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- This month, CNN鈥檚 Eleni Giokos, Jomana Karadsheh and Hadas Gold look at how technology and cognitive cities are transforming the region
DUBAI: CNN鈥檚 anchor and correspondent Eleni Giokos, international correspondent Jomana Karadsheh, and Jerusalem correspondent Hadas Gold are presenting this month鈥檚 CNN Marketplace Middle East exploring how technology is transforming the region.
The global show was extended to cover the business landscape in the Middle East region earlier this year.
Giokos presents the show from the annual Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, 抖阴短视频, where global leaders gathered last month to discuss innovations and solutions to pressing problems.
The biggest names in technology and innovation have been making their presence known in 抖阴短视频, as they look to the Middle East as their next frontier for growth. Karadsheh reports on how the Kingdom is attracting businesses to the Kingdom, with the construction of the world鈥檚 first cognitive city, NEOM.
Jonathan Bradley, CEO of NEOM Tech and Digital Holding, explained the concept of such a city: 鈥淲hen we go to a cognitive city, we mean one that is predictive, that is proactive 鈥� in other words, eliminates friction from your life.鈥�
Bradley also talked about why he thinks companies are investing in 抖阴短视频. With 60 percent of Saudis under the age of 25, and cloud penetration growing at 40 percent year-on-year, 鈥渋t鈥檚 a growth story,鈥� he said.
In Dubai, Giokos met the UAE鈥檚 Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence Omar Al Olama to discuss the country鈥檚 digital transformation. He spoke about how advances in technology will affect people in the coming years: 鈥淲e are going to see human beings be able to do their jobs better. They鈥檙e going to have a lot more time on their hands, and they鈥檙e going to be a lot happier; that is the ultimate goal.鈥�
鈥淥ur goal as a government is to use all of these tools, whether it鈥檚 AI, blockchain, or any other technology to improve the human life in the UAE,鈥� he said.
Gold visited Israeli company TytoCare, an on-demand medical service that allows consumers to bring the doctor鈥檚 office to their home. The company鈥檚 modular smart device allows people to perform eight types of medical exams at home and share the results with their health providers from anywhere, at any time.
When the coronavirus pandemic shut down most in-person medical visits, Tytocare experienced exponential growth. CEO and co-founder Dedi Gilad explained the gap in the market that the company fills, saying that the company gets its edge from data analytics.
鈥淲e created for the first time this very basic, but (previously) inaccessible data. Those sound recordings of the heart, the lungs, the imaging of the ear, the throat, and so forth, were not existing in a digital way anywhere,鈥� he told Gold.