- Joins leading Singapore-based innovators at Singapore country pavilion
- Showcases innovations in video applications and emerging technologies

Singapore-based Internet company BIGO, the parent company of distinctive video 
applications such as imo and BIGO LIVE, is focusing on the innovative potential 
of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to impact everyday lives in the MENA region. At 
GITEX 2019, BIGO will be demonstrating its use of AI-enabled processes across 
applications such as its facial detection and recognition system as well as its 
content management system to ensure high levels of quality content served to 
its millions of users across the region. 

AI is one of the mega-trends at GITEX 2019, the region's leading technology 
event. Under the theme, 'Synergising the mind and technology economy', the 2019 
edition of the technology showcase will spotlight the wide impact of AI across 
every sphere, calling it 'the brain at the core of all emerging technology'.

Offering a suite of entertaining and interactive video applications that are 
popular across the MENA region, BIGO has built AI into core areas of its 
technology portfolio. This includes AI core technology for image and facial 
recognition, video intelligence, and voice processing. BIGO's use of AI in 
content management is an essential tool to monitor more than 300 million images 
and videos per month, and flag to a human for further review. Furthermore, 
BIGO's AI tool is quite agile and can be easily implemented and customized to 
existing and new platforms. 

Jackson Liu, Head of Middle East, North Africa and Europe, BIGO, said: "We are 
excited about our debut at GITEX this year, and look forward to interacting, 
engaging and sharing expertise with the regional technology industry. 
Megatrends such as AI are very close to our hearts and business; we believe 
that there is significant potential and opportunity for AI development across 
stakeholders in different sectors. We look forward to working closely with all 
these parties and managing content based on what is deemed acceptable and 
engaging in every country we operate in."

BIGO Technology has already made significant inroads into the MENA region with 
its AI expertise. It employs more than 300 people in Cairo, Egypt, where staff 
include those dedicated to regional content management and quality assurance; 
and has announced an investment in a new office in Amman, Jordan, as well as 
the hiring of 50 AI experts in Jordan in 2019. 

Visit BIGO Technology in the Singapore country pavilion at stand C26, Hall 1, 
Dubai World Trade Centre Exhibition Centre.

SOURCE: BIGO Technology