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[1] Methodology: the research, conducted by Censuswide, surveyed 909 IT managers and
directors (including infrastructure and cloud infrastructure roles) and AI engineers (including

software engineers in AI/ML, NLP and LLM engineers and data scientists) from companies with
500+ employees across EMEA (in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden,

Switzerland, the UAE and the UK). Of these, 100 are from the UAE. Censuswide abides by and
employs members of the Market Research Society and follows the MRS code of conduct and
ESOMAR principles. Censuswide is also a member of the British Polling Council.

2 Almost two-thirds of respondents (61%) expect to increase investment by 21-50% while

under one-third expect increases of 5-20% (29%). 7% foresee a 51–75% increase, and 3%
say they do not plan to increase AI investment.

3 Strongly agree’ and ‘Somewhat agree’ responses combined

4 Inverse of those who selected “Phase 5: Driving customer value” when asked ‘What phase is
your organisation at with AI adoption, if any? Please select the option that most applies.’

5 Respondents were asked to select the phase that most applies to their organisation:

27% of UAE respondents are in phase 1 – building awareness of AI

28% of UAE respondents are in phase 2 – preparing for AI

21% of UAE respondents are in phase 3 – exploring AI use cases

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