Future Cities Show Aims At Urban Innovation As Key Opportunity For GCC

Dubai city not only as a milieu, but also as a principal example of the specific challenges that cities
around the world are facing. Future Cities Show will have Sustainability, Innovation and Happiness as its
main core, hence focusing on several transformational concepts as catalysts for smart urban
development. Future Cities Show conference and exhibition is held annually at the Dubai World Trade
Centre.

Osman Sultan, Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Integrated Telecommunication Company du, commented
“As we continue to experience rapid change across our global communities through digital disruption, it
is our role as an ICT leader to leverage and harness this great opportunity for progress. This tsunami of
data can be shaped by our trusted expertise so we can learn and grow together. Our flourishing
partnership with Smart Dubai is producing data-driven insights that are reducing complexity throughout
our great city, one of the elements driving towards the 10X Dubai initiative. Here at EITC, we focus on
getting the balance right between the technology and the human, social, ethical and economic variables
too, nowhere is this seen more clearly than in our Smart City deployment here in Dubai.

”Future Cities Show is comprised of an exhibition, where companies and institutions will reveal their
projects, technologies and urban solutions to visitors and experts alike, as well as a smart city
conference focusing on the aspects to develop modern urban environments that adapts to the citizens.