KUWAIT: Zain Kuwait has supported the KAFO 2025 Forum, titled AI for Impact: Prompting with Purpose. The forum was organized by the KAFO platform for the second consecutive year, in partnership with the Youth Public Authority and under the patronage of Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi, Minister of Information and Culture and Minister of State for Youth Affairs. Zain took part in the forum, joined by Dr Yousef Al-Ibrahim, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the KAFO platform, Dr Fatemah Al-Mousawi, CEO of the platform, Hamad Al-Musaibeeh, Corporate Relations Department Manager at Zain Kuwait, along with a distinguished group of experts, academics, entrepreneurs, and representatives from government entities and the private sector.
Zain’s participation in the forum builds on its strategic partnership with KAFO, which places sustainability at the heart of youth empowerment through a series of initiatives and projects that encourage social innovation and turn young people’s ideas into practical solutions that support the Sustainable Development Goals. These include the Sustainability Challenge that addresses textile waste, along with joint environmental and educational initiatives.
The forum highlighted the purposeful use of artificial intelligence technologies and their role in empowering national talent and advancing the shift toward a knowledge and innovation based economy. This was explored through panel discussions that covered AI in the public sector, youth skills development, the role of innovation in the banking sector, and maximizing social impact, in addition to showcasing examples of startups that employ these technologies to address social and environmental issues.
During the forum, Corporate Relations Department Manager Hamad Al-Musaibeeh presented Zain’s vision of artificial intelligence as a tool for positive impact. He focused on the importance of directing this technology toward addressing real challenges in education, health, environment, and entrepreneurship, and on embedding sustainability principles and impact measurement into the design and implementation of youth initiatives supported by the company in collaboration with its partners.
Al-Ibrahim and Al-Mousawi honoring Al-Musaibeeh and the Zain team.
As part of the forum’s activities, Zain took part in a dedicated panel discussion on the social impact of its various initiatives and projects, including the success story of the intercontinental robotic surgery, which enabled a remote operation to be performed using the advanced connectivity technologies it provided, which culminated in Kuwait achieving a historic milestone in the Guinness World Records. The session highlighted the technical and organizational dimensions of such pioneering projects, and how data, digital infrastructure, AI, and youth-focused community programs can work together to support them.
The panel featured Humoud Al-Khamees, Cloud Networking Manager, Mohammed Adnan Al-Ruwayeh, Data Office and Quality Assurance Department Manager, and Faisal Al-Duwaihees, Youth and Partnerships Specialist, who shared their experiences in leveraging cloud platforms, data, and youth programs to drive innovation. The forum also showcased the top five innovative youth projects, where participating teams presented AI-based solutions tackling various development challenges, reflecting the growing interest of Kuwaiti youth in advanced technologies and their ability to turn them into initiatives with lasting impact.
This forum represents a key milestone within a broader collaboration between Zain and KAFO that extends across the 2025 and 2026 seasons. The partnership includes a series of specialized activities such as the Sustainability Challenge, the Ramadan without Waste campaign, and the Green Hackathon, all aimed at stimulating creativity among young people and generating practical solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges, with a focus on designing initiatives that are measurable and scalable at the community level.
Through these strategic partnerships, Zain continues to translate its commitment to corporate sustainability and social responsibility into practical programs that help build a sustainable economy and a more inclusive digital society. This is achieved by investing in national youth talent, enabling the social innovation ecosystem, and strengthening collaboration between the public sector, private sector, and civil society in support of the New Kuwait 2035 vision in the fields of knowledge, innovation and quality of life.
