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Despite the pandemic, the race towards Wi-Fi 6E continues at pace, and with good reason. As organizations increase their use of bandwidth-hungry video, speed up their transition to the cloud, and battle rocketing numbers of devices, the demand for Wi-Fi connectivity continues to rise. According to the Wi-Fi alliance, there are as many 16.4B client and IoT devices now in use.

Since 2017, when the state established AI ministry to facilitate a long-term goal to become a world leader in AI technology by 2030, the UAE has ranked at the top in terms of artificial intelligence technology competence.

“We must develop innovative technologies that ensure security and continuity of high-quality services, to fulfil the Dubai Cyber Security Strategy and enhance Dubai’s status as world leader in innovation and safety,” says H.E. Al Shaibani.

Major factors that aided Dubai’s response to the pandemic is commitment to digitalisation. Whether the Internet of Things or Fourth Industrial Revolution, Dubai has been at the forefront with latest technologies, which have benefited all sectors of economy – from retail to logistics to trade. Dubai’s leadership has been prioritising digital transformation and innovation many years before Covid-19 disrupted the world.

Dubai Future Council on Energy’s mandate is to explore future of energy, and identify opportunities to transform Dubai into a sustainable ecosystem powered by clean energy. Dubai’s main energy direction is in line with the wise leadership directives. It includes use of clean energy and employing digital transformation, smart grids, tools of Fourth Industrial Revolution and disruptive technologies.

The pandemic has prompted a focus on virtual care as it showed its value as a scalable enabler to help deliver quality care when resources are limited - highlighting the need for a more resilient and accessible healthcare system. Communities across the globe quickly embraced virtual care and collaboration as a safe and convenient alternative to legacy care delivery. Patients, healthcare providers and physicians soon found benefit in technology.

From the concerns and priorities revealed by our research that service providers have customer experience and service resilience firmly at the top of their to-do list as customer expectations, their purchasing strategies and the network environment undergo pandemic-accelerated change. A thread running through many responses was the threat posed by DDoS attacks, with almost half of service providers.

At VeeamON 2021, the leading event to Accelerate Your Data Protection Strategy, Veeam provided a select preview of the future, showcasing innovations around upcoming updates to its single platform to protect and manage ALL workloads.

The Fintech Megathon 2021 is centered on finding innovative technical solutions to challenges facing the services sector under eight thematic areas, namely asset management/investment advisory, digital assets/cryptocurrencies, crowdfunding, forex (trading of foreign currencies, e-KYC form, SME financing, financial inclusion, and suptech and regtech. the megathon encourages innovators, financial institutions, regulators, and other ecosystem partners across the UAE .

Despite this exponential growth in data generation, the data businesses need usually won’t sit neatly in a predefined database - inside a fully prepared data table - just waiting for you to access it. IDC estimates that 90% of all data created is ‘dark data’ - information that is unstructured, locked away, or generally inaccessible.