Entrepreneur Middle East organizes a number of events every year to honor and support startups, SMEs, and digital businesses in the MENA region. They provide an exciting opportunity to showcase and celebrate the innovative and impactful work of e-businesses in the region. At these events, some of the most significant entrepreneurs in the area exchange ideas, talk about difficulties, and network.

Entrepreneur Middle East honor, celebrate, and acknowledge the most notable and successful people and companies shaping the region’s e-business environment at the Entrepreneur E-Business Awards ceremony. The awards were presented in 30 categories, with tough competition within each category. And only 28 winners were crowned for their projects, innovations, initiatives, and individual efforts.

Now for the surprise news, we are honored to announce that AEserver was nominated for this year’s E-business awards hosted by Entrepreneur Middle East. We are not only a nominee but also the winner in the ‘Best E-Solution Provider Of The Years’ category. The category seeks the best tech solution targeting Middle Eastern SMEs. The winner for this category is supposed to be best-in-class e-solutions that are creative, easy to integrate with the best customer service experience, And AEserver proudly fulfilled these criteria.

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Dubai: The good news first – Organizations in the Middle East are containing data breaches faster and more effectively than they have been used to. And here’s the bad bit: the costliest breaches – and they still happen – are costing regional entities up to $9.6 million.

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During the forum, Mohammed Al Hebsi, Acting Director of the Literature Department at Dubai Culture, stressed in his opening speech the importance of the role that digital publishing plays in the literary field, saying: “In light of the rapid technological development witnessed in our world today, digital publishing has become an essential link in the world of culture and the dissemination of knowledge. It plays an important role in enabling writers to publish their literary productions and making them available to the public on a large scale.” He also attributed the significant contribution of digital publishing to the love of reading and knowledge among society members, especially the younger generations, thanks to the advanced means that make reading more interesting.

Al Hebsi indicated that the forum is the first-of-its-kind in the emirate, as it is the first event that was held at the Mohammed bin Rashid Library, which represents Dubai’s cultural front and is characterised by the latest digital technologies it employs and its digital transformation lab, which incubates more than 4 million books for adults, children, researchers and readers.

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New technologies have always demanded societal conversations, and the metaverse is no different, with its ethical implications being put into question now more than ever – Meta, formerly Facebook, has recently pledged $50m for research into practical and ethical issues around its metaverse.

With Microsoft’s $70bn deal to acquire Activision Blizzard, Meta investing $10bn into acquiring and developing both hardware and software VR capabilities, and Google creating a $39.5m private equity fund for all metaverse projects, the metaverse has garnered the support of tech giants who are creating an irresistible, immersive digital world that we are all likely to partake in.

Read more: Arabian Business

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By the end of 2022, the ministry and Siemens aim to evaluate 200 industrial companies in the UAE for their digital maturity.

More than 70 industrial companies in the UAE have already been assessed as the partnership seeks to support the objectives of the UAE Industry 4.0 program to raise industrial productivity by 30 percent and add about AED25 billion to the national economy over the next decade.

Sarah Al Amiri, the UAE’s Minister of State for Advanced Technology, said: “We are delighted to announce our partnership with Siemens, an important milestone in our efforts to embrace the tools and applications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

“The program will equip our industrial companies with essential insights on their digital maturity and offer practical frameworks and tools to accelerate their transformation journeys.”

Read more on: Arabian Business

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The number of fintech companies operating in Saudi Arabia has grown by more than a third over the past year with investments exceeding SR1.3 billion ($347 million).

Over the last 12 months, the fintech industry in Saudi Arabia has continued to grow at a rapid pace, according to the Fintech Saudi Annual Report 2020/2021.

The number of Saudi fintech companies has risen by 37 percent as the industry continues to mature in the Gulf kingdom.

Nejoud Almulaik, director of Fintech Saudi, said: “As we emerge from the challenges of Covid-19, it is clear that the digitalization experienced during the pandemic is here to stay.”

Almulaik added that “regulation clarity” is helping to attract more investment in the sector.

The report showed that over the last year, new fintech companies have emerged in a variety of areas including payments, capital markets, insurance, and business tools for SMEs.

Read more: Arabian Business

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The new AWS Middle East (UAE) region will consist of three availability zones (data centers) and become AWS’s second region in the Middle East after Bahrain. It will enable local customers with data residency requirements to store their data in the UAE, while also providing even lower latency across the country. The new region will build upon AWS’s existing investment in the country, which includes two AWS Direct Connect locations and two Amazon CloudFront edge locations launched in 2018.

Organisations using this region will also be able to access advanced technologies from the suite of cloud services to drive innovation including compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile services and more, a statement said.

The company aims to continue to build teams of skilled individuals to help customers transition to AWS. To foster entrepreneurship and the growth of new businesses in the UAE, AWS will be further expanding the AWS Activate programme to support the UAE’s startups and SMBs.

“We are excited to build on the great momentum of cloud adoption in the Middle East by providing more choice for customers in the UAE to run applications and store data locally,” said Peter DeSantis, senior vice president of global infrastructure, AWS. “The new AWS Region supports the UAE’s focus on promoting technology innovation that has made it a thriving global hub for entrepreneurs, e-governments, and multi-national businesses. With the new region, organizations of all sizes will be able to innovate faster and serve end-users with even lower latency across the region.”

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The new identity reflects the central role of the Authority in line with the orientation of the UAE over the next fifty years, which includes accelerating the pace of digital transformation in the UAE and shaping a future based on advanced technology supported by artificial intelligence, smart cities, and a knowledge-based society and economy.

The announcement was made in a virtual press conference held by the Authority in the presence of H.E. Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, Director General of the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority, leaders and employees of the Authority and media representatives.

The Authority had launched a series of brainstorming workshops and consultations to choose the new brand identity of the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority. The new identity is aimed to have a set of well-established meanings such as trust, leadership, innovation and future foresight. At the same time, the identity is aimed to reflect simplicity and aspiration towards customer happiness. The new design came as a result of these internal consultations and activities, and as a summary of the meanings to be implied in the Authority’s orientations for the next phase.

On this occasion, H.E. Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, Director General of the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority said: “We are proud of the high confidence given by the wise leadership to the Authority by adding digital government to its name. We see this as a mandate we are honored to carry out, and as a challenge that we place at the top of our missions for the next phase. We insist on achieving success as we did in our previous tasks under the guidance of our wise leadership and with the support of the national teams in the authority and other government partners in digital transformation. We also depend on support of our ICT sector partners, who held the responsibility with us and contributed to the country’s leadership in ICT.

He added: “Today we launch the new identity of the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority, which expresses the Authority’s aspirations for the next 50 years. It is embodied in the investment of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and 5G potential for enabling digital government and achieving digital transformation. Digital transformation is now a strategic social and economic program aimed at facilitating people’s lives, and providing them with quick solutions and services around the clock.”

Ms Ahlam Al Feel, Director of the Authority’s Corporate Communications Department highlighted the implications of the new brand identity, saying: “We made the new brand ends with the letter A on purpose. It is the start of the English alphabet and it is the end goal for the UAE citizens whose final objective is always the 1^st place.”

She added: “The Authority leadership wants to convey an important message by this brand: “We are inspired by our leaders to start from the dream and the vision. We write our story from the last chapter, and then we start the journey of implementation.”

The new logo of the authority is attractive and modern with a lot of prestige and power. It tells a visual color story that symbolizes communication and correlation. It reflects the image of optical fibers, and their impact on the advanced telecommunications sector.

The new logo clearly expresses the long-term future vision of the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority. It is simply abbreviated as (TDRA). It easily pronounced in both Arabic and English.

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The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) said it has put out the framework for public consultation for a period of 30 days.

The DFSA said it is actively engaged with key stakeholders in Dubai and around the world on the future of finance and the rapidly growing area of financial technology, including various Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) applications.

Security tokens are essentially digital, liquid contracts for fractions of any asset that already has value, like real estate, a car, or corporate stock. Using security tokens means investors can expect that their ownership stake is preserved on the blockchain ledger.

The framework goes beyond typical securities to also cover derivatives. This enables the use of DLT and similar technologies across the full spectrum of investments in a consistent manner, the DFSA added.

Some of the key changes proposed are allowing facilities that trade security tokens to have direct access members, including retail clients; enhanced systems and controls requirements to address risks associated with the use of DLT or similar technology; enhanced disclosure in prospectuses and enhanced requirements for those providing custody of digital wallets.

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Talking about the event, CloudTalk CEO Burkay Yapağcıoğlu said that he wants to exploit the full potential of online events in 2021, amidst the continuation of the pandemic and accompanying health hazards and social distancing norms. He stated that the previous version of the event i.e., CloudTalk Online 2020 saw the coming together of 2000+ technology professionals from 20 countries giving them the opportunity to engage with 60+ international cloud experts in five halls.

“We had an extraordinary digital conference and fair experience for our participants in 2020”, said Yapağcıoğlu, before adding that their CloudTalk Online 2021 goals are more ambitious, and the event can see the coming together of more than 3,000 participants this year.

Get an opportunity to meet tech mammoths with a never-seen-before fair Experience

1,200+ one-on-one meetings, over 124,000 interactions, 570 hall meetings, 3,700 message deliveries, an average of 300 viewers per session, and 5,000+ profile viewing were among some of the key achievements of last year’s event.

Tech giants like Alibaba Cloud, Cloudflare, Acronis, Mailchannels, Reseller Club, and Synacor interacted with participants in the virtual foyer area during the previous year’s version of the event, thus making it one of the best networking event in Eurasia. It linked individual experts and participants within their respective fields and to the job opportunities they were in search for.

Now the 2021 event aims at bringing together more than 100 tech enterprises and over 3,000 IT professionals in the virtual foyer. It will give participants an opportunity to link with a greater number of prospects in the cloud computing sector.

Digital Infrastructure that Will Enable You to Reap the Maximum Gain from the Event

CloudTalk Online Matchmaking Summit is designed to facilitate professional time management by allowing meeting plans with thousands of participants from over 20 countries spread across Eurasia before and during the conference. It also offers conference video calls in the form of roundtables in the networking lounges, enabling participants to engage in meaningful conversation with people with similar interest through the chat feature. The open-participants interface allows everyone to see one another and enjoy an interactive experience.

The notification and reminder features in the interface guarantees that all participants can reap maximum benefits from the event by simplifying presentations in the five different halls sorted according to their interests.

Broad participation to open the door to new opportunities in the business world

Apart from the presence of global tech giants like IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alibaba Cloud, the participant profiles of the 2020 event consisted of IT specialists, C-level IT managers, system and network administrators, data center specialists, security managers, software developers, cloud architects, product managers, independent consultants, sales and business development representatives, and end-users.

Hurry! Register for CloudTalk Online 2021 today

CloudTalk Online 2021 is open for registration now. Burkay Yapağcıoğlu stated that the process of forwarding meeting requests and creating personal agendas to match different participants with one another will start three days before the event. All registered participants and partners can continue communicating on the platform for 2 additional days after the event.

He further stated that they are extremely pleased with the interest this year, though the registrations have just started.

To register for this one-of-a-kind event, visit the website today.

 https://cloudtalksummit.online/en

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