by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Digital Transformation
Large-scale technology projects have a reputation problem: most transformations underdeliver. Yet some platforms serve millions reliably for years. After nearly two decades leading national-scale builds as a technology executive in Saudi Arabia — learning...
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
Every patent begins the same way: a problem that refuses to be solved by existing methods. For an AI innovator working on real systems, invention is not a eureka moment — it is a discipline. Across multiple granted and published patents in crowd management and...
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Hajj Technology
Crowd intelligence — the science of understanding, predicting and safely guiding the movement of very large numbers of people — has matured from an academic niche into one of the most consequential fields in applied AI. For crowd intelligence researcher Dr...
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation
Saudi Arabia has become a magnet for technology talent from around the world. Its ambition, investment and pace of change offer professionals something rare: the chance to build things that matter at national scale. The story of the expatriate technology leader in...
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
What separates the best AI researchers from the merely good ones? It is rarely raw mathematical talent alone. Looking across the field — and across a research career spanning 50+ publications and multiple patents — the pattern is consistent: the...
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
Dr Faizan Ur Rehman is a technology consultant, applied AI researcher and technology leader based in Saudi Arabia — recognised for building national-scale AI platforms, advancing crowd intelligence research, and helping develop AI talent across the...
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation
Saudi Arabia has become one of the most exciting places in the world to work in artificial intelligence. Investment is flowing into technology, world-class platforms are being built, and a generation of talent is being trained in AI skills at remarkable scale. For...
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
Bringing hundreds of thousands of people together in one place — a stadium, a festival, a transport hub, a pilgrimage — is one of the hardest coordination problems there is. Small imbalances in flow can compound quickly, and the margin for error is thin....
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
Computer vision has become one of the most visible successes of modern AI. Models can label objects, read text, detect defects and understand scenes with accuracy that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. Yet there is a wide and often underestimated gap between...
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
Every organisation now wants to “do AI.” The tools are increasingly accessible, the models are impressive, and the ambition is real. Yet the single biggest constraint on adopting AI is rarely the technology — it is people. Building AI talent at scale...
