Behind the Emirati startup helping businesses reach the clouds

Behind the Emirati startup helping businesses reach the clouds

Emirati scientist Salwa Alzahmi founded tech start-up SPL Co. in 2019 after observing the challenges companies faced when migrating their data into cloud-native architecture.

With coronavirus accelerating digital transformation and reliance on tech, SPL. Co was globally recognised at the Global Telecom Award GTB and the IET Achievement Awards for engineering and technology.

SPL. Co is a provider of software transformation for current IT systems through an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model which automatically identifies and composes the part of the system code that should be lifted to the cloud.

Emirati scientist Salwa Alzahmi founded tech start-up SPL Co. in 2019.

In an exclusive interview with Arabian Business, Alzahmi spoke of her experience with the Ibtikari program, an intensive five-month incubator run by startAD in partnership with Khalifa Fund, advancing technology startups founded by UAE Nationals.

Ahead of International Women's Day on March 8, Alzahmi also talked to Arabian Business about being a female scientist in a traditionally male-dominated environment, explaining that she sees the UAE as “very progressive” when it comes to women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths subjects (STEM).

When did you first think of SPL?

During the early years of my professional career in IT, I was exposed to the challenges faced by big