The US Department of State has reportedly chosen Virgin Hyperloop to represent the United States at the upcoming Expo 2020 in Dubai.
The decision was announced following the signing of an agreement between Pavilion USA 2020, AmCham Dubai, AmCham Abu Dhabi, and the US-UAE Business Council to promote the shared goal of engaging the private sector as the US pavilion.
In a joint statement, Anne Jaffrey, President of AmCham Dubai; Sharief Fahmy, Chairman of the AmCham Abu Dhabi, and Danny E. Sebright, President of the US-UAE Business Council said, “The MoU serves as the platform from which our members can come together in support of the US pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. We are pleased to work closely to ensure the bilateral business communities between our two nations are fully engaged in this important effort. As a commercial priority of the US and the UAE, there are few opportunities more deserving of our full support.”
The US Pavilion will feature the “What Moves You” campaign and showcase activities with US companies, culture, and technologies. The pavilion’s curation team will also focus on engaging young people through targeted educational programming, primarily in STEM and STEAM initiatives. Partners such as NYU-Abu Dhabi’s Innovation Lab, TechStars Dubai, and the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute will ensure thoughtful, well-crafted content.
It will also feature potential opportunities throughout the United States with Virgin Hyperloop One as one of the core components. This particular part of the exhibit will feature pods that physically simulate how it would feel to ride a Virgin Hyperloop One system. This experience, the first its kind, will give participants the chance to interact with the pods which will resemble the ones that will be used in commercial operations.
DP World, the largest investor in Virgin Hyperloop One and third-largest port authority in the world, will be featured next to the US Pavilion as the Expo’s Premier World Trade Partner.
They will build out an exhibit to feature DP World Cargospeed, the cargo brand under Virgin Hyperloop One.
Virgin Hyperloop One is active with projects in the Middle East, Europe, India, and in the United States of America. With a mission to create the first revolution in mass transportation in over a century, Virgin Hyperloop One will help these countries realize their social and economic visions of the future.
Virgin Hyperloop One is the only company in the world that has built a full-scale hyperloop system. The team consists of the world’s leading experts in engineering, technology and transport project delivery, working in tandem with global partners and investors to build the future of transportation. Virgin Hyperloop One is backed by key investors including DP World, Virgin Group, Caspian VC Partners, Sherpa Capital, Abu Dhabi Capital Group, SNCF, GE Ventures, Formation 8, 137 Ventures, WTI, among others.
