• Leadership & UAE vision 2021: foundation for a new economy

& society shaped by advanced technology

• Science & Technology

• Strategies

• Execution

• Successes & achievements

• Challenges

• Lessons

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Based on Interviews with the UAE’s Leaders & Senior Executives

• His Excellency Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori

Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority

• His Excellency Mattar Al Tayer

Director General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Roads and Transport Authority

• Her Excellency Dr Aisha bin Bishr

Director General of Smart Dubai

• His Excellency Wesam Lootah

Chief Executive Officer of the Smart Dubai Government Establishment

• His Excellency Younus Al Nasser

Assistant Director General of Smart Dubai and Chief Executive Officer of Smart Dubai Data

• His Excellency Mohamed Alabbar

Chairman of Emaar Properties and Founder of Noon

• Badr Salim Al Olama

Director of Aerospace at the Mubadala Investment Company

• Salem Humaid Al Marri

Assistant Director General of Scientific and Technical Affairs at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre

• Saleh Abdullah Al Abdooli

Chief Executive Officer of Etisalat

• Brigadier Khalid Nasser Alrazooqi

General Director of Artificial Intelligence at the Dubai Police

• Arif Amiri

Chief Executive Officer of the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority

• Mohammed Shael Alsaadi

Chief Executive Officer of the Corporate Strategic Affairs Sector at the Department of Economic Development, Dubai

• Dr Noah Raford

Futurist-in-Chief and Chief of Global Affairs at the Dubai Future Foundation

• Abdulla Qassem

Group Chief Operating Officer of Emirates NBD

• Yousuf Mohammed Al Shaiba

Digital Transformation and AI Advisor to the Chairman at the Ajman Municipality and Planning Department

• Colonel Ali Hassan AlmutawaAssistant Director of Safety and Protection at the Dubai Civil Defence

Content

• Digital Transformation at the Center of the National Vision

• Reimagining Government

• From Smart to Happy Nation

• Data Driven Nation

• Safe Nation

• Globally Competitive Nation

• Innovative Nation

• AI Nation

• Creating A digital Future

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Emotional buy-in of vision

“The wider vision of the UAE is almost a personal quest, driven from the top by a cadre of leaders who have successfully managed to

achieve emotional buy-in from senior executives across the country”

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Key factors helping UAE to accelerate digital transformation

• Clear vision of leadership to be the best country in the world

• Clear strategies for emerging technologies

• Emotional buy-in from senior executives

• The new modern infostructure

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Challenges

• Lack of digital skills and talent

• lack of digital entrepreneurs

• galvanizing private sector SMEs to embrace digital

transformation

• Updating laws and regulations

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Takeaways

• Digital transformation at the heart of national vision & strategies

• Tech adoption linked to societal benefits, well-being & happiness

• The concept of “government-as-a startup” for agile government

• Public-Private Partnerships important to accelerate innovation

• Providing conducive regulatory environment to thrive

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Barcelona Smart City Expo 2019 IEEE GCIOT Conference, Dubai 2019 Roche International team, Dubai, 2019