The Qatari entrepreneur participates as a guest speaker at the international conference on consumer technology

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Qatari entrepreneur and innovator Khalid Aboujassoum was a guest speaker at the CES Food Tech Conference, an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). Aboujassoum is the founder and CEO of Else Labs Inc, which manufactures and sells its own revolutionary invention, Oliver, a smart food processor that helps optimize kitchen automation. He is also the co-founder and current president of Ibtechar, Qatar’s first turnkey innovation and solutions startup, which has effectively delivered 70% of all innovation spaces in Qatar over the past decade. The event, which concluded Saturday at the Venetian Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, hosts presentations of products and technologies in the consumer electronics sector. This edition of the conference looked at how the world of food and cooking is being reinvented through innovation and technology. It brought together leaders from the food, culinary and technology industries from around the world to share lessons learned and discuss the greatest opportunities and challenges in food technology. CTA is a standards and commerce organization representing over 2,200 consumer technology companies in the United States. Its flagship conference serves as the ultimate platform for business moguls and pioneering thinkers to connect, collaborate and advance consumer technology. Key participants include manufacturers, developers and suppliers of consumer technology hardware, content, technology delivery systems, and more. Named Qatari Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011, Aboujassoum was the first Qatari winner of the Stars of Science Award in 2012. He holds a BA in Applied Science in Computer Engineering, Management Engineering and Entrepreneurship from the University of Ottawa, Canada . Aboujassoum participated as a speaker in a session entitled “The Kitchen 2030: How Food and Cooking Will Change in the Future”. Discussions have focused on the significant transformation that artificial intelligence (AI), smart technologies and robotics are expected to bring to the way people cook, store and even eat food over the next decade. “It is inevitable that robots will cook our food. The questions are when and who will make it happen? Our design thesis is that form should follow function, and Oliver is a manifestation of that. I don’t think food processors will have the hands dangling to perform tasks. The food processors of the future will be familiar and designed with a purpose, and Oliver is exactly that. Technology is driving convergence in the process, “Aboujassoum said in his speech.

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