Prof Abdul Hamid Sadka
Director of The Sir Peter Rigby Digital Futures Institute - Aston University
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An internationally recognised AI and experienced digital transformation leader, Abdul is director of The Sir Peter Rigby Digital Futures Institute at Aston University.
He has more than 30 years of experience delivering strategic innovation across government, academia and industry.
Abdul is an experienced university institutional leader who has built major interdisciplinary organisations, combined with deep AI and digital transformation expertise, with experience spanning academic leadership, research strategy, institutional transformation, external partnerships, commercialisation and AI implementation at scale.
At Aston he scaled the University’s flagship AI institute from inception to a £5 million research and innovation portfolio within two years.
Abdul has secured and led more than £25 million of externally funded research and innovation programmes deploying generative AI, multimodal AI, predictive analytics and digital transformation solutions across healthcare, policing, justice, legal services, financial services, energy infrastructure and software engineering.
Throughout his career, he has successfully translated emerging technologies into organisational capability by bringing together senior stakeholders from government, industry and academia to deliver practical, high-impact innovation.
He has extensive experience advising national funding bodies, shaping AI skills agendas, leading multidisciplinary teams and communicating complex AI concepts to senior decision-makers, policymakers and the wider public.
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