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A version of this story was published in the World Economic Forum Last year’s historic SpaceX launch may have marked another small step for spaceflight, but it was a giant leap for automation. Fifty years after Neil Armstrong manually piloted…

Throughout his extensive networking career, Karl Bream has frequently alternated between the carrier and enterprise worlds. Starting at AT&T and in later roles at Alcatel-Lucent and, following the 2016 merger, at Nokia as well, Bream has found himself moving back…

Chris Johnson has two passions: sales and music. For the past 30+ years, he has pursued both with similar enthusiasm. By day, he’s at the forefront of Nokia’s push into Industry 4.0 as leader of Cloud and Network Services’ Enterprise…

Hamdy Farid likens his path from a modest upbringing in Egypt to a top leadership position at Nokia to that of a typical immigrant story. After earning a computer engineering degree from Alexandria University, and briefly working in software in…

Israel desperately needs electoral reform so that election day can once again become a celebration of democracy. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel. Israel’s election on March 23 will be the fourth since my youngest daughter was born. She’s…

If there is one key take away from Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler’s fascinating book, “The future is faster than you think,” it is that the future really is faster and closer than you think. What was once the realm…

Israel’s great Faustian bargain with the ultra-Orthodox has been a colossal failure. The upcoming election may be the last chance to fix it. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel. It was a historic night. Benjamin Netanyahu had been defeated…

Israelis can count on the US president to have their country’s most significant interests at heart, even if it comes with a dose of tough love. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel. When Bill Clinton was elected president in…

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has upended the way we live in so many ways that it’s shaping up to be the kind of world-altering event that rivals the two world wars, the Great Depression, the fall of the Soviet Union,…

The virus and its consequences have focused a spotlight on fault lines that have been ignored for years. But instead of providing a wakeup call, few in power seem willing to seriously confront it. Op-ed published in The Times of…

I thought it would be a one-off, but even after a dozen stories in various platforms over these past three months all anyone at Nokia still wants to ask me about is acronyms. Despite delving into serious topics such as…

The prime minister’s unmatched zest for ruling has beaten down and worn out anyone with even a hint of potential to succeed him. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel. Seated in a plush conference room of a Lisbon hotel…

The super speed and low latency of 5G technology leaves little to the imagination, and dreamers salivate at its potential. At the same time, the breakthroughs have also spawned a slew of conspiracy theories with little connection to reality. 5G’s…

Naftali Bennett has served as Israel’s defense minister, education minister and economics minister, and most recently he has emerged as the leading candidate to unseat longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But despite an equally illustrious background as a high-tech entrepreneur,…

Israeli politics are moving in the opposite direction to America: the demographics play to the right. A Biden-style victory could simply never happen here. Op-ed published in Haaretz. With Israel seemingly headed toward another election, many long-languishing opposition forces are…