U.A.E What I know about AI: Damu Winston Ever since he first saw Star Trek as a child Damu Winston has had a lifelong fascination with futuristic technology. The founder and... Elias Jabbe • 03 July, 2017 What I Know AI WIK
Egypt Automating HR management in Egypt Focusing on developing a specialized product allowed Egyptian software company HITS Solutions to enter more than 40 countries, working with... Maya Rahal • 20 June, 2017 Egypt HITS Solutions HR
Regional Aim low, shoot high: AI regional startups are keeping it real In the past two years, both growth numbers and tech advancements in the AI industry have made it fairly easy for its outsiders to fantasize... Vanessa Khalil • 11 June, 2017 chatbot AI Facebook Messenger
Syria Votek and Loujee secures $1M investment Votek Inc, developer of Arabic speech recognition software, governmental intelligent assistants and the first Arabic smart toy (Loujee)... Wamda • 10 May, 2017 Votek AI syria
Global Startup Watch: Facebook live broadcast boo boos, being ‘human’ and the world’s largest incubator The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Lucy Knight • 27 April, 2017 Facebook AI libya
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
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
Global Startup Watch: disruption might get you, AI making the diagnosis and so long Yahoo! The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Lucy Knight • 12 January, 2017 Startup Watch yahoo! AI
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
Global What I know about privacy and AI: Rand Hindi The future holds so many innovations to make our lives easier, but we are often told that it will come at a price. We’ll need to... Aline Mayard • 07 November, 2016 privacy AI Snips
Regional What I know about investing in robotics: Jose Berengueres To obtain his PhD in bio-inspired robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Jose Berengueres studied the movement of a gecko in... Archana Menon • 20 June, 2016 Adasi pal robotics robotics
Egypt US-based Affectiva raises $14M Series D Affectiva's software can differentiate between a smirk, a happy smile, and a polite smile. (Images via Affectiva) Emotion... Rachel Williamson • 27 May, 2016 emotion recognition Rana el Kaliouby Affectiva
Regional What I know about big data: Ali Rebaie Ali Rebaie is a data scientist. One of the few data scientists, in fact, in MENA. He’s the founder of Rebaie Analytics Group... Rachel Williamson • 15 October, 2015 What I Know ali rebaie Le Wagon
Meet the Egyptian entrepreneur trying to build a digital brain Coauthored with Mazen Aly, Egyptian Artificial Intelligence Ph.D. student at Max Planck Computer Research Institute in Germany. "In order... Ahmed Gabr • 29 May, 2013 Data Egypt Technology