With educated and highly connected populations, the Middle East region is perfectly poised to create a strong competitive advantage in terms of the global rush to technological supremacy. Many countries in the Middle East region have adapted special programs and initiatives at a national level to motivate innovation, nurture talent, and drive socio-economic growth through ICT.

Abbas A. Fairouz, Assistant Professor at Kuwait University, discusses Kuwait’s ICT sector, digital transformation in industries, and future developments and trends.

Following the announcement of e&’s transformation as the global technology conglomerate, the Group has already begun to accelerate its digitalisation leadership by executing its ambitious digital future strategy.

“@HACK has been a tremendous success, with highly enthusiastic participation from the global and regional cybersecurity communities and from Saudi Arabia’s own growing cybersecurity community,” said Faisal Al-Khamisi, Chairman of the Saudi Federation SAFCSP.

Ericsson and KAUST will use machine learning for frequency-selective wireless channels, with the goal of using deep learning to solve channel estimation and resource allocation problems for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, as current optimization algorithms often have significant computational complexity and processing overhead. Ericsson and KAUST will investigate transparent and flexible intelligent surfaces for increased communication in 5G and beyond.