This event features projects within Expo 2020 Dubai's Global Best Practice Programme which are making strides in unlocking the future of travel and connectivity. 

From making wi-fi and broadband access available to displaced and remote communities, to upskilling women across Latin America with digital and tech capacity, to open-source digital tools helping community health workers deliver high-quality and equitable care, learn more about how small steps can lead to big leaps for communities around the world.

Breaking Barriers - Physical and Digital

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Spotlighting development solutions that have demonstrated improved outcomes for nature, ecotourism, sustainable infrastructure and digital connectivity

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?

Travel & Connectivity Week

Best Practice Programming | Exploring the Future of Travel and Connectivity

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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Leave No One Behind

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Embodying the Expo 2020 Dubai theme 'Connecting Minds, Creating the Future', Oman Pavilion presents this special forum to highlight the latest innovations in economy, digital connectivity, and technology.

The Innovation Cube: From Oman to the World

Innovation Nation February 4

Inside Expo: Sustainability I: The World’s Oldest Innovator

Inside Expo: Sustainability II: Harnessing the Sun

The Powerhouse Pavilions

Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion - Audio Guide

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At Expo 2020, sustainability is an urgent, attainable reality, and Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion is the proof. Both immersive exhibition space and exemplar of environmental self-sufficiency, Terra is a pioneering piece of architecture that pushes the limits of renewable design.

The pavilion’s 130-metre-wide solar canopy – so vast that you could park 10 city buses head-to-tail atop it – converts sunshine into electricity for the exhibits below. Artfully funnelled natural light and local plant species, together with technologies that can reduce water consumption by 75 per cent, show the way to a sustainable future.


Inspiring experiential journey through our shared sustainable future

Two immersive paths to choose from: beneath a forest and beneath an ocean

LEED Platinum environmental features, including solar power and water recycling

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Terra is a super-sized marvel of forward-thinking design. The pavilion’s technology generates enough energy in a year to power a Nissan Leaf to drive halfway to Mars, while another system captures moisture from the air you breathe and turns it into drinkable water. Enter and take a fantastical journey through the wonders of nature, humanity’s challenges and the promise of our shared future. 


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The Sustainability Pavilion

Terra is home to five thought-provoking art installations from artists around the world, with each piece demonstrating a response to the issue of sustainability.

Terra Art Installations

Young visitors can explore a fantastical world inspired by Terra's very own octopus, Octavia.

Octavia's Playground

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The Oman Pavilion takes visitors on a panoramic tour of one of the Arabian Peninsula’s great treasures: frankincense, used in perfumes and incense since ancient times.

Omanis have been harvesting and trading this precious resin for some 5,000 years, and their expertise, care and innovation are on full display in every corner of the whimsically tree-shaped pavilion. Visit with a hyper-real animatronic Boswellia sacra tree, learn the resin’s history and heritage from virtual-reality storytellers, explore a botanical “library of life” tended by robots – or just let the delicate aromas of frankincense relax you at the pavilion’s scent bar.


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The Oman Pavilion is both mystical and futuristic. Pale wood slats are vertically arranged to form a trunk that balloons out, stretching upward in an organic, tree-like shape. The structures branches vary in width and weight and cup a white drum-like building patterned with lacy shapes that resemble roots and leaves. 


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Inspired

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Oman | The Innovation Cube Forum: From Oman to the World

Conceptual artist Mary Ellen Carroll will be in conversation with AI ethicist Renée Cummings to discuss how data activism can urge social change, leading to people- and community-centric outcomes that chip away at systemic injustice. Evoking not only new systems of exchange and value, but also innovative spaces of virtual, augmented, and mixed realities (VR, AR, MR), their conversation will highlight the increasingly important role of ethics in developing artiﬁcial intelligence. Their range of interests and interentions—VR as a means of rehabilitating incarcerated offenders, ideas as currency, quadratic voting for fairer representation, sovereign-less identity—constitutes a wellspring of innovative thinking, and manifest the progress being made in the ﬁght for justice and inclusion.

A Cloud is Nobody's

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A session that invites an artist to create an intervention around the week’s Travel and Connectivity theme and lead a conversation based on the commission.

Cultures in Conversation | A Cloud is Nobody's

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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As part of the International Day of La Francophonie at Expo 2020 Dubai, the OIF (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie) is organizing a series of four conferences in "Ted Talks" format to promote innovations and young talents in the Francophonie of the future. This first meeting focuses on the theme: "Digital, a powerful lever for action at the service of young people". Keynote speakers include Ben-Manson Toussaint from Haiti, who is a researcher and entrepreneur in artificial intelligence, and Co-founder of the specialized translation platform Seekncheck; alongside Matina Razafimahefa from Madagascar, Co-founder of Sayna - the first digital school in Madagascar.

Digital, a Powerful Lever for Action at the Service of Young People

International Francophonie Day

A conference in "TEDx" format to promote innovations and young talents from the Francophonie of the future. In this first meeting, the talk discusses the theme 'digital, at the service of young people'.

Co-curated by Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, Expo 2020 Dubai celebrates International Francophonie Day by promoting the beauty of culture and language, uniting people from across the world, and creating an environment of solidarity that encourages further global development.

The French language, Connecting for Action

Best Practice Programming | Exploring the Future of Travel and Connectivity

Breaking Barriers - Physical and Digital

Travel & Connectivity Week.

This event is part of the
Leave No One Behind.

Breaking Barriers - Physical and Digital

Travel & Connectivity Week.

This event is part of theLeave No One Behind.

This event is part of the
Leave No One Behind.