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GE Partners for Innovation

Akram Hamad, President, Gulf, GE, outlines the plans for GE partnerships in Qatar, including The Qatar Science and Technology Park, R&D, new energy technologies and a Healthcare center for remote diagnosis of regional medical imagery.

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[[Akram Hamad, President Gulf GE] GE is a diversified global company,]

[and we are in the media and the technology and the finance sectors,]

[with over 130 years history of innovation.]

[We localize our technology using partnerships, ]

[so the Qatar science and technology park presents a great opportunity for GE,]

[where we're going to basically localize technology, localize training, ]

[and localize services using this simple contention.]

[In the Qatar science and technology park we're going to have the Qatar advanced]

[technology and research center.]

[The three big activities are research and development, technical training, ]

[and advanced services in the healthcare sector.]

[Our oil and gas engineers are going to be looking at our turbo emission technology]

[and taking this technology to be more efficient and more environmentally friendly.]

[With our GE water division, we're working with Conoco Phillips,]

[and we're establishing actually a water sustainability center to do research]

[and to work at reuse in the petro chemical and the hydrocarbon industry.]

[GE Aviation and GE Energy will have a technical training center. ]

[GE Aviation will be able to train the maintenance crews,]

[not only from Qatar Airways, but also from regional airlines]

[on our CF680 engine, and we will be adding more of our modules and engines]

[as we go along in the development of this center.]

[In heathcare, we'll have a center where we will be able remotely to access]

[our diagnostic imaging, the CTs, and our MRIs that are around the region]

[and we'll be able to diagnose and do repairs from the center here.]

[In addition, we will have training on some of our information technology platforms]

[that are used in the hospitals.]

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[The world's renown universities that are opening in Qatar will be key to]

[Her Highness' vision of innovation here,]

[and GE will be looking at collaborating with these universities. ]

[This will not only bring benefit to Qatar itself, but also to the neighboring countries]

[and to the region.]

[Qatar science and technology park will play a key role for the advancement of]

[technology, research, and development. ]

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