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Hussain Lootah, Director General of Dubai Municipality

Dubai summit to focus on future cities

DUBAI, September 10, 2014

A conference focused on sustainable urban development and shaping smart cities of the future will be held later this month in Dubai, UAE.

The Future Cities Summit, jointly organised with Dubai Municipality and the Environment Centre for Arab Towns, will be held from September 21 to 23 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, alongside Cityscape Global.

A host of international government leaders will explore how global cities compete successfully for residents, businesses and tourists, while overcoming environmental and economic challenges holistically.

Hussain Lootah, director general of Dubai Municipality, said: “We are facing various increasing global challenges on a daily basis, which require efficiency, quality and excellence. 

“To be able to address them, we must adapt and cope with these challenges that coincide with daily life.  The conference will be a wonderful opportunity to meet, share collective experience and provide solutions and strategies to ensure a steady growth for the leading smart cities of the future.”

Leading experts joining Lootah on the speaker panel include Bilal Hamad, mayor of Beirut, Lebanon; Dr Refat Abdelhalim Alfaouri, director general of Arab Administrative Development Organisation, Egypt; and Bashar Masri, founder of Rawabi City, Palestine.

The fourth edition of Future Cities will take place alongside the Global Real Estate Summit, a flagship real estate conference attracting developers, investors, financiers and other senior property stakeholders from all over the world.

Running for the 13th time, the summit provides on-the-ground analysis of both local and international markets through topics including investment safe-havens, market outlook, project financing models and sustainable development.

Ayham Kamel, director of Middle East and North Africa for Eurasia Group, UK, will head an impressive line-up of over 40 speakers including Alex Craine, head of consultancy division, CBRE Mena.

Cityscape Global has also launched the region’s first ‘Real Estate Brokers Summit’ in an effort to keep all those involved in the buying and selling of real estate informed with the latest procedures and regulations that are impacting the industry at large.

Supported by the Dubai Land Department, the conference provides delegates with a chance to acquire in-depth insight into the current and planned policies in order to advise clients, gain traction in the market and navigate changing regulations that could affect their success.

Marwan Ahmed Bin Ghalita, chief executive officer, Real Estate Regulatory Agency (Rera), said:  “Our mission to control Dubai’s real estate market involves monitoring property brokerage activities closely, preventing rampant speculation that would have a negative impact on the market by providing brokers with effective guidance systems and implementing laws and regulations to govern the nature of their work.”

More than 280 exhibitors from 28 countries will be exhibiting across eight halls at the events. – TradeArabia News Service




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