Shell.ai Futures Pitch 2025 – Qatar Edition

Title: Shell.ai Futures Pitch 2025 – Qatar Edition

Duration: 45 seconds

Description:

A short launch video for Shell.ai Futures Pitch 2025 in Qatar. It is a competition that aims to bring together the start-up ecosystem, Shell and QSTP to accelerate and explore opportunities for joint learning and collaboration on some of the world's toughest energy challenges. The objective of the video is to create hype and awareness around the launch of the competition.

Shell.ai Futures Pitch 2025 – Qatar Edition Transcript

[Background music plays]

Powerful rock track with driving beat plays.

[Visuals]

Doha Qatar zoom in from space.

[Text displays]

Doha Qatar

[Visuals]

A timelapse clip of Doha’s skyline illuminated in the night from a rooftop with a view of the city’s streets and traffic

[Text displays]

Shell.ai Futures Pitch

[Visuals]

Doha’s West Bay skyscrapers skyline view from Mia park at night

[Text displays]

2025

[Visuals]

Man and woman standing below arches with Doha skyline.

[Text displays]

Qatar Edition

[Visuals]

QSTP building footage in the background

[Text displays]

A brand-new collaboration

[Visuals]

Shell and QSTP logos

[Background music plays]

High energy pop-rock track with positive vibe and fast pace plays.

[Visuals]

Timelapse clip of Katara Towers skyline project in Lusail City, at twilight with a colourful sky.

[Text displays]

Calling all startups

[Visuals]

Office conference room meeting, where a diverse team of multi-ethnic business professionals brainstorm together

[Text displays]

to seize the opportunity to innovate!

[Visuals]

Bird’s eye view of vehicles on a busy highway intersection with blue headlights

[Text displays]

From challenges in

[Visuals]

A ship containing goods in the ocean, representing global logistics and supply chain network distribution container

[Text displays]

Adaptive Supply Chain

[Visuals]

Split screen view of digital and physical assets

[Text displays]

to Intelligent Asset Management

[Visuals]

A presenter on stage with data points and a live audience

[Text displays]

Develop cutting-edge solutions

[Visuals]

A closeup shot of a businesswoman working with data on a screen

[Text displays]

Harness the power of data

[Visuals]

Two men present data on a large screen

[Visuals]

Split screen view of a factory showcased as a digital asset on one side and a screen with data on the other side

[Text displays]

and digital technology

[Visuals]

A digital technology asset demo with a tool and screen

[Visuals]

A group of diverse students enjoying recreation activity in trendy office workplace

[Text displays]

Foster co-innovation & collaboration

[Visuals]

Bird’s eye view of vehicles on a busy highway intersection with blue headlights

[Text displays]

Be the change. Shape tomorrow.

[Call to action displays]

Register Now button slides in with an arrow clicking on it

[Text displays]

Shell.ai Futures Pitch 2025 Qatar Edition

[Shell mnemonic plays]

[Logo displays]

Shell logo is displayed on white ripple background with co-branded QSTP logo sliding in.

Shell.ai Futures Pitch Qatar Edition 2025 Press Release

Duration: 6:21 minutes

Description:

Press conference launching the Shell.ai Futures Pitch Qatar Edition at Web Summit Doha 2025, 26^th February 2025

{Video opens to 2 people sitting in a press conference with a black backdrop that is branded with the Web Summit logo in white. The person on the right is Dan Jeavons, VP Digital Innovation Shell and the person on the left is Dr. Jack Lau, President of Qatar Science & Technology Park. The video stays in this frame for the entire duration.}

00:00 – 01:04 {Dan Jeavons, VP Digital Innovation Shell}

Well, good afternoon, everybody. It's brilliant to be with you. It's great to be launching this new competition.

We're launching today the Shell.ai Futures Pitch, Qatar edition. It's the first time we're doing it in Qatar. This is the third edition in total.

And really, this is our attempt to reach out to the broader startup community and engage them on the topics of AI and energy transition. In terms of the competition itself, what we've done is we've curated a set of problem statements, which we launched today. And we're inviting startups from across the globe to come and participate in this with a view to engaging here in Qatar.

The key point around this competition is that there are cash prizes for the winners. But also, most importantly, there's an opportunity for the winners to have a paid proof of concept with Shell, and also to become a member of the Qatar Science and Technology Park. And we see this as a key contribution to the national mission.

I'll ask Jack to say a few words and build on what I've said. All right. Good afternoon, guys.

01:11 – 02:46 {Dr. Jack Lau, President of Qatar Science & Technology Park}

I was inside preparing for the press conference, and I was kidding with Dan. I said, actually, I wish I were your age, because I'd rather be sitting down there than sitting up here to announce the competition. But here I am.

This is my job. This is the first time we work with Shell. Qatar Science and Technology Park is extremely proud and pleased to launch this first and ever, the best probably, the pitch event.

Here's a chance for able, probably young, super excited, enthusiastic mind to participate in a competition that's not only technologically fun, AI, but also in energy sector, helping our planet. This is an impactful project that QSTP is going to support to its fullest extent, enabling the best minds to create a solution for the betterment of humanity. I say with that, because it's not just any science competition.

It's a competition that will hopefully shake and make our world better. Artificial intelligence is hard. But I tell you, applying them with unique data set and guidance from Shell on a practical problem, wow, that's exciting.

So yes, I look forward to the winners and participants to come to QSTP. I hope that you make a lot of noise at QSTP. I'll take good care of you when you come.

02:47 – 03:39 {Dan Jeavons, VP Digital Innovation Shell}

Thanks so much, Jack. And we'll play a short video and then open for questions.

[Shell.ai Futures Pitch Qatar Teaser plays]

03:40 – 03:55 {Emil Protalinski, Editor at EPro Strategies and Techmeme}

If there are any questions at this time, please raise your hand.

I'll pass the mic to you. I'll ask you to state your name and affiliation, followed by your question. So are there any questions? You can ask ChatGPT to see if you have any questions.

That's allowed.

04:02 – 04:11 {Sofi Rafa, Digital Marketing AI Consultant and Editor, Sophisticated}

Hi, everyone. This is Sofi Rafa, digital marketing AI consultant and editor of Sophisticated.

The question is, what are the criterias to participate?

04:12 – 04:38 {Dan Jeavons, VP Digital Innovation Shell}

Well, it's open globally. Ultimately, we're looking to attract all startups from across the world to come here and be part of this. The key thing is that we want startups to focus on the problem statements we've identified and to work with us through a curated process to ultimately be part of the final competition and have a chance of winning.

But really, we've tried to make it as open as we possibly can. Jack, do you want to add anything to that?

04:39 – 05:21 {Dr. Jack Lau, President of Qatar Science & Technology Park}

Of course, they are at a bonus for participating in this competition. Because in AI, what is the hardest thing? The hardest thing is not programming.

The hardest thing is the problem statement. The hardest thing is the data set. And here, together with Shell, you have very, very impactful problem statements and also extremely useful data set.

Not to say the least, guidance from Shell and QSTP to help participants to navigate through all this. So as Dan said, this is for everybody who is interested in making an impact in the world.

05:21 – 05:23 {Dan Jeavons, VP Digital Innovation Shell}

That's that, Jack.

05:23 – 05:30 {Thierry Lesales, Environmental Journalist, Oryx FM radio}

Yes, good afternoon. Thierry Lausalle from Oryx FM. What is the timeline of the competition?

05:35 – 05:59 {Dan Jeavons, VP Digital Innovation Shell}

So the timeline, it's going to take place over the next few months.

The aim is to have a final pitching session around June for the winners. And then ultimately, we also hope that we'll be able to then run the paid proof of concepts before our September conference, where we hope that we'll be able to showcase some results. So the aim is to try to accelerate the time frame over the next few months and to make sure we actually show progress by September.

06:03 – 06:19 {Emil Protalinski, Editor at EPro Strategies and Techmeme}

Any other questions? Going once, twice? OK, I think that might conclude today's press conference. And I will thank the panelists for their time and you for your attendance. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, everybody.

{Fades out}