Posted on March 25, 2019
Dutch-headquartered Arcadis has launched the Digital Innovation Hub in central Amsterdam in line with its wider digital transformation programme.
The hub will help identify opportunities for new products and services to meet Arcadis’ clients’ current and future needs. It is focused around two initiatives: firstly, the three-month Arcadis City of 2030 Accelerator which will partner and mentor ten selected start-ups to rapidly develop and showcase early stage concepts; and secondly the Digital Studio Incubator, the company’s internal product and service development group, which launches on 1 April.
Arcadis’ global director of innovation, Patrick van Hoof, commented: “We have to establish both internal and external initiatives to identify and carefully grow ‘the new’. We are serious about being a digital frontrunner in our industry and therefore we have to develop certain value propositions ourselves, as well as co-create and buy into what happens at the frontier through early stage ventures.”
The ten start-ups selected by Arcadis from hundreds of applicant firms across 50 countries bring innovation around urban planning, mobility, resiliency, citizen-city engagement, housing shortage, field collaboration, and workplace wellness. The core technology of their various solutions focused on revolutionising how people live, work, and travel in cities include artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, parametric design software, task management software, and GIS.
The successful applicants are: Urban Data Eye (Spain); ModelMe3D (Netherlands); Iomob (Spain); Etalyc (US); Senscity (Australia); CAALA (Germany); Cityflag (US); Kndrd CoLiving (US); Mela Works (UK); Pause (US).
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