Azmathullah Mohammed, Director, Industry Services & Alliances at Dassault Systèmes his views on the recent budget

The Budget has renewed focus on urban planning and building smart cities for the future. To reimagine cities as centers of sustainable living, we strongly believe that urban planners can leverage 3D simulation and virtual twin technologies to accelerate the transformation in a cost and resource efficient manner. Virtual Twin Technology is an underutilized resource in urban planning and can enable stakeholders to test various “what-if” scenarios and implement schemes faster and effectively. Virtual twins on end-to-end collaborative platform are ideal for aggregating, sharing and analyzing city-scale data. Such a platform manages the complexity of the data and processes by connecting skills and systems, while monitoring the implementation of all projects in one place and work collaboratively. We are eager to join forces with key players and new emerging leaders in this domain and enable urban sector development.