Sustainability
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All roads lead to Rio 2016
With a projected cost of around $11 billion, the Rio 2016 Olympics looks like a relative bargain compared to the price tag for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, which topped $50 billion.
GE: Providing solutions at every Olympic Games
The IOC's 2016 Olympic Marketing Fact File reveals that revenue from The Olympic Partners (TOP), sponsors and supporters of the Games reached nearly $2.79 billion in 2009-12.
DOW: sustainability know-how
At Rio 2016, DOW is overseeing efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the Olympics' carbon footprint.
Bridgestone: developing relationships
Bridgestone provides not only the Official Tire of the Olympic Games for Rio 2016, but also seismic isolation bearings to protect against earthquake damage.
Cisco’s urban innovation
As an official partner of Rio 2016, IT giant Cisco is providing technology solutions to the Games.
Q&A: Omega
Stephen Urquhart, Former President: We have been at nearly every Olympics. It really is part of our DNA."
Rio: Brazil’s smartest city
As Rio de Janeiro's mayor since 2008, Eduardo Paes has run Brazil's most iconic city through times of triumph and tragedy.
The unchartered territory of Industry 4.0
Digital technologies are re-engineering how industry works, channeling the power of the cloud into the Internet of Things (IoT), and revolutionizing how we experience and interact with everything around us.
Nissan leads the way toward zero emissions
The brainchild of Japan's Nissan Motor Corporation, part of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the LEAF was not just the first mass-market, all-electric car, but remains the biggest seller by miles.
Power to the people
Empowerment is the name of the game in the disruptive new partnership between Nissan and Enel to develop Vehicle- to-Grid (V2G) technology with the potential to provide power anywhere four wheels can take you.