Innovation

Thousands of years after the world’s first great cities emerged in the fertile lands of the ancient Middle East, the region is playing a starring role in a new chapter in urban civilization.

Miracles are happening in modern food technology. Crops are being grown in the desert using saltwater, meat is being conjured out of thin air, and precious wasabi is being cultivated not just in Japan, but in the U.K.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) guide us through tackling the most pressing global problems, setting 17 goals, each with their own targets, to be reached by 2030.

A short drive away from the Saudi capital Riyadh, one of the largest entertainment, sports and cultural complexes in the world is now beginning to take shape.

In an era when generation X and millennials as well as the old timers are craving new experiences and increased leisure time we speak to Mattia Ulivieri, Blue Marlin Ibiza MD, about what to expect next from the White Island.

When two of the most influential men in global trucking sat down to talk in Phoenix, Arizona last spring, they discovered they shared the same passion for full industry transformations, and for outpacing and outthinking sluggish incumbent players. They quickly decided to combine their expertise.

Buzz speaks to Fahd-Al Rasheed, former Group CEO and Managing Director of Emaar the Economic City (EEC), leading the development of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC)—the world’s first publicly-listed city.

There can be few companies anywhere in the world today that are not investing intensively in digital transformation and in trying to find new ways to unlock value from the data they hold.

When we look around the world and observe how human beings of the 21st century live, work and spend their free time, it sometimes seems that our lives today are almost entirely shaped by technology.

This January, out of the desert sands, a flotilla of hard-charging motorcycles, sports cars, quads, trucks, and buggies powered over the dunes, racing to the finish line of the 2020 Dakar Rally—the first-ever edition of the legendary competition to be held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Their final destination? Qiddiya