Global How can investors use data science? Dmitry Kaminskiy is the general partner at Deep Knowledge Group, a UK-based consortium of commercial and non-profit organisations active in... Thought Leadership • 12 December, 2022 big data AI
U.A.E Hub71 chooses startups for third cohort Abu Dhabi-based accelerator Hub71 has chosen the 19 startups that will partake in the third cohort of its accelerator... Wamda • 02 November, 2020 Hub71 AI big data
Regional Gaining more value from data through incentive, investment and regulation Jad Hajj, partner with Strategy& Middle East; Alice Klat, director of the Ideation Center, and Jana Batal, senior fellow at the... Thought Leadership • 27 November, 2019 big data
Turkey Turkish startup turned machine failure into a business model Airways and railways have been conservative and difficult sectors for startups due to safety and security issues. But this is changing,... Maya Rahal • 18 September, 2017 Delphisonic predictable maintenance turkey
Algeria From dates to big data, entrepreneurship as therapy “You need to start by entering your order into the machine,” a waiter explained to Hadj Khelil at a McDonald’s in Paris.... Aline Mayard • 28 June, 2017 big data organic farming
Jordan Mawdoo3.com scales into video and AI In January 2017, Mawdoo3.com reached 33 million views which made it the most popular website in the Gulf according to a report released by... Tala El Issa • 18 April, 2017 Mawdoo3 big data AI
Saudi Arabia Tapping into social media: the story of Lucidya Arabic content, be it news or software, has become massively popular, and one Saudi startup is mining that trend in social media... Abdullah Baghawitah • 15 March, 2017 Saudi Arabia ksa big data
U.A.E Using big data and AI to fill the digital Arabic content void When it comes to digital content there’s not much out there in Arabic. In fact, according to data released in the 2016 Media in... Elias Jabbe • 23 January, 2017 narrativa flat6labs abu dhabi AI
Egypt Did this Egyptian company predict the US election? Donald Trump’s election to the US presidency was a shock for many, but not so much for those who were willing and able to read the... Eman Mostafa • 08 January, 2017 big data TweetElect MEMakersGE
U.A.E Big data, food for thought at Dubai’s Smartcon ‘Big data’ is an increasingly cited buzzword but not always completely understood in relation to the planning and optimization... Elias Jabbe • 13 December, 2016 big data Smart Cities Smart Dubai
Jordan Health tech in MENA: How do you say measles, mumps and rubella in Arabic? “Now is the era of systems that learn. It’s like [sending] a child to school. You teach them to read and digest information.... Dana Ballout • 14 November, 2016 ICT MENA Forum Watson big data
Global Behind Gradberry’s rebirth: it's all about timing “I don’t look like any other founder in the [Silicon] Valley. I wasn’t born and raised here,” Gradberry founder Iba... Vanessa Khalil • 02 November, 2016 Gradberry TARA uae
Tunisia Favizone, the Tunisian big data company that's launching in France What do you do after you’ve found success and sold your startup? Mehdi Khemiri’s answer was to pick a high potential... Aline Mayard • 02 October, 2016 France Business France big data
Egypt Egypt startup eyes global industrial IoT Spimesense Labs was born from corporate sluggishness: two friends were working at Ericsson when it was trying to work out just how big this... Rachel Williamson • 04 September, 2016 SpimeSenseLabs Egypt big data
Regional MIT Media Lab and Wamda Workshop Abu Dhabi 2014: Joe Paradiso The MIT Media Lab Abu Dhabi innovation workshop brought together design innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, makers, thinkers, and... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 MIT Innovation Technology
Regional Big data in health: good for anything yet? Using big data in healthcare, anywhere, might it be true to say no one seems to quite know what they’re doing yet? But Dr.... Lucy Knight • 29 June, 2016 Ver2 Digital Medicine MEMakersGE healthcare analytics
Regional Applications open for Start IT with Etisalat Start IT with Etisalat are on the lookout for this year’s batch of aspiring Egyptian entrepreneurs. The initiative,... Wamda • 16 June, 2016 etisalat IoT start it
Global Data science: how is it good for business? Can you make data science work for your business? (Image via Alamy/Carol and Mike Werner) “Data is the new oil,” says big... Tala El Issa • 16 May, 2016 data science bootcamp josa data science middle east
U.A.E The challenges and possibilities of IoT, big data The first day of Future Tech Week, busy. (Images via Future Tech Week) The latest buzzwords in technology - big data, Internet of Things... Archana Menon • 10 April, 2016 future technology week GISEC IoT
Egypt Egypt's Big Data Hackathon teaches next gen of data crunchers Big Data Hackathon participants learn get a crash course in data analysis. (Images via Eman Mostafa) Go big or go home could have been a... Eman Mostafa • 23 February, 2016 analysis teledata big data hackathon
Egypt Egypt Big Data Hackathon III The Information Technology Institute (ITI) will hold its third edition of the Egypt Annual Big Data Hackathon on February 18-20th, at the... Wamda • 05 February, 2016 hackathon big data Egypt
Maghreb Tunisia’s media monitoring service, WebRadar, is targeting the Arab world The Innova team is changing Arabic big data. Here they pause at Cogite coworking space's garden. (Images via WebRadar) Upon discovering... Emna Ghariani • 13 January, 2016 online alerts WebRadar tunisia
Regional How to leverage healthcare analytics to control healthcare costs [Opinion] Healthcare costs directly impact an SME’s bottom line and overall competitiveness. Skyrocketing healthcare costs in the United... Hari Kesavan - Anchshana Haridas • 07 January, 2016 healthcare analytics MEMakers Healthcare
Egypt Egypt's Winex innovates with health tech The international health sector is evolving as innovators mix tech solutions with healthcare, but in Egypt the shift to even partially... Sara Aggour • 03 January, 2016 Winex MEMakers big data