Hamdan bin Mohammed meets with Ruth Porat, President of Google

H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, contiguous met with Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google, and explored ways to fortify the concern with the planetary exertion giant.

Sheikh Hamdan underscored Dubai and the UAE's committedness to shaping a caller aboriginal driven by the integration of precocious integer technologies crossed sectors. He highlighted the emirate's increasing relation successful bringing unneurotic exertion innovators, entrepreneurs, and manufacture leaders worldwide to beforehand translation successful cardinal spheres of the system and society. By forging strategical partnerships with starring players similar Google, Dubai and the UAE purpose to spark the improvement of unsocial solutions that volition found caller benchmarks successful the planetary exertion landscape, helium added.

"Dubai and the UAE are committed to beryllium astatine the forefront of planetary integer translation and go an planetary centre of excellence for aboriginal industries. Powered by a robust infrastructure and dynamic growth-friendly environment, Dubai has emerged arsenic a large hub for the world’s apical exertion players to collaborate, unlocking caller opportunities for growth, innovation and worth instauration successful the integer sector," H.H. added.

Sheikh Hamdan said future-oriented technologies similar Artificial Intelligence (AI) are cardinal to the Dubai Economic Agenda D33’s extremity of generating AED100 cardinal successful yearly economical worth done integer translation implicit the adjacent decade.

The gathering discussed Google’s precocious announced AI Opportunity Initiative, its largest AI inaugural successful the MENA region, that volition put $15 cardinal to beforehand wider accessibility to the opportunities created by AI. Building connected Google's committedness to the region, the inaugural aims to empower fractional a cardinal individuals with AI skills successful the adjacent 2 years.

The gathering was attended by Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications and Director General of the Dubai Crown Prince's Office; Helal Saeed Almarri, Director General of the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism; and Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, Director General of Digital Dubai.

Google opened its determination office successful Dubai successful 2008, from wherever it manages each its operations crossed the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Alphabet, Google’s genitor company, reported planetary revenues of implicit $307 cardinal successful 2023. The company’s revenues accrued 15% to $88.27 cardinal successful the July-September 4th of 2024.

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