Technology & AI Executive
Advisor • Speaker • Founder
Over 20 years leading AI, cloud, and digital platform businesses at Microsoft, AWS, and G42 across high-growth and emerging markets. Advisor, speaker, and founder focused on technology, leadership, AI, and regional transformation.
Technology & AI Executive
Advisor • Speaker • Founder
Over 20 years leading AI, cloud, and digital platform businesses at Microsoft, AWS, and G42 across high-growth and emerging markets. Advisor, speaker, and founder focused on technology, leadership, and regional transformation.
About
Ihsan Anabtawi is a technology and business executive with more than 20 years of experience building and scaling AI, cloud, and digital platform businesses across the Middle East, Africa, and emerging markets.
He has held executive leadership positions at Microsoft, AWS, and G42, including Chief Operating & Marketing Officer at Microsoft, Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer at Core42 (G42), and Managing Director & Regional Head of AI, Data, and Cloud at AWS.
He has also co-founded and advised AI ventures, combining enterprise-scale leadership experience with hands-on entrepreneurship in AI and emerging technologies.
He is active across strategic advisory, speaking, investing, and technology ecosystem initiatives. He also hosts Future Now— a platform exploring the leaders, technologies, and ideas shaping the future.
✓ Executive leadership at Microsoft, AWS, and G42
✓ 20+ years scaling AI, cloud and digital businesses
✓ Trusted advisor to governments and major enterprises
✓ Host of Future Now
Speaking
Conversations on AI, leadership, and the future of technology, business, and society.
Ihsan has delivered keynote speeches, panel discussions, and media appearances across leading technology, business, and policy forums. His perspectives are shaped by more than two decades leading AI, cloud, and digital platform businesses in some of the world’s fastest-growing markets.
AI, Cloud & Digital Infrastructure
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Leadership in the AI Era
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Building & Scaling Technology Businesses
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Building High-Performance Teams
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Emerging Markets & Transformation
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The Future of Work
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Sovereign AI & National Transformation
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AI, Cloud & Digital Infrastructure • Leadership in the AI Era • Building & Scaling Technology Businesses • Building High-Performance Teams • Emerging Markets & Transformation • The Future of Work • Sovereign AI & National Transformation •
Selected Speaking & Media Appearances
Future Now explores how leaders, technologies, and emerging ideas are shaping the future of business, society, and global markets.
AI and the Future of Sustainability
Ihsan and Khaled discuss BEEAH’s journey from launching the region’s first commercial-scale waste-to-energy plant to advancing sustainability through AI and emerging technologies. Khaled shares how BEEAH’s early adoption of AI is shaping new approaches to environmental impact, innovation, and transformation.
Shaping the Future of Consulting with AI
Adel shares perspectives from both the public and private sectors, drawing on years of experience advising governments and organizations on transformation, economic development, and the future of consulting in the AI era.
Future Now explores how leaders, technologies, and emerging ideas are shaping the future of business, society, and global markets.
AI and the Future of Sustainability
Ihsan and Khaled discuss BEEAH’s journey from launching the region’s first commercial-scale waste-to-energy plant to advancing sustainability through AI and emerging technologies. Khaled shares how BEEAH’s early adoption of AI is shaping new approaches to environmental impact, innovation, and transformation.
Shaping the Future of Consulting with AI
Adel shares perspectives from both the public and private sectors, drawing on years of experience advising governments and organizations on transformation, economic development, and the future of consulting in the AI era.
Engagements
Advisory, speaking, and strategic engagements across AI, technology, leadership, and growth — partnering with organizations, investors, founders, and leadership teams navigating transformation and growth in fast-evolving markets.
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Working with boards, investors, founders, and leadership teams on AI strategy, technology transformation, market expansion, organizational leadership, and scaling businesses in complex and high-growth markets.
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Supporting international companies, scale-ups, and technology ventures entering or expanding across the Gulf and wider Middle East — drawing on more than two decades of regional market experience, commercial leadership, and strategic relationships across the public and private sectors.
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Keynotes, panels, and conversations on AI, leadership, transformation, and the future of technology, business, and society — informed by more than two decades of leadership across global technology organizations and high-growth markets.