NTT DATA launches AI Factory Lab in Saudi Arabia
NTT DATA, a global consulting and technology consulting company, has announced the launch of an AI Factory Lab in Saudi Arabia.
Located in Riyadh and scheduled to open later this month, the AI Factory Lab will support executive briefings, AI strategy workshops and hands-on experiences that will help organizations identify high-impact AI use cases, validate business outcomes and accelerate adoption on a secure foundation spanning infrastructure, platforms and services.
The AI Factory Lab will feature interactive demonstrations of real-world AI use cases across employee productivity, customer experience, intelligent operations, cybersecurity, networking, software development and industry-specific business processes. Organizations will be able to explore how agentic AI can automate workflows, improve decision-making, enhance experiences and unlock greater value from enterprise data.
The lab will also showcase how organizations can build, deploy, secure, govern and scale AI workloads on an enterprise-grade AI infrastructure foundation. The experience will highlight the data, infrastructure, security and governance capabilities required to move AI from experimentation into production while maintaining visibility, compliance and operational resilience.
“While interest in AI continues to grow, many organizations are looking for a practical path from experimentation to business outcomes,” said Hani Nofal, Executive Head of Infrastructure Solutions in Middle East and Africa at NTT DATA. “The AI Factory Lab brings together the expertise, technologies and ecosystem partnerships needed to help clients identify the right use cases, deploy AI securely and scale with confidence.”
The lab’s technology is powered in collaboration with Cisco, which provides the AI infrastructure foundation, and NVIDIA, which provides the computing platform and AI software technologies powering generative AI, agentic AI, computer vision and digital twin workloads.
“By integrating the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA into their AI Factory Lab, NTT DATA provides a secure, validated sandbox where customers can test, refine and prove their AI strategies with confidence before making a full-scale commitment, turning ‘what if?’ into reality."
Dirk Barfuss, Director of EMEA channel at NVIDIA, added: “Through the AI Factory Lab in Riyadh, customers can experience the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA firsthand, helping them validate high-impact use cases and move from experimentation to practical business outcomes with confidence.”
