ISSUE # 327
CNME May 2019
Sophia’s maker David Hanson aims to recreate our compassion, logic and physiology
SAS Analytics Summit 2019
The SAS Analytics Summit 2019 brought together speakers from Emirates NBD, the Abu Dhabi Department of Health and OSN to spotlight the impact of AI and analytics.
GBM DX Executive Summit
GBM hosted its DX Executive Summit at the St Regis hotel in Abu Dhabi, where experts discussed the ways that organisations can transform and disrupt themselves.
Smooth mover
Quest’s general manager and sales director for EMEA Emerging Markets, Amer Chebaro, discusses how the firm is positioned to ease challenges associated with moving to cloud.
What’s Inside

Pivot3 on building the Smart City of the future
0 2557Pivot3’s manager, solutions architect Ahmed Waqas Abid explains how the firm is equipped to provide infrastructure and cloud solutions to power the smart city of the future.
David Hanson: can machines become human?
0 7738David Hanson has embarked on a mammoth task – building machines that are as human as human beings themselves.
GBM DX Summit: breaking the digital deadlock
0 8129GBM hosted its DX Executive Summit at the St Regis hotel in Abu Dhabi, where experts discussed the ways that organisations can transform themselves through forward-thinking technology solutions and processes.
Cutting through the AI noise
0 1665AI is already driving value across a range of business functions, writes Ahmed Helmy, CTO, Avaya International.
UAE is ready to embrace AI to enhance quality of life: Sheikh Mohammed
0 3520The UAE has launched the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2031, which will reaffirm the country’s position as a global hub for AI and to develop an integrated system that employs advanced technologies in vital areas.
UAE IT decision-makers plan to increase cloud investments: report
0 3450Over three quarters (88 percent) of UAE IT decision-makers will increase cloud spend in 2019, according to a new YouGov survey.
World’s first robot-operated number plates factory opens in Dubai
0 2763The Dubai RTA has inaugurated the first factory in the world that uses robots in the manufacturing of vehicle number plates, with a capacity of 33,000 plates per day.
“We seamlessly move 40 workloads to cloud”: Quest
0 2498Quest’s general manager and sales director for EMEA emerging markets Amer Chebaro says that the software firm can help enterprises …
UAE-based Etisalat to invest $1 billion in digital transformation
0 3987UAE-based Etisalat plans to invest $1 billion during 2019 in digital transformation, mobile and fibre networks, according to the firm's CTO Hatem Bamatraf.
Yahoo offers $117 million as data breach settlement
0 3433Yahoo has reached a revised $117.5 million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history.