Inc. Arabia's special feature, Gamechangers, features the business leaders who are driving the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution in the MENA. Featured on the cover are trailblazers Andreas Hassellöf, founder and CEO of Ombori, Dr. Elie Metri, CEO of QSS AI & Robotics, and Brian de Francesca, founder and CEO of VAI.
00:00My name is Andreas Asseløv. I'm the founder of OMBORI, which is a group of technology companies that all have AI at their forefront.
00:23So, on one side we cover IT and infosecurity and compliance, but the area that I spend most of my time in is a company called FIGRID, that is building the infrastructure layer for putting AI into the real world.
00:37My name is Dr. Edimitri. I'm the founder and CEO of QSS AI and Robotics.
00:42What we do is that we innovate and we localize global technologies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia when it comes to robotics and when it comes to AI.
00:50And what we do best is integrating those two ports together, so we innovate from the heart of Saudi Arabia to put the GC on the global map.
00:57My name is Brian DeFrancesca. I'm the CEO of VAI.
01:00VAI is a platform that helps small and medium-sized businesses find the right solutions and integrate them safely into their organizational infrastructure via our highly secure platform.
01:11Well, I'm very happy and humbled to be featured on the cover of Inc.Arabia and to be part of the Game Changers.
01:17My advice for everyone, especially the young people going into entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is hard, but it's an amazing journey to go through.
01:26So keep working on yourself. Obstacles will happen, but stay strong, believe in yourself and let's keep innovating from the heart of the GCC.
01:37It's an honor, of course, to be selected for this list, but I think the important part is to just raise awareness around what is possible.
01:47Because I think still, and going back to what we're doing with High Grid, people see this as an online thing.
01:54It's part of my workday, it's part of how I research information, but the possibilities when you put this into the spaces that you spend your time in day-to-day is absolutely fantastic as well.
02:08And if being part of this can raise awareness of that, then I think it's very exciting.
02:14I've been a reader of Inc. Magazine since it was founded in the early 80s or even before that.
02:21It's a very trusted and respected brand, and as I just mentioned, and I'll continue to mention, trust is very, very important.
02:29So I'm honored to be selected to be included in this feature, and hopefully that continues to validate the trust that the market can place in both me and Vi, because it's essential.
