Page 50 - March 2022 Issue 604

Tareq Amin
(CEO of Rakuten Symphony &
CEO of Rakuten Mobile, Inc - Japan):
Middle East should become a massive
technology hub and building a pure
R&D center is my biggest ambition
Tareq Amin, CEO of
Rakuten Symphony
& CEO of Rakuten
Mobile in Japan, is respon-
sible for driving end to end
Network evolution, Service
assurance and Automation
of cloud-native 4G/5G net-
work. In this role, he is
responsible for overseeing
all aspects of the Network
transformation,
Technology Development
and Automation, including
innovation, development
and operations. His entrepreneurial spirit led him to conceptualize,
develop, and launch a disruptive next-generation OSS which
encompasses artificial intelligence (AI), scalable real-time machine
learning models, strategic insights, and other meaningful Big Data
Science techniques. His personal mission in life is building a pure
R&D center. About this ambition and other things, Al Bayan
Magazine conducted the following interview with Mr. Amin.
* What is your strategy for the Middle East region?
- I was born in Amman, Jordan and my dream has been to take all the
lessons learned i have done over my career working in the US, building
almost 13 cities in telecom there and from the US moving to India and
then to Japan. All this have taught me about the importance of engi-
neering and R&D for the future, the importance of AI and software to the
world; thus, a very personal passion agenda for me was that I will def-
initely one day go back to the Middle East. It is my home, so I want to
be able to take the Middle East to another stage because at this stage
when I look at it, I still don’t see the innovation. I see many people from ô«jÉ©e ≈∏YGC ô«aƒàd áe~îà°ùªdG πFÉ°SƒdG »g Ée ,á«fhôàμd’E G äGAG~àY’E G ~jGõJ ™e ¯
the Middle East like me that traveled and lived all over the world and I
always wondered why are we not back building and innovating a new
foundation what the Middle East should become. It should become a
massive technology hub.
* Are you aiming to open an office in UAE as a Hub for the region?
Rakuten Symphony and Rakuten as a whole will make a significant
commitment in R&D in the Middle East . It is not about building sales
but a pure R&D center. This will be my personal mission in life, I want
to make an impact in the new generation that we will recruit and cater
in the Middle East and the conclusion of Rakuten Symphony in the
Middle East is to expand our offices. I don’t want to be known as hav-
ing a sales office but I want a pure engineering operation in the region,
a company that will help many of the operators and enterprises in the
region through their journey of transformation and really focus on soft-
ware, cloud, new cutting edge platforms for AI and machine learning.
* How fast are you going to proceed with your plans?
- Much faster than you think. I went and visited three mobile world con-
gresses in Dubai and I was really impressed with what I have seen and
I told my team that now we need to go and enter the market. First thing
that I want to do in Rakuten Symphony is to hold a technology work-
shop for that region as a whole. We will open up an R&D development
center in the Middle East and we will bring all the know-how and the
partners of Symphony are massive cooperations whether it is Intel,
Qualcomm, Cisco, etc… This is my personal ambition and I think now
is the time to do that.
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