The connected city
Years of continuous investment from public organizations and private sector companies have provided Dubai with world-class infrastructure for communications and transport.
07/03/2018
New tech on the block
The strategic partnership between Smart Dubai and Emirates NBD solidifies the bank’s goal of providing superior customer experience through its digital services.
09/11/2017
How artificial intelligence will change decision-making for businesses
Recent headlines about Facebook panicking because their AI bots developed a language of their own have us hitting the alarm button once again. Should we really feel unsettled with an AI future?
27/10/2017
Barcelona’s hidden supercomputer
Few people are aware that nestled within the walls of Barcelona's beautiul 19th century Torre Girona chapel, is one of Europe's most powerful supercomputers, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center's MareNostrum.
03/10/2017
The new digital backbone of Smart Dubai
We are building a collaboratively-designed platform that brings the most advanced technology innovations on the market to support smart city experiences for all Dubai residents, visitors, business owners and city decision makers.
28/09/2017
There’s a smart working revolution
The companies that can start to disconnect hierarchy from space will be the ones who free themselves up to take advantage of the new generational workplace.
11/09/2017
Could humans become immortal in our lifetimes?
The idea that death is preventable is acquiring traction. Is this human ambition exceeding its grasp, or could we become immortal within our lifetimes?
20/10/2017
Working in a VUCA World
Faced with an existential challenge to their traditional ways of doing business, many companies are replicating the innovative VUCA thinking developed by the U.S. military in the face of a world that is Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous.
28/07/2017
Talking with machines
Ever since grunts became words, speech has helped us learn, plan, and do amazing things. Our communication has been shaped by twin desires: to be understood and to understand.
07/11/2017
Preparing for a computer-driven future
Just as the steam engine has come to symbolize the industrial revolution of the 19th century, perhaps no single object represents the democratic, consumer-centered economies of the 20th century better than the mass-produced automobile.
14/07/2017