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Anuj Saxena
Technology Executive & AI Strategist | Keynote Speaker | AI Governance Expert | Digital Transformation Leader | Oracle & Cloud Transformation Leader
About the Speaker
Anuj Saxena is a technology executive, AI strategist, and keynote speaker with more than 22 years of experience at the frontlines of digital transformation, cloud innovation, and enterprise leadership across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond. Currently based in Dubai, he brings a rare synthesis of deep technical expertise and board-level strategic fluency that makes him one of the most compelling voices in the contemporary AI leadership conversation.
He has held senior leadership roles at Oracle Systems and Tech Mahindra, architecting large-scale transformation programmes and driving exponential regional growth across EMEA, APAC, and MEA. As Oracle Leader for the MEA Region, he grew the practice 4× in three years, with hands-on responsibility for P&L, presales, and cross-functional delivery teams spanning ERP, HCM, SCM, and CX landscapes.
What distinguishes Anuj in the speaking circuit is the rare combination of practitioner credibility and certified governance expertise. He holds an AI Governance certification from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and is a certified ISO 42001 Lead Implementer — the world's first international standard for AI Management Systems. He is one of a small cohort of technology executives globally who can speak with equal authority on deploying AI at enterprise scale and governing it responsibly. This positions him at a uniquely valuable intersection: enterprise AI strategy meets Responsible AI — a dimension that boards, regulators, and risk leaders now consider non-negotiable.
Anuj is a widely-followed thought leader on LinkedIn, where his perspectives on AI governance, cloud strategy, and digital transformation reach senior executives across industries. He speaks at industry forums, executive roundtables, and digital transformation conferences, challenging audiences to move beyond incremental thinking and treat AI governance not as a constraint on innovation, but as the foundation that allows innovation to scale without destroying trust.
His enterprise engagements span large organisations across the UAE and GCC in Healthcare, Energy, Government, and Telecommunications. He works with boards and C-suites navigating AI adoption, with risk and compliance leaders confronting AI-specific liability, and with digital transformation teams that need both the strategic vision and the execution framework to deliver real business value.
Signature Topics
The Sovereign Enterprise: How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Cloud Strategy
As AI becomes the core operating layer of the enterprise, cloud strategy can no longer be an infrastructure conversation — it must be a sovereignty conversation. This keynote explores how organisations across the GCC and beyond are rethinking data residency, AI workload placement, and vendor lock-in in the age of generative and agentic AI. Anuj draws on first-hand experience leading Oracle Cloud transformations across MEA to show leaders how to architect AI-ready cloud strategies that are both commercially resilient and strategically sovereign.
From AI Hype to Enterprise Value: Why Most AI Transformations Fail — and How to Fix Them
Studies consistently show that the majority of enterprise AI initiatives fail to deliver sustained business value. This keynote cuts through the noise to diagnose the real reasons — misaligned incentives, absent governance, change management neglect, and the gap between proof-of-concept and production. Drawing on 22+ years of enterprise transformation experience, Anuj provides a diagnostic framework leaders can apply immediately to assess their own AI maturity and redirect investments toward measurable outcomes.
The CIO Playbook for AI-Led Enterprises: A Governance Roadmap for the Board
AI is no longer an IT initiative — it is a board-level responsibility. This session gives CIOs, CDOs, and CAIOs a structured governance roadmap: how to establish accountability structures, define AI risk appetites, implement ISO 42001-aligned AI management systems, and communicate AI strategy to boards in language they understand. Practical, credentialled, and built on real enterprise deployments across the GCC, this is the session that turns AI ambition into governed, scalable execution.
Responsible AI in Practice: Building Trust, Managing Risk, and Governing AI at Scale
As organisations race to embed AI into core operations, the accountability question is becoming unavoidable: who is responsible when AI gets it wrong? This keynote operationalises Responsible AI — moving beyond ethics statements to address bias detection, algorithmic transparency, data privacy, agentic AI risk, and the regulatory landscape across the UAE, EU, and globally. Certified in both Oxford AI Governance and ISO 42001, Anuj delivers a board-ready, practitioner-level treatment of the Responsible AI imperative.
Digital or Displaced: Leading Transformation Before the Market Demands It
Digital transformation is no longer a strategic option — it is a survival question. This keynote challenges leaders to move from reactive adoption to proactive reinvention, using real case studies from enterprise transformations across the GCC to illustrate what separates organisations that lead digital change from those that are consumed by it. Anuj provides a clear model for assessing transformation readiness, identifying transition gaps, and building the internal capability to execute — before the market forces the decision.
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