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The UAE's Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology held the third of its Future of Industry Dialogue online meetings, exploring ways of increasing the advanced technology sector’s contribution to the country's economic growth.
The first in the series, which began this month, focused on the heavy industries and the second on supporting a resilient food and beverage sector in the UAE.
In the third dialogue, Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, and Sarah Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Technology, met Faisal Al Bannai, secretary general of the Advanced Technology Research Council, Badr Al Olama, executive director at Mubadala Investment Company, Ismail Abdulla, chief executive of aircraft parts manufacturer Strata, chief executive of clean energy company Masdar, Mohamed Al Ramahi, Dr Eric Xing, president of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, AI and cloud computing group G42's chief executive Peng Xiao, multinational GE's gulf president Dalya Al Muthanna and Honeywell's president of high growth regions Norm Gilsdorf, Siemens Energy's regional managing director Dietmar Siersdorfer, Abdul Rahman Al Thehaiba of Oracle, Unilever's Yasir Jamal, Google's Selim Edde and IT company Cisco's Reem Assad.