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Virtuzone founder: “We’re setting up about 500 companies a month in the UAE”

Virtuzone chairman Neil Petch says the UAE is one of the startup capitals of the world amid the high rate of business registrations in the country

Entrepreneur Mahmoud Bartawi on cooking up a startup success

Mahmoud Bartawi founded Under500, a brand that was ultimately acquired by dark kitchen outfit Kitopi after raising $700m from investors

Dubai’s off-plan market a crucial factor to watch, says Firas Al Msaddi

A key factor to watch in the Dubai real estate sector is the gap between off-plan and resale market prices, says the fäm Properties CEO Firas Al Msaddi

ORO24’s Atif Rahman on Dubai’s meteoric ‘875% real estate growth’

Atif Rahman took to the stage of Gulf Business’ first-ever Business Breakfast briefing to talk about his insight into the growth of Dubai’s real estate sector

Gulf Business Breakfast meet: Shining the spotlight on cloud, AI and proptech   

Close to 100 industry professionals gathered for Gulf Business’ inaugural Business Breakfast meet, themed around the intersection of technology and business

Dubai real estate has moved past severe cyclicality, says fäm Properties CEO

Firas Al Msaddi, CEO of fäm Properties, tells us why he thinks that Dubai’s real estate sector is more resilient than it’s ever been

Maqsam’s advanced Arabic AI solutions transforms MENA contact centres 

CEO and co-founder, Sinan Taifour, explains how Maqsam is revolutionising customer interactions with innovative AI solutions for contact centres, enabling intelligent Arabic conversations

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Exclusive: Visa’s Dr Saeeda Jaffar on the new ‘Instalments’ solution transforming retail in the UAE

Consumers can activate instalment payments at checkout based on their eligibility, whether at point-of-service terminals or eCommerce platforms

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‘Location sets the stage for luxury living’, says AHS Properties’ Abbas Sajwani

Keen to step outside the box and reimagine the expected, entrepreneur and AHS Properties CEO Abbas Sajwani is not just selling dream homes – he’s redefining the landscape of luxury living

eVTOL firm FlyNow targets 2025 e-copter test flights in Saudi, UAE

Small e-copters carrying up to two passengers could be ferrying passengers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia in just a few years, says the CEO of FlyNow

Salam CEO Ahmed Al-Anqari

Salam CEO Ahmed Al-Anqari on Saudi Arabia’s telecoms opportunities

Salam’s chief executive officer gives us insight into how his company is growing, as well as some of the big announcements that they made at LEAP 2024 in Riyadh

PwC Middle East CTO Ali Hosseini.

PwC Middle East CTO Ali Hosseini on driving AI adoption

In this podcast, the chief technology officer of PwC Middle East explains more around how his company is approaching AI

Michael Champion, CEO of Tahaluf.

Tahaluf CEO Michael Champion on LEAP 2024’s explosive growth

In this interview, Tahaluf CEO Michael Champion gives us insight into what it takes to host and organise LEAP 2024 in Riyadh

Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu

Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu on big Saudi push, new data centres

Sridhar Vembu speaks to Gulf Business about his company’s launching of two new data centres in Saudi Arabia

Cloudflare co-founder Michelle Zatlyn

Cloudflare co-founder Michelle Zatlyn: ‘Middle East internet usage up 20%’

The Cloudflare co-founder says internet growth in the Middle East was 20 per cent in the last quarter of 2023, far higher than the global average of 5 per cent

Deloitte

Deloitte ME Growth Leader on Neo Banks, Saudi’s new regional office

We sat down for a chat with Deloitte on the sidelines of LEAP 2024 to know about their focus areas for the year ahead

BlackBerry

Blast from the past: BlackBerry’s Hans-Peter Bauer on company’s pivot

BlackBerry EMEA VP, Hans-Peter Bauer, speaks to Gulf Business about the company’s journey into the enterprise

Alat co-chief of corporate development, Brian Rogove

WATCH: Softbank, PIF’s Alat to build robots in Saudi Arabia

A new JV will build a ‘lighthouse factory’ that will create robots by year-end, according to Brian Rogove, the co-chief of corporate development at Alat.

Renée McGowan, CEO of Marsh McLennan IMEA

WEF’s 2024 global risk matrix: GCC a beacon of hope

Renée McGowan, CEO of Marsh McLennan IMEA, says the GCC is in a stable position where it could have a positive impact on world affairs.

Majid Jafar, the CEO of Sharjah-headquartered oil and natural gas company, Crescent Petroleum.

Powering a just energy transition — why natural gas is key

The whole world is trying to figure out a greener energy mix. But as Majid Jafar, the CEO of Crescent Petroleum points out, this can’t be achieved without fossil fuels and, more particularly, cleaner natural gas.

WATCH: Saxo Bank CIO on global risks, opportunities in 2024

Chief Investment Officer of Saxo Bank, Steen Jakobsen, recently sat down with Gulf Business in an exclusive interview on the economic picture for 2024

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WATCH: Ranil Wickremesinghe on resurrecting Sri Lanka’s economy

In this interview, Sri Lankan President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, talks in-depth about his country’s economic reforms and climate plans.