US technology giant Oracle announced on Sunday the opening of an innovation center in Dubai to boost the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in companies, the public sector and the country's academy.
Inaugurated by Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, State Minister of Artificial Intelligence of the United Arab Emirates, the company has named the new facility 'Zayed Innovation Hub'."The success of strategic government initiatives such as Smart Dubai and Expo 2020 is based on emerging digital technologies such as AI that drives the creation of an automated infrastructure for the realization of these projects," said Arun Khehar, senior vice president of commercial applications at ECEMEA. , Oracle.
The center has employed more than 400 sales professionals in the cloud.
Abdul Rahman Al Thehaiban, Oracle senior vice president of Technology, Middle East and Africa, said: "Forrester predicts that companies using artificial intelligence, big data and the Internet of things to discover new business knowledge will steal $ 1.2 trillion per year of his less informed colleagues by 2020. "
He said: "However, making AI easy to adopt is fundamental: a key challenge for organizations is that they can not afford to wait." The Zayed Innovation Hub will seek to address this challenge by interacting with the main UAE audience by raising their levels of awareness., helping to drive an innovative approach and also supporting the development of skills of the next generation of Emirati leaders. "
