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Abdullah Khorami

Abdullah Khorami

Chief Business Officer at Salam (Etihad Salam Telecom), the Saudi Arabia-based telecommunications and digital infrastructure company.

Aug 30, 2026

17:24
What are some of the specific things about the Saudi market that people should know when they come here?
17:30
And I believe the alignment between the Saudi vision 2030 and what's happening from an infrastructure point of view is enabling a lot of customers and partners and vendors to go and invest with a comfortable heart and mind, knowing there is a comeback for them, for their ROIs into this.
17:54
I think Saudi is different because the country itself knows exactly where they want to hit, what they want to do, and how they want to do it.
18:02
Therefore, it's much easier for vendors who want to come to Saudi Arabia to align the country's KPIs to their own solution, and then I think it will fly immediately.
18:13
Because if you have, even internally within the government today, if you have a budget and this budget is linked to a KPI within the government, it gets approved because it delivers one of the KPIs that is written for your organization or ministry to the overall KPIs of the kingdom.
18:27
What we do here in Telcos, we try to take these vendors and make sure that we polish the ideas, making sure the understanding of regulation, understanding of cybersecurity requirements is understanding of how they treat the customers are in the right way of doing the investment and building these products some of them some of these products are unique when it comes to certain industries like security defense oil and gas for example some of them are standard that could be used for any other like retail entertainment and sports and so on and so forth When it comes to government, all the documentation are ready, presented very well in the Vision 2030 websites, and they keep updating it and they keep sharing the results, so everything is on the table for everyone to...
19:18
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31:19
What is the biggest constraint when it comes to building infrastructure based on AI? Does it have to do with data? Does it have to do with talent or with integration? Where do people struggle most?

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