Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: - Plug and Play, the largest open innovation platform in the world and the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO), have officially joined hands with AD Ports Group, the region’s premier facilitator of logistics, industry, and trade, as part of the Industry 4.0 open innovation platform focused on accelerating and enhancing competitiveness in areas such as Supply Chain and Logistics through innovation, in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

The core objective of this newly formed partnership is to pave the way for Abu Dhabi to secure a leading global position in the different domains such as Industry 4.0 open innovation, Next Fifty Years futuristic ideas "N50", and further breakthrough initiatives. In parallel, this first-of-its-kind platform will boost Abu Dhabi’s industrial innovation capabilities and attract high-calibre tech startups to the emirate by creating a unified marketplace and forum to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange across major industrial entities and exceptional technology startups, bringing real value and solutions to Abu Dhabi.  

Already in motion, Plug and Play Abu Dhabi and AD Ports Group's innovation team have conducted a bootcamp for the Group's employees, titled N50, which demonstrates how the Group's culture of discovery is crucial to creating a new generation of Emirati nationals with a mindset of innovation and pursuit of excellence. The prime focus was to highlightthe Group's contribution towards the UAE’s 50th anniversary by providing breakthrough ideas, suggesting solutions to current and future problems, and generating socio-economic impact for the UAE and ROI for AD Ports Group.

Eiman Al Khalaqi, Vice President of Innovation, AD Ports Group, said: “Since its inception, AD Ports Group has spearheaded regional efforts to instil and realise innovation across the entire trade and logistics ecosystem. This has led us to support a wide range of research and development projects, design concepts, and exciting new start-ups. Our collaboration with Plug and Play Abu Dhabi and the Abu Dhabi Investment Office is a continuation of that mission.

“As a founding partner of the Industry 4.0 Open Innovation Platform, we will work closely with Plug and Play Abu Dhabi to identify and induct promising start-ups into the programme, engaging with them to support their continued development and drive the transformative impact of their innovations across each of their respective fields.”

Youssouf Kamal, Industry 4.0 Program Manager at Plug and Play Abu Dhabi, said: “We are proud to officially welcome AD Ports Group as our Founding Partner. Together, we will further our shared vision of advancing Abu Dhabi’s agenda in terms of innovation. We have a long-standing relationship with AD Ports Group and will continue to work together to define tech challenges, and identify innovative startups to solve them, with the goal of providing ROI to AD Ports Group and establishing Abu Dhabi as a startup magnet.”

Moving forward, Plug and Play Abu Dhabi, ADIO and AD Ports Group will work together with startups and the Industry 4.0 Open Innovation Platform founding partners to implement ambitious projects that could add value to Abu Dhabi’s economy. The official welcoming of the remaining founding partners of this platform is scheduled to take place in mid-October 2021.

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About Plug and Play Abu Dhabi

Plug and Play is the leading innovation platform, connecting startups, corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with its GCC office based in Abu Dhabi, Plug and Play is present in 35+ locations across five continents. We offer corporate innovation programs and help our corporate partners in every stage of their innovation journey, from education to execution. We also organize startup acceleration programs and have built an in-house VC to drive innovation across multiple industries where we've invested in hundreds of successful companies including Dropbox, Guardant Health, Honey, Lending Club, N26, PayPal, and Rappi. For more information, visit:

https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/ 

About AD Ports Group:

Established in 2006, AD Ports Group today serves as the region’s premier facilitator of logistics, industry, and trade, as well as a bridge linking Abu Dhabi to the world. Part of ADQ, one of the region’s largest holding companies with a broad portfolio of major enterprises spanning key sectors of Abu Dhabi’s diversified economy, AD Ports Group has a vertically integrated business approach has proven instrumental in driving the emirate’s economic development over the past decade.

Operating several clusters covering Ports, Industrial Cities & Free Zone, Maritime, Logistics, and Digital, AD Ports Group’s portfolio comprises 11 ports and terminals in the UAE and Guinea, and more than 550 square kilometres of industrial zones within Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD) and ZonesCorp, the largest integrated trade, logistics, and industrial business grouping in the Middle East.

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