The Qatar and Saudi Arabia Centres for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, with Qatar Development Bank, held a webinar on SME business continuity and operational readiness amid regional changes.
Source: Qatar News Agency, reporting Qatar Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Qatar and UNCTAD plan to hold the World Investment Forum in Doha on 25–27 October. The announced programme includes more than 70 sessions and 211 speakers across seven themes; these are programme figures, not actual attendance.
Source: Qatar News Agency, reporting Ministry of Commerce and Industry
The Republic of Congo and Mozambique finalized 11 draft agreements covering areas including trade and energy. ACI reported on 7 October that presidential signatures are still expected, while the parties agreed to monitor implementation and continue negotiations on other subjects.
Research discussed at a King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language conference examined LLM understanding of proverbs and idioms and AI interpretation of Najdi Arabic. The studies recommended dialect-inclusive corpora, specialised benchmarks and fine-tuning with Arabic dialect data.
The MoU with WTITC covers applied research, validation, pilots and commercialisation, drawing on a network of 2,843 technology companies in 63 countries.
The 2026 Digital Defence Report says Microsoft analyses more than 165 trillion security signals daily; the UAE ranked sixth globally for customer impact in H1.
Qatar ranked 63rd among 88 markets in JLL’s 2026 Global Real Estate Transparency Index, according to Aqarat, compared with 68th in 2024. The ordinal ranking is not a percentage or a measure of housing-price inflation.
Source: Qatar News Agency, reporting Real Estate Regulatory Authority
Scotland’s Proof of Concept fund awarded £2.92 million to 17 projects across seven universities to test commercialisation of research, from prototypes to market analysis.
Source: Scottish Government — Unlocking economic innovation
The two-year English programme combines AI, business strategy, governance and ethics; it carries 120 ECTS across four semesters and includes industry projects and an internship.
A three-year plan signed in Brazzaville covers energy, agriculture, health, transport, industry, digital development and higher education. ACI reported that the 2026–27 scholarship quota remains 250 places, while ratification of an investment-protection agreement is still a future step.
In a 29 September notice, ARSP ordered the Lualaba mining company to terminate contracts with six ineligible subcontractors and submit a corrective plan within 30 days. The regulator said the six firms accounted for 80% of all subcontractors’ turnover.
Source: Authority for the Regulation of Subcontracting in the Private Sector (ARSP), DRC
National Bank of Kuwait has renewed its strategic education partnership with Spain’s IE University. The programme covers executive education, postgraduate study and corporate innovation work; the announcement gives no participant or funding totals.
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