{"id":211024,"date":"2019-03-19T17:20:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=211024"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:36:26","slug":"dubai-tops-artificial-intelligence-investment-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/dubai-tops-artificial-intelligence-investment-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai tops artificial intelligence investment ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Dubai is the premier destination in the world for foreign direct investment (FDI) in artificial intelligence and robotics. The information was released by the organizers of the Annual Investment Meeting (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aimcongress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AIM 2019<\/a>). A <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/forum-praises-south-south-investment-repeal-protectionism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conference on FDI<\/a>, held by the UAE Ministry of Economy, the AIM will run from April 8 to 10 in Dubai this year.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking shows that the emirate saw USD 21.6 billion in cutting-edge technologies from 2015 to 2018. The bulk of investment originated from the European Union, at USD 5.7 billion, and the United States, at USD 3.9 billion. The UAE are sixth on the Intelligent Services Index, outperforming the United States, United Kingdom and South Korea.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_211015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211015\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dawood-Al-Shezawi.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-211015 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dawood-Al-Shezawi-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dawood-Al-Shezawi-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dawood-Al-Shezawi-768x929.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dawood-Al-Shezawi-847x1024.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawood Al Shezawi is CEO of the Annual Investment Meeting&#8217;s Organizing Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The AIM\u2019s organizers claim AI could account for 45% of the world economy by 2030. The UAE are the Arab country whose AI industry matters the most, at 33.5% of the economy. Next comes Saudi Arabia at 31.3%, with the remainder of the region\u2019s countries averaging 28.8%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDigital growth is significant to the growth of the economy. In the UAE, it is in line with UAE Vision 2021, which aims to position the country as a top spot for tech investments,\u201d AIM Organizing Committee CEO Dawood Al Shezawi was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Shezawi also said technologies like blockchain and the internet of things boost countries\u2019 productive capacity and the world Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This year\u2019s edition of the Annual Investment Meeting will feature specialists in strategies and mechanisms designed to enhance technology solutions for attracting FDI, IED, as well as focus on internal and external incentives to encourage businesses to embrace those solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The forum will also provide opportunities for governments and private organizations to launch and promote their projects. The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, for instance, will have a stand designed to advertise Brazilian agribusiness as an investment target.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-211019\">Artur Widak\/NurPhoto\/AFP<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-211015\">Divulga\u00e7\u00e3o<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The emirate\u2019s AI industry saw USD 21.6 billion in foreign funds from 2015 to 2018, according to data from the Annual Investment Meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":211019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[343,32734,139,3901,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-211024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-opportunities","8":"tag-annual-investment-meeting","9":"tag-destino-en","10":"tag-dubai","11":"tag-fdi","12":"tag-uae"},"wps_subtitle":"The emirate\u2019s AI industry saw USD 21.6 billion in foreign funds from 2015 to 2018, according to data from the Annual Investment Meeting.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}