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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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
TONY DE SAULLES: WHY DOES THE WORLD NEED BEES?
Q. What inspired the Bee Boy series? A. Success with our first Horrible Science title, Ugly Bugs, published by Scholastic in 1996 was the start of 20 years of illustrating plants, mammals and insects for children’s books. So when it came to writing and illustrating my own series it is perhaps no surprise that I chose a […]
Award Winning Journalist and Author Vince Beiser on the Importance of Sand
Q. How did you become passionate about the topic? A: As an independent journalist I read a lot of obscure, out-of-the-way publications, especially ones focussing on international issues. About four years ago I ran across an article in a little environmental website that told me 2 things: 1. sand is the most used natural resource […]
HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of Dubai Supreme Council of Energy and MD & CEO of DEWA
Dubai is moving forward in the fields of renewable energy, sustainability and the environment and enhancing its efficiency. The Supreme Council of Energy has set a strategy to reduce carbon emissions by 16%, equivalent to reducing 11 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2021. HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime […]
