
Saudi Arabia has selected 18 influential people as advisers for its ambitious Smart City NEOM.
This Smart City will be developed along the country’s Red Coast in an area of 10,000 sq miles at a cost of $500 million.
The selected advisors will help on the creation of this Smart City.
They include:
Sam Altman, President, Y Combinator and the co-chair of OpenAI
Marc Adreessen, Co-Founder and General Partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
Tim Brown, CEO and president of design consultancy IDEO
Norman Robert Foster, founder and CEO of Foster + Partners
Travis Kalanich, CEO, City Storage Systems
Marc Raibert, Founder, Boston Dynamics
Carlo Ratto, Director, Senseable City Lab
John Rossant, Founder and Chairman, New Cities Foundation
Masayoshi Son, CEO, SoftBank