Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) announced a partnership arrangement with PwC Middle East to rope in the global consultancy for its Dubai Metaverse Assembly this week.
PwC Middle East will be the exclusive knowledge partner of the inaugural metaverse event, expected to bring 300 delegates and more than 30 speakers to discuss opportunities and chart out the road map for taking the industry to $30 trillion in 15 years.
More than 40 global companies specialised in metaverse and virtual worlds applications are invited to participate in the metaverse assembly, scheduled for September 28-29.
The event is to contribute to discussions around how Dubai can shape the future of the metaverse and drive transformative change across business, communication, education, entertainment, gaming, travel, real estate, and other vital industries.
Guy Parsonage, PwC’s metaverse lead, said for businesses, the implications of an immersive, persistent and decentralised digital world could be enormous.
“The Dubai Metaverse Assembly is a key platform that will help both the private and public sectors to understand how and where these changes will take place,” Parsonage said.
He said as the forum’s knowledge partner, the firm would be sharing its data-driven insights and hands-on experience in developing a broad range of metaverse use cases from strategy through execution which will support the assembly’s objective of identifying the challenges and opportunities around the metaverse.
A joint report co-authored by the Dubai Future Foundation and PwC Middle East will be published after the conclusion of the Dubai Metaverse Assembly.
The report will summarise the key trends and highlights from the conference, exploring how advanced technologies can be deployed to create a better future and quality of life for humanity.
The strategic partnership is part of DFF’s ongoing efforts to foster international cooperation and build global synergies to imagine, design and build a better future.
The Dubai Metaverse Assembly, a first-of-its-kind event, is organized to give momentum to the Dubai metaverse strategy, announced by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, in July this year.
The strategy aims to add $4 billion to Dubai’s GDP, support 40,000 virtual jobs by 2030 and attract 1,000 companies specialising in blockchain and metaverse technologies to turn the emirate into one of the world’s top 10 metaverse economies.
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