Lumenore hosts GCC-focused webinar highlighted by keynote address from Donald Farmer

Lumenore hosts GCC-focused webinar highlighted by keynote address from Donald Farmer

Dubai, UAE: Lumenore, which develops and markets advanced analytics and business intelligence solutions delivered through an intuitive, AI-powered platform, recently co-hosted a GCC virtual event, “Leveraging Data as the New Oil to Drive KSA Vision 2030”. The webinar, powered by Raqmiyat, was highlighted by a keynote address by Donald Farmer, an internationally recognized author and speaker and former Microsoft and Qlik executive, who also serves as a Lumenore strategic advisor.

While the KSA is one of the world’s leading knowledge economies, it is suffering from a shortage of workers with a data analytics skill set. Additionally, only six per cent of businesses have been able to generate any significant economic value from an AI implementation, despite 75 per cent of organizations being AI-aware.

In his address, “The Data Universe and Augmenting Insights” Farmer, who is the principal of TreeHive Strategy, spoke about the importance of data as a resource and the need for analytics in realizing its full potential. “The shift towards the Middle East becoming a digital economy has been remarkable,” Farmer said. “Furthermore, the region has the infrastructure and technology to collect the data--data which is new, complex, and diverse, and is an invaluable asset for any business. However, data