Artificial Intelligence · Cybersecurity · Executive Education — for leading institutions across the Arab world

Milad Dean — Advisor & Executive Trainer

Empowering institutions to lead the AI era
with European expertise and Arab insight.

A Scandinavian-educated cybersecurity specialist and AI practitioner, I design and deliver bespoke programmes for executives, government entities, universities and enterprises — from strategic AI briefings for decision-makers to advanced technical bootcamps — in refined Arabic or English.

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Track record

Experience earned alongside global technology companies, European universities and public institutions

Global technologyEuropean universitiesGovernment & public sectorLanguage & localisationLeadership networks
Notion
University of Bergen
Gokstad Akademiet
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Folkeuniversitetet
JCI BergenJunior Chamber International
Norge på ArabiskArabic media
IMDi
NITOStudent council, UiB
Red Cross YouthNorway
Sigma TechnologiesAI data
Translated
Andovar
TransnPack
BeConnectedLanguage services
TolkeNett
Hero Tolk
InterSpeak
NORD Tolk
City of Bergen
Larvik Municipality
Porsgrunn Municipality
Norwegian PoliceInterpreting
KristiansandMunicipality
About

Technology exists to elevate people and protect institutions — never to intimidate them.

Programmes delivered inArabicEnglishNorwegianSwedish

Born in Syria and raised in Norway, I bring two worlds together: the rigour of Scandinavian education and a native understanding of Arab culture, language and ambition.

I hold a Bachelor's degree in Informatics with a specialisation in Cybersecurity from the University of Bergen and a professional qualification in Cybersecurity from Gokstad Akademiet. My work spans AI data quality for a global technology leader, product localisation for Notion, corporate training with Norway's largest adult-education provider, and the design of private AI assistants and secure infrastructure.

As President of JCI Bergen and Chair of the Arabic media organisation Norge på Arabisk, I lead communities as well as train them. My mission today is the Arab world: helping its institutions embrace artificial intelligence with confidence and stand secure in the digital age.

Bespoke

Every programme is tailored to your sector, your people and your objectives — never off-the-shelf.

Secure by design

AI capability is always paired with data protection and security governance.

Bilingual excellence

Premium materials in Arabic and English, so entire organisations advance together.

Expertise

Two disciplines that will define the decade ahead

Artificial Intelligence

From executive AI strategy and everyday productivity to sovereign, on-premise AI models and intelligent agents that keep your data within your own walls.

  • AI strategy for leadership
  • AI literacy for teams
  • Prompting & workflow automation
  • Assistants, RAG & agents
  • Sovereign & local AI models
  • AI governance & policy

Cybersecurity

Security awareness for every employee, hardening for IT teams, and offensive security and incident response for specialist teams — with clear cyber-risk insight for leadership.

  • Executive cyber-risk briefings
  • Phishing & fraud awareness
  • System & network hardening
  • Ethical hacking labs
  • Incident response
  • Security of AI systems

Also available: strategic advisory, keynote addresses, bespoke AI solutions and security assessments.

The Academy

Professional programmes, from foundation to mastery

Two tracks, four levels each — designed for government entities, universities and enterprises. Every programme is hands-on, delivered in Arabic or English, on-site or online, and aligned with the region's digital-transformation ambitions.

Foundation

AI Foundations: Productivity in the Age of Generative AI

Designed for: Professionals at every level — no technical background required.

8 hours2 × 4 h or 4 × 2 h
Programme highlights
  • What AI can and can't do – and why it makes mistakes
  • Writing clear prompts that give useful answers
  • Emails, reports, summaries and translation in Arabic and English
  • What you must never paste into an AI tool

Prerequisite: None

What's included
  • Premium bilingual materials & workbook
  • Hands-on labs with industry tools
  • Personalised certificate of completion
  • 30 days of post-programme support
Professional

Applied AI: Prompt Engineering, Automation & Intelligent Workflows

Designed for: Professionals and team leads who want AI in their daily processes.

16 hours4 × 4 h
Programme highlights
  • Advanced prompting: roles, examples, structured output
  • Custom GPTs, Projects and reusable prompt libraries
  • No-code automation linking AI with email, forms and Notion
  • Data analysis and presentations with AI
  • A safe-use policy for your team

Prerequisite: AI Foundations or similar experience

What's included
  • Premium bilingual materials & workbook
  • Hands-on labs with industry tools
  • Personalised certificate of completion
  • 30 days of post-programme support
Advanced

AI Solutions Architecture: Assistants, RAG & Agents

Designed for: Developers, data analysts and technical teams.

24 hours3 days × 8 h
Programme highlights
  • Working with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, open models)
  • Retrieval-augmented generation over your own documents – including Arabic
  • Tool calling, MCP and simple agents
  • Evaluating quality, cost and hallucinations
  • Deploying a working assistant

Prerequisite: Basic Python

What's included
  • Premium bilingual materials & workbook
  • Hands-on labs with industry tools
  • Personalised certificate of completion
  • 30 days of post-programme support
Expert

Sovereign AI: Private Models, Fine-tuning & Enterprise Agents

Designed for: Engineering teams that must keep data in-house.

40 hours5 days × 8 h (bootcamp)
Programme highlights
  • Running open models locally and on your own servers (Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp)
  • Fine-tuning with LoRA on your data, including Arabic
  • Multi-agent systems with memory and tools
  • Securing AI: prompt injection, data leakage, access control
  • Monitoring, cost control and governance

Prerequisite: Advanced course or production Python experience

What's included
  • Premium bilingual materials & workbook
  • Hands-on labs with industry tools
  • Personalised certificate of completion
  • 30 days of post-programme support
Masterclasses & briefings

Executive briefings and masterclasses for non-technical audiences

Refined, high-impact sessions for leadership, staff, students, families and communities. No technical background required — only curiosity.

AI

The AI Essentials Masterclass

A friendly, hands-on introduction: what AI is, how to use it for everyday tasks, and how to spot its mistakes.

Designed for: Staff, students, community groups

2 hoursup to 40 participants
$450per session
AI

AI Strategy Briefing for Leaders

Where AI creates value in your organisation, what it costs, the risks, and a 90-day plan to start.

Designed for: Executives, directors and boards

3 hoursup to 20 participants
$900per session
AI

Responsible & Secure AI at Work

What never to paste into ChatGPT, how data leaks happen, and simple rules your whole team can follow.

Designed for: All employees

2 hoursup to 40 participants
$450per session
AI

AI for Arabic Content & Entrepreneurs

Write posts, scripts, product texts and images in Arabic with AI – while keeping your own voice.

Designed for: Entrepreneurs, marketers, creators

3 hoursup to 25 participants
$600per session
Security

Digital Fraud Defence: Phishing, Scams & Deepfakes

Real examples of fake messages, invoice fraud and AI voice scams – and the habits that stop them.

Designed for: All staff, customers, the public

2 hoursup to 40 participants
$450per session
Security

Personal Digital Security: WhatsApp, Accounts & Payments

Step-by-step on your own phone: two-step verification, account recovery, privacy settings and safe payments.

Designed for: Everyone with a smartphone

90 minutesup to 50 participants
$300per session
Security

Digital Wellbeing & Safety for Families

Protecting children online, screen-time tools, gaming and social-media risks, and how to talk about them.

Designed for: Parents, schools, community centres

2 hoursup to 50 participants
$350per session
Security

Cyber-Risk Briefing for Executives & Boards

Your real risks, the questions to ask IT, what to do in the first hour of an incident, and where to invest.

Designed for: Executives, directors and boards

3 hoursup to 20 participants
$900per session
For institutions

The Annual Excellence Programme

A year-long partnership that builds lasting capability across your institution: an inaugural masterclass, a dedicated leadership briefing, quarterly refreshers and a simulated phishing exercise — with attendance records and personalised certificates for your files.

  1. Inaugural masterclass: AI & security for all staff
  2. Dedicated leadership & board briefing
  3. 4 quarterly refreshers (online)
  4. Phishing simulation with executive report
  5. Personalised certificates & attendance records
from $7,500 per yearRequest a tailored proposal

Indicative investment in US dollars, excluding VAT, travel and accommodation. Preferential rates for non-profit organisations, universities and students. Bespoke proposals for government entities, large cohorts and multi-country programmes.

Portfolio

Selected work and signature projects

Client engagements, open-source tools and proprietary systems — the same craft I bring to every programme.

Client engagement

Notion — Norwegian product localisation

Localisation and quality assurance of the Norwegian interface of Notion, one of the world's leading productivity platforms.

LocalisationQASaaS
Open source

Lisanote — real-time AI transcription

A desktop application that transcribes meetings, videos and speech in real time — in the cloud or fully offline — with first-class Arabic support.

PythonWhisperLLM APIsRTL
github.com/MartinDean07/lisanote
Proprietary system

Sovereign AI agent platform

A private AI agent operating on dedicated servers over an encrypted network: local models, tool use, scheduled automation, email and calendar — with every byte of data kept private.

AgentsMCPOllamaDockerEncrypted mesh
Proprietary system

Intelligent Arabic document archive

A local-first system that reads, classifies and searches Arabic documents with OCR — without a single file leaving the premises.

OCRArabic NLPSelf-hosted
Proprietary system

AI learning assistant (RAG)

Searches entire video courses and answers learners' questions with cited sources, turning hours of content into instant, reliable answers.

RAGEmbeddingsPython
Proprietary system

Funding intelligence engine

An automated pipeline that monitors grant sources, verifies the evidence and ranks opportunities for non-profit organisations.

CrawlingLLMAutomation
Training programme

Corporate & professional training

Digital-skills programmes and an in-house corporate programme delivered with Folkeuniversitetet, Norway's largest adult-education provider.

Curriculum designDeliveryMicrosoft Office
Client engagement

edean.no — bilingual brand platform

A fast, search-optimised website with an automated bilingual publishing engine, scheduled releases and social-media content generation.

PythonSEOnginxAutomation
edean.no
Credentials

Credentials, leadership and recognition

Education & certification

  1. Bachelor's degree, Informatics — Cybersecurity

    University of Bergen, Norway

  2. Professional degree in Cybersecurity

    Gokstad Akademiet, Norway

  3. IT Support Professional Certificate

    Google

  4. Information Security

    University of London

  5. Python for Cybersecurity

    InfoSec

  6. Nationally registered interpreter

    Norwegian Directorate of Integration (IMDi)

Professional expertise

  1. AI data quality

    Improving AI systems at a global technology leader.

  2. Founder, E Dean

    Advisory and training firm for AI and cybersecurity.

  3. Product localisation

    Notion's Norwegian interface — localisation and quality assurance.

  4. Corporate & adult education

    Programmes for Folkeuniversitetet and its corporate clients.

  5. Language & cultural advisory

    Arabic, English and Norwegian for government bodies and international localisation firms.

  6. AI training data

    Legal, medical and technical speech data with Sigma Technologies.

Leadership & honours

  1. President, JCI Bergen

    Junior Chamber International — a global network of young leaders and entrepreneurs.

  2. Chair of the Board, Norge på Arabisk

    Arabic-language media and information organisation.

  3. Notion Ambassador

    Community ambassador for the Notion platform.

  4. “Henry of the Year” — national award

    Red Cross Youth Norway's highest honour for exceptional volunteer leadership.

  5. Student leader, NITO

    Engineering and technology students at the University of Bergen.

  6. Mayor, Youth City Council

    Represented the city's youth before the City Council.

Engagement

A seamless engagement, from first conversation to lasting impact

01

Private consultation

A complimentary 30-minute conversation to understand your institution, objectives and audience.

02

Tailored proposal

A detailed proposal with curriculum, schedule, language of delivery and a fixed investment.

03

Delivery & lasting support

Live delivery, premium materials, personalised certificates and 30 days of follow-up.

Frequently asked questions

Do you deliver programmes in our country?

Yes. Programmes are delivered on-site across the Gulf, the Levant and North Africa, and online anywhere in the world. Travel and accommodation are quoted separately.

Do you work with government entities?

Yes. Programmes can be designed for ministries, authorities and public institutions, with confidentiality and data-protection requirements respected throughout.

In which language is the programme delivered?

In Arabic or English — or both, with bilingual materials. Norwegian and Swedish are also available.

Can the content be adapted to our sector?

Every programme is tailored: examples and exercises are drawn from your field — government, education, healthcare, finance, energy, media or the non-profit sector.

Do participants receive a certificate?

Each participant receives a personalised certificate of completion stating the programme, level and hours.

Can we begin with a short session?

Certainly. Many institutions begin with a two-hour executive briefing or masterclass, then continue with a full programme or the Annual Excellence Programme.

Contact

Let's design your next programme.

Share your objectives and audience. You will receive a considered response with recommendations and a tailored proposal within two working days.

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