Klemensas Mecejus

Executive Director | Head of AI Advisory
AI71
UAE

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Klemensas Mecejus is the Executive Director and Head of AI Advisory at AI71, where he leads applied AI strategy and deployment across government, construction, defense, telecom, and regulated enterprise sectors. He is a former Partner at McKinsey & Company / QuantumBlack and has advised boards, CEOs, ministries, and sovereign entities on AI governance, digital transformation, operating models, and enterprise value creation. He has worked with more than 10 GCC ministries and sovereign entities, more than 70 global technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) clients across more than 30 countries, and has educated more than 1,000 executives on AI governance, model risk, and enterprise AI adoption.
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Klemensas Mecejus | Europe’s AI Deployment Gap: Moving Sovereign and Industrial AI from Pilots to Production

Sovereign AI, Production AI, Agentic Workflows, Model Risk
Klemensas Mecejus will present a practical case study session on why Europe’s next AI race is not about model announcements, but about production workflows. Drawing on AI71 deployment work across government, construction, defense, telecom, and regulated enterprise sectors, the session explains how leaders move from pilots to governed, secure, and measurable AI operations. It covers workflow ownership, data access, cybersecurity, privacy, model risk approval, adoption, value capture, and the operating model required to industrialize sovereign and enterprise AI. Attendees will leave with a deployment checklist for selecting high-value workflows, preparing data and controls, aligning business and technical owners, and measuring whether AI is creating operational value rather than just producing demos.