From Pilot to Production: Building the Foundations for Agentic AI in MENA FinTech

Across MENA, AI adoption is moving quickly from experimentation to production. For FinTech leaders, the key question is no longer simply whether companies should adopt agentic AI. The more important question is whether they have the right foundations in place to make it work safely and at scale.

That is exactly why the DIFC Innovation Hub is bringing together JetBrains, Tabby and Google for Developers at the DIFC FinTech Hive, to explore what it takes to move from AI pilots to production-ready agentic systems in MENA FinTech.

Agenda:

9 AM - 9:30 AM : Registration and Networking

9:40 AM - 9:50 AM : Opening Keynote

9:50 AM - 10:20 AM : Managing Agentic Software Development: from IDEs to AI-Driven Workflows

Speaker: Ibrahim Imran - Solutions Engineer at JetBrains

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM : The Agentic Era: How MENA FinTech can scale AI from Assistance to Autonomy

Speaker: Denis Sakhnov - Head of AI Agent Platform, Tabby & Evgenii Perepelkin - Engineering Manager, Tabby

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Operating GenAI at scale with Google Cloud

Speaker: Majd Jamaah - Head of Cloud & DevOps, BeyondAI | Google Developer Expert

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM : Break

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM : Panel Discussion

Panel Topic - The Agentic Tipping Point: What Needs To Exist Before Autonomous AI Can Work in FinTech

Speakers:

Ibrahim Imran - Solutions Engineer at JetBrains

Denis Sakhnov - Head of AI Agent Platform, Tabby

Evgenii Perepelkin - Engineering Manager, Tabby

Nadia Rinsky – Head of Business Development, MENA, JetBrains

Ramesh Chander – Head of Developer Relations, MENA Turkiye and Central Asia at Google

Majd Jamaah - Head of Cloud & DevOps, BeyondAI | Google Developer Expert

12:45 PM - 1:15 PM : Open Q&A

1:15 PM - 1:20 PM : Closing note

1:20 PM onwards : Networking and lunch

— Rules — • Formal dress required • No small children • No smoking or vaping • ID required • No outside food or drinks