Hovering between spectacle and scepticism, Dubai’s new Master Plan sketches a metropolis where every errand, office, park and beach lies 20 minutes away—yet is scaled for 10 million people and fuelled by petrodollars looking for a post-oil life.
In this keynote, Dr. Mahmoud El Burai, Head of Real Estate Policy & Innovation at the Dubai Land Department, unpacks how the emirate’s “walkable-but-wow” blueprint blends AI zoning, tokenised property, and giga-projects that double as living labs for low-carbon materials and circular water systems. He’ll ask:
- Can a petroleum economy really build the playbook for net-zero cities?
- What happens when regulatory sandboxes grow large enough to be seen from space?
- And how can Nordic proptech—already leading in predictive operations and climate-smart construction—plug into a market moving at Dubai speed?
Expect a candid map of the opportunities, the controversies, and the global ripple-effects of a master plan that aims to future-proof real estate while rewriting the rules of urban scale.
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