Welcome to
The Metaverse
In the metaverse, digital and physical architectures will be seamlessly merged with hyper-connected technologies and AI features. There won’t be megacities—instead we’ll have meta cities. It will be an inclusive digital reality, a collaborative, human-centric destination at the forefront of innovation and livability.
Submit Idea or Venture
Below are a few venture examples to jumpstart your inspiration.
But don’t limit your thinking—we’re open to anything and everything!
Enterprise Training
How can we enable operations crews to train field workers more
efficiently through one comprehensive platform that connects physical and digital training?
Omnicommerce Retail and E-Commerce
How can we enable merchants to effectively market and sell by
allowing customers to experience their offerings in the metaverse?
Tourism
How can we foster engagement with local and foreign tourists
through virtual games and sandboxes with prizes that can be redeemed in the physical
destination?
Architecture and Real Estate
How can we use templatized component libraries or citywide
digital twins to enable urban planners and real estate developers to create more livable
cities?
Arts and Culture
How can we use metaverse media (e.g., real-time 3D, AI, Web3) to
empower creatives to establish new relationships and audiences that enable greater
appreciation of the arts?
Education and Future of Work
How can we use the metaverse to help people connect in new ways,
feel a deeper sense of community, and create more effective learning and working
experiences?
Carbon Neutrality And Sustainability
How can we virtualize a carbon heavy activity or measure the
carbon expense in the digital world to significantly limit humanity’s carbon footprint?
Open Standards and Interoperability
How can we develop greater interoperability, open standards
protocols, and middleware to enable connectivity between virtual worlds and platforms?
Governance
How can we better manage treatment of personal data, digital identities, moderation, and inclusion to make the metaverse a place for human progress?
What makes this opportunity unique?
Lots of companies talk about changing the world, but this is the chance to do it. As a global community, we need to work decisively on human-centric technologies to move us into a sustainable future.
Because of the urgency involved in making these ideas reality, we are looking to help applicants by providing an intensive and immersive opportunity for you to develop your idea alongside the best minds in the industry.
And then there’s NEOM.
NEOM is much more than our biggest customer: it is a destination like no other, a world waiting to be discovered and developed.
NEOM is our chance to effect change in sectors like energy and water, design and construction, education, health, food, nature, renewable energy, tourism, media, financial services, mobility, and more.
NEOM is a laboratory, a place to test ideas and cutting-edge technologies on a built-in customer base.
Most importantly, NEOM is the future. Help us build solutions to the world’s biggest problems here—and we’ll share them everywhere.
Submit Idea or Venture
Our Venture Studio
If you gain acceptance into our Venture Studio, you’ll have an experience unlike any you’ve had before.
Funding
Competition winners will be invited to join the Venture Studio program which will fund participants to participate in the incubation program which is focused on customer and then concept development, followed by creation of a specific business and operating plan. The Venture Studio program is expected to run for 12 weeks but this may be extended at our discretion.
Technology
You’ll develop your idea in a state-of-the-art digital environment with a focus on design thinking, research, and prototyping.
Methodology
A design-focused process that consists of finding customer pain points, determining the right product/service, designing the business, and prototype testing.
Expertise
Our experts will guide you through early sprints and acceleration approaches.
Recruitment
We’ll help hire any additional team members and experts you need to complete the Venture Studio program.
Prototyping
Our team will provide hands-on support with digital prototype development.
Business Design
Anticipating go to market, we’ll work with you to design the right business model and strategy for revenue generation.
Branding
We’ll help brand your business, including initial naming and logo development.
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