We are excited to announce that Mihai Mărcuță, Co-Founder at NodeShift will be joining Touchdown Middle East 2025 as a Keynote speaker! Mihai will join our ‘Keynote: Building Sovereign AI Cloud Infrastructure for the Gulf: A Practical Guide .
Mihai Mărcuță is an Oxford-educated technologist whose career spans engineering-to-strategy roles at Microsoft Azure, X (formerly Twitter) and Cisco in the United States. Today he is co-founder of NodeShift, a sovereign AI-cloud company operating from hubs in Abu Dhabi and Doha. Under his leadership, NodeShift helps governments and enterprises deploy air-gapped, multi-model AI infrastructure that meets the Gulf’s strict data-residency rules, earning backing GCC, US and European investors
NodeShift is a sovereign AI cloud platform empowering data centers to launch fully air-gapped, white-labelled AI services under their own brand. Delivered as a turnkey software license, the stack bundles bare-metal virtualization, IaaS, PaaS and AI-as-a-Service in a single control plane, letting operators monetize GPUs and CPUs without handing data to foreign clouds. Over 140 specialized language, vision and speech models, 80 enterprise connectors and role-based governance come pre-integrated, accelerating time-to-market from months to days. Built in Abu Dhabi and aligned with GCC data-residency laws, NodeShift transforms regional facilities into sovereign AI powerhouses ready for hyperscale demand and long-term national competitiveness.
Need to know:
Speaker: Mihai Mărcuță, Co-Founder at NodeShift
Session: Keynote: Building Sovereign AI Cloud Infrastructure for the Gulf: A Practical Guide
Time: DAY 2 | 20th NOVEMBER | 11:50 – 12:05
Take a look at the full Touchdown Middle East 2025 Agenda.