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00:00Hello, so my name is Shawi Ghasmi.
00:08I am the former Chief Researcher of the Directed Energy Research Center and recently appointed
00:13as the Chief Innovation Officer at TII, working with Dr. Najwa on the productization and industrialization
00:20of our key technologies that we are developing at TII.
00:24So TII is an applied research entity created in 2020 when the Advanced Technology Research
00:31Council was established to support the transition from the oil and gas economy to the knowledge-based
00:38economy.
00:39So investing heavily in deep tech, preferably developed in Abu Dhabi and in UAE.
00:46I think that what we have been doing so far is pushing to develop cutting-edge technologies
00:51for multiple domains, healthcare, transport, security and defense, space.
00:59And technically speaking, we have been using cutting-edge technologies for our projects.
01:04And what we are now looking at is how we are multiplying our R&D capabilities by leveraging
01:12AI and generative AI.
01:14And as you might have heard about the Falcon large-language model, we aim at bringing it
01:20at our engineering level to make sure that we can develop and innovate at a fast pace.
01:30So there are several aspects that I need to touch on in your question.
01:36The first thing I would like to quote one of my colleagues, Redanit Haku, who recently
01:41very clearly explained how generative AI is a force multiplier for innovation and research
01:49and development.
01:51And I think that his leadership on AI71 is a proof that bringing AI to the wide audience
01:56is extremely important.
01:57At TII, what we are developing is the foundation of science and technology related to artificial
02:05intelligence to make sure that the UAE is one catching the wave at the right time and
02:11become a leader in the deep tech domain through or by leveraging artificial intelligence with
02:19sovereign capabilities where accessing computation power, data, and developing the right use
02:27cases are the main drivers to bring AI to innovate.
02:38I think they have to come to us because one of our main mandates within the Advanced Technology
02:46Research Council is to disseminate knowledge.
02:49So at TII, what we are doing is one making models available as open source models.
02:55I think that everybody knows that the UAE is pushing towards democratizing the access
03:02to open source and generative AI.
03:05And in the same time, if you have use cases, we will be happy to look into them and of
03:10course support the development of technologies related to those use cases.
03:14Our objective is really to put AI and generative AI in the core of our innovation processes
03:22and to make sure that we leverage modern and cutting-edge models to innovate at the fast
03:29pace.
03:30Again, this is our motto today, how are we able to increase the adoption and also increase
03:36the understanding and the readiness of the country through awareness programs that we
03:42are running within the organization.