Bitesize Business Breakfast

Trevor McFarlane, Founder & Chief Executive of EMIR, gives his views on the company's performances in the first half of this year. The results might surprise you.

Michelle Walsh, Director of Cinemas at Majid Al Futtaim Cinemas, continues our feature on disruption. We'll look at the AED 1.2 billion investment MAF is making into Vox Cinemas at a time when movie takings in the US are down.

Ann Mroz, Editor and Digital Publishing Director of Tes Magazine, joins us to talk about the UAE education sector facing a recruitment bottleneck because it’s not creating enough homegrown teachers.

Elie Milky, Vice President of Business Development for Middle East & Africa at Carlson Rezidor, comes in to talk robo-concierges, online booking and the rise of Chinese millennials.

Lowri Llwyd, Member of the Retail & Consumer Group at Addleshaw Goddard, comes in to look at global retail hotspots. They say that in the UAE we spend AED 1500 a month online.

Chris McHardy, Head of Sport at ARN, reveals the latest happenings in their world.

Vilhelm Hedberg, CEO of ekar Middle East, told us how this short-term app-based car-use company is getting 100 cars from the importer of VW's and how things are going for a company that was judged "most-promising UAE startup 2016" by Forbes.

Ambareen Mousa, CEO of Souqalmal, joined us to talk about having raised $10 million from investors – as competition reaches fever-pitch between price-comparison websites.

Sheryl Connelly, Manager Global Consumer Trends and Futuring at Ford Motor Company, took a look at the cities and cars of tomorrow.

Mohammad Alhawari, Managing Director and Executive Member of the Board at Takaful Emarat, continued our series on disrupted industries. We looked at how drones and artificial intelligence could change the way we buy insurance.