NTT DATA to launch AI factory lab in Riyadh to accelerate regional enterprise adoption

By Divya Shah

NTT DATA is bringing its new AI factory lab to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, partnering with Cisco and NVIDIA to help regional organisations transition from AI experimentation to secure, scalable business outcomes.

Digital business and technology services company NTT DATA plans to establish the NTT DATA AI Factory Lab in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aiming to help regional organisations accelerate their artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and transition from experimentation to measurable business outcomes.

The facility will integrate NTT DATA’s full-stack AI services with technologies from key ecosystem partners Cisco and NVIDIA. Designed as an interactive showcase, the lab will feature real-world AI use cases across employee productivity, customer experience, intelligent operations, cybersecurity, networking, software development, and industry-specific business processes. With a particular focus on agentic AI capabilities for workflow automation and decision-making.

Hani Nofal, Executive Head of Infrastructure Solutions in the Middle East and Africa at NTT DATA, said, “The AI Factory Lab brings together the expertise, technologies and ecosystem partnerships needed to help clients identify the right use cases, deploy AI securely and scale with confidence.”

A core component of the lab will be the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, which demonstrates enterprise-grade infrastructure designed to build, deploy, secure, govern, and scale AI workloads while maintaining compliance and operational resilience.

Under the partnership, Cisco will supply the foundational infrastructure, including networking, security, observability, and collaboration tools. Meanwhile, NVIDIA will provide its accelerated computing platform, the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, and open Nemotron and Cosmos models to drive generative AI, agentic AI, computer vision, and digital twin workloads.

The Riyadh facility is part of NTT DATA’s global AI strategy to support secure and responsible AI deployment through consulting, infrastructure, and technology services across the Middle East and Africa.