As Executive Vice President of Technology and Innovation at Aramco, Ahmad Al-Khowaiter oversees one of the most ambitious industrial AI programmes in the world. Aramco has developed the energy industry’s first industrial Large Language Model, operates some of the Middle East’s most powerful supercomputers, and has identified over 400 AI use cases being scaled across its global operations. In 2024 alone, the company generated $4 billion in technology realised value, with approximately half driven by AI solutions.
A 40-year Aramco veteran with degrees from King Fahd University, the University of California and MIT Sloan, Al-Khowaiter has been a leading voice on the intersection of AI and energy — most recently speaking at the 2025 Adopt AI International Summit in Paris, where he outlined Aramco’s vision for industrial AI leadership and announced the opening of a new Aramco Ventures office in France.
