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title: "AI Talent and Skills in Saudi Arabia"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/topics/talent"
language: "en"
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# AI Talent and Skills in Saudi Arabia

Universities, training programmes and national skills targets building the people behind the Kingdom's AI ambitions.

- 2026-01-28 — [SDAIA launches SAMAI 2 and 40 AI academic programs at ICAN 2026](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/ican-2026-samai-2-academic-programmes)
- 2025-11-09 — [SAMAI trains more than one million Saudis in AI, 52% of them women](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/samai-one-million-reached-2025)
- 2025-05-12 — [Tareq Amin takes the helm as HUMAIN CEO](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/tareq-amin-named-humain-ceo-2025)
- 2024-09 — [SDAIA launches 'One Million Saudis in AI' (SAMAI) program](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/samai-one-million-saudis-launched-2024)
- 2023-10-17 — [Tareq Amin, ex-Rakuten Symphony chief, joins Aramco Digital as CEO](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/tareq-amin-joins-aramco-digital-2023)
- 2019-08 — [Abdullah Alghamdi appointed to lead SDAIA by royal order](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/alghamdi-leads-sdaia)

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Cicada · The signal in Saudi AI.
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