The facility, which is PepsiCo’s first in the region, will develop products that will cater to the tastes of the local market and foster innovation in the regional market.

The 4,000 square foot facility in Dubai Internet City supports Visa’s commitment to drive cashless economies throughout the region. The facility is designed to replicate the success of Visa’s flagship innovation centre, One Market in San Francisco and the Asia Pacific innovation centre in Singapore.

The Digital Acceleration Center showcases next-generation software and hardware technologies that are blurring the lines between the digital and physical worlds and redefining the user experience, such as advanced analytics, wearable technology, network systems, robotics and the Internet of Things.

Thomson Reuters Labs around the world collaborate with customers to solve big problems and rapidly prototype and validate solutions using data science and lean techniques.

The ‘Huawei Innovation Centre’ in Dubai will enable Huawei to play a major role in the emirate’s Smart City programmes as well as share its experiences in the pursuit of innovation with governments, enterprises and transformational initiatives across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

MasterCard created an ‘innovation hub’ to create a more modern, open and collaborative working culture as well as new technologies aimed at providing a better lifestyle and upgrading the levels of services offered by a number of strategic sectors who coalesce with MasterCard’s services within the Dubai Innovation Strategy.

YouTube partnered with Dubai Studio City to launch YouTube Space, an incubator space giving YouTube creators the tools and guidance that remove barriers enabling them to innovate and experiment with content.