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Farnek

Local facilities management company Farnek operates Hotel Optimizer, a tool designed to help hotels benchmark their performance in energy management, water and waste reduction and CO2 emissions, both with their sister properties and their peers. The Sustainabilist took a look at Hotel Optimizer, how it works and how it contributes to the sustainable tourism sector. […]


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Evoteq, Announces the Appointment of Jihad Tayara as its new CEO

Evoteq, a key subsidiary and digital transformation catalyst under the Bee’ah group of companies, has recently announced the appointment of Jihad Tayara as its new Chief Executive Officer. Evoteq, is quickly cementing its position as the region’s premier technology management partner developing impactful and disruptive technology solutions for customers to facilitate operations by increasing efficiency, […]


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Smarter City: Intra-Connected Cities Streamlines Wellness

By: Caspar Herzberg, President of Middle East & Africa Region, Schneider Electric Today, cities represent only 2 percent of the planet’s surface but houses approximately 50 percent of the world’s population. Generating 80 percent of the global CO2 emissions, they consume 75 percent of our energy. According to the United Nations, there will be 2.5 […]


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GERD LEONHARD: TECHNOLOGY VERSUS HUMANITY

Q. Has the point of no return – where technology has clearly taken over humanity – been reached? A. Not at all. We are still 20-30 years away from truly intelligent machines ie AGI – artificial general intelligence. If you equate that with what is called the Singularity – when machines become limitlessly powerful – that would […]


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RICHARD BALDWIN: THE GLOBOTICS UPHEAVAL

Q. What should humans do to prepare for the globotics upheaval? A. The jobs of the future will be doing things that software robots cannot automation – experts think that the most human tasks like creativity, empathy, motivating and managing groups of people, applying ethics, dealing unknown situations and such things will be very hard for […]


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Insights from Douglas Coupland – Effects of Consumerism & Technology

Q: What causes you the highest level of anxiety when it comes to looking at the future? What about excitement? A: I don’t get anxiety about the future — I think it’s a terrific place. I’m always baffled when people think the future is somehow doomed. Throughout my entire life, the world has only gotten […]


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The Happiest City on Earth

How smart is my city? Turns out, a lot. By definition, a smart city is a municipality that uses information and communication technologies to increase operational efficiency, share information with the public, and improve both the quality of government services and citizen welfare. This is how the worldwide Internet of Things Agenda describe a truly smart functioning […]


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It’s Really Not That Smart

Ivano Ianelli, CEO of Dubai Carbon (DCCE) has been using his personal Dubai home as a testing ground for any ground breaking smart home technology hitting the Dubai market. He staunchly believes that, in his current role at Dubai Carbon, he cannot recommend a product or a service unless he himself wholeheartedly approves of it. […]