Tannya Jajal is the Founder and CEO of AIDEN, a UAE-based education startup reimagining how and what we learn in the AI era. A graduate of Dubai’s schooling system and former cybersecurity leader at global technology company VMware, Tannya brings a rare blend of technical expertise and philosophical depth to the future of education.
Through AIDEN, she leads the development of AI-integrated programs and curricula that emphasize metacognition, entrepreneurship, creativity, and ethical innovation preparing students not just to use AI, but to question it, shape it, and thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Since 2019, Tannya has been a sought-after keynote speaker across the Gulf, delivering talks on AI, Artificial General Intelligence, and the Future of Work to global audiences. She was a contributing author at Forbes Middle East and authored a compilation of her essays over the year in her book, Thinking Machines: AI and the Intelligence Explosion, a call to reimagine human purpose and success in the age of intelligent machines.