The Middle East Institute (MEI) is pleased to invite you to the launch of The GCC AI Stack, a new report by MEI Senior Fellow Mohammed Soliman. The report presents the first comprehensive roadmap for developing a collective Gulf AI stack and explains why the GCC’s rapidly evolving AI ecosystems are becoming central to the US–China AI race. It outlines how Gulf states can serve as a force multiplier for American compute and offers a detailed policy pathway for both the United States and its Gulf allies.
Please join us for a panel discussion on the report’s findings, the strategic logic behind a GCC AI stack in the context of the accelerating China–US AI race, and what this means for US policy, industry, and the wider Middle East.
This panel will be held at the Middle East Institute's Headquarters, located at 1763 N St NW, Washington, D.C., 20036.
If you cannot join us in-person, please click here to attend virtually.
Speaker Biographies
Mohammed Soliman
Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute
Salman Ali
Co-Founder and CEO, Kouper
Teresa Carlson
Founding President, General Catalyst
Ambassador (ret.) Stuart E. Jones (Moderator)
President, Middle East Institute
Extended Speaker Biographies
Mohammed Soliman is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI), where he focuses on the intersection of technology, geopolitics, and business in the Middle East and other emerging markets. A trained engineer, he is a director at McLarty Associates, a global advisory firm, where he advises on strategic and policy matters at the intersection of technology, AI, finance, and energy.
Salman Ali is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kouper, an AI-powered health technology platform built to simplify care navigation. Previously, he co-founded GetSnooze (DBA BlueSleep), a leading sleep apnea diagnosis and treatment platform. He also held leadership roles at IBM and Deloitte, driving multi-billion-dollar digital transformations.
Teresa Carlson is the Founding President of General Catalyst Institute, leveraging her decades of leadership as a visionary technology executive to shape effective global public policy. She works in partnership with governments to enact positive change for new and emerging technologies, focusing on accelerating national resilience in applied AI, defense, National Security, energy, health, manufacturing, and other sectors.
Ambassador (ret.) Stuart E. Jones (Moderator) is the 18th President of the Middle East Institute. He came to MEI from Bechtel Corporation, a global engineering, construction, and project management firm where he retired as a senior vice president and President for Regions and Corporate Affairs. Amb. Jones served for three decades as a US Foreign Service Officer in the Department of State. This included serving as US Ambassador to Iraq (2014-2017) and as US Ambassador to Jordan (2011-2014).