VirtuThinko CEO Moderates AI Adoption Panel at MEET ICT Bahrain 2026

We took part in the 14th edition of MEET ICT Bahrain, the conference held alongside BITEX 2026, the Bahrain International Technology Exhibition. This year's theme was "AI: Driving the Digital Economy of Tomorrow".

Our Chief Executive Officer, Mahmood Aladraj, moderated Featured Panel Session 3, "AI Adoption: Opportunities and Challenges". He was joined by Engr. Sarah Faisal Alkharji, Chief Business Officer at the Public Authority for Youth and Sports in Kuwait; Ashraf Bilal, General Manager of GFB Solutions; Islam Amr, Cloud and AI Sales Leader at Microsoft; and Tamer Aly, Data & AI Leader at Gulf Business Machines.

With speakers from a government authority, a global technology vendor and regional solution providers, the session brought several sides of AI adoption onto one stage, from what organisations want to achieve with AI to what it takes to put it into practice.

At the end of the session, the moderator and panelists were presented with certificates of appreciation by the conference organisers.

As Bahrain's first Certified Claude Services Partner, we help organisations adopt AI securely in their real workflows. Conversations like this one, between the public sector, technology vendors and the companies that implement AI, are how the region moves from interest in AI to results.