Why Sponsor?
Elevate your brand as a champion of urban innovation by sponsoring the Future Cities Symposium 2025. With a projected audience of policymakers, investors, and emerging innovators from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, sponsorship offers strategic visibility and alignment with forward-thinking urban transformation.
Targeted Exposure
Logo placement across event materials, digital platforms, and on-site branding (e.g., keynote backdrops, exhibition halls). Sponsored sessions like luncheons or workshops provide direct audience engagement.
Feature Thought Leadership Opportunities
Customise sponsorship packages to include speaking slots, panel moderation, or branded networking events—perfect for showcasing your solutions in mobility, construction, or green finance.
Networking Access
VIP invitations to the Symposium Dinner and Gala Dinner, plus facilitated introductions to key stakeholders (e.g., HKU/RCA researchers, and investors from the Prosit Philosophiae Foundation network).
Impactful ROI
Reach a high-value audience primed for partnerships—past events in this series have catalysed joint ventures worth millions. Align with our themes to demonstrate your commitment to sustainable, tech-driven cities.
Why Attend?
Join over 40 global leaders, policymakers, researchers, and innovators at the Future Cities Symposium 2025 to explore "Innovate to Elevate through Digital Transformation."
Gain Cutting-Edge Insights
Dive into key themes like sustainable Mobility (smart solutions and green transport powered by big data), innovative Construction (Modular Integrated Construction and digitalisation for carbon neutrality), and cross-sector Innovation (academia-industry partnerships for urban tech pipelines).
Network with Global Influencers
Engage in high-impact panels like "Global Dialogue: HK, Dubai, and UK," featuring representatives from government and academia. Connect during dedicated networking breaks, Symposium Connect sessions, and an invitation-only gala dinner.
Discover Actionable Solutions
Witness PhD student and startup pitches, exhibitions, and workshops on topics from AI-driven spatial data to tokenisation and green finance. Attendees will leave with tangible strategies for resilient infrastructure, healthy cities, and speculative urban futures under computational intelligence.
Foster Partnerships
The symposium creates opportunities for joint ventures, investments, and policy collaborations in the Hong Kong–UK–Dubai Technology Corridor.
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Jointly organised by HKU’s Joint Lab on Future Cities (JLFC) and the Royal College of Art’s Future Cities Lab and our strategic partners .
The symposium will translate years of academic research regarding the development of future cities, from Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area to GCC countries and the UK and EU countries, into actionable insights for industry leaders, policymakers, and an international delegation, fostering a dialogue that moves from theoretical discovery to practical, ethical, and regenerative implementation.
Through targeted exhibitions, presentations, and networking forums, we will connect these innovators with a global audience of policymakers, industry leaders, and investors, showcasing the tangible value and commercial potential of interdisciplinary academic collaboration.