With the participation of a group of Arab universities, civil society organizations, and government officials concerned with consolidating digital solutions and applications in order to achieve Arab visions of digital transformation.

There will also be a number of technical workshops and related events like the Industry Summit, the finals of Africa IoT & AI Challenge, Women in Tech Summit, IEEE Summit for 5G Technologies.

Professor Karray comes to MBZUAI after serving as the founding co-director of the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is also the founding co-director of the University of Waterloo.

By Arafat Yousef, MD- MEA, Nexans Data Network Solutions. Enterprise Data Centres need to prepare for the next technology evolution to accommodate the incessant increase of data generation. 100G is set to become the next speed for the core or spine network. Different variants of protocols for 100G Ethernet are now available.

The expansion of smart sensors usage is being hindered by the lack of a universal standard, especially in the wireless region. Recognizing that no single sensor bus or network is likely to dominate in the foreseeable future