OrionsFlow is a Dubai-based research, education and public-engagement initiative helping people and organisations understand AI governance, accountability and human impact.
In an age of acceleration, optimisation, and automation, we slow down — to ask better questions before we build faster answers.
We conduct, develop and support research on AI governance, accountability, bias, safety, digital inclusion and human impact, with particular attention to practical frameworks and institutional realities in the MENA region.
We host dialogues, screenings, and learning circles that bring together practitioners, policymakers, technologists, creatives, and citizens.
We design and lead cross-sector projects with universities, startups, civil society and industry — turning complex questions around AI governance, education and human impact into structured programmes, research, frameworks and practical action.
Working with secondary students to build critical thinking around AI — from deepfakes and misinformation to governance and what it means to be human in an AI-shaped world.
Advisory conversations, workshops and tailored engagements helping organisations examine AI adoption, governance, accountability, risk and human impact. Work may include leadership briefings, governance and programme design, research, organisational readiness and implementation-focused projects. Where an engagement requires a formal AI-governance assessment or wider specialist capability, it can be delivered through Assessed Intelligence. Where appropriate, engagements may draw on Assessed Intelligence's ARISE Framework™ to connect governance objectives with operational controls, evidence and assurance.
One-to-one and group learning for school and university students, emerging professionals and research participants — covering AI literacy, computing, critical thinking, research development and responsible technology.
OrionsFlow is led by Saima Tariq Khan — an engineer, educator and AI-governance practitioner based in Dubai. With a background spanning project management, AI governance, and human development, Saima works at the intersection of technology and its human consequences.
As Senior AI Advisor and UAE Representative for Assessed Intelligence, a CAIDP Advanced AI Policy Clinic graduate with Distinction and Team Leader experience, and guest educator at ExploreXtraordinaire, she brings both institutional credibility and genuine human depth to every engagement.
We believe AI should strengthen human agency rather than diminish it — and that trustworthy innovation depends on governance, education and informed public participation.
Saima serves as a Senior AI Advisor with Assessed Intelligence, a secure and responsible technology firm working across AI governance, cybersecurity, privacy, ethics and assurance.
Assessed Intelligence's proprietary ARISE Framework™ provides a structured approach to operationalising governance across seven interconnected domains: Govern, Manage, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Validate. It helps organisations move beyond high-level principles and policies towards defined controls, evidence, accountability and continuous assurance.
Through this relationship, OrionsFlow can bring together human-centred research, strategic education and contextual insight with the wider specialist capability and formal assessment pathways available through Assessed Intelligence.
Through our partnership with Assessed Intelligence, organisations can access a free AI governance self-assessment to understand their current level of readiness — and identify where the critical gaps are.
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