Calimala.ai Showcases AI Hiring Platform at AI Everything in Dubai and Abu Dhabi’s Emerging AI Ecosystem
From Dubai’s exhibition floor to Abu Dhabi–focused discussions on regulation and infrastructure, Calimala demonstrated how enterprises can use AI to build data and AI teams more reliably—without losing transparency, governance or human judgement.
Bringing AI-native hiring to AI Everything
Calimala.ai took its AI-driven hiring platform to AI Everything, the flagship AI showcase co-located with GITEX GLOBAL in Dubai—one of the largest technology and AI gatherings worldwide, attracting tens of thousands of visitors and over a hundred exhibitors.
Across Dubai and conversations anchored in Abu Dhabi’s fast-growing AI ecosystem, Calimala demonstrated how AI-native hiring can help enterprises build and scale data & AI teams more reliably than traditional recruitment approaches.
“AI Everything is where policy, infrastructure and real AI products meet,” said Michal Saracen, Founder & CEO of Calimala.ai. “For us, it was the perfect place to show that AI in hiring can be transparent, measurable and aligned with the same standards that govern AI in any critical system.”
AI Everything and the UAE’s AI ambition
AI Everything has become a central platform in the UAE’s AI calendar, tightly integrated with GITEX GLOBAL and, more recently, with the Ai Everything Global Summit & Expo that now runs across Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
In 2025, the event expanded to a tri-day format across Abu Dhabi and Expo City Dubai, bringing together global AI leaders to discuss regulation, infrastructure and cross-industry adoption, and it was announced that from 2026 the full Ai Everything Global Summit & Expo would be hosted in Abu Dhabi, reinforcing the capital’s position as a global AI hub.
Calimala’s participation in the 2024 edition plugged directly into this narrative:
Abu Dhabi as a regulatory and capital hub, with its AI-forward strategy and investment in data infrastructure.
Dubai as a showcase city where global enterprises, startups and investors converge to test and deploy AI.
Operating out of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), Calimala sits naturally at the intersection of these two poles.
What Calimala.ai showcased
At AI Everything, Calimala focused on a simple question:
What does “AI-native hiring” look like when you’re building serious data and AI teams, not just filling generic roles?
The booth and live demos walked visitors through:
AI-generated role scorecards for Data & AI teams
Converting loose job descriptions into structured, weighted scorecards for roles such as MLOps Engineer, RAG Engineer, Data Governance Lead and Analytics Lead.
Mapping requirements into must-have, nice-to-have and disqualifiers, with transparent scoring logic.
AI-assisted shortlisting with human oversight
Ranking candidates based on real project history, tech stack depth and industry context, rather than keyword-matching CVs.
Letting hiring managers see why someone scored highly—experience highlights, domain exposure, and risk flags—rather than a black-box score.
Bench-as-a-service for Data & AI programmes
Showcasing how Calimala builds and maintains a bench of vetted data and AI talent ready for large programmes in banking, telecoms, industrial and digital services.
Demonstrating workflows for rapid mobilisation of teams across markets like the GCC, Eastern Europe and South Asia.
Compliance-ready candidate data handling
Explaining how the platform is designed with EU AI Act, GDPR and AI Pact principles in mind, particularly around documentation, logging and explainability.
Conversations about Abu Dhabi’s role in the AI economy
Beyond the exhibition floor, Calimala took part in discussions and side events focused on:
How Abu Dhabi is positioning itself as a global AI capital, through initiatives in supercomputing, research and regulatory innovation.
What responsible AI means in workforce contexts—from recruitment to internal mobility and workforce planning.
How AI-enabled hiring platforms like Calimala can help regional enterprises staff large data & AI programmes without compromising on governance or fairness.
These conversations connected directly to the themes raised at Ai Everything Global: the need to match massive AI infrastructure investments with equally serious investments in talent and capability-building across enterprises.
What this means for Calimala’s customers and partners
Participating in AI Everything 2024 had tangible follow-ups for Calimala’s ecosystem:
Deeper partnerships with regional integrators and consultancies looking to staff multi-country data & AI programmes.
A clearer articulation of Calimala’s positioning as an AI-native hiring platform rather than a generic recruitment marketplace.
Stronger alignment with the UAE’s ambition to lead in responsible, infrastructure-level AI, with talent as a core part of that infrastructure.
For customers, it means they’re working with a partner that is not only building AI tools, but is also present in the global conversations shaping AI policy, infrastructure and ethics.
Calimala supports CDOs, CIOs and business leaders with specialised Data & AI talent, structured engagements and delivery oversight — so critical initiatives are staffed with the right people, on time.
