ADNOC introduced, in a launch posted on its web site just lately, that it has expanded its Science, Expertise, Engineering and Arithmetic (STEM) training program “to empower UAE college students in synthetic intelligence (AI) and superior expertise via an initiative known as ‘STEM for Life: Way forward for AI Colleges Problem’”.
The discharge highlighted that the Problem was launched in January 2025 and just lately held its finals on the Abu Dhabi Vitality Middle. The Problem acquired 14,500 candidates from 351 colleges throughout the nation, in keeping with the discharge, which identified that 896 lecturers helped college students to “design, construct, and pitch AI options that addressed one in all three themes: creating real-world affect, demonstrating blue sky pondering, or successful the hearts and minds of native communities”.
A complete of 1,500 submissions had been acquired, with 80 college students in 27 groups chosen to attend the ultimate, the discharge famous. Successful groups pitched their initiatives to a jury which included members from the Ministry of Business and Superior Expertise, the Ministry of Schooling, Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority, ADNOC, Khalifa College, ADNOC Expertise Academy, Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation, Microsoft, and Neubio, the discharge acknowledged.
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Following an evaluation by the jury, 9 groups every had been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze positions respectively, the discharge stated, including that submissions “featured spectacular AI-powered options”.
The ultimate was attended by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Business and Superior Expertise and ADNOC Managing Director and Group CEO, Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri, Minister of Schooling, Abdulla Humaid Al Jarwan, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Division of Vitality, Hajer Ahmed Mohamed Al Thehli, Secretary-Normal of the Schooling, Human Improvement and Group Council, Khalaf Abdulla Rahma Al Hammadi, Director-Normal of the Abu Dhabi Pension Fund, and senior ADNOC executives, the discharge identified.
The discharge additionally famous that, in the course of the remaining, ADNOC and AIQ “showcased how ENERGYai, the world’s first agentic AI resolution for the power business, could be deployed to enhance choice making, unlock worth, and drive operational efficiencies”.
Saif Al Falahi, Director, Group Enterprise Assist & Particular Duties at ADNOC, stated within the launch, “we warmly congratulate the successful groups of the Way forward for AI Colleges Problem for his or her progressive concepts, creativity, and can-do mindset”.
“By means of our STEM training program, ADNOC is equipping the UAE’s younger expertise with the abilities and mindset wanted to thrive in an AI-driven future,” Al Falahi added.
“As we work to change into the world’s most AI-enabled power firm, we’ll proceed to nurture the following technology of innovators who will harness the ability of AI to drive progress for the UAE and unlock options to world challenges,” Al Falahi continued.
In its launch, ADNOC acknowledged that its Way forward for AI Colleges Problem “goals to equip college students with the abilities wanted for an evolving technology-driven future and harness the potential of AI to create worth and clear up real-life challenges”.
In a launch despatched to Rigzone again in January by the ADNOC group, the corporate revealed that it and AIQ had accomplished the trial part of ENERGYai, which ADNOC described as “the world’s first of its type agentic synthetic intelligence resolution tailor-made for the power sector”.
“The 90 day proof of idea trial demonstrated that ENERGYai’s agentic AI – AI ‘brokers’ which can be educated in particular duties throughout the power worth chain – can ship vital enhancements within the tempo and accuracy of upstream exploration via fast, exact, and detailed seismic survey evaluation, alongside related, actionable insights to help manufacturing optimization at ADNOC’s current wells,” ADNOC acknowledged in that launch.
ADNOC famous on this launch that ENERGYai integrates a 70 billion parameter giant language mannequin (LLM) with over 50 years of ADNOC’s information and petabytes of its proprietary information “to drive optimization and effectivity throughout the corporate’s operations”.
In a speech at CERAWeek in Houston, Texas, which was posted on the ADNOC web site again in March, Jaber stated, “we first utilized AI to our operations 5 years in the past”.
“In the present day, we’ve built-in AI comprehensively throughout the worth chain from the management room to the board room. We now have created world class options particular to our wants via our home-grown AI firm, AIQ,” he added.
“Over 200 AI use circumstances are at the moment being carried out throughout ADNOC’s operations, from exploration to refining to logistics and strategic choice making,” he continued.
“Our flagship AI initiative, Vitality to the Energy of AI, is making use of agentic AI at unprecedented scale for the primary time,” he went on to state.
On its web site, ADNOC states that it’s on a mission to change into the world’s most AI-enabled power firm, “embedding AI at each layer of our enterprise”.
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