AI: A UAE Perspective. Nawaf I. Almoosa Deputy Director - EBTIC March 7 th 2018

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1 AI: A UAE Perspective Nawaf I. Almoosa Deputy Director - EBTIC March 7 th 2018

2 2 EBTIC Overview

3 3 Our Model

4 Research & Innovation Structure Partners and Target Sectors Sustainability Smart Air- Conditioning Smart Transportation Smart Society Smart City IoT Education Collaborative Learning Environment Data Driven Education Social Networks Sentiment SN for Analysis Customer Service Smart Infrastructure FTTH Network Design UAE Healthy Future Healthcare Injury & Poisoning Smart Enterprise Business Process Management Enterprise Transport Government Network Synchronisation Localisation Cloud Computing BIG DATA Education Artificial Intelligence Research & Innovation Health Energy 4

5 EBTIC Facts and Outcomes Full-time researchers in Abu Dhabi (14 UAE nationals) Over part-time internships/secondments 35 PhD/MSc supervisions Organised international workshops inventions 51 patented/being filed Patents 33 Granted/allowed Over publications scientific

6 26% $91.2B Output Boost GDP Growth 6

7 -Develop & Use AI technology in AI-Ready Sectors -Fast adoption of AI across government -Availability of AI-Ready Data 7

8 Developing and Adopting Ground-Breaking AI Technologies in Our Leading Industries will Grow our Economy, Productivity and Exports Natural Resources Tourism Logistics & Transport 8

9 Transform UAE to AI World Leader by investing in People and Technology Upskill 1/3 of Engineering & IT Graduates in AI 9

10 ovation AI Training and technical Since excellence 2015 across the UAE 64 employees 19 organizations 10

11 joint TRA-EBTIC drive to deliver value at national level and to serve technologies to develop the course that includes lectures by EBTIC data science experts and hands-on AI Training Since 2015 training sessions. The course is accredited by IEEE Service Society. in support of driving innovation and technical excellence across the UAE 64 employees Data science is a growing skill area and that is clear from the huge demand for this course. TRA has promoted and utilised the course to train a number of carefully selected professionals from various government organisations, with the majority of the attendees being UAE nationals. 19 entities The first workshop/training session was held on the 14 th November 2016 at the Abu Dhabi campus of Khalifa University and ran for 4 intensive days. Dr. Arif Sultan Al Hammadi, Khalifa University s Executive Vice President attended the closing ceremony and awarded the completion certificates. This initiative is an example of the joint TRA-EBTIC drive to deliver value at national level and to serve government organisations needs in support of driving innovation and technical excellence across the UAE. collaboration on data science and big data training initiative. 11 Figure 14: TRA-EBTIC collaboration on data science and big data training initiative.

12 EBTIC Open innovation - Working together Industry Etisalat projects FTTH multi-layer network design tool EDCH Roaming Traffic Spatio-Temporal Forecasting Deployment of In-Building Distributed Antenna System Tool, Etisalat Mobile Network. Augmented Reality for Digital Signage Etisalat MEGA Project and TAAWUN Project, Etisalat Business Engagement Intelligent AC real-world trial Academia EBTIC Artificial Intelligence Programme for Etisalat Video Surveillance as a Service - phase 2 Innovation programme for Etisalat Sentiment Analysis for Etisalat Digital Government 12

13 EBTIC Open innovation - Working together Industry BT projects BT TV Churn Prediction Data security service for the cloud Inventory Optimisation for Telecom Service Providers Software Product Line Tool (SoaSPL) Social network effects in customer satisfaction dynamics Intelligent Service Operations Predictor for workforce management Intelligent real-time road traffic management Academia Next Generation Resource Planning Decommissioning of BT s TDM Network Software Defined Radio Testbed Spatio -temporal anomaly detection for IoT data streams IoT Application Security/Trust Architecture Government 13

14 EBTIC Open innovation - Working together Khalifa University projects Industry Academia Time & Frequency Synchronization over Packet Networks. Enhancing Evidence-Based Education Publishing Data in a public-private IOT platform environment, Cloud-enabled Business Process Analysis As-A-Service Bio-Inspired Self-Organized Services ActiveSense: Activity Detection from Wearable Sensors Crowd's Emotion Detection from Video Feeds Cloud monitoring and assurance Model-Driven Big-Data-As-A-Service Fusion based event detection Government Red Tides Predictions from Satellite Imagery Deep Learning Radio Engine. Location Anomaly Detection of Reference Wireless Nodes Privacy Aware Collaborative Analytics of Cross-Layer Data Positioning using Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT 14

15 EBTIC Open innovation - Working together Government organisations projects Industry Data Science & Big Data Training for Government Understanding Abu Dhabi subject-specific sentiment using Twitter data and machine learning Predictive Analytics for Aerospace - fuel efficiency optimization Smart School Grouping Social Media Analytics for UAE Ministry of Education,. Health Data Analytics UAE Healthy Future Injury & Poisoning Notification Analysis SenseMaker Academia Government 15

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17 Best Use of AI for Automation

18 Automated Multi-Layer FTTH Design

19 Develop & Use technology in AI-Ready Sectors Fast adoption of AI across government Availability of AI-Ready Data 19