Digitali Speaking

Meet your new robot chef, Oliver! A smart cooking robot/ recipe library/ meal planner, and an expert chef all in one. In this episode, I interviewed Khalid Abu Jassom, the mastermind behind this epic invention. He was also the first Qatari to win the prestigious Stars of Science title back in 2012. Listen to his super inspiring journey! More importantly, Pre-order your hands-off appliance that cooks delicious meals now! 

Aside from a very unique intro that you will all experience in the episode :) I really enjoyed the other half of my conversation with Khalifa! We spoke about issues that a majority is facing with Instagram verifications, followed by MR. Q's journey to acquire Raqami TV which currently has over 2.3 million YouTube subscribers. Last but not the least, he talks about what made him start Store 974, Qatar's leading gaming store! 

It's really hard to miss news from ILQ (iLoveQatar.net) on IG, FB & TW, especially if you're living in Qatar! In this special episode of Digit@li Speaking, I host Khalifa Al Haroon, the mastermind behind iLoveQatar.net, RaqamiTV, Qtips, Store974, etc.
Enjoy listening to our friendly neighborhood Qatari.

Jim and his awesome team over at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have been working on creating a state of the art persona generating system since 2016! It's actually called the Automatic Persona Generator. APG is a tool for turning your data into personas. It works currently with YouTube Analytics, Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, and Facebook Insights (if you have enough video content). The system pulls data from these sources and automatically generates user personas that represent your most engaged audience segments.

Read more over here: https://persona.qcri.org/about

Data loving geeks will love listening to this episode! 

What a storyteller! Michael who is a graduate of HEC Paris in Qatar wants all of us to go cashless! He has been the face of Qatar's first-ever FinTech app called CWallet, and I just had to interview him to find out more about his passion project that is now making waves within Qatar. In theory, this app is where you can receive salaries, send money home, pay bills, buy groceries from your local store, access metro tickets. Just imagine, all of that in one single app at your fingertips. Download it from the respective app stores by typing Cwallet! To read more please visit this link. 

Founded in the late 80's Qatar Scientific Club is a non-profit organization and offers training programs, workshops, and activities in a number of scientific and non-scientific fields. I had the honor of interviewing Abdul Rahman who serves as a Technical Director of this QSC. He is also a finalist of Stars of Science season 11. In case if you have an idea related to tech or looking for a place to experiment/ get your hands dirty, you should totally listen to this episode.
To know more about the product that got him into SOS finals, please visit: www.getsajdah.com

In this episode, Tamujin (Tamu) and I speak about the new normal, courtesy Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak situation since the beginning of 2020. He also walks us down the memory lane and gets really excited about the whole digital shebang. Enjoy this light-hearted episode between two friends who're equal nerds from the inside.

#DIDYOUKNOW:
Tamujin was the actual name of Genghis Khan, founder and first Emperor of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. 

This episode has #NOSTALGIA written all over it! I thought it was important to share some background about my journey of being curious about technology ever since I was a kid, and how it transformed me into the person that I am today!

Youtube Link to the device that I was referring to (Speak and Read):
https://youtu.be/btrnJd7IbeM?t=7

The very first Website that I worked on with my classmate (Hani):
https://web.archive.org/web/20021014123102/http://trulyqatar.com/mpage.htm