12+ years in live events. Five running operations, two in production, across GITEX, COP28, Dubai World Cup and Gulfood. Off the floor I ship the AI systems that make the next operation smaller to run.
Seven programme deliveries across the GITEX portfolio, 2023 to 2025.
Government delegations and VIP key accounts, April 2023 to December 2025, contracted through DWTC, through Vibes Events, and directly with KAOUN International, DWTC's sister company and the organiser behind GITEX. The measure is re‑engagement: every edition led to the next one. In those years GITEX grew from one Dubai show to 14 cities.
| Programme | Year | Engaged via |
|---|---|---|
| GITEX Global | 2023 | DWTC, Government Key Account Manager |
| GITEX Africa | 2024 | DWTC via Vibes Events |
| GITEX Global + Expand North Star | 2024 | DWTC via Vibes Events |
| GITEX Europe First edition | 2025 | DWTC via Vibes Events |
| GITEX Africa | 2025 | KAOUN International, direct |
| GITEX Global | 2025 | DWTC via Vibes Events |
| Gulfood Manufacturing | 2025 | DWTC, Executive Meeting Manager |
Scroll the table to see how each programme was contracted
Held as the benchmark across every programme, covering both B2B and international government delegations.
Against the previous edition, achieved in my first year on that programme.
Both are my own programme figures, not published organiser statistics. I can show the counts. No estimates, no rounded-up figures.
Not stock photography. These are from the events on the record above.
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We have worked on numerous projects together and i’ve always been more than confident that he would deliver, always above and beyond the expectations.”
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“You were dependable, proactive, and consistently maintained a professional attitude when managing Concierge Meetings and Government Delegation meetings. You were willing to take ownership, worked well with stakeholders, and remained composed under pressure in a fast-paced event environment.
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“He was exceptionally reliable, calm under pressure, and always solution-oriented. Even while managing high-pressure projects like the government programme for GITEX Global, he stayed composed, learned new technologies like AI quickly, and consistently found practical ways to improve processes.”
“You were calm under pressure, took initiative without needing to be asked, and were good at identifying inefficiencies and suggesting ways to make processes more efficient… I found you easy to work with and proactive in your approach.”
“You quickly understood the workflow and project requirements, adapted well to the team, and carried out your responsibilities professionally. Your reliability, positive attitude, and willingness to learn made working together easy and efficient. Good knowledge on excel and the system.”
“Ibrahim maintains strong work ethics and his dedication towards work is unbeatable. His research skills are outstanding. Don’t challenge him at work, he can research and bring the dead from the ground. There are many event elements where it is not easy to find good, reliable suppliers, or difficult to get them, but Ibrahim has been able to source those elements within the given timeframe with all the contacts and resources he has.”
“I had the privilege of working with Ibrahim across multiple editions of GITEX/Gulfood at DWTC under his supervision, and it genuinely shaped how I work today. Even while managing ten or more critical tasks at once, he consistently brought fresh frameworks and ideas that made the work easier for the entire team.
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Freelance, contract or project. The kind of delivery where the show has a date and the date does not move.
The systems side. I have built one events operating system solo and I can build the thing that removes your worst repeating task.
Freelance and contract is the model I intend to keep. A full-time offer would need a rare scope, mandate and team to change that.
Built and shipped alongside the event floor, and running right now.
Pricing, proposals, sourcing, staffing and finance for an experiential events company. It reads the company's own documents and learns what things actually cost, so a quote no longer depends on who happens to be in the room.
An influencer marketing agency, and the matching system that runs it.
A qada prayer tracker in English, Arabic and Urdu, built and maintained solo.
I founded HUSTLERS for UAE event professionals. Below the floor, a job post does not go up. Staffing a show and need the crew?
A written rule, and a post below it does not get published.
Announcements, a jobs board of vetted UAE roles, a community lounge, a traffic and transport crew, and a senior Executive Circle.
Yes. He is available for freelance, contract and project-based work, is based in Dubai, and holds a UAE freelance visa, so no sponsorship is required. He is not looking for a full-time seat and would move only for an exceptional one. The fastest route is email to hi@ibrahimn.com or WhatsApp on +971 55 415 5353; the contact page has the three routes in.
Email hi@ibrahimn.com with the brief, or message +971 55 415 5353 on WhatsApp. Three routes are open: event operations and production, an AI systems build, or something exceptional. Send a job description and a tailored résumé comes back the same day; the interactive profile and a downloadable CV are already online.
GITEX Global in 2023, 2024 and 2025; GITEX Africa in 2024 and 2025; GITEX Europe in 2025, its first European edition; Expand North Star 2024; COP28 in 2023; the Dubai World Cup 2025; Gulfood 2025 and Gulfood Manufacturing 2025; GISEC 2024; the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in 2024, on the Yasalam after-race concerts; Sneaker Con Doha 2026; the Al Ain Flower Festival 2025 to 2026; the DIEZ and CBD annual galas 2026; MIT DesignX and DSO DDX 2026; UAE National Day 2025 across three sites; the Dubai Ride and Dubai Run; and the Dubai Airshow. Fifty-six organisations are named on the wall on the experience page.
Go to the organiser. The events page lists seven programmes with the organiser’s own website against each one: gitex.com, gitexeurope.com, gitexafrica.com, sneakercon.com, ddxconference.com and the Al Ain City Municipality pages on dmt.gov.ae, along with the coverage published at the time. Beyond that, eleven named people have gone on the record, seven of them in public LinkedIn recommendations that link straight to the original, and 56 organisations are named on the wall on the experience page. Nothing on this site asks to be taken on trust.
Auto Pilot Events OS is an AI operating system for an experiential events business, built solo in 28 days. Seven specialist agents and a director orchestrate 95 registered tools across 29 families on an event-sourced Postgres and pgvector spine, with a 23-page Next.js front end and 753 automated tests green. Its pricing model was trained on 1,136 real price points and cut estimation error by 66%. The full build is in the Auto Pilot Events OS case study.
Follow the HUSTLERS channel on WhatsApp instead: whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbDmzpS59PwQOp6fCz1T. HUSTLERS is the community he founded for UAE event professionals, and vetted UAE roles go up in its Hustlers Jobs group, which you join from the Freelancers page. Join from a UAE WhatsApp number, or the request is not approved. Follow the rules: unprofessional or unethical behaviour means removal. His WhatsApp number is for people hiring.
Ibrahim Muhammad Naeem is an event production and operations manager based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with 12+ years in live events: five of those running operations and two in production. He has delivered GITEX Global, GITEX Africa, GITEX Europe, COP28, the Dubai World Cup, Gulfood and Sneaker Con Doha, and he builds agentic AI systems for the operations he used to run by hand. The full record is on the experience page.
He owns the delivery of large-scale live events end to end: scope and budget, the run sheet, vendor and multi-site coordination, crowd flow and safety compliance, VIP and government protocol, and the call on the floor when something changes. Off the floor he builds the software that runs the same work: Auto Pilot Events OS, an AI operating system for an experiential events business, and four live shipped products.
Four countries. The United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain) is home base. Outside it: Qatar, for the first Doha edition of Sneaker Con in 2026; Morocco, for GITEX Africa in Marrakech in 2024 and 2025; and Germany, for the first GITEX Europe in Berlin in 2025. See where the work has run.
Yes. Two years of project management, and two years of event management, run at the same time as the operations and production years. The project side covers MIT DesignX and DSO DDX taken end to end, three simultaneous UAE National Day sites in one day, the DIEZ Annual Gala at 500+ guests with 12+ vendors, and three nested project contracts across the Al Ain Flower Festival, the Al Ain Ramadan event and Sneaker Con Doha. It is listed separately on the experience page.
A BBA in Human Resource Management from Abbottabad University of Science & Technology, the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate at 99.9%, Kaggle Expert status, and HSE safety training (construction, fire, electrical, work permits, risk and accident investigation) completed in 2026. Thirty-four documents are openable on the certificates page; anything still in progress is listed separately at the end of it and never mixed in.
Four live products and two systems. The products are Fluencer Hive, an influencer marketing agency and the system that runs it; Kaza Umri, a qada prayer tracker; RUNG, a financial position diagnostic; and Mizan, a personal finance operating system. The systems are Auto Pilot Events OS and Brain, a personal AI operating system with persistent memory and scheduled briefs. All of it is on the ventures and systems pages.
All three, and each is a separate strand of the record. Operations is the live floor: crowd flow, crew, safety compliance, transport, and the call when something changes at 11pm; that is roughly five of the twelve years. Production is what gets built before anyone arrives: structures, staging, landscaping, site build against a fixed opening date; roughly two years, most recently the Al Ain Flower Festival and Sneaker Con Doha. Project management is the contract wrapper (scope, budget, procurement, vendors, risk and closure) about two years, including MIT DesignX and DSO DDX end to end, three simultaneous UAE National Day sites in a single day, and three nested project contracts back to back. He has also worked as an event manager and a transportation manager. All of it is split out by strand on the experience page.
Yes. Single-event, contract and project engagements are the normal shape of the work rather than the exception: Sneaker Con Doha, the Al Ain Flower Festival and the DIEZ and CBD galas were each their own contract. He is based in Dubai, holds a UAE freelance visa so there is no sponsorship or visa cost to the client, and works across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC, with delivery already on the record in Morocco and Germany. Send the dates, the venue and the scope to hi@ibrahimn.com and you get a straight yes or no on availability.
Ibrahim Naeem does this from Dubai, and what is unusual is having both halves. The events industry has AI vendors who have never worked a build week and operators who cannot ship code; he has 12+ years on UAE event floors and built Auto Pilot Events OS solo in 28 days: an AI operating system for an established UAE experiential events group, with 95 tools across 29 families, seven specialist agents and a director, and 753 automated tests green. What that actually automates, and what it deliberately does not, is set out on agentic AI for event operations.
Events, operations, or the systems behind them. Freelance, contract or project. Full-time only if the offer is exceptional. So what is the thing that breaks every time you run it?
