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Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 18 December 2016: Emphasising innovation as an essential constituent creating in developing the UAE among the top 5 countries, Canon Middle East, one of the worlds leading imaging products and options firms led an expert panel conversation 'Frontiers of Innovation Forum' in partnership with MEED.

Some of the senior industry leaders that joined the forum included Dr. Ayesha Habib Al Mutawa, Chief Innovation Officer, Ministry of Health & Prevention; Anurag Agrawal, Managing Director, Canon Middle East; Luciana Soledad Ledesma, Manager, Innovation and Creativity-Innovation and the Future, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority; Ayman Aly- Expert Solutions Advertising Manager, Canon Middle East; Dr. Bashar El-Khasawneh, Graduate Programme Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering Khalifa University; Dominic Wright, Co-Founder, Generation 3D and Khaled Antoun, Sales
Manager, Canon Emirates.

The speakers and panelists talked about the UAE Innovation Targets and just how it is aiming to be amongst the Leading five countries internationally and win a Nobel Prize. The other areas which were talked about was the need to promote an environment of risk-taking and tolerance of mistakes and 3D printing opportunities for the future.

A vital outcome of the discussion was that innovation is vital in all industries, however when one speak about innovation in health, the reference has to do with people's lives. The discussion also focused on the UAE government playing a vital duty as an enabler of innovation.

In his opening up remarks, Agrawal focused on the constantly developing digital world and exactly how governments are adopting on brand-new innovations as they continue their change in the direction of building smart cities. He also stressed Canon Middle East's commitment to be lined up with the vision of the government by introducing in imaging remedies to sustain their smart city passions and the demands these days's tech-savvy youth.

He also highlighted the company's freshly released products, consisting of the '8K Video camera', ' 120MP Video camera', '250MP CMOS', 'Sensing unit 4 million ISO Electronic camera', and 'Intelligent Imaging permanently', while also emphasising the relevance of releasing brand-new innovation products and updates, with a huge concentrate on sustainability.

Dr. Ayesha Habib Al Mutawa, extensively discussed on 'UAE's Innovation: From vision to reality: The quest for the Nobel reward'. She highlighted the significance of organisations opening up networks and connections, while also collaborating to produce extra value.She referred back to a quote given by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Royal prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, where she emphasised the significance of innovation and investing in a variety of sectors to prevent any feasible misfortune in the future.

Her speech additionally highlighted the fact that the UAE was placed 1 st in the Arab world and 41 st internationally by end of 2016, which is a renovation from the previous year where the nation was placed as 2 nd in the Arab world and 47 th globally. "As we continuously witness technological developments, the aim for the nation by 2021 is to be amongst the leading five countries around the world and as a result win a Nobel Reward for this new achievement," she even more added.

Other major highlights of the event consisted of two panel discussions on 'The limitless possibilities of the 3D printing market' and 'Utilising modern technology to challenge and revolutionalise current processes.

Panelist, Aly highlighted the limitless chance which 3D printing needs to supply and Canon' s intend to service in all the emerging regions, where they do not have an existence. Dr.Mohamad highlighted the big positive impact of 3D printing when it comes to surgical treatment, in which a patient's kidney was healed using this innovation.

Dr. Bashar El- Khasawneh was impressed to see a positive reaction to the adoption of 3D printing among the target market and the panel participants, especially Dubai Health Authority. It is important to have the conversations such as the ones we had today to recognize the challenges and review exactly how we can conquer them. The future for 3D printing in the UAE is rather promising offered the push from the government to adopt the technology in a variety of industries such as construction, health, aerospace and several others.

The 2nd panel discussion consisted of Shadi Bakhour, General Manager, Canon Emirates; Rohit Majhi, Senior Manager, Monitor Deloitte; and Zabeen Bint Ahmed, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, SEVIA and gave the audience with an extensive analysis on just what specifically defines an innovative service and how it ought to be implemented..

Bakhour clarified exactly how an innovative option can be connected to where it is operating and just how a vibrant country such as the UAE makes it easy to push with new technical technologies. The government is playing a vital role as an enabler of innovation, and encouraging new ideas and solutions to help in the technical advancement of the nation.

" Innovation is the hottest of hot subjects in the UAE," claims MEED Content Director Richard Thompson. "The UAE's Vision 2021 technique places innovation at the centre of the nation's passions to become among the world's most innovative and positive countries, and its National Innovation Technique determines the potential possibilities to own the innovation agenda in the emirates. The challenge currently encountering all of us in the UAE is: Just how can we change the way we live and work to turn the vision right into reality? Frontiers of Innovation united pioneers from business and federal government to resolve this problem. The forum was an amazing opportunity to share ideas and experiences and to help us transform the method we work and maximize arising turbulent modern technologies such as 3D printing, the Internet of Things and Big Information. It was a very efficient event and I look forward to a lot more such happenings in the future."

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