{"id":5380,"date":"2025-10-23T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:46:26","slug":"nodeshifts-mihai-marcuta-joins-as-a-speaker-at-touchdown-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/nodeshifts-mihai-marcuta-joins-as-a-speaker-at-touchdown-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"NodeShift\u2019s Mihai M\u0103rcu\u021b\u0103 joins as a speaker at Touchdown Middle East!"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/p>\n

We are excited to announce that Mihai M\u0103rcu\u021b\u0103<\/a><\/strong>,<\/span> Co-Founder<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>at NodeShift<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>will be joining Touchdown Middle East 2025 as a Keynote speaker! Mihai will join our \u2018Keynote: Building Sovereign AI Cloud Infrastructure for the Gulf: A Practical Guide<\/span>\u00a0.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mihai M\u0103rcu\u021b\u0103 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\u2019s strict data-residency rules, earning backing GCC, US and European investors<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\t

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Need to know:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Speaker<\/strong>: \u00a0\u00a0 Mihai M\u0103rcu\u021b\u0103<\/a><\/strong>,<\/span> Co-Founder<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>at NodeShift<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session<\/strong>: \u00a0 \u00a0Keynote: Building Sovereign AI Cloud Infrastructure for the Gulf: A Practical Guide<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Time: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0DAY 2 | 20th NOVEMBER | 11:50 – 12:05<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Take a look at the full\u00a0<\/em>Touchdown Middle East 2025 Agenda.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n