Speaking
I speak about the systems behind AI products: how they are built, and how the teams around them work. I speak in English and Arabic, to engineering audiences and to executive ones.
I am always happy to talk to people building serious things in the region. It helps to tell me what you would like covered.
What I speak about
- Machine learning platforms in production. What it takes to serve models reliably, and what breaks when you do it at scale.
- Automation and human experts as one system. The most durable AI products are not a model. They are a loop: automation proposes, experts correct, the platform learns from the correction. How that loop is designed and measured.
- How AI is changing engineering practice. The best engineers are writing less code. What that means for how teams are structured, hired, and led.
Recent talks
- HudHud Maps: A Living Map That Evolves Every Day Video
- The best engineers are writing less code, how the tech industry is changing forever Video
- Scaling machine learning at Careem Video
- Scaling machine learning at Careem Video
- Scaling machine learning at Careem
The write-up behind the Careem talks: Scaling Machine Learning at Careem.
Inviting me
Email me at me [at] ahmedkamal.me or reach me on LinkedIn. It helps to include:
- Date, city, and venue
- Who is in the room, and roughly how many
- Format and length: keynote, panel, fireside, workshop
- The topic you have in mind, or the question you want answered
- Language: English or Arabic
For organizers
Bio, free to copy into your programme:
Ahmed Kamal builds zero-to-one data and AI platforms. At Hudhud Maps, where he serves as Chief Data & AI Officer, he built the Data & AI team from scratch and took the region's first local mapping platform from proof of concept to public launch in 12 months.
Previously, he co-founded Careem's data platform team to build its first big data infrastructure, then founded its AI team to build Yoda, the machine learning platform shipping millions of predictions daily across 100+ cities through Careem's $3.1B acquisition by Uber. At Stream, he founded and sold the AI Moderation product for infrastructure reaching over a billion end users. He holds special-talent AI residencies in both Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
If your programme has a word limit:
Ahmed Kamal builds zero-to-one data and AI platforms. He built Careem's first big data infrastructure and its machine learning platform, Yoda, through the $3.1B acquisition by Uber, founded and sold Stream's AI Moderation, and now leads Data & AI on the founding team of Hudhud Maps, the region's first local mapping platform.
- Name Ahmed Kamal
- Title Chief Data & AI Officer, Hudhud Maps
- Languages Arabic (native), English
- Recognition UAE Golden Visa and Saudi Premium Residency, both Special Talent in AI
- Photo headshot, portrait · square
- Links LinkedIn, X, writing
