Innovation

Long a pivotal player in the global energy and chemicals market, in recent years Saudi Arabia has emerged as a hotbed for the research and development of technologies that can help make contemporary life more energy efficient and environmentally sustainable.

From the smartphone in a commuter’s pocket to the data center at a bank, business or government office, information and communications technology has become the engine room of contemporary urban life.

Wherever they are from, every young director starting out in the movie business dreams of having a film selected to compete at the Sundance Film Festival. To not only be selected from more than 10,000 submissions but to go on to win an award is the stuff of fantasy.

Carla Gohin, Head of Innovation, PSA Group: "Today, more than 90 percent of accidents are due to human failure. Implementing these new autonomous functions will lead to improved safety on the roads."

You cannot have a digital revolution without a democratic revolution, and that is what we are trying to do in Barcelona.

As massive two-way flows of electrons and data, of electricity and information, reshape whole industries and transform contemporary society, energy companies are preparing to change the face of urban living in the 21st century.

More than 200 nationalities now own a property in Dubai, and the Dubai Land Department is ranked the seventh in the world for property registration in the World Bank Doing Business Report. Without the technologies developed by ERES, that may not have been possible.

The race to 5G is well and truly underway, and Saudi Arabia is well positioned to bring the benefits of this new and exciting technology to the Middle East.

Just five years after the start of construction, the clock is ticking down to the opening of service on what will be Saudi Arabia’s very first urban railway system – the Riyadh Metro.

Design is the articulation of a hope; and technology is the means to achieve. In Dubai, both are present. The city doesn’t just imagine the future; it creates it.