RIYADH: Amjad Alamri, a Saudi mechanical engineer and a senior specialist at NEOM, has been chosen by the Misk Foundation to speak at the International Telecommunication Union’s AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva on July 6-7.
Alamri tweeted: “I am pleased to be nominated by Prince Mohammed bin Salman Foundation to participate as a speaker at the International Telecommunication Union’s Artificial Intelligence Global Summit.”
Alamri’s role at NEOM involves incorporating autonomous technologies and optimizing the performance of construction vehicles.
The young mechanical engineer is also responsible for identifying the best construction robots to introduce on-site, ensuring seamless integration.
The project Alamri oversees helps toward NEOM’s objective of becoming the world’s most sustainable city, and to the advancement of the construction industry in the Kingdom.
Prior to her current role, she worked at Oxagon — NEOM’s industrial city — and Lucid Motors.
Alamri has extensive experience in the automotive industry, having built race cars and competed in prestigious events like the Formula Student and World Solar Challenge.
She is also an active board member of the Saudi Women Engineers Association, the first in the Kingdom to focus on advancing women’s empowerment in the sector.
The AI summit is organized by the ITU, an agency for digital technology, in partnership with 40 UN agencies and the government of Switzerland.
It explores AI in relation to sustainable development goals, by promoting it to advance health, climate, gender, inclusive prosperity, sustainable infrastructure, and other global development priorities.
The summit aims to identify practical applications of AI, scale solutions for global impact, and accelerate progress toward the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Some of the prominent figures speaking at the summit include Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general of the UN; Doreen Bogdan-Martin, the secretary-general of the ITU; Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization; and Lila Ibrahim, chief operating officer at Google DeepMind.
