Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, Loy Ehlers, has been selected as a judge for the SafeAI Cup — an international AI safety competition held in the United Arab Emirates. The SafeAI Cup convenes researchers, technologists, and youth innovators advancing safety-by-design AI, child digital safety, and ethical AI governance, with submissions evaluated by an international panel of judges drawn from the legal, technical, and child protection sectors.

Ehlers brings to the panel his work as CSD's in-house counsel, his Founding Member seat on the SAFE Governance Council in the AI Governance & Regulatory portfolio, and the operational experience of leading CSD’s international child safety technology deployments — including active programs across the Africa region.

The selection reflects CSD’s growing presence in the Gulf’s AI governance and child safety ecosystem, building on its ongoing collaboration with the Emirates Safer Internet Society (eSafe) and complementing CSD’s expanding partnership network across the MENA region. CSD continues to engage UAE stakeholders on the deployment of safety-by-design technology in education, family, and youth-serving contexts.