This event highlights projects from around the world selected for Expo 2020's Global Best Practice Programme, that showcase successful and scalable models for delivering sanitation and ecosystem services and promoting sustainable water management approaches.

Charting a Course for Sustainable Development

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Spotlighting development solutions that have demonstrated impacts for improved water management outcomes - highlighting Best Practice Programme projects from around the world.

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Jennifer Comer, Senior Manager, Dispensers for Safe Water, Evidence Action speaks during the Best Practice Programming - Spotlighting Solutions Around Water Management at the Best Practice Area, Speakers Corner m68653

Junaid Ghulam, Petroleum Engineering Manager, Petroleum Development Oman speaks during the Best Practice Programming - Spotlighting Solutions Around Water Management at the Best Practice Area, Speakers Corner m68648

Sunil Lalvani, Founder & CEO, Project Maji speaks during the Best Practice Programming - Spotlighting Solutions Around Water Management at the Best Practice Area, Speakers Corner m68652

Zoë Cuthbert, Senior Manager, Programme for People and Planet at Expo 2020 Dubai speaks during the Best Practice Programming - Spotlighting Solutions Around Water Management at the Best Practice Area, Speakers Corner m68646

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Water fuels our sustenance but also moves money, goods and people around the world, provides a valuable source of renewable energy, and enables the world’s food to grow. This week will help us understand how to preserve and sustainably manage this precious finite resource for infinite uses. The programme will highlight the true value of water, as well as progress and best practice in ensuring clean and adequate water for people, industry and the planet.

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 How will we protect our most precious resource today, for tomorrow?

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Best Practice Programming | Spotlighting Solutions Around Water Management: Session 2

Back in 2015, United Nations unveiled the Sustainable Development Goals as a means to work towards a better future. Expo 2020 Dubai’s purpose embodies the two main pillars of these goals: sustainability and opportunity. The global COVID-19 pandemic has further proved the urgency of this global agenda. As this mega-event takes place, Expo 2020 Dubai will become the center of commitment and action in ensuring that no one is left behind. The Leave No One Behind Track of Expo 2020 Dubai's Programme for People and Planet features a tapestry of event series that spotlight the importance of opportunity for all, gender equality and much more.

Catalysing Opportunity for All

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MENASA is an Emirati Design Platform curated by Samer Yamani, to celebrate Emirati artisanal work and to identify, curate, promote and present Emirati design and crafts through exclusive design collections and content.

In this event, an exciting line up of distinguished panelists in the field of design from around the world discuss unique perspectives of design storytelling, and how they have been able to break out of the expected and present the extraordinary.

The Power of Storytelling in Design

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MENASA’s third panel discussion, featuring distinguished panelists from around the world to discuss unique perspectives of design storytelling, and how they enable moving from the expected to the extraordinary.

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MENASA - Emirati Design Platform offers visitors an overview of the UAE’s vibrant artisan culture. Its bespoke collections are created with top local and international designers and explore seven Emirati “Craft Stories”: safeefa, clay, talli, sadu, coffee making, Gargour making and pearl diving. Each story leads you through the processes involved in crafting the design collections. The programme’s space hosts design collections to stimulate and inspire. Many of the one-of-a-kind pieces on display are also available to take home, with each purchase helping to sustain the local design ecosystem.

Aiming to identify, curate, promote and present Emirati design and crafts through exclusive design collections and curated content, MENASA provides a unique opportunity to explore traditional Emirati crafts through contemporary design, innovative materials and advanced processes. The platform features exciting design collaborations between over 40 local and international designers from 11 countries.

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MENASA: The Power of Storytelling in Design

A full-scale mirror world may not exist yet, but existing navigation tools, and augmented reality games available on our smartphones are already giving us a glimpse of these new realities.

In the not-too-distant future, we can expect to see a digital representation, or “digital twin”, of every object around us: buildings, bridges, human beings, and more. Machines such as self-driving cars or everyday accessories such as glasses will be able to “read” the mirror world, while navigating the physical one. Applications range from industry to healthcare, education, retail sales, and smart cities.

As this new hybrid world becomes reality and terms like Mirror Worlds, Augmented or Mixed reality and Digital Twins become more mainstream, a number of fundamental questions around ownership, security, privacy and ethics will need to be addressed.

Please join us in this World Majlis to share your insights and collectively contribute to building a better future.


Living and Thriving with New Realities

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In collaboration with the United Kingdom, this World Majlis convenes thought leaders, visionaries and changemakers to explore the new realities engendered by digital expansion. 

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Learnings and insights from the World Majlis conversations on Travel and Connectivity


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Physical and digital connectivity not only brings us all closer together, but are also the bedrock of healthy and empowered societies. Under this Theme Week, Expo will explore the ways in which technology is being harnessed to better fields of mobility, health, travel and much more. Smart and sustainable mobility, AI (artificial intelligence) for good, virtual learning, remote work, and data privacy are among the myriad issues that will be addressed. 


Navigating a Changing World

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How will we balance the impact of digital expansion with our physical reality?

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Inspired by British physicist Stephen Hawking, who challenged humanity to ponder how we might express ourselves to alien civilisations, the UK Pavilion invites visitors to contribute to a unique linguistic experiment. While exploring this cone-shaped structure, which showcases the UK’s contributions to space science and artificial intelligence, you can add your own words to the pavilion’s neural network. A language-generating algorithm then processes these entries into an ever-changing “poem” that will be displayed on the pavilion’s LED façade, providing an inspiring collective message to Expo 2020, our planet and maybe even worlds beyond.

The awe-inspiring UK Pavilion is an epic, 20-metre-tall, cone-shaped structure compiled of rows of horizontal timber slats that stretch forward to create a circular form. The end of each slat houses a LED panel that emits phrases that link to form an ever-changing interstellar message crafted by artificial intelligence and Expo visitors. 

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World Expos have always been meeting places for people across cultures and geographies; an opportunity to come together and celebrate human ingenuity and forge meaningful human connections. As the first World Expo to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, and with the participation of more than 192 countries, Expo 2020 Dubai looks to take this legacy even further. The Build Bridges track of Expo 2020 Dubai’s Programme for People and Planet features a tapestry of event series and experiences that celebrate our common humanity and the vital connections that can help us prosper together as a worldwide community.

Knowing One Another Better

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Explore a series of exciting conversations inspired by the theme of Expo 2020 Dubai. The World Majlis is a vibrant forum where diverse points of views are shared on important topics of our time. Each conversation brings together globally recognised thought-leaders who are invited for their exceptional contributions to the theme and their unique perspective on the topic. In each Majlis, students and members of the public are also welcome to contribute and engage.

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Conversations on complex issues that bring together thought leaders, visionaries and changemakers.

With the ever-increasing complexity of our world, fostering innovative societies can be part of the solution to addressing global challenges. Governments have an important role to play in widening the lens around innovation and implementing systems that generate robust and creative communities.

As innovation ecosystems mature, there are exciting opportunities to create truly innovative societies where all sectors—governments, corporations, NGOs, academia, entrepreneurs and individuals—collaborate to solve complex societal challenges.

Governments have an important role to play in fostering creative and collaborative communities. They can move beyond a narrow sector perspective and "innovation for innovation’s sake", towards enabling environments—systems and culture—where cross-sectoral innovation is applied to major challenges and produce "innovation for greater good".

Mission-driven approaches can provide us with valuable models through focused, time-bound, and cross-sectoral approaches to innovation. These models help us harness our collective knowledge to address complex challenges such as climate change, pollution, well-being, digital ethics, and clean energy for all, and could light the way forward.

Innovation Nation: Creating Innovative Societies to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges

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Organized with Spain, this is the first of two sessions discussing how societies create innovative solutions to solve humanity’s greatest challenges. Stay tuned for the next session taking place on February 15.

Session agenda - Innovation Nation (Session 1)

Creating a Cultural Renaissance

EXHIBITOR Magazine Announces World Expo Award Winners

EXHIBITOR Magazine's World Expo Awards

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The Spain Pavilion at Expo 2020 is an open, eco-friendly exhibition that seamlessly blends ancient heritage and cutting-edge innovation.

An airy ground floor features several small, naturally cooled plazas that are ideal for relaxing or snacking on tapas. Venture underground into aroomy basement, and you’ll explore a “forest of the future” filled with thought-provoking exhibits on Spain’s contributions to global sustainability.


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Inspired by Spain’s age-old links to the Arab world, the Spain Pavilion takes the shape of a lively field of sheer, conical towers in hues of brick, orange, and saffron yellow. Visitors venture under this vast canopy of peaks, built from reusable materials including wood, iron and fabric, to explore a series of breezy plazas. The underside of each airy dome is decorated with unique textures that reflect their exhibits: swirls of woven straw, a green canopy of plants, falls of digital water, and more. One dome also shelters a tasty tapas restaurant.

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Saeed Al Saeed, Science and Technology Advisor, Ministery of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation UAE speaks during the World Majlis Innovation Nation at the Spain Pavilion m43247

Prof Javier Garcia Martinez, President of the International Union of Pure Chemistry, Spain speaks during the World Majlis Innovation Nation at the Spain Pavilion m43257

Oscar Di Montigny, Ideator of the Humanovability vision, Italy speaks during the World Majlis Innovation Nation at the Spain Pavilion m43250

Arun Sundaraajan, Harold Price Chair in Entrepeneurship stern school of Buisness, New York University, USA speaks during the World Majlis Innovation Nation at the Spain Pavilion m43249

Amin Gafaranga, Founder, Atelier Design-Thinking Academy, Rwanda speaks during the World Majlis Innovation Nation at the Spain Pavilion m43262

Alya Al Mazrouei, Director, UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science, UAE speaks during the World Majlis Innovation Nation at the Spain Pavilion m43258

Best Practice Programming | Spotlighting Solutions Around Water Management: Session 2

Charting a Course for Sustainable Development

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Water Week .

This event is part of the
Leave No One Behind.

Charting a Course for Sustainable Development

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Water Week .

This event is part of theLeave No One Behind.

This event is part of the
Leave No One Behind.