Designed for the Agentic Era: How Saudi Arabia is Building the Future of Work

2026 is Saudi Arabia’s Year of Artificial Intelligence. As the Kingdom builds new industries, destinations, and digital public services, it has a rare opportunity to design the next era of work with AI built in from the start. Generative AI gave organisations new ways to create and analyse. Now, AI agents can reason, coordinate, and act within trusted boundaries. This keynote explores the Agentic Enterprise: an operating model where people, AI agents, and platforms work together to improve customer and citizen outcomes. Moving beyond isolated chatbots and pilots, the session will show why trusted data, governed workflows, clear permissions, and human accountability are essential to turn AI into action. It will also consider how agents can expand organisational capacity so people can focus on judgement, relationships, creativity, and trust—and why Saudi Arabia is positioned not simply to adopt this shift, but to help shape how it works in the real world.