Global Predicting the future with analytics Professor Mohamed Salem is the president of the University of Wollongong in Dubai Analytics is one of the most critical tools in... Thought Leadership • 11 March, 2021 data analytics
Global Anghami's story is one to celebrate and emulate Anghami is now the first home grown company to go public on Nasdaq since Aramex 24 years ago. This is a fantastic story that should be... Fadi Ghandour • 03 March, 2021 anghami Fadi Ghandour
Global Prepaid is the future of financial inclusion Rupert Shaw is the chief commercial officer at Ding, a mobile top up and airtime transfer company based in Ireland Among all the... Thought Leadership • 28 February, 2021 financial inclusion
Global Forgetting the M in MVP: Are founders launching in a lean way? Leen Ashqar is a senior associate at Propeller, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Amman, Jordan As an active pre-seed and... Thought Leadership • 25 February, 2021
Lebanon Can Lebanon become the next global outsourcing hub? This article was written by the team at B.O.T - Bridge. Outsource. Transform All eyes have been on Lebanon over the past year, but... Thought Leadership • 23 February, 2021 Outsourcing
Global What can Mena learn from the African experience in fintech? Mahmood Ahmadu is the chairman of Innovate 1 Pay, a Nigerian financial technology (fintech) company established in 2012, providing online... Thought Leadership • 21 February, 2021 Fintech financial inclusion africa
Iraq The realities of fundraising in Iraq Ali Al Suhail is the managing director at KAPITA, a development company that invests and incubates startups in Iraq. He is also the... Thought Leadership • 16 February, 2021 fundraising KAPITA
Global Will Bitcoin valuations drop this year? Khurram Shroff is the chairman of UAE-based private equity firm IBC Group which has invested in over 4000 different Blockchain products.... Thought Leadership • 15 February, 2021 Bitcoin
Global Your next great app idea will be built by software, guided by AI and humans Sachin Dev Duggal is the co-founder and CEO of Builder.ai, a UK-based human-assisted artificial intelligence (AI) platform to... Thought Leadership • 14 February, 2021 Software AI machine learning
Global The basics of intellectual property [part one] Ludwig Lindermayer is a patent and trademark attorney at PAUSTIAN & PARTNER. In a series of thought leadership pieces, he... Thought Leadership • 31 January, 2021 Intellectual property Patents
U.A.E How can we stay productive in a hybrid world? Mohammed Arif is the business group director of modern workplace and security at Microsoft UAE As the pandemic has spread around the... Thought Leadership • 25 January, 2021 Workflow microsoft
Egypt Egyptian fintech in 2021: The journey ahead [Part Two] In the second part series, Michel Assaad, vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa strategy at Citi Bank, outlines the trends... Thought Leadership • 21 January, 2021 Fintech
Egypt Egyptian fintech in 2020: A tale of crosswinds and tailwinds [Part One] In this two part series, Michel Assaad, vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa strategy at Citi Bank, outlines the trends... Thought Leadership • 20 January, 2021 Fintech
Regional Women entrepreneurs can boost Middle East economies Last week, TiE held its Women Global Competition in person in the UAE. The global initiative is dedicated to empower women... Thought Leadership • 18 January, 2021 Women entrepreneurship TiE
Saudi Arabia Businesses in Saudi Arabia are showing signs of recovery, with some big winners By Khalid Suleimani and Loulwa Bakr, senior partners at Chrome Advisory Some of the most optimistic people did not expect to... Thought Leadership • 11 January, 2021 sme Retail
Regional Trends to expect in 2021 Last year we outlined several trends we expected would take place in 2020 – rise in foodtech, growth of e-commerce and the year that... Wamda • 03 January, 2021 coronavirus Trends
Regional What 2020 has taught us about digital transformation Selina Bieber is the senior regional director for the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, and South Africa at GoDaddy The year 2020 has... Thought Leadership • 30 December, 2020 digital transformation
Global What are the four phases of leadership? Sri Shivananda is the senior vice-president and chief technology officer at PayPal SVP I have benefitted significantly in my career... Thought Leadership • 28 December, 2020 Leadership
Regional From pearl trade to e-wallets: The rise of digital payments in the GCC Dalal Buhejji is the director of business development, financial services at the Bahrain Economic Development Board At the turn of... Thought Leadership • 23 December, 2020 banking digital wallet
U.A.E Is open banking the answer to boosting the UAE property market? Michael Hunter is the co-founder of Holo Open banking is a term we have been hearing a lot over the past three years, since the... Thought Leadership • 16 December, 2020 Fintech Open banking
U.A.E A cashless society in the UAE cannot happen without financial inclusion Anouar Bourakkadi Idrissi is the CEO of Edenred UAE At the onset of 2020, implementation of the wide-scale lockdown and social... Thought Leadership • 14 December, 2020 Fintech financial inclusion cashless
Regional Where will the next wave of innovation come from? Dr Vikas Nand Kumar Batheja is the co-founder and director of Capital College in Dubai The global pandemic has created panic,... Thought Leadership • 07 December, 2020 Innovation
U.A.E Outlining Sharjah's approach to entrepreneurship Najla Al-Midfa is the CEO of Sharjah Entrepreneurship Centre (Sheraa) Entrepreneurship is essential to building a strong... Thought Leadership • 03 December, 2020 sharjah Sheraa
U.A.E Why successful companies view learning as a boardroom priority Anthony Tattersall is the vice president of Europe Middle East and Africa at Coursera Business in the UAE has traditionally been... Thought Leadership • 26 November, 2020 online learning