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Warba Bank hosted the innovator of virtual and augmented reality technology, Apple Vision Pro, the Canadian entrepreneur Bertrand Nepveu, who shared his successful global experience in entrepreneurship and digital creativity at the Bank’s headquarters.
The step came as part of a series of interactive sessions hosted in Kuwait to present this distinctive global experience to the Kuwaiti community and achieve the greatest benefit for Bertrand Nepveu’s first visit to the Middle East region, which included a special session for Warba Bank employees, a general session for technology enthusiasts and entrepreneurs at the Four Seasons Hotel, and a special session for undergraduate students, which was held at the Gulf University for Science and Technology.
This step is also added to the series of programs and initiatives offered by Warba Bank in cooperation with Zain and the Sabah Al-Ahmad Center for Giftedness and Creativity (SACGC) to achieve a number of sustainable strategic goals within their shared vision, which includes supporting innovations and entrepreneurship, empowering startup owners, enhancing the creativity environment, and investing in young people’s digital skills./p>
Chairman of Warba Bank, Hamad Musaed Al-Sayer, Executive Vice President of Support Services and Treasury, Anwar Bader Al-Ghaith, and some executive management officials welcomed Bertrand Nepveu.
On this occasion, the Chairman of Warba Bank, Hamad Musaed Al-Sayer, said: “Financial technology companies are the future, so cooperation and integration between them and banks achieves the best benefit for society. Adding that the challenge lies in attracting the best national talents, so we must develop our educational programs to keep pace with the real needs of the labor market.”
Al-Sayer explained that financial innovations and technologies (FINTECH) are developing at a tremendous speed and at an amazing pace, as they include a huge amount of investment opportunities, noting that the majority of banks currently place financial technology at the top of their priorities.
Al-Sayer pointed out that technology has facilitated our lives to the greatest extent, but there is more that we have not yet seen. Digital technology is constantly developing at a huge pace, in fact, to the point that economists have come to call this era the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Al-Sayer stressed: “It is clear to everyone that the world as we know it is not only undergoing change, but is being radically disrupted by technology. There are many traditional sectors such as healthcare, retail, and several other sectors that have been completely transformed as a result of modern technologies.”
He added that by looking at a number of developments, we are sure where the future is headed, citing as an example the technologies of digital payment solutions, data analysis, artificial intelligence, data chains, invisible digital currencies, and smartphone banking services.
Al-Sayer stated that it is necessary at this time to acknowledge the changes taking place in terms of technology and customer aspirations in order to provide services and products faster and more appropriately.
It is noteworthy that Bertrand Nepveu was born to a family known for its excellence in entrepreneurship, from which he inherited his love for innovation since childhood. Since 2005, he has worked on developing his passion for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies when he founded his startup, VRVANA. His career took an important turn when he and his team collaborated with Apple, a global company in California, and worked together to push the boundaries of technology to new dimensions, successfully developing the Apple Vision Pro device, which reshaped virtual and augmented reality experiences.
