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SAMENA COUNCIL ACTIVITY SAMENA TRENDS

LEADERS' SUMMIT 2022

Resilience and Integration in the New Opportunity Realm

SAMENA Telecommunications Council congregated leaders has made an official pledge to support and advocate the
and experts at its Leaders’ Summit 2022, which was held at the objectives of the ITU’s recently launched Partner2Connect
Atlantis, the Palm in Dubai on 9th May 2022 under the theme Digital Coalition.
"Thriving with Resilience & Integration in the New Opportunity • Given the magnitude of connecting everyone, fostering
Realm". The Summit was hosted by Huawei and focused on many collaboration among the communications service providers
critical issues of the ICT industry. that are operating at the surface of the planet and those that
are operating in space. On this front, Mohamed Bin Rashid
This year’s Summit was an effort to fulfill diverse expectations Space Center's leadership participated and led a bi-lateral
from SAMENA Council members, industry stakeholders, other meeting during the Leaders' Summit.
industries and sectors, as well as regulatory authorities and global Many telecoms and multi-industry leaders contributed to the
institutions. Therefore, multiple discussions were conducted, success of the Summit with keynotes, visions statements and
covering a wide range of topics and issues by industry leaders and
experts with diverse backgrounds and who are enabling the Public
and Private sectors in treading the new opportunity landscape.

The Agenda of this Summit was built to address the need for:
• Integration of technologies in the current, “fifth-generation”
business environment.
• Developing new synergies, such as with autonomous driving,
learning, health and financial services, to name a few.
• Driving the future of connectivity toward sustainability – both
for the business as well as for the environment.
• Revisiting and rethinking ICT infrastructure funding and financ-
ing by adopting new models in a sustainable manner, but in a
way that promotes sharing of the responsibility among all play-
ers on matters of connectivity and universal digital access.
• Catalyzing new partnerships, for which SAMENA Council

Leaders’ Summit 2022 Participants

• Belgium • Kuwait • Serbia
• Canada • Lebanon • Singapore
• China • Malaysia • Somalia
• Egypt • Netherlands • South Africa
• France • Oman • Spain
• Germany • Pakistan • Sri Lanka
• India • Palestine • Sudan
• Iraq • Romania • Switzerland
• Ireland • Russia • Turkey
• Italy • Rwanda • UK
• Jordan • Saudi Arabia • United Arab Emirates
• Kenya • Senegal • USA

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