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Shuwaikh, where CEO Eaman Al Roudhan welcomed Abdulrahman entire business. Zain has partnered with Google Cloud to expand
Al Thehaiban, Managing Director, Middle East, Turkey and Africa, on its transformation journey by embracing Anthos as its hybrid
Google Cloud in an official visit. The partnership was sealed with cloud management platform of choice. Anthos is built on the firm
the attendance of Zain Kuwait and Google Cloud’s executive foundation of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google Cloud’s
teams. Commenting on the partnership, Eaman Al Roudhan said: fully managed Kubernetes service, that helps enterprises innovate
“We’re proud to be the first company in Kuwait to launch the Hybrid faster and provide customer services as well as enterprise
Cloud Management platform with Google Cloud, setting a solid solutions in a secure and reliable cost-effective way. Zain has
foundation for our core cloud strategy deployment and elevating selected Anthos as a foundation layer for its Telco Cloud to utilize
our enterprise agility.” “This collaboration comes at a significant it for a wide range of workloads to drive more enterprise solutions
moment where Google Cloud recently announced its intent to open to the edge, such as computer vision, image recognition, pattern
a new cloud region in Kuwait, a step that will support our years-long detection, or any number of other emerging use cases for edge
vision to accelerate digital transformation within the public and applications that are often forced to rely on fragmented solutions
private sectors.” Al Roudhan added. Abdulrahman Al Thehaiban across on-premises and cloud deployments. Eaman Al Roudhan
said: “Zain has been renowned for its innovative approach in the recently joined a special panel discussion that coincided with
telco space, and we are really proud to launch the first Anthos the launch of Google Cloud’s new region in Qatar. The panel,
project in Kuwait. We truly believe that our open and multi cloud Fostering Innovation with Google Cloud, saw the Zain Kuwait CEO
technology is key today because it gives choice and flexibility to discuss innovation and digital transformation opportunities in the
our customers and collaborates freely with all the vendors in the region with other regional executives. Through its solid strategic
market.” Today more than ever, companies from across industries, partnerships ecosystem with the world’s biggest tech players, Zain
especially telecom operators, are transforming every aspect of continues to lead the way towards a new stage of empowering
their business operations, aspiring to reimagine their application digital transformation within the public and private sectors. The
portfolio and reinforce their infrastructures with the most advanced company offers an extensive portfolio of solutions like cloud
technologies to drive higher efficiencies and lower costs. Zain has computing, cybersecurity, 5G, and much more to serve the needs of
long started its digital transformation journey, continuing to see all public and private sector institutions, serving the community’s
the fruitful results of its early investment in digitization across its needs and achieving the nation’s developmental goals.
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Arthur D. Little Converts to Type C Railway
Signaling Inspection Body Under ISO/IEC

Arthur D. Little (ADL) announced that the United Kingdom
Accreditation Service (UKAS) has confirmed its conversion to a
Type C railway signaling system independent safety assessor
(ISA) and assessment body (AsBo) under ISO/IEC 17020:2012, in
accordance with the CENELEC standards EN50126, EN50128 and
EN50129. ISO/IEC 17020:2012 is an internationally recognized
standard that assures the compliance, performance and efficiency
of an inspection body. As the highest standard for inspection bodies,
such as ISAs and AsBos, it provides independent verification that
ADL meets established quality standards and is competent to carry
out specific conformity assessment tasks. This ensures that ADL’s
clients can use its in-depth and rigorous assessment services,
safe in the knowledge that assessments are certified as impartial,
objective, transparent and effective. ADL’s Risk Practice is highly
experienced at providing assurance of complex and/or novel rail this signaling assurance expertise, not just as an ISA and AsBo, but
signaling systems around the world. Delivered by its core team of also for broader signaling assurance requirements "We have built
expert engineers, each of whom has over 20 years experience, the a strong reputation as a leading signaling system independent
practice specializes in safety assurance of technically challenging safety assessor, working with clients on railway systems around
projects with demanding timescales and processes that are not yet the globe," said Clive Adams, Associate Director, Arthur D. Little.
fully defined. The team works proactively with clients, assessing "Conversion to a Type C inspection body enables our clients to
processes as they are developed and highlighting specific high- benefit more broadly from our experience and expertise in the
risk issues to optimize project effort and support on-time project sector, providing assurance of the safety and processes of their
delivery. Conversion to a Type C inspection body allows ADL to offer complex and challenging projects."

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