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The latest news from the Digital Incubation Center October 2019

Startup of the Month

Digital Incubation Center!

VCU Ice Creamsocial event

CMU CareerCafe event

Emerging tech AIand Machine Learning

IdeaCamptraining

3rd Edition

IdeaCamp training

HBKU Maker Majlis event DIC Training EButler in SME workshop

IdeaCamp

training

3rd Edition

The Digital Incubation Center recently

organized a four-day workshop series

exploring the prototype and design thinking

for SME’s. The workshop brought together a

group of leading experts to teach IdeaCamp

participants how to use design thinking to

visualize future problems that their future

customers might face. Entrepreneurs

learned how to utilize empathy and

experimentation in order to make their

business model more innovative.

At the end of the workshops, entrepreneurs

managed to develop their business models

to integrate the needs of people, the

possibilities of technology, and the

requirements for business success. They

created prototypes that are technologically

feasible and economically viable by using

Adobe XD program.

In collaboration with the Digital

transformation of Small and Medium

Business Enterprises (SME), the Digital

Incubation Center co-organized a panel

discussion titled “Emerging Tech: AI and

Machine learning.”

The panel discussion explored the latest

technology trends in Artificial Intelligence

and Machine Learning and the skills required

for anyone looking to start a career in the

tech industry.

The panel featured four leading AI and ML

experts: Diaa Eldin Ali, a researcher at IBM,

Mohammed Afaneh AI expert at Microsoft,

Sanjay Chawla research director at Qatar

Computing Research Institute and Zia

Saleem head of development at Integration

Xperts. The panelists citied their own

personal experiences while discussing the

latest trends AI and ML.

Emerging tech

AI and Machine

Learning

The panel discussion concluded with final remarks from the panelists on modern-day

technology, the future of AI and ML and their influence on the job market.

The Digital Incubation Center participated at

a Virginia Commonwealth University School

of the Arts social event. VCU arts students

got the opportunity to learn about DIC’s

various programs and services for tech

entrepreneurs and startups.

They also learned about Entrepreneurship

Zone programs at Qatar IT Conference &

Exhibition 2019 and the unique

opportunities it offers for entrepreneurs,

developers and tech enthusiasts.

The Digital Incubation Center participated at

a Carnegie Mellon University Career Café

event. Students were introduced to DIC’s

specialized programs and services designed

for digital entrepreneurs, developers,

designers and programmers.

Students also got the chance to learn about

Entrepreneurship Zone activities and

programs at QITCOM 2019 conference

which will be held in Doha from 29 Oct - 01

Nov.

VCU Ice Cream

social event

CMU Career Cafe event

Maker-Majlis is an innovative space where the focus is on localizing United Nations

Sustainable Development SDGs global goals and making them relevant to the Muslim world

in general and Qatar in particular. University students got the opportunity to learn about DIC

programs for digital entrepreneurs and developers.

Startup of the Month:

Cwallet is an incubated startup at the Digital

Incubation Center. The startup developed a

cross border remittance platform as an

alternative means of sending money through

traditional MTO (Money Transfer Operators)

in the Middle East by using Blockchain

Technology.

In September, Cwallet sponsored Oman

eCommerce Conference (OEC). The OEC is an

annual conference organized by the Ministry

of Commerce and Industry from the

Sultanate of Oman and brings together

companies from a diverse set of industries

including the E-commerce giants, Logistics,

Business houses, leading banks and

e-payment networks.

Also in September, Cwallet was chosen by

Qatar Central Bank to represent Qatar in the

International Banking Conference 2019

organized by Kuwait Central Bank. During the

conference, DIC’s startup Cwallet learned

about securely managing access to critical

enterprise information. The startup was able

to connect with a global network of

professionals in the fields of banking, fintech

and blockchain.

HBKU Maker

Majlis event The Digital Incubation Center

participated in the Maker-Majlis

event that took place at the

College of Islamic Studies in

Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

The training workshop series was aimed at

providing the educational tools to help DIC’s

entrepreneurs to evaluate their businesses

and to help improve their business model.

The training workshops were conducted

under the supervision of DIC’s certified

trainers. During the two-month workshop

series, entrepreneurs developed their

business models and learned about digital

marketing techniques, business intelligence

and lean startup strategies.

DIC Training

EButler In collaboration with the Digital

transformation of Small and Medium

Business Enterprises (SME), Omar Ashour the

CEO and co-founder of EButler, an incubated

startup at the Digital Incubation Center,

presented a workshop on lean startup

strategies and minimum viable product (MVP)

methodologies.

The workshop explored the most effective

and efficient ways to utilize resources and

time to validate assumptions, grow and scale

businesses by adopting the lean startup and

MVP methodologies.

The attendees learned how to drive a

startup, when to turn, and when to

persevere-and grow a business with

maximum acceleration.

The Digital Incubation Center hosted the

last training sessions for its incubated

startups. The training sessions were part

of series of training workshops that

started in July and ended

in September.

As artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent in everyday life, the art industry is

becoming more in tune with the creative and market potential of AI. There are many uses for

AI in art, which include generating new works of art using AI algorithms and reconstructing

old art pieces.

Researchers Anthony Bourached from University College London, and George Cann from

Oxia Palus have recently reconstructed a lost work from Pablo Picasso's Blue Period, circa

1903. Because artists frequently paint over old pieces, the researchers combined the

techniques of neural style transfer, artificial intelligence and machine learning to uncover

the art hidden beneath Picasso's The Old Guitarist painting.

Researchers Bourached and Cann found a lost painting of a woman and they reconstructed

the painting using AI and machine learning to match Picasso's Blue Period paintings.

Researchers argue that the use of AI and machine learning in reconstructing art broadens the

creative insight and extends the landscape of inspirational ingenuity by human-AI

collaboration.

AI transforms all aspects of human lives. Researchers Bourached and Cann’s reconstruction

of Picasso's The Old Guitarist painting is another proof that AI has the potential to transform

the way art historians work and reconstruct art.

Artificial

Intelligence

and Art

Reconstruction

For more information, check

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614333/this-picasso-painting-had-never-been-seen

-before-until-a-neural-network-painted-it/

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