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Building the Future
AI & Emerging Tech: Why the Middle East Is Betting Big on Artificial Intelligence
Key highlights:
- ✅UAE’s $100 billion AI investment fund
- ✅Saudi Arabia’s $40 billion AI partnership with Silicon Valley firms (source)
- ✅Dubai’s AI Campus — set to become the largest AI hub in the region
- AI startups
- AI cloud services
- Cybersecurity
- FinTech AI applications
Building the Future
Construction & Smart Cities: The $Trillion Urban Revolution
Key highlights:
- ✅NEOM: $500 billion investment (source)
- ✅The Red Sea Project — $8.7 billion
- ✅Lusail Smart City (Qatar) — $45 billion
- Smart construction tech
- AI-driven project management
- Sustainable building materials
- IoT infrastructure
Building the Future
Green Energy & Clean Tech: Powering a Sustainable Middle East
Key highlights:
- ✅ Masdar City UAE — the world’s first planned sustainable city
- ✅ Saudi Green Initiative ($180 billion by 2030)
- ✅ Hydrogen investments: Oman & UAE (multi-billion $ scale)
- Hydrogen production
- Renewable energy project finance
- Carbon capture technologies
Building the Future
Advanced Manufacturing & Industry 4.0
Key highlights:
- ✅ Saudi National Industrial Strategy: $132 billion (source)
- ✅ UAE’s Operation 300bn Strategy to double industrial sector’s GDP contribution
- Robotics
- Digital twins
- Precision manufacturing
- Industrial AI
Building the Future
Space, Defense, and Advanced Aerospace
Key highlights:
- ✅ UAE Space Agency partnerships with NASA and European Space Agency
- ✅ Saudi Space Commission: $2 billion initial investments
- Space tech startups
- Defense AI and cybersecurity
- Materials innovation
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