engineering, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

Consulting Partner: Roland Berger

Gold Partner: Darwinbox

Panel Partner: Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Education Partner: Coursera

Exhibitors: ManageEngine, Sana

01/10/2025

OpenAI just released Sora 2, its most advanced video and audio generation model to date, marking what the company calls the “GPT-3.5 moment for video.”

Launched originally in February 2024, Sora was hailed as a turning point in AI video generation, introducing object permanence and laying the foundation for world simulation. Now, Sora 2 pushes that vision further with dramatically improved physics, realism, and creative control, setting a new benchmark for AI-driven video models.

Sora 2 can model failure as well as success, a critical step toward building AI systems that understand and navigate the physical world.

29/09/2025

AI has captured the attention of CEOs and boards faster than any technology in decades, but most companies are struggling to turn that enthusiasm into results as their systems and organizations aren’t ready, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said on last week’s earnings call.

“It is well recognized that advanced AI has taken the mindshare of CEOs, the C-suite and boards faster than any technology development we’ve seen in the past two decades. At the same time, as reported widely, value realization has been underwhelming for many and enterprise adoption at scale is slow other than with digital natives,” Sweet said.

Accenture reported fourth-quarter revenue of $17.6 billion, up 7%, and new bookings of $21.3 billion. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) was $3.03. For the full year, revenue rose 7% to $69.7 billion and free cash flow reached $10.9 billion.

In earnings call, Julie Sweet says boardroom enthusiasm has raced ahead of companies’ ability to modernize systems and organizations needed to make AI pay off.

29/09/2025

“I’m not as good at this as these people think I am,” or, “Everyone expects me to know this stuff, but do I?” Research suggests that up to 82% of people have reported having these kinds of thoughts at some point in their careers, so you’re not alone if you’ve had them too.

Management and psychology research traces such thoughts to what is popularly known as impostor syndrome or the impostor phenomenon: an employee’s belief that other people overestimate their abilities at work.

Leaders must avoid three common missteps in managing people experiencing such thoughts, and help employees cope by emphasizing impostor thoughts’ cognitive origin, their prevalence among peers, and people’s ability to self-manage those thoughts.

It’s time for leaders to name, normalize, and manage employees’ experience of feeling like pretenders.

23/09/2025

At the AI Research Forum 2025, hosted by MIT Sloan Management Review - Middle East, at JW Marriott Hotel Marina, Dubai, today’s sessions unpacked what agentic AI truly means for leadership, work, and society.

The spotlight turned to Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Assistant Professor, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), for his session, The Limits of Autonomy: Identifying AI’s Boundaries.

Hadfield-Menell explored scenarios where human judgment and intervention remain indispensable, including complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes contexts where AI may fall short.

The forum empowered leaders to drive innovation, enhance efficiency, and create lasting value.

Consulting Partner: Roland Berger
Gold Partner: Darwin Box
Panel Partner: BCG
Education Partner: Coursera
Exhibitors: Manage Engine, Sana

23/09/2025

Hosted by MIT Sloan Management Review - Middle East, AI Research Forum 2025 keeps the momentum going, exploring how agentic AI is reshaping leadership, collaboration, and the future of work.

The next panel, Human-AI Synergy: Redefining Collaboration, brought together Srimanth Rudraraju (Group Director of Engineering, LSEG), Paul Potgieter (Director – Technology and Platforms, NEOM) and Nizar Hneini (Senior Partner, Roland Berger).

The panel explored how organizations can foster productive human-AI collaboration by leveraging the complementary strengths of human creativity and machine autonomy.

Panel chaired by:

Jennifer George, Correspondent, MIT Sloan Management Review - Middle East

Consulting Partner: Roland Berger

Gold Partner: Darwinbox

Panel Partner: Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Education Partner: Coursera

Exhibitors: ManageEngine, Sana

23/09/2025

In Tech Deep Dive: Agentic AI at Work — Real Use Cases & Deployments, , Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer at Lyzr AI, spoke about the design principles behind scalable AI infrastructure, tackling challenges in data ingestion, model deployment, and system resilience.

The AI Research Forum 2025, hosted by MIT Sloan Management Review - Middle East, at JW Marriott Hotel Marina, Dubai, empowered leaders to drive innovation, enhance efficiency, and create lasting value.

Consulting Partner: Roland Berger
Gold Partner: Darwinbox
Panel Partner: Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Education Partner: Coursera
Exhibitors: ManageEngine, Sana

23/09/2025

From vision to reality, today’s sessions, at the AI Research Forum 2025, hosted by MIT Sloan Management Review - Middle East, at JW Marriott Hotel Marina, Dubai, are unpacking what agentic AI truly means for leadership, work, and society.

Tim Kraska, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led the keynote, The Age of Autonomous AI – Hype vs. Reality.

He examined the current state of autonomous AI, the evolving role of human oversight in automated workflows, and the imperative for robust governance and ethical frameworks to balance opportunity with risk.

Consulting Partner: Roland Berger
Gold Partner: Darwinbox
Panel Partner: Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Education Partner: Coursera
Exhibitors: ManageEngine, Sana