Podcasts by UAE Tech Podcast
UAE Tech Podcast is an exploration on how technology is merging with and reshaping government in the United Arab Emirates.
A little understood but fundamental transition is taking place across a series of Emirates first established less than fifty years ago, in 1971.
It’s here that the center of technological gravity is shifting from the private sector to a hybrid relationship involving industrialists, entrepreneurs, diplomats, policymakers, creatives and citizens.
It’s also here that signs of a Fourth Industrial Revolution are emerging.
In this series John Lillywhite talks with leaders from across the UAE in an effort to map these macro trends, and probe how innovations in big data, network science and digitalisation are not simply revolutionising government, but could - one day - play a role in influencing the systems that power global civilization itself.
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Crypto Fight Club with Ashton Wolfe from 2022-02-16T11:33:20
Today 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 pu...
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AlAnoud Al Hashimi: The Futurist from 2022-02-02T06:32:52
Al 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 ecosyst...
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Anthem Hayek Blanchard: The Elegance of Protocol from 2022-01-12T12:50:46
Anthem'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 Am...
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Yingzi Yuan: Gaming, Web3 and Saving the Metaverse from 2022-01-06T06:18:02
Slowly 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 met...
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DeepSquare: High Performance Computing from 2021-12-12T17:43:20
Today 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 IDEMI...
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Anthony Foxx on the 15 Minute City from 2021-12-05T07:09:54
Talking 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 an...
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Metamask: Joel Dietz on Early Ethereum and Unseen Worlds from 2021-11-18T08:52:58
Joel 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....
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Sensorium: Alex Blagirev on Dancing in the Metaverse from 2021-11-11T08:21:14
Sensorium 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 perfor...
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Jack McCauley on Guitar Hero, Oculus VR and Meeting Steve Jobs from 2021-10-31T08:10:24
McCauley’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 acc...
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Maher Yahmout on Red Teams & Human Intelligence in Cybersecurity from 2021-02-23T09:25:21
Much 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 los...
Maher Yamout on Red Teams & Human Intelligence in Cybersecurity from 2021-02-23T08:25:21
Much 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 los...
Mathew Yarger on Cybersecurity, Decentralization and the 'Machine Economy' from 2021-02-10T10:29:46
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 debat...
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Emad Haffar on Cybersecurity, 'New Threat Environments' and Human-Machine Intelligence from 2021-02-01T10:21:55
Today 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.
Fast Forward and the Abraham Accords: Dorian Barak on UAE-Israel Business Relations from 2021-01-24T07:17:57
One 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 regulation...
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3D Printing, STEM & Jacky's Business Solutions from 2020-11-15T05:30:20
A 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. I...
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Hamid Tamimi of Booz Allen Hamilton on UAE Government Innovation from 2020-10-22T07:27:42
Algorithms 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...
Dorian Barak & the UAE-Israel Business Council: Tech Investment & the Abraham Accords from 2020-10-13T07:48:43
This 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 inves...
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HMD Global: The UAE's 5G Powered Future from 2020-10-07T09:46:16
Smart 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 heal...
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Dubai Financial Services Authority on Fintech, RegTech & Innovation from 2020-09-22T06:54:37
If 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...
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Hailey Yoon on Haptic Feedback, NeuroTech and Coding Character into Artificial Intelligence from 2020-08-09T08:59:41
Can 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 mo...
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Philip Bahoshy On Venture Capital, Data & Investor Sentiment In the GCC from 2020-07-26T07:44:54
One 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 m...
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Paul Bogan of Serco Group: COVID-19 & the Digital Transformation of Government from 2020-07-13T05:56:22
This 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 ha...
Amy and Devon James on the Open Index Protocol and Web 3.0 from 2020-06-23T07:38:01
How 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...
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Alessandro Casuccio on Big Data, Ecommerce & Building in the Cloud from 2020-06-09T09:38:57
This 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, ...
Danish Farhan, Xische & Co: Building Nations With Stories from 2018-11-19T00:00
Danish 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 i...
Promo: John McAfee on the DeLorean, Satoshi Nakamoto & the End of Government from 2018-11-15T00:00
UAE 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 lau...