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UAE Tech PodcastCypherCapital: Web3 VCVineet Budki is CEO of CypherCapital, a ‘Web3 native’ VC firm based in the UAE that has led investments in the likes of Mysten Labs, Sei Network, Casper Labs, Web3Auth, ZKLink and many others.
CypherCapital has evolved into a global presence, investments and insights. How did CyperCapital fare during COVID-19 and the ‘crypto-winter’? Are there signs Web3 is maturing from cowboy pump-and-dump to mainstream solutions? Will Gaming and Web3 really be the next big thing? Stay tuned for a conversation that probably should have happened earlier in the series.
2024-06-2325 min
UAE Tech PodcastEthara: Digital TwinsOne of the reasons for the continued growth of the UAE’s tech ecosystem, has been its ability to attract the world to Dubai. More recently, however, Abu Dhabi has made very significant strides in hosting mega-scale events - fashioning entire islands, such as Yas Island and Sadiyat island, for art lovers and racing car lovers to enjoy immaculately curated experiences.
Ethara is a company that owns, manages and promotes some of the largest events and IP's in the UAE. This includes Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, alongside similar destination events including NBA and UFC in Abu Dhabi.
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2024-06-1024 minUAE Tech PodcastSenet: Skill2Earn GamingIt doesn’t matter whether you’re drifting around a corner in Need for Speed, screaming ‘Get Over Here’ in Mortal Kombat, or dropping a banana in Mario Kart, video games are about one thing: Skill.
Or are they? Aren’t video games also about having fun. Enter the debate over Skill2Earn, versis Free2Earn, and what the future of video games looks like. Shouldn’t users who spend upwards of 20 hours a week (and sometimes way more), be able to earn tokens, and exchange those tokens across other publishing platforms? Hasn’t this very tendency turned some supposed video games in...
2024-05-1726 minUAE Tech PodcastThe Story of StepConferenceIn the UAE, Step Conference requires little introduction. But how did the darling of the Dubai tech scene calendar actually get started? What happened to the English and Arabic content websites? And what was it like running such a popular and successful conference … only to have COVID-19 shut down, well, pretty much everything.
Ray Dargham, CEO and founder of Step Conference provides the inside story on how a student project at AUB has transformed, over time and with a little grit, into something far grander. This is the story of Step Conference from its foundings, to today.
2024-05-0333 minUAE Tech PodcastYuri Dvoinos: Dubai Tech SwaggerYuri Dvoinos sold his company Figleaf to Aura in 2020. He currently serves as Chief Innovation Officer at the Boston based cybersecurity firm, which is backed by none other than Robert Downey Jr. We wanted to begin our interview with “so what’s it like working with Iron Man,” but apparently everyone leads with this line, and they have not met. Also, Iron Man is a fictional character, so that would be weird.
We digress. Yuri is a habitual entrepreneur. He’s workled on Kickstarter projects, digital education and has spent a decade right here in Dubai, where he bootstrapped 50M+ paying c...
2024-04-1831 minUAE Tech PodcastBuilding a Deep-Tech EcosystemHassan Al Noon is a graduate of the National Experts Program in Abu Dhabi, a mentorship program which pairs promising Emirati leaders with established experts in industry. Hassan’s capstone project focused on the development of deep-tech, and the need to create a collaborative ecosystem to support R&D in the UAE.
2024-04-0826 minUAE Tech PodcastYango Play: Does Your AI Speak Khaleeji?If you’ve been living in Dubai it’s been difficult to avoid Yango, an app that is being noticed for impressively accurate GPS and ride-hailing services. A Netherlands registered company backed by the Russian conglomerate Yandex, the app has ambitions which go beyond getting you around the city. Yango wants to become that most fabled of creatures; not a Unicorn, but a super-app.
The recently launched Yango play features an AI assistant that doesn’t simply speak Arabic, but can talk in the local Khaleeji dialect. The service brings licensed music and movies to the app, including the Arabic blockb...
2024-03-1832 minUAE Tech PodcastArto Bendiken: Blockchain RefugeesArto is an OG interested in e-gold, in Ayn Rand and early Sci-Fi. He has a compelling perspective on what technology used to be, and where it might be going. We sat down with him to discuss his latest company, Haltia.AI, and why being a blockchain refugee in Dubai is a portal into the future.
2024-03-0848 min
Nuits sonores, 20 ans sans dormir7 • Lost in translationL’Europe, le monde, le jet-lagAttaché depuis sa naissance et pour toujours à Lyon, Nuits sonores est aussi un festival voyageur.De Tanger à Bogota, de Barcelone à Séoul, en passant par Shanghai, Zurich ou Bruxelles, le festival est allé sur presque tous les continents. À la rencontre d’autres publics, d’autres artistes, d’autres histoires inoubliables. Une épopée fantastique autour du monde qui a nourri le festival, l’a fait réfléchir et l’a fait grandir.“Nuits sonores, 20 ans sans dormir”Un podcast produit par Arty Farty et réalisé par Cheese Naan
2024-02-2625 minUAE Tech PodcastAxis Comms: Into the NetworkMartin Glen began tinkering with print servers back in the 1984, eventually co-founding a company that would become a world leader in network video. In 1996 he invented the AXIS 2000 and NetEye with a Carl-Axel Aim; the first network camera.
2024-02-1822 minUAE Tech PodcastTheion: Lithium-SulfurEnter Theion, a Berlin based startup creating batteries based on lithium-sulfur, rather than lithium-ion. Compellingly, sulfur is an abundant waste product, particularly in the GCC, where it is one of the outputs from processing oil. Unlike cobalt, manganese or nickel, it doesn’t need to be mined.
2024-02-0526 minUAE Tech PodcastDavid Chaum: Better than Money?David Chaum is a mercurial gentleman. He’s gone from pretty much inventing digital cash, the main thing he missed being Satoshi’s proof of work, to consulting on CBDCs, working with European bankers, and plotting to stop solar warming...
2024-01-2236 minUAE Tech PodcastUnlocking the Dubai BlockchainFinding out information on the Dubai blockchain ecosystem isn’t always easy. For the most part, you need to be in it. There’s many familiar foundational faces, and people flying in and out from all over the world: Austin, Shanghai, Moscow, Paris. You name it.
While this makes for an exciting and often exclusive scene, it doesn’t always help with investment and building great products. The discovery of great projects is often subjective - it depends on who you ask.
Walid Abu Zaki started ‘Unlock Blockchain’ on the back of a conference, to deliver real information. Obviously, that’s not always...
2024-01-1125 minUAE Tech PodcastFinaMaze: AI in Asset ManagementMehdi Fichtali is CEO and founder of FinaMaze, an ADGM licensed Digital Wealth management company. He’s spent fifteen years at large banks such as Credit Agricole, Barlcays and as the Vice-President of Morgan Stanley in Dubai.
Today, he’s exploring how AI can lower barriers to entry, reduce bureaucratic cost, and ensure that the likes of you and I can one day have our own asset portfolio, even if we’re not making squllions of pounds.
2023-12-1428 minUAE Tech PodcastCop28: Abundance & TechnologyFor much of the technology industry, there is a certain suspicion of COP28. They believe “sustainability” evangelists get paid large government salaries to regulate solutions, without building or solving very much at all. The Bitcoin industry is furious that their movement has been maligned for using too much energy, while others cut down trees. A reductive ‘abundance vs. scarcity’ debate has been visible online in the US and UK, in particular. But is it really this simple?
The UAE is hosting COP28, and both sustainability and technology are clear and mutually reinforcing themes. This is visible in many areas of the UAE...
2023-12-0830 minUAE Tech PodcastAI In the MachineWhile email phishing continues to be the favorite exploit du jour of cyberhackers, other forms of attack are emerging. What can we do to become more aware, and how can AI help solve the old cybersecurity problems of the past, at the same time as playing offence against the threats of the future? We caught up with Matt Cooke, Director of CyberSecurity and Strategy at the UAE based Proofpoint, to find out more.
2023-11-2127 minUAE Tech PodcastMicrosoft: From Predictive to Generative AITwo years ago it’s not unfair to suggest that if most techies were asked to name the Big Tech company most likely to break through globally in AI, Microsoft might not come to mind. Microsoft partnered with OpenAI earlier this year, has just inked a deal with Activision, making it one of the largest gaming giants in the world, and has plans for the Metaverse.
But you already knew that. One remains to be understood is how generative AI is changing the technology landscape right here in the UAE. From private to public sector, from education to logistics, oil an...
2023-11-0726 minUAE Tech PodcastCardano: The White Knight of Blockchain?Ahead of a Summit in Dubai this November, we spoke with CEO Frederik Gregaard on Cardano, global regulation, the role of central banks and why emerging technologies such as AI mean that trust, transparency and verification is more important than ever. Is Cardano really blockchain’s White Knight, and will we be seeing more of them in the region soon?
Special thanks to Oscar Wendel, Director of Content and Conferences at MCH Group for stepping up to command this interview after a last minute schedule change.
2023-10-1648 minUAE Tech PodcastGIGA: Banking For the Gig EconomyGIGA is focused on providing services to underserved foreign nationals, who have trouble opening a bank account, and gig economy workers, who may be making relatively small and short-term deposits.
Inspired by European Open banking, Raul looks to a time where our bank accounts travel with us no matter where we are in the world, with local or nation-state banking as a bureaucratic nuisance from the past. So what are the parallels between Japan and the UAE, and can we get cartoon characters on check-books here in Dubai?
2023-10-0832 minUAE Tech PodcastAnthony Thomson: Global Fintech & Hyper-GrowthAnthony Thomson is an understated Brit with a notable record: he founded two of the UK’s best known “challenger banks”, namely Atom and Metro. He holds advisory roles with ASX listed Humm Group, ila Bank and Wio Bank, right here in the UAE.
2023-09-1428 minUAE Tech PodcastNiftyCraft: Video Games In the GCCAs the UAE Tech Podcast has progressed we’ve become more and more interested in gaming. There’s been a load of reasons for this. The advent of the Metaverse, and the idea 3D technologies will drive the next iteration of the Internet. Hardware, from haptic suits to ridiculously expensive VR kits. Blockchain based gaming and NFT markets. It just seems like a lot of the high-level themes we’re discussing are converging in this space.
2023-09-0238 minUAE Tech PodcastTranshumanism & Human AugmentationHannes Sjöblad goes by the “nom de guerre” Hannes ‘Sapiens’: a reference, of course, to humankind, or perhaps the famous book by Yuval Noah Harari. The subject of our collective humanity has come into focus recently. As the capability of AI has filtered into mainstream consciousness, the debate on our relationship to machines is no longer hypothetical.
2023-08-2639 minUAE Tech PodcastGovernment In The MetaverseIsabella Williamson is Associate Director at Consulum. She is examining how governments in the GCC and around the world are positioning themselves in what might be the future of the digital economy. From Seoul to Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Norway, this episode provides up-to-date case studies and hints at a broader question: is government itself profoundly transforming?
2023-07-1939 minUAE Tech PodcastAisha Sheikh: Designing the VirtualFrom October 2020 to very recently Aisha Sheikh has worked as an Experience Lead and UX Architect for Magnopus, where she led the design team for the Expo2020 Dubai Xplorer App. Some of our listeners have probably used the app: it allowed anyone with an internet connection to experience Expo through the eyes of a robot or avatar, engaging in treasure hunts, puzzles and augmented reality.
2023-07-1050 minUAE Tech PodcastWhat Blockchain Can Learn From Web2Alex Shevchenko, the CEO and Co-Founder of Aurora, doesn’t fit nearly into either of these camps. He believes blockchain developers urgently need to learn from and assimilate with the best of Web2, particularly when it comes to consumer acquisition and UX.
2023-06-1841 minUAE Tech PodcastTrading In the MartaVerseThis week we’re talking to Marta, on her journey from a Mom working in retail in Ireland, to falling down the rabbit hole that is crypto trading… and learning to love it. Please note that none of this is financial advice. Always remember to do your own research.
2023-06-1031 minUAE Tech PodcastSabrina Mechenane: Learning to Like MiCAAccording to Sabrina, Paris was one of the first jurisdictions in the world to begin regulating this space. More recently the European Law on Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) was approved in April, replicating and perhaps in some cases improving on the French Law in some areas.
2023-05-2629 minUAE Tech PodcastKarl Tlais: Dubai in the MetaverseKarl Tlais is the CEO and co-founder of Iadvisory, a Dubai Future Fellow, and a strategic advisor in the Digital Economy in the UAE. Back in the heady days of early 2021, Karl held a notable discussion on Artificial intelligence at the Capital Club. Shortly after, John Lillywhite worked with Karl to combine three emerging aspects of the UAE digital economy into a single white paper: AI, Virtual Assets and Massive-Multiplayer Online Worlds.
2023-05-1141 minUAE Tech PodcastScott Page: Welcome to the MachineScott Page talks so fluently on NFTs and emerging Web3 infrastructure, that it’s almost easy to forget his previous incarnations as a saxophone and rhythm guitarist for Pink Flloyd, Supertramp and Toto.
2023-04-1858 min
UAE Tech PodcastStartupBoat: Helping HumansThis is an unusual episode at the intersection of tech and human aspiration. What if instead of registering, cataloging and surveilling human beings, technology could be repurposed to helping them start their lives anew?
2023-04-1138 minUAE Tech PodcastMetapolis: MaaS in the Middle EastThe quick pitch for Metapolis is “shopify in the Metaverse.” Co-founder and chief commercial officer Sandra Helou has dubbed it MaaS, or “Metaverse as a service platform.” Behind the clear business use-case of an interoperable and accessible sales and events platform, are some astute insights into how the digital economy will emerge over the coming decade.
2023-03-2240 min
Blockchain DXB⚡Metaverse Everything⚡ 🎙️ 17th March 🎙️ 🚨 Meta seems quite about Metaverse!🚨 Will VR/AR/XR replace mobile phones? 🚨Policing in the Metaverse 🚨 Stable coins in the Metaverse17th March: Metaverse Everything!🎙️
🚨 Meta seems quite about Metaverse! Meta says its single largest investment is now in ‘advancing AI’. An update on Meta’s Year of Efficiency can be found here https://lnkd.in/dr4yXfmD CNN also states What metaverse? Meta says its single largest investment is now in ‘advancing AI’ Article here https://lnkd.in/ddz3h_HX
🎙️ Check out Blockchain DXBs ‘Metaverse Everything’ podcast where we explore the prices of Cryptocurrency & Blockchain platforms connected to Metaverse. We also discuss the following:
⚡ If VR/AR/XR replace mobile phones?
⚡ Policing the Metaverse4
⚡ Stable coin’s role in the Metaverse
⚡ Top 5 Metaverse new...
2023-03-1729 minUAE Tech PodcastValhalla Network: The Alchemy of Modern CreditAccording to Oliver Studd, during the height of the financial crisis in Germany, it was the locally owned community banks that didn’t need a bailout. For Oliver and his team at Valhalla Network, we will always need banks and access to banking services. This isn’t to argue that either, in their current state, are fit for service: this episode begins with a blistering introduction into how a modern bank actually works.
2023-03-1045 minUAE Tech PodcastZone Blanche: PROES on Radio Frequency & IOTSaba Homami is CEO and Co-Founder of PROES, a French deep tech company based out of Grenoble which is producing a new generation of Radio Frequency technologies. With an MSc in Physics alongside her business partner Jules, the company recently won a national award in France and at CES Las Vegas.
RF technologies underly many of the innovations in 5G, IOT and Cybersecurity that we’ve discussed on the UAE Tech Podcast in the past. How do these devices talk to each other? What are the challenges with communicating to a device underground, a drone in the sky, or devices in...
2023-02-2025 minUAE Tech PodcastYalla Market on 15 Minute DeliveryLeo Dovbenko is CEO and Co-Founder of YallaMarket and YallaHub, an aggregator providing ecommerce fulfillment and warehousing services. What’s interesting about Leo is that he began his journey training as a software engineer, but found his real passion working in bars and swish restaurants as a student at Uni. Pretty soon he was working with big brands, and managing larger locations.
As so often on the UAE Tech Podcast, this is a story of taking a slightly different path. By combining experience in the F&B industry with software design, development and a clear enjoyment of business strategy, Leo fo...
2023-02-0728 minUAE Tech PodcastBezogia & Blockchain GamingLegends of Bezogia is an Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORG) combining tokenomics, NFTs and competitive ranked gaming with the blockchain. That means players can invest in a Bezoge avatar, mint magic blocks, sell in-game items and become part of the Bezogia community.
2023-01-2355 min
UAE Tech PodcastProofpoint: Cybersecurity GovernanceThe UAE has long invested in cybersecurity, hosting globally significant conferences and attracting talent in this space for at least the past decade. At the same time, the field of cybersecurity is shifting as the sophistication of the digital economy matures. Satista estimated that the digital economy will grow to $53 trillion US dollars next year, up from 13.5 trillion in 2018.
2023-01-0536 minUAE Tech PodcastCashew: BNPL in the GCCAs the global economy faces a period of sustained economic uncertainty, we talked about Cashew’s early mission, the importance of forming partnerships with banks and larger institutions and why expanding into markets such as KSA or Oman, makes the UAE an increasingly attractive destination.
2022-12-1926 minUAE Tech PodcastNeobanking: ‘Yap’ Means Pay Backwards‘Yap’ means ‘Pay’ backwards. It’s a neobank established in the UAE, working on a move to KSA, and offering a range of services for B2B and B2C clients. The company markets itself as a financial technology - not a bank.
2022-12-0729 minUAE Tech PodcastZbooni & cCommerce in the Middle EastThe idea is called “cCommerce”, or “collaborative commerce.” According to Investopedia, it means “the optimization of supply and distribution channels to capitalize on the global economy by using new technology efficiently.
2022-11-1749 min
UAE Tech PodcastOKX: The Crypto Winter & Global Digital MarketsThe Crypto Winter has created market volatility for a wide range of actors, and also revealed how aspects of the old economy and the emergent economy are intertwined.
Lennix Lai is head of Business Strategy and Ops at OKX. Previously, he had a background at companies such as JP Morgan, AIG and CASH Financial Services Group. When he joined OKX in 2017 his role was to reverse engineer many of the services found into traditional finance, and offer them in DeFI. Today the addressable market is far larger, but challenges remain.
2022-11-0732 minUAE Tech PodcastBlockchain Analysis 101 with EllipticMark Aruliah is Senior Policy Adviser at Elliptic. He joined the podcast to provide a helpful 101 on the blockchain analysis industry, and the challenges and opportunities regulators are facing behind the scenes.
2022-10-2240 minUAE Tech PodcastMeta-Marketing with Dr. Rolando ZubiranDr. Rolando Zubiran is Global Head of WEB 3 & Metaverse Services for RRD, or R. R. Donnelley & Sons, an American Fortune 500 integrated communications company.
Rolando refers to this as “Meta-Marketing 2.0.” As our identities merge with online worlds, he believes that the way we envisage the economics and society of the future will be made possible not simply by the technologies we deploy, but by the stories we use to comprehend and shape the world around us.
2022-10-0354 minUAE Tech PodcastBrett Leonard on Lawnmower Man & VR in the 1990sThirty years since Lawnmower first aired, I asked Brett how the metaverse of our own time mirrors the Sci-Fi stories I grew up with as a kid. Will AI creator tools allow billions to summon their own simulated realities? How will artists imagine and construct what Brett calls “storyworlds” using technologies that are incredibly advanced, but also really human - and fallible.
2022-09-1939 minUAE Tech PodcastXi Chen on DeFI, CeFI & TradFiAhead of his workshops at GITEX, we caught up with Professor Xi Chen from NYU Stern for a discussion on how technologies are converging in ways that are impossible to predict.
2022-09-0837 minUAE Tech PodcastOcean Protocol: Bruce Pon On a New Data EconomyIn a way, data has become a dirty word. It doesn’t necessarily need to be. A new data economy is emerging on the blockchain, in which users can provide access to and possibly derive profits from data they control.
But what would these new data markets look like? What industries will be the first to adopt? Will internet browser cookies one day be a thing of the past?
This week we’re talking with Bruce Pon of OceanProtocol, on data as a new asset class.
2022-08-2241 minUAE Tech PodcastBlockchain in UkraineAlex Bornyakov is Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine on IT industry development, and head of the Diia City project.
In this episode Alex provides background on Ukraine’s digital transformation, which was already continuing apace before the war. As Ukraine descended into conflict and physical locations such as government offices and centralized data-centers fell under attack, things like digital citizen services and cloud-storage became even more critical.
2022-08-0828 minUAE Tech PodcastHyperpay: MENA’s Journey To a Cashless SocietyMuhannad Ebwini has been working in online payments in the Middle East from almost the beginning. In this episode we chart the story of payments in MENA and KSA from its early origins during the .com boom, to the increasingly cashless society of today.
2022-07-2040 minUAE Tech PodcastBlogchain: Can Web3 Save Digital Publishing?It had to happen: “Blogchain” - that’s blog, not block-chain - is a decentralized Substack competitor seeking to combine Web3 infrastructure with good writing. Built using IPFS and NEAR, the system hopes to free writers from the problems that have bedeviled Web2 creator platforms: politicization, unfair algorithms or writing for ad revenue, and not customers. Even getting paid will hopefully be easier, with crypto wallets.
Of course the debate surrounding digital publishing isn’t simply technical. It’s also political and ideological. Will the blockchain empower free speech, or will communities find new architecture to moderate themselves? If centralized platforms...
2022-07-1230 minUAE Tech PodcastMelanie Mohr: Superverse in DubaiMelanie is founder of the ‘Word of Mouth’ protocol and a ‘collaborative event’ which connects creators, founders and artists. The event is called ‘Superverse.’ It recently made a notable impact in Dubai, where it succeeded in deepening an already promising relationship between the city's tech industry and creative class.
2022-06-2044 min
UAE Tech PodcastMichael Gord: Digital Asset InvestingMichael Gord started talking about Bitcoin in High-School, which seems both inconceivable and opportune. From there he started FinTech clubs at McGill, Bitcoin Canada, and later the blockchain association of Canada. At one point the world’s first Bitcoin Embassy in Montreal, was based ‘2 blocks away’ from where he lived. Today, Gord is co-founder and CEO at Assets International, which according to the website “provides institutions with exposure to its premier Global ecosystem of cutting-edge blockchain technology companies.”
2022-06-0630 minUAE Tech PodcastThreefold: Layer ZeroThreefold describes itself as “layer 0 infrastructure for an open source P2P Internet owned by humanity.” Rather than an Internet based on centralized web servers, expensive cloud storage facilities and geographically BI-FUCATED bifurcated access, their team are creating what they call a “new planetary network.”
2022-05-2037 min
Over The Wire PodcastHow Everyday People Shaped the Arab Uprisings and Changed the World, with Asef Bayat Podcast: The Gateway - A Podcast from the Middle East (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: How Everyday People Shaped the Arab Uprisings and Changed the World, with Asef BayatPub date: 2022-04-28Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:Looking at how the working class, women, and other marginalised groups were vital to the Arab Uprisings. Focusing on Tunisia and Egypt, the guest shows how the uprisings changed society for millions of people in the region.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization...
2022-05-1343 minUAE Tech PodcastLatif Ladid: Users, Masters & IPv6Professor Latif Ladid serves as chair at the 5G World Alliance & President of the IPv6 Forum. In this episode he provides history, context and a deep technical understanding of how IPv6 will quietly change the Internet in the years to come.
2022-05-1151 minUAE Tech PodcastWizzFinancial: CBDCs & the Remittance EconomyToday we’re talking with Angad Chadha, CEO of WizzFinancial India. According to Angad a “recent study by , I believe, Oliver Wyman and JP Morgan” says “the total remittances of money that moves across border (and this is across all segments, not just the consumer I’m talking about business and government), is in the range of about $25 billion a year, which is 25% of global GDP.”
2022-04-1346 minUAE Tech PodcastVESA: Art in CyberspaceFrom Vedic-Bitcoin deities, to a 2017 Tesla minted as an NFT and driving around the streets of Dubai; Finnish artist VESA is at the epicenter of a rapidly evolving art market and creator community in the Middle East. He rose to prominence through a body-painting of Bollywood actress Veena Malik in 2013, and began to explore the world of Bitcoin and Crypto-art not long after.
2022-04-0554 minUAE Tech PodcastKarim Ibrahim: Robocom VRhe one hand, they run one of the world’s largest VR parks in Dubai, with a new park opening soon. At the same time as operating these VR rigs and location based theme parks, they have a team of game-developers building licensed properties for well-known brands like Hasbro.
2022-03-2238 min
UAE Tech PodcastEliran Elimelech: Startup Nation CentralEliran Elimelech is VP of Strategic Partnerships at Startup Nation Central, an independent non-profit connecting business, government and NGO leaders across the world with Israeli innovation expertise.
2022-03-0733 minUAE Tech PodcastCrypto Fight Club with Ashton WolfeToday we’re talking with Ashton Woolfe, Managing Partner at MohrWolfe and project lead at Crypto Fight Club. Ashton grew up with games like Tekken, Mortal Kombat and Soul Calibur; games designed purely for having fun, during a time when in-game economics simply weren’t possible. Increasingly, in-game monetization is not just possible but popular: the Free2Earn gaming space is booming across Asia. It’s potentially making an appearance in AAA games across the United States and Europe later this year. Time will tell.
2022-02-1655 min
Delete Your Account PodcastEpisode 214 - Yemen Under Attack This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by first-time guest Shireen Al-Adeimi and returning guest Ken Klippenstein for an in-depth discussion of the ongoing war in Yemen. Shireen is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University who has advocated for an end to the humanitarian catastrophe facing the country of her birth on Al Jazeera and in the pages of Current Affairs Magazine, Al Bawaba, and In These Times, and she has a new piece out on Business Insider called "Biden has merely rebranded the brutal war against Yemen". Ken is a DC-based investigative reporter who has covered government misdeeds a...
2022-02-161h 23UAE Tech PodcastAlAnoud Al Hashimi: The FuturistAl Anoud Al Hashimi is the founder and CEO of The Futurist Company, a project management company working in renewable energy, fin-tech and agri-tech. While the UAE has a thriving technology ecosystem, the country needs greater domestic R&D capacity, and is exploring ways to invest in longer-term ‘deep-tech’ projects alongside academia, and the private sector. Here one industry that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves, is agriculture.
Tune in for a discussion with Al Anoud on Agri-Tech and how the ‘GAIA’ project is bringing NASA Space Technology to delivery-truck sized farming capsules. Each capsule is environmentally controlled, and energy...
2022-02-0230 minUAE Tech PodcastAnthem Hayek Blanchard: The Elegance of ProtocolAnthem's story personifies a key inflection point in the history of western finance. He was raised by his adoptive father, the precious metals pioneer, James U. Blanchard III, who helped restore Americans' right to own gold and also founded a rare coin and bullion company, Blanchard & Company - at one time, the world’s largest. Named after an Ayn Rand book and an Austrian British economist, Anthem sees himself as carrying out his father’s legacy on the blockchain.
His contribution, as he perceives it, is towards a world which is more free, less encumbered by fear and distrust, and stru...
2022-01-1253 minUAE Tech PodcastYingzi Yuan: Gaming, Web3 and Saving the MetaverseSlowly but surely, game design principles are merging with NFTs, crypto currencies and decentralized forms of governance. But will it be enough? Can Web3 standards prevail, or is a multipolar metaverse order of incumbent giant platforms and decentralized rebel hinterlands on the horizon? We spoke with Yingzi for some early insights into how the gaming community may shape the metaverse.
2022-01-0649 minUAE Tech PodcastDeepSquare: High Performance ComputingToday we’re talking with Dirmand Daltun, CEO of csquare.ai & project lead at DeepSquare. Joining the discussion we also have Arnaud De La Chapelle, an industry tech leader who has worked with IDEMIA and VFS Global at the highest levels, here in Dubai.
Deepsquare is a European based project to make high performance computing distributed and privacy enabled, on the blockchain. The data-processing center, based in Switzerland, runs on renewable energy. The heat generated by the center will be captured, and sold back to industry. Finally, a token based community management system brings Web3 governance structures out of the vi...
2021-12-1246 min
UAE Tech PodcastAnthony Foxx on the 15 Minute CityTalking to Secretary Fox, it becomes clear that the future of the 15 minute city is not simply technology driven: it’s values driven, economics driven, and regulation driven, requiring real-time and deep collaboration between the private and public sectors.
From connected vehicles to semi autonomous supply-logistics on land, sea and air the future of mobility is more efficient, but hopefully more human too.
2021-12-0544 minUAE Tech PodcastMetamask: Joel Dietz on Early Ethereum and Unseen WorldsJoel Dietz has worked on Ethereum from the very beginning, during a time when even giant incubators like the famous YCombinator appeared to have trouble predicting the utility of a 'smart contract.'
An MIT Connection Science Fellow, Joel is described by MIT as a “serial entrepreneur and intellectual historian who helped found a number of initiatives in the cryptocurrency space, including Ethereum, MetaMask, the first smart contract educational channel, and the first academic work on crypto-economics.”
Metamask will be familiar to anyone who has purchased Eth, or activated an account on Decentraland, an NFT multiverse worth between 800 million and 1.4 bill...
2021-11-1855 minUAE Tech PodcastSensorium: Alex Blagirev on Dancing in the MetaverseSensorium describes itself as “building the future of the senses” in the metaverse. Global artists such as David Guetta, Carl Cox and Armin Van Buren have signed up for live and pre-recorded performances in ‘Prism World’, a VR and metaverse enabled music entertainment experience described as ‘immersive’ and literally “out of this world.” The Sensorium websites features sharp video trailers of what these experiences look like.
We were lucky enough to speak with Deputy CEO, Alex Blagirev, on the tech infrastructure and business logic behind Sensorium - we even had a sneak peak demo of a gp3 AI enabled talking avatar, after th...
2021-11-1148 minUAE Tech PodcastJack McCauley on Guitar Hero, Oculus VR and Meeting Steve JobsMcCauley’s work would help to develop USB drivers, kernel mode drivers, the first scrolling feature for a computer mouse, and the Guitar Hero controller, which made gaming both more tactile and accessible. Then there is his work on the Oculus Rift Dev Kits I and II, before the VR headset company was sold to Facebook US$2.3 billion in cash and stock, in March 2014.
In this episode we talk about hardware, education and the early Oculus kickstarter campaign, which probably remains the most famous crowd-funding campaign in internet history.
2021-10-311h 09
UAE Tech PodcastMaher Yamout on Red Teams & Human Intelligence in CybersecurityMuch of the discussion on cybersecurity concerns, well “cyber” - computers surveilling computers, algorithms to detect algorithms, or AI scanning massive amounts of data.
What is often lost is a focus on human beings. The field of cybersecurity itself is rapidly evolving into an established profession in which a combination of technical and analytical skills are required.
A lot of the discussion on the 4ID around the world covers technology replacing humans. While this is true across many industries, it’s not the entire story.
The field of cybersecurity is a great window into an emerging industry which is rapidly profes...
2021-02-2335 min
UAE Tech PodcastMathew Yarger on Cybersecurity, Decentralization and the 'Machine Economy'Popularized in sci-fi movies like the Terminator, the Matrix and others is the concept of a “machine-age”, or what Matthew Yarger and others refer to as “the machine economy.” We’ve seen this debate in regard to ethical AI, or "fairness in algorithms,” but a new frontier is appearing in regard to centralization, walled gardens and networks with “a single point of failure.”
In a centralized system, there are fears automation could allow “Skynet” scenario - machines making decisions so complex, that meaningful human control is no longer necessary or perhaps even possible.In a DLT, or decentralized ledger system, information is no lo...
2021-02-1051 minUAE Tech PodcastEmad Haffar on Cybersecurity, 'New Threat Environments' and Human-Machine IntelligenceToday we’re talking to Emad Haffar, Head of Technical Experts at Kaspersky cybersecurity Middle East. Emad has managed large cybersecurity projects across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa.
From machine-learning pattern recognition to analyst driven intelligence and a specially developed IOS for the Internet of Things, Emad provides a comprehensive introduction to the “New Threat Environments” consumers, businesses and governments are facing.
Over the past 12-18 months digitalisation has accelerated across the world economy and, because of COVID-19, in much of our daily lives. Our kids are being taught on digital devices. Online entertainment, from gaming to movies, is boomin...
2021-02-0159 minUAE Tech PodcastFast Forward and the Abraham Accords: Dorian Barak on UAE-Israel Business RelationsOne of the stereotypes of the Middle East is things don’t happen quickly here. Entrepreneurs in the Levant and GCC are often frustrated that their peers in the west can take advantage of regulations and infrastructure they don’t have access to - or simply get stuff done more quickly. Of course it’s not that simple, but there is a sense that business depends on building firm relationships and a lot of diligence before the ink is signed.
And then the UAE signed a peace deal with Israel, and we saw a different way of doing things. Even during...
2021-01-2424 min
Branch 251المخابرات السورية: بين الماضي والحاضرفي الحلقة الثالثة من الموسم الأول من بودكاست "الفرع 251: جرائم سورية قيد المحاكمة"، نأخذكم في رحلة عبر تاريخ المخابرات السورية، لنكتشف معا كيف تطورت شبكة المخابرات السورية مع مرور الوقت، وكيف أثّر النظام النازي عليها، وصولاً إلى واقعها القمعي الحالي الذي يثير الرعب، ودور أنور ر. واياد ا. المتهمين بارتكاب جرائم ضد الإنسانيةكتابة وتقديم نور حمادة وآسر خطاب، مشاركة في التحرير فرتز شترايف، إنتاج وتحرير سليم سلامه75 Podcasts نشر وتوزيعيغطي بودكاست "الفرع 251: جرائم سورية قيد المحاكمة" مجريات المحاكمة التاريخية الخاصة بجرائم ارتكبت في سوريا، والمعروفة باسم محاكمة "فرع الخطيب"، والتي تتم في مدينة كوبلينز الألمانيةتابعونا عبر تويتر على "الفرع 251" وعلى تطبيقات الاستماع المختلفة. سوف ننشر حلقة جديدة من بودكاست "الفرع 251" مرتين شهريا، وسنتعرف من خلالهن على ما جرى وما يجري في سوريا، واضعين صوب عيوننا المحاكمة التاريخية التي تتم في كوبلنز. بين كل حلقة وأخرى، سنشارك معكم تحديثاً يتعلق بمُجرَيات المحاكمة من مُراسلتنا في كوبلنز، هنا الهِتَمييمكنكم أيضاً الاستماع إلى بودكاست "الفرع 251" باللغة الإنكليزية، من كتابة فرتز شترايف، تقديم نور حمادة وآسر خطاب، وبمشاركة بولينا بيك بالكتابة والتحرير والإنتاجقمنا بإنتاج هذه الحلقة بدعم من منظمة أمم للتوثيق والأبحاث. أطلق فريق أمم مؤخراً موقع جديد لمشروعهم ضمن إطار عملهم حول قضايا السجن والاعتقال: منتدى الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا للسجون. بإمكانكم العثور على مقاربة معتمدة على الملتيميديا بما يخص موضوع الاعتقالات بالإقليم على الموقع: مدونات، أفلام، أدب، صوت، والمزيد. زوروا menaprisonforum.org الموقع علىlaurenshebly.n تصميم الغلافJames Lawler Duggan/AFP/Getty Images صورة الغلافsessions.blue مقاطع موسيقية من موقعمصادر ومراجع تم ذكرها في الحلقة1. https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1056836/-pourquoi-portes-tu-la-barbe-si-tu-es-chretien-.html2. https://www.aljumhuriya.net/ar/1693. https://www.diwanalarab.com/الشاعر-والكاتب4. https://doc.aljazeera.net/video/العقيد-السراج-رجل-الرعب-سوريا/5. https://archive.aawsat.com/details.asp?section=45&article=697220&issueno=123586. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/11815/126367. https://bawaba-sy.com/2020/01/24/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81-%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86/8. https://bawaba-sy.com/2020/03/06/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AF/
2021-01-1521 minUAE Tech Podcast3D Printing, STEM & Jacky's Business SolutionsA couple of years ago there was a big buzz around 3D printing. Many Tech analysts suggested a future in which we’d all be ‘print-publishing’ consumer items in our homes. That hasn’t happened yet. It’s even possible that 3D printing on the consumer end will remain a niche skill set, favored by designers, engineers and inventors. But the wider industrial implications of 3D printing are beginning to emerge. Right now students across the UAE learning the process, software and techniques necessary to operate a 3D printer. Beyond education, architects and defense firms have long been exploring the technology...
2020-11-1540 minUAE Tech PodcastHamid Tamimi of Booz Allen Hamilton on UAE Government InnovationAlgorithms watching algorithms - a 21st century version of the Latin dictum, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, or ‘who watches the watchmen’. This time written in code.
New business services engineered and launched within days, rather than months - the idea that COVID-19 is forcing an adaptive response in which efficiency and speed are critical; & that empathy, particularly during challenging times, can be designed into a process.
In the UAE, a complex scenario in which government acts as a gravitational center for innovation, pushing a culture of progressive iteration and a demand for new services out into the rest of society.
Toda...
2020-10-2248 minUAE Tech PodcastDorian Barak & the UAE-Israel Business Council: Tech Investment & the Abraham AccordsThis week we’re talking with Dorian Barak, a prominent investor and fund-manager based in Israel. Earlier this year Dorian founded the UAE-Israel Business Council to explore opportunities for investment between the two countries.
With the passing of the Abraham Accords in September 2020, collaboration and integration between two of the region’s most globalized economies is suddenly possible. Until recently, such collaboration existed only behind closed doors.
American-born and educated at Yale, Oxford and UCLA, Dorian has managed venture capital and equity funds out of Israel and around the world. He has also worked with the business community in the UAE...
2020-10-1331 minUAE Tech PodcastHMD Global: The UAE's 5G Powered FutureSmart city access points that unlock new mobility solutions. A VR enhanced history lesson on the ancient silk roads. A health app that directly monitors your vitals and communicates with local health providers. Faster gaming and larger online communities.
All of these near-horizon services have one thing in common: bandwidth. As smartphones serve as the portal to the cities we live in, and the wider digital economies around us, faster and more robust data networks are unlocking a new phase of economic growth.
By adopting an early lead in shifting to 4G services, Recon Analytics write on how the US...
2020-10-0739 minUAE Tech PodcastDubai Financial Services Authority on Fintech, RegTech & InnovationIf you’ve been tuning in, you’ll have noticed that FINTECH is a recurring theme in discussions on the UAE Tech podcast. It’s receiving significant VC investment across the region, often with little fanfare. From physical cash to digital 1’s and 0’s, how we receive, send, invest and spend money is critical to, well, pretty much everything. There are two arguments about the nature of the changes taking place across financial institutions.
The first is a ‘cyberutopian’ argument - centralised banks, guys in suits and the old players of the 20th century are fading away. The future is blockchain and...
2020-09-2251 min
Remote Learning with Sullivan and Winkelman394 003: Framing and "Connective Action"intro: Gunn-Trucinski Duo - "Sugar" / outro: EEK - "El Bawaba" See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2020-09-1400 minUAE Tech PodcastHailey Yoon on Haptic Feedback, NeuroTech and Coding Character into Artificial IntelligenceCan artificial intelligence have character? What’s it like to visualize the brain in VR? How can software be programmed to identify the biomarkers of disease or provide a diagnosis that is often more accurate than a human. How is haptic feedback making physical space more accessible to people of determination?
This week we’re talking with Hailey Yoon, the founder of a Dubai technology practice called IO21, working to build new software products for private and government clients.
Between 2017 – 2018, Hailey served as a Research Assistant at the Nuero Image Research and Analysis Lab at UNC Medical School in the United...
2020-08-0928 minUAE Tech PodcastPhilip Bahoshy On Venture Capital, Data & Investor Sentiment In the GCCOne reasons for a lack of outside investment in the Middle East tech industry is a lack of reliable data. Over the past decade Venture Capital (VC) has been slowly transforming the SME space, but mapping this process hasn’t always been easy.
That's why this week we're talking with Philip Bashosy, the founder of MAGniTT, to explore MENA's increasingly confident venture capital (VC) industry. We'll be going into a deep-dive into the kind of investment data that less than a decade ago, simply did not exist. How has has COVID-19 affected investor sentiment in the region? How have entrepreneurs be...
2020-07-2648 minUAE Tech PodcastPaul Bogan of Serco Group: COVID-19 & the Digital Transformation of GovernmentThis week we’re talking with Paul Bogan, Chief Digital Officer for Serco Middle East. Serco is a British company providing public services support to governments around the world.
Serco have a compelling vantage point on the mega-trends shaping how data is driving government services, how robots work in real life - and not just in the movies - or how COVID-19 is accelerating digital adaptation within large organizations. For reasons of client confidentiality it’s often difficult to go into technical or case study specifics. What is clear, is that things are changing fast, and changing globally.
2020-07-1323 minUAE Tech PodcastAmy and Devon James on the Open Index Protocol and Web 3.0How are blockchain technology and the wider battle for '#FreedomontheInternet' related? Why is a decentralized index the future of the Web? What are “walled gardens” and why does the “Web 3.0” need to replace them? Finally, how can we code our values in cyberspace?
To talk about these issues, Amy and Devon James from Alexandria Labs joined the UAE Tech Podcast to discuss their pioneering work on the Open Index Protocol and a more fun, sovereign and creative Internet.
2020-06-2339 minUAE Tech PodcastAlessandro Casuccio on Big Data, Ecommerce & Building in the CloudThis week we’re talking with Alessandro Casucio of CONVZ Analytics, on the evolution of the region’s now booming e-commerce sector.
Alessandro Casuccio arrived in the UAE eight years ago, shortly before e-commerce was to witness a massive surge in growth. At that time the e-commerce ecosystem in MENA was working hard to solve challenges in logistics, supply-chain management and online payment infrastructure.
After working with Noon, Namshi, Careem and others Casuccio had the market insight required to begin his own company. His focus was on data; specifically the data that would help clients better understand things like customer acquis...
2020-06-0930 minUAE Tech PodcastDanish Farhan, Xische & Co: Building Nations With StoriesDanish Farhan describes himself as someone who is “building nations with stories.”
His personal story, and the story of Xische and Co, the company he founded as a nineteen year old, are intimately connected to several of the trends taking place in the UAE right now.
Danish and his team have been directly involved in everything from Smart City Planning, to co-authoring Dubai's Blockchain strategy to projects that involve auditing happiness or collaborating with a government backed future technology accelerator.
As such, Danish is the perfect person to introduce and provide an overview to how government and technology are merging insi...
2018-11-1943 minUAE Tech PodcastPromo: John McAfee on the DeLorean, Satoshi Nakamoto & the End of GovernmentUAE Tech is an exploration on how technology is merging with government in the United Arab Emirates.
In this promo edition we’re really lucky to have the inimitable John McAfee help us launch the series. In America, the UK and CommonWealth John is a household name.
For our listeners in the Middle East, John is the mind behind the first ever commercial antivirus software. McAffee antivirus sold to Intel in 2011 in a deal valued at $7.68 billion dollars.
In the intervening years, John McAfee has become known for a libertarian political position in part driven by the possibilities of technology. Hi...
2018-11-1525 minGrupo A - EgiptoMundial Quesadilla<br />A copa do mundo musical do DJ Quesadilla<br /><br />Grupo A - Egipto<br /><br />Farid El Atrash - Ya Zahratan Fe Khaialy<br />El Khalek, Mostafa Abd - qanun<br />Oum kalthoum - Alf Lila wa Lila<br />Omar Khorshid - Pop Corn<br />Islam Chipsy - EEK - El Bawaba<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MundialQuesadilla/~4/WoGpsIJCOqA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
2018-06-0513 min
Les Tympans de MagellanLes Tympans de Magellan #6 -مصر (Masr)Les Tympans de Magellan, c'est un podcast mensuel qui fait voyager vos oreilles. Chaque mois, un nouveau pays mis à l'honneur à travers une liste de morceaux soigneusement choisis.
Le pays du mois :
Pour ce sixième épisode, on inaugure l'Afrique et on vous emmène en Egypte !
Tracklist :
Gillian Hills - "Zou Bisous Bisou"
Nadah El Shazly - "Palmyra"
Les Musiciens du Nil - "Bambi Saidi"
Karim El Ghazoly - "Tarawa"
Omar Khorshid - "Guitar El Chark"
FRKTL - "Miserere"
EEK - "El Bawaba"
Maryam Saleh, Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, Maurice Louca - "Mathaf Fonou...
2018-03-301h 36
MundofoníasMundofonías Ago 2016 #10 - Festival Músicas do Mundo de SinesMundofonías Ago 2016 #10
- Festival Músicas do Mundo de Sines
Programa 10 de agosto, con el especial dedicado al Festival Músicas do Mundo de Sines, Portugal, la crónica del mismo y entrevistas con Noura Mint Seymali (Mauritania), anticipando su nuevo disco, y Danyèl Waro (La Reunión). Completamos el programa con otras sabrosas novedades africanas.
Show #10 of August, with an special edition dedicated to Festival Músicas do Mundo in Sines, Portugal, with interviews with Noura Mint Seymali (Mauritania), previewing her new album, and Danyèl Waro (Reunion Island). We also listen to some other nice new African...
2016-09-021h 00MundofoníasMundofonías Ago 2016 #10 - Festival Músicas do Mundo de SinesMundofonías Ago 2016 #10
- Festival Músicas do Mundo de Sines
Programa 10 de agosto, con el especial dedicado al Festival Músicas do Mundo de Sines, Portugal, la crónica del mismo y entrevistas con Noura Mint Seymali (Mauritania), anticipando su nuevo disco, y Danyèl Waro (La Reunión). Completamos el programa con otras sabrosas novedades africanas.
Show #10 of August, with an special edition dedicated to Festival Músicas do Mundo in Sines, Portugal, with interviews with Noura Mint Seymali (Mauritania), previewing her new album, and Danyèl Waro (Reunion Island). We also listen to some other nice new African...
2016-09-021h 00