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The keynote
addressed how AI has made business more profitable with Dr. Sven Korner and using
semantic processing to interpret data to deliver real knowledge.
Marwan bin
Dalmook, SVP, ICT Commercial and Business Development and Smart City
Operations, du got in conversation with Dr. Muneer Zuhdi, Partner at Bell Labs
by Nokia on digitization, redefining business models and 5G.
Jihad
Tayara, CEO at Evoteq spoke about Smart homes, Office of the Future and smarter
cities followed by Karl Feilder, Founder and Chairman of Neural Fuels presented
AIoT cases on sustainable business models and mitigating climate change through
technology.
Jassem
Nasser, Chief Strategy Officer, Thuraya talked about the growing role of
innovative applications before the panel discussions on monetizing IoT within
ecosystems followed by Christophe Vloebergh presenting Daimler AG’s vision on
the Future of Mobility.
Faraz
Mehdi, Regional Sales head, eufy Security by ANKER spoke about the current
challenges of home security, privacy of data, Ai in home security and ease of
use with Smart Home Eco System followed by Fadi Hindi delivering a key note on
the Future of the Workforce.
Markku
Willenius, Dean of Dubai Future Academy concluded the conference with a keynote
on how to harness new technologies for human good and progress and how UAE will
play a significant role as a testbed for resource efficient and adaptive
economies.
Other
notable speakers included Brian deFrancesca, Ahmed Kawakbi, Danish Farhan,
Janne Kilpelainen, Dr. Mohammed Al Awadhi, Richard Estephan, Balaji Nambi and
Fadi Hindi.
The
cross-industry C-level conference brought together forward-thinking experts
sharing insights on business, technology and organizational transformation to
leverage new business and new eco-systems with a focus on how to generate
business out of IoT, AI, ML and Intelligent automation.
New tech
like AI and ML needs the data of IoT to deliver accurate analyses and output.
IoT adoption is hence expected to grow by two-digit numbers and reach $18
billion in MEA related IoT investments by 2023, as both governmental and
private sector companies ramp up their digital transformation capabilities.