Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 52 | Page 49

COUNTRY FOCUS: UAE “ IT IS INVOLVED IN EVERYTHING – THAT’S WHETHER YOU ARE LOOKING AT COMMUNICATIONS IT, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR TRACKING GOODS. www.intelligentcio.com How do you help companies to make progress? We do lots of events and networking sessions where they can invite their network, and of course, all the companies which are within their ‘buy, sell’ sector so there is always an opportunity to create business together. What can you tell us about the IT part of all of this? IT is part of everything including the solutions at the warehousing facilities. Starting from the goods which arrive at the seaport that is connected to our airport and the connection bridge between them, IT is involved in everything – that’s whether you are looking at communications IT, Artificial Intelligence or tracking goods for example. Whenever people are looking to increase their cost or efficiency that’s IT related. When companies are moving into the project surely one of their main concerns is IT infrastructure? Exactly. Some companies look at the hard infrastructure which is about buildings. Others look at the soft infrastructure which is basically all the regulations, all of the licences, things that they could utilise instead of building their own data centres for example, and instead of building all their own clouds, they could utilise others. INTELLIGENTCIO 49