Innovator Debate - Leah Liu - Global Head of Capital Markets, VP, Insilico Medicine & Dr. Ahmed Ismail - Co-Founder & COO, Dunia Innovations GMBH

Leah Liu from Insilico Medicine explains how they make drugs using AI, highlighting their advanced pipeline and successful clinical trial data for their pulmonary fibrosis drug. Dr. Ahmed Ismail from Dunia Innovations discusses building a material database to accelerate material discovery for the energy and chemical industries using AI and robotics. Both emphasize the challenges of starting from scratch and the importance of persistence. They share positive experiences at FII9, including meeting decision-makers and potential partners. Ahmed announces significant commercial partnerships secured at the event. Both innovators discuss their future goals, including capital market advancements and scaling up data generation and compute power. They seek partners and funding to achieve these ambitious goals. The discussion underscores the rapid growth and potential of the region as a tech hub.