Applied AI, taught by someone who runs it.

Nader Alkhatib gives keynotes, university lectures, executive workshops and training on applied AI, and mentors founders and teams.

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He teaches what his team ships.

Every example in a talk comes from a system that is running today, built by his team for a client or for the company itself. The aim is practice an audience can use the next week, and an honest view of what AI should not do yet.

Runs AI in production Since 2017
Leads an AI and digital transformation consultancy Since 2015
Engineering and technology leadership 13+ years

Formats.

Each one is shaped around the room: what the audience already knows and what they need to decide next.

Keynote

A talk of 30 to 60 minutes that gives a mixed audience a working picture of where AI is useful today and where it is not.

30 to 60 minutes
Live examples from real systems
Questions from the floor

University lecture

A lecture or guest session for students and faculty that connects the theory to how AI is built and governed in practice.

Single lecture or a short series
Undergraduate, graduate or executive programmes
Theory tied to live systems

Workshop

A half-day or full-day working session where a team maps its own processes and leaves with a short list of AI use cases and the rules for each.

Half day or full day
Built on your team's real workflows
A short list of use cases to act on

Executive briefing

A private, focused session for a board or leadership team on AI strategy, risk and governance, with time for the questions they would not ask in public.

Board or leadership team
Strategy, risk and governance
Private session

Mentoring

Regular sessions with founders and product teams who are building with AI and want a practitioner to check their thinking.

Founders and product leads
Product, architecture and go-to-market
Ongoing, at a pace you choose

Topics.

Most sessions draw on one or two of these, adapted to the audience.

Applied AI for leadership teams Keynote or workshop
Digital transformation that lasts Keynote or panel
AI governance in practice Lecture or workshop
Building with AI agents Technical session
From pilot to production Executive briefing
AI for product teams Workshop or mentoring
Running a company on AI agents Keynote

Who he speaks to.

The same practice, explained at the level each room needs.

Leadership teams

Where AI pays in the business, what it must not touch, and how to decide.

Universities

How AI is actually built, deployed and governed outside the lab.

Conferences

Plain talks on applied AI for mixed business and technical audiences.

Founders and product teams

Building products with AI agents, from first prototype to production.

The systems behind the talks.

Four of the builds the examples come from, written up end to end, from the first week to what runs today.

United States · 2017Phood SolutionsThe first AI his team put in production: a scale, a camera and a food classifier that turn every item a kitchen throws away into a record. Kuwait · 2026SpotlyFamily-outing discovery in Arabic and English, with places screened by AI and the photos kept from the days out you loved. Kuwait · 2018DWAPharmacy delivery in Arabic and English. Patients search, scan a prescription, order and track their medicine to the door. iOS · 2017SafeyAn encrypted vault on your own device that photographs whoever tries to force it open, and opens a decoy on a second passcode.

All work

What a room takes away.

The questions that come from the floor, answered in writing before the session.

InsightsAI Training for Employees: A 4-Week GCC PlaybookThe shape a training engagement follows over four weeks, and what a team can do with AI by the end of it. InsightsAI Adoption in the GCC: A Practical GuideWhere AI pays in the Gulf, what to agree before you build, and the order that keeps a pilot alive. InsightsWhy AI Projects Fail in the GCC — and What WorksThe honest half of every talk: the failures worth naming out loud, and what the teams that got through did differently. InsightsAI Use Cases by Industry in the GulfSector by sector, the use cases a leadership team recognises as its own. A good starting list for a workshop.

All insights

Nader Alkhatib, founder and CEO of Khatib Designs

Speaker kit.

Short bio

Nader Alkhatib is the founder and CEO of Khatib Designs, an AI and digital transformation consultancy founded in Sofia in 2015. He has run AI in production since 2017 and speaks and lectures on applied AI for leadership teams, universities and founders.

Long bio

Nader Alkhatib is the founder and CEO of Khatib Designs, an AI and digital transformation consultancy founded in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2015 that serves clients worldwide. He has more than 13 years in engineering and technology leadership, leading organisations of hundreds of engineers and helping businesses reach their goals, from strategy and consulting to raising investment. He has run AI in production since 2017, starting with a computer-vision scale that tracks food waste for a US startup, and his company now runs on AI agents his team built. He holds a degree in computer engineering and an Executive MBA. He speaks, lectures and mentors on applied AI.