Company advances its Saudi Arabia initiatives with an AI R&D Center of Excellence, commercial production at its Riyadh manufacturing facility and the launch of HP AI Academy.
At LEAP 2026, HP announced new milestones across AI, manufacturing and education commitments it first unveiled at LEAP 2025.
“Saudi Arabia is a key innovation partner for HP, and over the past year we have moved from commitment to delivery,” said Fadle Saad, Managing Director, MENA Regional Headquarters, HP Inc. “By advancing local AI development, manufacturing and skills together, we are supporting the Kingdom’s ambition to build a more innovative, technology-led economy under Vision 2030.”
HP AI R&D Center of Excellence Saudi – Highlights
According to HP, the AI R&D Center of Excellence (CoE) in Dhahran functions as an innovation hub, developing practical AI solutions for Saudi organizations. Its work spans enterprise AI, Arabic AI development, applied research and local talent development.
One of the flagship solutions developed by the CoE is HP Agent One, an enterprise agentic AI solution that manages IT service requests and incidents from start to finish. It supports Arabic language capabilities, understands requests, creates and routes tickets, resolves issues and escalates to humans where necessary, said HP.
FlowMaster is another HP-developed solution being advanced in Dhahran, using optical character recognition (OCR) and multimodal AI to analyze documents and automate complex administrative processes. By reducing processing time for procedures such as permits and citizen requests, it could help government, public-sector and regulated organizations improve efficiency, said HP.
HP’s Riyadh Factory Moves into Commercial Production
Since opening in October 2025, HP’s Riyadh facility has moved into ongoing commercial manufacturing, producing and shipping locally manufactured HP products to customers in Saudi Arabia, according to HP.
“HP is proud to support Saudi Arabia’s growing technology ecosystem through both locally developed AI and local manufacturing,” said Fadle Saad. “Sustaining that progress also means investing in Saudi talent and skills. Our partnerships with government, academia and industry are central to building the capabilities needed for long-term growth.”
Skill Development for the AI era
The HP AI Academy is HP’s new platform for AI education and capability-building programs, structured around ‘Learn AI. Lead AI. Shape AI.’ The Academy is designed to support lifelong learning, workforce readiness, AI leadership and institutional capacity-building, said HP.
HP will be available at LEAP in Hall 3, Stand H3 D20, from 31 August to 3 September 2026.
Disclaimer: This article is based on an official announcement by HP. It has been edited for length and readability. Details about HP’s initiatives, investments, facilities and programmes are provided by the company.
