Abdallah Alawadi is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The AM Lab and a leading voice in the digital transformation of industrial manufacturing across MENA. Recognising that the region’s manufacturing sector was fragmented, with capacity scattered across disconnected machine shops, suppliers, and service providers, he set out to bring the industry onto a single platform. Under his leadership, The AM Lab became the region’s first digital manufacturing platform, combining a cloud-based quotation engine, a vetted production network, and advanced metal additive manufacturing and CNC capability. By connecting industrial operators with qualified manufacturers, Abdallah has turned a traditional, offline industry into a coordinated network that delivers critical parts faster, locally, and at scale, advancing the region’s goal of sovereign industrial capacity.