Welcome to AI & Fintech Abu Dhabi

Alam allayikum. Good morning distinguished guests, global partners, innovators and visionaries. Welcome. Welcome to the heart of financial innovation. Welcome to ADGM.

ADGM, the International Financial Center of Abu Dhabi. And as we step in day three of Abu Dhabi Finance Week and mark the ninth edition of Fintech Abu Dhabi, the Mina region's largest and most influential fintech festival. Alongside the returning of AI Abuhabi Forum, we gather to celebrate innovation, disruption and transformation that forces and shape the future of finance. It is a privilege to host this extraordinary gathering of thinkers and leaders who are reshaping the future of finance right here in Abu Dhabi and across the world. As the center of this transformation stands Abu Dhabi, a city that has become a launch a launch pad for global innovation and where ambition meets action and where ideas find the partners find the capital and policy support to become global movements.

Our journey reflects reflects clarity of vision and consistency of purpose. Our leader vision has be been our greatest guide. As his highness she Muhammad bin Zedan reminds us, our nation's progress depends on our people's capabilities in science and technology. It is the belief that human capability is the ultimate capital that drive everything from developing the most progressive regulatory frameworks to nurturing the next generation of innovators through ADGM Academy. Abu Dhabi is investing not just in industries but in people in knowledge in research and in imagination.

Fintech Kabulabi 2025 is where the vision comes to life, where innovation is not only celebrated but also accelerated and it's where ideas, intelligence and inclusion converge to define what comes next. Today, as one of the flagship events of Abu Dhabi Finance Week, Fintech Abu Dhabi has become a strategic platform for global collaboration where regulators, investors, and technologists converge to shape the next era of finance. This year's agenda will spotlight, transformative conversations around AI, digital assets, tokenization, open finance, and cyber resilience. The themes that will define global competitiveness and financial trust in the decade a decade ahead. Through these dialogues, the future's finest is not merely anticipated.

It has been architected. And today, we are proud to unveil the ADGM Academy Tech Center. A tech center with a new engine of discovery and invention built to accelerate the next wave of breakthroughs across finance, technology, and the real economy. The tech center is far more than a facility. It is a platform built for innovation.

A platform that brings together policy makers, researchers, technology partners, and the private sector under one roof, enabling Abuhabi to cocreate solutions to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. It is designed to advance frontier technologies that will reshape financial services and beyond. From AI to blockchain to cyber security to investment and energy solutions, the tech center will become the place where many of the concepts discussed here today, whether in open finance, AI in financial markets, digital asset infrastructure or cyber resilience, can be explored, modeled and turned into prototypes and investable solutions. In other words, fintech Abu Dhabi is where the global conversation begins and the tech center is where Abuhabi turns conversation into capabilities. And through this center, ADGMA is strengthening the pipeline from research to regulation to real world deployment, reinforcing our commitment to responsible forward-looking innovation.

The tech center ensures that the next decade of innovation in Awarabi is not only imagined but built, tested and scaled right here in the capital of capital. As we open Fint Kapalabi 2025, let's all reflect on what truly defines this ecosystem. It is collaboration. Building the future of finance is a collective effort powered by partnership across policy, innovation, and education. And through the ADJM Academy, we are developing the human capital that will power this next chapter, cultivating leaders who will carry forward Abu Dhabi's values, integrity, and impact.

And our commitment remains clear to continue building an ecosystem that connects global capital to opportunity and to drive responsibility, responsible innovation that enhances integrity and investor confidence. This is our path to forward. A vision anchored in progress, powered by innovation, and guided by purpose. A decade ago, ADGM was just a vision and today it is a global financial powerhouse and tomorrow it will be a platform for change to all partners, innovators and delegates. Please join in join us today and we thank you for being part of this journey and shaping a chapter in a global finance one that begins right here in Abuabi.

Let this platform reflects the spirit of Abuabi where ambition meets purpose and innovation meets impact. As we open fintaboli 2025, let us reaffirm our collective mission to build a financial future that is inclusive, intelligent, and resilient from right here in Abu Dhabi, the capital of capital. Thank you.