The Saudi Company for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI), a fully owned subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has signed an agreement with Lean, a leading provider of innovative healthcare management solutions, to explore the development of AI-powered solutions for the Saudi healthcare sector.
Under the terms of the agreement, the two parties will collaborate on taking AI-driven technologies to the next level to deliver innovative healthcare solutions.
“We are pleased to partner with Lean to elevate public health indicators in Saudi Arabia,” said Ayman AlRashed, CEO of SCAI.
Lean works with various agencies across the healthcare sector to build sustainable business models that guarantee higher-quality services.
The agreement is in line with the efforts of the Kingdom’s leadership to build a smarter healthcare system to improve quality of living, with innovative, reliable data-driven solutions.
Meanwhile, the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence (SDAIA) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) also signed a strategic partnership agreement to establish a center of excellence in data science and artificial intelligence.
The two agreements were signed at the second Global AI Summit, which was kicked off in Riyadh on Tuesday.
The three-day global event, organised by the SDAIA, is attended by over 10,000 participants and 200 speakers from 90 countries, representing policymakers and specialists, SPA reported.
This year’s summit is held under the theme ‘artificial intelligence for the good of humanity’.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Abdullah bin Amer Al Swaha, Saudi Minister of Communications and Information Technology, highlighted the support and empowerment of the Saudi leadership to use all tools that can help seize future opportunities through focusing on AI to build prosperous digital communities, smart cities and digital economies in the country.
The summit addresses a number of topics related to AI such as AI techniques and their current use cases in various aspects of life, future of the AI sector and how to develop and benefit from it in solving the most prominent challenges globally and the ethics of AI and the responsible use of its technologies.
The summit opened with a live presentation titled ‘Humans can have a better future with the use of AI’.
It included several scenes that tell the story of humans with AI, including the ethics of AI, the story of machine learning and how humans teach machines that become smart through understanding their instructions.
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