Use-case driven & dedicated to understanding and addressing the challenges future focused cities are facing – balancing human-centric city services that are both fiscally and environmentally sustainable.
The Urban Lab transforms innovation into real-world impact, creating sustainable value for cities and their people while setting a global benchmark for scalable solutions.
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Testbed
Expo City Dubai is a city-wide testbed—a unique, living lab where innovations are tested at scale in real-world conditions. Unlike traditional pilots, the entire city serves as a dynamic environment to develop, refine, and scale solutions that shape the future of urban living.
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Infrastructure
Expo City Dubai’s advanced technical infrastructure provides real-time access to 100,000+ data points, enabling the testing and validation of city solutions with historical, live, and predictive insights.
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Expertise
The Urban Lab brings together city and testbed experts, a Deep Tech & AI team, and leading innovators to create the mechanisms that drive Expo City Dubai—and partner cities worldwide—toward a human-centric, sustainable future.
Urban Lab Solutions Areas of Interest:
Human Centric Solutions
Urban Cooling
Last Mile
Water Solutions
City AI
City IoT
Urban Mobility
Logistics
Building Management
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