Ayhan Kamil, Chief Commercial Officer, Astra UTM

Dubai using Astra UTM’s SkyCommander, SkyTrax for tracking of commercial drones

The Astra UTM platform, founded in 2015, now supports more than 30,000 drone operators across the world in safely and efficiently planning and managing their flights. Thanks to Astra’s ground-breaking commercial drone tr...

Vineeta Singh, Co-Founder and CEO, Sugar Cosmetics

Sugar for the bold and independent

By Vineeta Singh From being a digital-only company to 35K+ outlets across 500 cities, Sugar Cosmetics and its founder Vineeta Singh have covered a lot of ground. When Sugar Cosmetics started its operations in 2015, the c...

Technology Innovation Institute is scaling swarms of simple robots in concert with smarter ones

Technology Innovation Institute is scaling swarms of simple robots in concert with smarter ones

Researchers at the Technology Innovation Institute in the UAE are developing a new paradigm for teaching robot swarms how to allocate themselves to tasks efficiently. The ideas could spark interest in better ways of cont...

Kim Grauer, Director of Research at Chainalysis.

Cryptocurrency laundered by cybercriminals increased 30% YoY reaching $8.6B finds Chainalysis

Following significant growth of both legitimate and illicit cryptocurrency activity in 2021, new research by Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, has revealed that the amount of cryptocurrency laundered by cybercri...

Selina Bieber, General Manager, Turkey and MENA, GoDaddy.

50%+ UAE businesses to enhance online presence and sales activity in 2022 finds GoDaddy

Overall outlook for a post-COVID period is positive 65% of UAE entrepreneurs surveyed believe they will emerge stronger than before GoDaddy announced results of its MENA Survey 2021 where nearly half of UAE businesses su...

Gartner Forecasts MENA End-User Spending on Security and Risk Management to Grow 11.2% in 2022

Gartner forecasts regional cloud security will have highest growth at 33+% followed by data security

End-user spending on security and risk management in the Middle East and North Africa region is forecast to total $2.6 billion in 2022, an increase of 11.2% from 2021, according to Gartner. “Cyber-attacks have become mor...

(Left to Right) Goncalo Mateus, Regional Vice President, Sitecore; Jill Grozalsky Roberson, Director of DX Product Marketing & Evangelism, Sitecore; Paige O’Neill, Chief Marketing Officer, Sitecore.

Digital fatigue amongst largest challenges to be faced says Sitecore’s Jill Grozalsky Roberson

Sitecore revealed its top strategic predictions for 2022, aligning with the latest developments in technology, changes in consumer behavior, and new challenges to face. The predictions for the year revolve around the imp...

Tina Nunno, Distinguished Research Vice President and Gartner Fellow.

Time of extraordinarily high visibility for security leadership says Tina Nunno at Gartner

To respond to an ever-changing threat landscape and increase impact among executive leadership, security and risk leaders should take a three-step approach to shift from a defensive to an offensive leadership position, a...

Suresh Vittal, chief product officer at Alteryx.

Organisations need to prioritise democratisation of data and analytics recommends IDC and Alteryx

Alteryx, the analytics automation company, issued findings from an Alteryx-commissioned IDC Infobrief, revealing that approximately 62.4 billion data and analytic work hours are lost annually worldwide – the equiva...

John-David Lovelock, distinguished research vice president at Gartner.

With global IT spending growth at 5%, 2022 is the year the future returns for the CIO states Gartner

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.5 trillion in 2022, an increase of 5.1% from 2021, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. Despite the potential impacts of the Omicron variant, economic recovery ...