The Dubai AI Festival 2025 is honored to welcome Rashid Almansoori, Director of RegLab at the UAE Cabinet, as a keynote speaker. A visionary at the intersection of science, technology, and public policy, Almansoori leads national efforts to regulate breakthrough innovations while enabling the responsible acceleration of emerging technologies through one of the world’s most advanced regulatory sandboxes.
His session will offer critical insight into how governments can embrace agility and foresight to ensure that artificial intelligence and other frontier technologies evolve safely, ethically, and at scale.
Leading Regulatory Innovation at the National Level
At the helm of RegLab, Rashid Almansoori oversees the UAE’s strategic platform for testing and implementing forward-looking regulations. The initiative plays a pivotal role in aligning governance with the rapid pace of innovation, making the UAE a global model for technology-enabled policymaking.
Under Almansoori’s leadership, RegLab has become a regulatory pioneer in fields such as:
- Artificial intelligence and automated decision-making
- Flying taxis and advanced air mobility
- Carbon markets and environmental tech regulation
- Blockchain, Web3, and digital identity systems
His work ensures that innovators and policymakers co-create regulatory pathways—balancing opportunity with oversight to foster responsible experimentation.
A Scientific Mind in the Policy Arena
Almansoori brings a PhD in forensic science and a passion for behavioral science, offering a rare combination of analytical depth and policymaking acumen. This interdisciplinary approach enables him to:
- Assess the societal impact of emerging technologies
- Design regulatory models rooted in evidence and human behavior
- Facilitate trust between citizens, government, and the tech ecosystem
He is widely recognized for his commitment to creating policy environments that adapt as quickly as the innovations they govern.
Keynote at Dubai AI Festival 2025: “Governance at the Speed of Innovation – Building Future-Ready Regulatory Frameworks”
At the Dubai AI Festival 2025, Rashid Almansoori will deliver a keynote titled:
“Governance at the Speed of Innovation: Building Future-Ready Regulatory Frameworks.”
In this timely session, he will explore:
- How agile governance can keep pace with AI, autonomy, and decentralization
- Case studies from RegLab on enabling safe, scalable tech deployment
- The role of regulatory sandboxes in policy experimentation and cross-sector collaboration
- Future trends in regulating AI ethics, explainability, and safety
His address will resonate with global regulators, innovation offices, AI developers, and policy entrepreneurs seeking to build regulatory frameworks that support, rather than slow, innovation.
Rashid Almansoori’s presence at the Dubai AI Festival 2025 underscores the UAE’s leadership in designing the policy blueprints of tomorrow—where governance evolves in tandem with the technologies that are reshaping our world.
