Dr Saliha Afridi, Clinical Psychologist and Managing Director of The LightHouse Arabia.

Tips to control compulsive buying behaviour

One of the biggest sources of stress in the UAE are financial pressures. Yes, cost of living may be higher than what you are used to, but for many people the financial stress is a result of them living outside ...

Moving from consumer tracking to aggregated measurement

Moving from consumer tracking to aggregated measurement

Being a part of the digital world for the past nine years, I have witnessed the digital ecosystems constantly evolving. At present, data protection laws and anti-tracking policies are the epicenters of the digi...

Vanessa Erickson, Capital Project Portfolio Expert, AVEVA.

Blending project and asset data into digital twins

Over the past ten years, capital expenditure projects, both brownfield and greenfield, have become more complex and challenging due to many factors, not limited to ever-changing environmental, societal and gove...

Joe Hawayek, Head of vHealth Middle East and Africa, Aetna International.

Telehealth now a recognised healthcare service

As lockdowns swept the region last year, a host of pressing points emerged. Isolation, interrupted routines, expanded work volumes, job uncertainty and financial concerns, all conspired to bring issues of menta...

Libby Duane Adams, Chief Advocacy Officer and Co-Founder at Alteryx.

Clear link between diversity and business success

Fostering diversity from the top down and utilising as many diverse viewpoints as possible is the key for these strategies to succeed. From increased performance to a dramatic uptick in innovation, developing d...

Maurizio Galardo, Chief Technologist Extended Reality, AVEVA.

Extended reality is transforming industrial training

The concept of gamification – the principles and theories behind playing games – has been central to the swift progression of virtual training. Gamification techniques are now being applied to real-world indust...

Sylvain Duranton, Managing Director and Senior Partner at BCG, Global Head of BCG GAMMA.

Does the EU legislation create ethical AI?

A wave of technology regulation is sweeping the world. Legislators and regulators from the European Union, the US, India, and other countries have been working on new laws and regulation that will soon shape ho...

Niranjan Gidwani, Consultant Director, Member UAE Superbrands Council, Former CEO Eros Group.

As executives, do we know the meaning of life?

It is natural for each individual to be driven by ambition. Yet each of us must also aspire to lead a whole life in perfect contentment. There is a natural, rubber-band like stretch between ambition and content...

Richard Addiscott, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner.

Three ways to boost security awareness programmes

A good training programme is a cost-effective way to reduce cybersecurity risk, but it needs executive support to succeed. A senior employee at one of Australia’s top universities received a seemingly innocuous...

Sam Olyaei, Director Analyst, Gartner.

Top 5 questions the Board can ask their CISOs

Recently, boards have been asking security and risk leaders for guidance on how to navigate a global pandemic, increased phishing threats and, potentially, a workforce unaccustomed to working from home. The pro...