Innovation Live! Summit 2016

Innovation Live! is a strategic initiative to bring together government and private-sector companies to identify new ways of tackling the region's biggest economic challenges. The event aims to support innovation in priority sectors including sustainable energy, urbanisation, education, healthcare, transportation, business start-up, and industrial diversification. MEED has launched the Innovation Live! initiative in collaboration with a host of leading government and private sector organisations including Masdar Institute, Smart Dubai, Honeywell, Federal Transport Authority, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), Dubai Airport Freezone Authority (DAFZA), Hitachi and Current by GE. The focal point of the initiative is the Innovation Live! Summit, an influential government-led forum held in Dubai on 21 November, which has been announced as an anchor event of the UAE Innovation Week.