Innovation Smart Cities is a broad term. It encompasses multiple technologies while impacting a diverse set of industry sectors. This has created a wave of several emerging mega-trends and yielded a multitude of use cases. During our initial discussions with the partners and the government of Dubai, we fine-tuned our understanding of Smart Cities in order to arrive at the following eight “verticals”. This was the frame work we used to focus our search for innovative startups. Technological Verticals 1. IoT & Connectivity 3. Blockchain 6. Sustainable Living A system of interrelated A cryptographically-secured A city that meets the needs of computing devices, mechanical shared ledger and database that the present without sacrificing and digital machines, objects, allows multiple parties to write the ability of future generations animals or people that are to it, without any single one of to meet their own needs - provided with unique identifiers them controlling and owning it - designed with consideration of and the ability to transfer data blockchain, or distributed ledger environmental impact, inhabited over a network without technology, is a new paradigm in by people dedicated towards requiring human-to-human or the way data, transactions and minimization of required inputs human-to-computer interaction. records are managed, disrupting of energy, water and food, and many age-old industries at a waste output of heat and air 2. “Open City” Data fundamental level. pollution. Open datasets concerning a city, 4. Artificial Intelligence 7. Smart Government such as data on traffic, criminal activity, noise, pollution, etc can Machine learning, computer A government that can provide be made available and machine- vision, deep learning, neural more public services to more readable to build new products networks, are all sub-branches citizens, with increased and services and improve the of probably the most efficiently and creating better lives of the residents. transformative technological citizen experiences - quality leap forward for human-kind health, education, social safety since electricity itself. programs along with an effective business environment can create sustainable and competitive economies with Sector / Trend happier citizens. Verticals 5. Urban Mobility 8. Smart Retail New technologies, products and A retail industry ready for the platforms to solve the challenge future by offering improved of mobility within cities, against shopping experiences to a backdrop of increasing consumers, integrated to their pollution, congestion and lifestyles and bespoke to their urbanisation. preferences. SBC Program Report | 5