Ahmed Bin Sulayem

Ahmed Bin Sulayem is the Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DMCC and has driven its growth from a start-up of 28 member companies in 2003 to the world’s leading international business district in 2025 with over 25,000 member companies from 180 countries, employing over 90,000 people.

Tasked with enhancing commodity trade flows through Dubai, DMCC has introduced to the market a number of value-added products and services under Mr Bin Sulayem’s leadership. In 2023, DMCC was named ‘Global Free Zone of the Year’ by The Financial Times fDi Magazine, for a record ninth consecutive year.

Mr Bin Sulayem oversaw the exponential growth of the DMCC Free Zone master development in Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT), a 200-hectare business and residential community in Dubai of over 100,000 people living and working in 87 towers. Mr Bin Sulayem also oversees the development of DMCC’s latest real estate project, the Uptown Dubai district.

Mr Bin Sulayem currently serves as the Chairman the Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE) and the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX).

The Kimberley Process officially appointed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the first and only Arab country to Chair the Kimberley Process (KP) in November 2015. Shortly after, the UAE Ministry of Economy officially appointed Mr Bin Sulayem as the UAE’s Chair of the KP for 2016. Mr Bin Sulayem was reappointed Chair of the KP for a historic second time in 2024, and has continued his leadership role with the position of Custodian Chair in 2025.

Belal Jassoma

Belal Jassoma is the Senior Director of Tech Ecosystems at DMCC, the world’s leading business district and authority on international commodities trade and enterprise.

Belal joined DMCC in 2011 and has been instrumental in scaling up DMCC’s ecosystems and commercial offering, including new products, services and member engagement programmes. In his current capacity as Director for Ecosystems, Belal is responsible for developing key strategic relationships, partnerships and product functions as well as overseeing ecosystem development across several of DMCC’s industry verticals such as crypto, gaming, AI, energy and financial services.

Belal holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the American University of Sharjah and brings over 18 years of experience in real estate, investment, and government administration.

Salman Amiri

Salman Amiri serves as the Manager at DMCC’s AI Centre, the region’s leading hub for pragmatic Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation.

Salman leads strategic operations at DMCC's AI and robotics innovation hub, where he drives the development of specialized services, programs, and partnerships that foster ecosystem growth. His work focuses on building strategic relationships with government stakeholders and industry leaders while championing AI adoption initiatives across the organization.

Before joining DMCC in October 2024, Salman was an Autonomous Robotics Researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute, where he specialized in guidance, navigation, and control systems. His background combines technical expertise in AI and robotics with operational leadership experience.

Salman holds a Master's degree in Intelligent Robotic Systems from the Universitat de Girona and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University. As an Emirati national, he is committed to advancing the UAE's position as a global hub for technological innovation.

VLADISLAV TANKOV

With over nine years at JetBrains, Vladislav has played a pivotal role in establishing the company’s AI ecosystem, from early platform foundations to flagship developer technologies. He led the creation of the Air Platform and oversaw milestone releases including Mellum 2.1, Air Context, and the platform as a whole. Today, his work centers on the Air Platform’s enterprise orientation and governance, ensuring scalable, compliant, and secure deployment across large-scale engineering organizations. His track record also includes the launch of Koog, JetBrains’ agent development framework, and strategic technical partnerships with industry leaders such as Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral.

RAMESH CHANDER

Ramesh is the Head of Developers Relations across MENA, Türkiye and Central Asia at Google. He is a senior technology executive and business operations leader. Ramesh has driven large-scale programs and operations across several core product ecosystems, including AI/ML, Google Cloud, Search Ads and Maps.

ABDEL SGHIOUAR

Abdel is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast and a CNCF Ambassador. His focus areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and Serverless.

METE ATAMEL

Mete is a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud. In his role, he defines and executes strategies to increase adoption and drive product excellence within Google Cloud. Mete builds tools, demos, tutorials and gives talks to educate and help developers and customers to be successful on Google Cloud GenAI Tech.

VADIM BRILIANTOV

Vadim Briliantov leads ACP development and product strategy at JetBrains and is Product Manager for the IDE Code Intelligence Layer for Agents. He created the Koog agentic framework and previously led the AI Agents Platform’s technical direction, enabling multiple JetBrains teams to build AI agents. Over 9.5 years at JetBrains, he has contributed to Kotlin, Ktor, Qodana, and Kotlin Multiplatform tooling. Today, he focuses on opening JetBrains IDEs to external AI agents and equipping them with deep code understanding and development capabilities.

ANDREY SIZOV

Built and scaled JetBrains shared AI platform from its early infrastructure into a production platform used across 10+ product teams.

Lead ~50 engineers across 7 teams; the platform serves 160K+ developers daily, processes ~30M requests and ~300B tokens per day, and runs 70+ partner and self-hosted models.

Own platform-level decisions around inference, reliability, capacity and cost; work directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI on early model access, evaluation and production launches.