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As one of the world’s most influential business hubs, the Middle East requires expert attention. Business Extra provides those experts, as well as news and insights from The National’s esteemed team of business editors and reporters, who are on top of the markets, technology, the energy sector and more.
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Wednesday May 20, 2020
Adnoc and Microsoft on the shift to remote working
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Wednesday May 20, 2020
With the public health crisis has come huge shifts in how we live, work and interact. Some form of remote working is likely to become a fixture for many companies even as we take tentative steps towards easing restrictions.
Co-hosts Mustafa Alrawi and Kelsey Warner are joined by Ali Al Sayegh, vice president of internal communications & employee engagement at the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) to talk about the massive shift and its affect on productivity and employee morale at one of the UAE’s biggest employers.
To tackle the implications for technology - the enabler of our WFH migration - Naim Yazbeck, a director for Microsoft UAE, also joins the conversation.
In this episode:
WFH (0m 39s)
ADNOC and Microsoft on how the workplace has evolved (2m 21s)
Headlines (22m 40s)
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• Adnoc CEO Dr Sultan Al Jaber on lessons learned amid the pandemic
In this episode:
WFH (0m 39s)
ADNOC and Microsoft on how the workplace has evolved (2m 21s)
Headlines (22m 40s)
Read more on our website:
• Adnoc CEO Dr Sultan Al Jaber on lessons learned amid the pandemic
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Dining during coronavirus: Can UAE’s restaurant industry survive the pandemic?
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Tuesday May 12, 2020
The restaurant sector has for the most part been simmering on an upward curve this past decade in the UAE. The realities of the pandemic may have put a lid on this trend.
Co-hosts Mustafa Alrawi and Kelsey Warner are joined by Alexis Marcoux-Varvatsoulis, a former chef and Foodservice Lead for MENA at property consultants JLL, and Ian Ohan, founder and CEO of restaurant operator Krush Brands, to talk about the future of the industry.
In this episode:
Kelsey on the F&B industry before Covid-19 (0m 36s)
Alexis and Ian on how the restaurant industry is coping (1m 35s)
Will we ever dine again? (16m 50s)
Headlines (21m 34s)
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• What is RadYes? Platform helps UAE residents order through a restaurant’s social media
• Oil rises as Saudi Arabia pledges to cut another 1 million bpd
In this episode:
Kelsey on the F&B industry before Covid-19 (0m 36s)
Alexis and Ian on how the restaurant industry is coping (1m 35s)
Will we ever dine again? (16m 50s)
Headlines (21m 34s)
Read more on our website:
• What is RadYes? Platform helps UAE residents order through a restaurant’s social media
• Oil rises as Saudi Arabia pledges to cut another 1 million bpd
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Dubai Future Foundation's top researcher on life after Covid-19
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
As the world awaits a vaccine, technology is stepping in to help us cope in the meantime. To take steps to return to a new normal, health care tech, artificial intelligence and remote work tools are all being turned to and tested like never before. After years of hype over tech’s potential to take care of us - such as wearable health monitors and apps - has its moment in health care finally arrived? And to what end?
Patrick Noack, an executive director at the Dubai Future Foundation, joins co-hosts Kelsey Warner and Mustafa Alrawi to discuss the foundation’s work on a series of reports titled ‘Life After Covid’. They also dig into the future of manufacturing, where the new health technologies may lead and what other trends may be accelerated in life after the pandemic.
In this episode:
How do contact tracing apps work? (0m 49s)
Dr. Shirley Yu on China's response (4m 11s)
Patrick Noack on tech trends and 'Life After Covid' (6m 37s)
Headlines (24m 34s)
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• Working from home will be the ‘new norm’, Dubai Future Foundation predicts
In this episode:
How do contact tracing apps work? (0m 49s)
Dr. Shirley Yu on China's response (4m 11s)
Patrick Noack on tech trends and 'Life After Covid' (6m 37s)
Headlines (24m 34s)
Read more on our website:
• Working from home will be the ‘new norm’, Dubai Future Foundation predicts
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