A working session on infrastructure, architecture, and AI.
Prepared for Aymen Al Saadi and Ali Al Khumairi ahead of their Thursday, June 18 session during Vivatech Paris 2026.
Workshop at a glance
Session context: Thursday, June 18, 2026 presentation at Forvis Mazars Paris for Aymen Al Saadi, Chief Digital Officer of the UAE Presidential Office, and Ali Al Khumairi, Director of Procurement. English. Topics requested: infrastructure, architecture, and AI.
The workshop deck opens with executive framing, walks through four sections in order, and closes with strategic intelligence as cross-sector evidence for why semantic infrastructure matters when you scale sovereign AI.
How to architect and operate private AI at scale. Sovereignty as a spectrum (on-prem, colocation, national cloud, dedicated vendor instances), honest assessment of residency and connectivity, GPU operating models, and transparent lessons from our own sovereignty evolution.
Jeremy Ravenel brings direct experience from three public-sector research programs. BFO and CCO are already the deployed standard for national security and biomedical ontologies, not theory. His work with NIH illustrates what a production AI agent looks like in government: an agent continuously scanning longevity research to keep physicians and practitioners current. And NCOR is emerging as the semantic audit authority for AI systems in high-assurance environments, playing the role that financial regulators play for firms.
Your infrastructure stack and platform engineering approach. Meta-platform design, stack anatomy, client-adapted infrastructure, deployment models, and vendor fit analysis. Connects private AI architecture to the platform choices needed to operate it in production.
Lessons learned from scaling AI initiatives across organizations. What breaks when you move from pilot to production: dedicated instance risks, operating model drift, governance at scale, and the patterns that survive multi-program rollouts. Open discussion on what transfers to high-assurance environments.
Broader visit topics under preparation. Not part of the four workshop sections or the Thursday working session, but available as reference if the conversation extends.
Materials
Topic packs in preparationYour primary working document for the session: sovereign AI architecture, governed delivery, data platforms, and scale lessons, followed by strategic intelligence as cross-sector evidence for sovereign AI at scale.
The consolidated deck covers framing, four workshop sections with full deep dives integrated, and strategic intelligence. Topic-specific proof points and speaker materials will be added as the session is finalized.