Meet us at stand E30, Hall 4
See Mantika Argus and Mantika Tessera at work on decisions like yours.
Mantika at the Dubai AI Festival
Gold sponsor, 26 and 27 October 2026, Dubai World Trade Centre.
Talks and events
Salah Rifai in conversation with Ziad Nassar
Real-Time AI at Scale: Turning Enterprise Data into Commercial Impact. Innovation Stage, Tuesday 27 October, 13:10 to 13:30 Dubai time.
Machine Learning from Scratch
Salah Rifai and a Mantika colleague presented a talk in two sessions at Speed@BDD on the full life cycle of a machine learning project, from data collection to deployment in production. The notebooks are public.
Docker Global Hack Day #3
Mantika engineers built CMT, a container migration tool. It won the Buenos Aires prize and placed first in the plumbing category of the global vote.
In the press
Middle East Business News carries the DIFC release
Middle East Business News republished, on 21 October 2026, the DIFC release that lists Mantika among the organisations taking part in the Dubai AI Festival.
Zawya carries the DIFC release
Zawya republished the DIFC release of 20 October 2026, which lists Mantika among the organisations taking part in the Dubai AI Festival.
DIFC names Mantika among festival participants
The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) release of 20 October 2026 lists Mantika among the organisations taking part in the Dubai AI Festival on 26 and 27 October.
Dubai AI Festival announces Mantika as a Gold Sponsor
On 28 January 2026 the festival welcomed Mantika on X as a Gold Sponsor of its 2026 edition and described its always-on AI systems that score millions of transactions in real time.
Opensource.com features the Mantika team's container migration tool
Opensource.com named the Container Migration Tool, a winning entry at Docker Global Hack Day #3 from the Mantika team, among ten cool tools from the Docker community.
Recognition
Mantika holds the Dubai AI Seal
The Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence lists Mantika AI Consultancy Limited as Approved at Tier E, for AI Development, with the Verified AI Business User mark.
Research by our co-founder
A generative process for sampling contractive auto-encoders
Salah Rifai, Yoshua Bengio, Yann Dauphin and Pascal Vincent, Université de Montréal. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2012, Edinburgh. The paper describes how to draw samples from a contractive auto-encoder.
Contractive auto-encoders: Explicit invariance during feature extraction
Salah Rifai, Pascal Vincent, two co-authors and Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2011, Bellevue. The paper presents a penalty that makes the features an auto-encoder learns less sensitive to small changes in the input.
Press enquiries
Mantika serves banks, fintechs and digital businesses, including MercadoLibre and Mercado Pago. It makes Mantika Argus, which stops fraud before the money moves, and Mantika Tessera, the machine learning engine of all Mantika products. Operating since 2012. Write to hello@mantika.ca.