NEWS
UAE
IoT World Forum showcases
smart city technologies
and helped customers discover the
competitive advantages that IoT
can bring
• Activate - which covered laying out
roadmaps to IoT deployments, best
practices and learnings from customer
IoT case studies
• Accelerate - focused on moving
the industry forward quickly, and
highlighted the roles that service
providers and application developers
must play in enabling this speed
The third annual Internet of Things
World Forum (IoTWF) 2015 in Dubai
was a huge success with over 2,000
attendees from across the world getting
awakened to the Internet of Things (IoT)
possibilities. The event featured visionary
keynotes byleaders and experts from top
companies such as Etisalat, Emirates, Visa,
Intel, Siemens AG, Rockwell Automation,
GE, Schneider Electric to name some.
The 2015 World Forums highlighted
three key themes:
• Awaken - which highlighted the
opportunities across all industries,
identified multiple business cases,
The event saw more than 25 customers
presenting on how IoT has changed
their business. Through Dubai Smart
City Experience Tours, attendees were
able to learn first-hand how Dubai, one
of the most digitally advanced cities in
the world, has connected transportation,
education and healthcare across the city
for a better citizen experience.
Umm Al Quwain
eGovernment and
Microsoft sign MoU
Microsoft has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
with Umm Al Quwain eGovernment Department to offer its
unrivalled solutions to various departments of the Emirate.
The partnership is aimed at transforming the Ummal Quwain
government’s services towards digitalisation. H.E. Eng. Khaled
Sultan Al Shamsi, Director General of UAQ eGov Department
said, “We live in an era where governments operate in a more
global and connected world than ever before.
This increases the need for greater collaboration between
the government and private sector. Technology plays an
important role in helping governments to serve citizens
better, advance issues of social and economic development,
and improve citizen safety and security. That is what Umm
Al Quwain intends to achieve and we are certain that our
partnership with Microsoft will help leverage their innovative
solutions and expertise to enable us achieve our goals.”
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Jawad Al-Redha, Regional Director, Public Sector, Microsoft
Gulf said “At Microsoft, we are determined to empower every
person and organisation on the planet to achieve more. We
are committed to partnering with governments in the region
and worldwide to help identify their real-time needs and to
leverage technology in a way to address today’s pressing
concerns. We are happy to offer our suite of solutions to Umm
Al Quwain government, which will certainly enable them
achieve their eGovernment goals to help engage citizens
better and enhance service delivery.”
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