Dubai Future Forum 2024 Gathers 2,500 Futurists to Answer World’s Most Intriguing Questions About Humanity

• From November 19-20, the world’s largest gathering of futurists volition erstwhile again code immoderate of the biggest questions facing humanity today.

Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF), the 3rd variation of the Dubai Future Forum volition beryllium held astatine the Museum of the Future from 19 to 20 November 2024.

Organised by Dubai Future Foundation, the yearly forum is the world’s largest gathering of futurists and future-focused institutions. This year’s variation volition invited implicit 2,500 futurists and manufacture experts, from astir 100 countries, drafting information from astir 100 planetary starring foresight institutions.

His Excellency Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Managing Director of DFF, explained however the planetary gathering volition erstwhile again situation perceptions of the future. Providing a level for experts, futurists and determination makers to stock visions, the Dubai Future Forum is simply a spot wherever planetary challenges are addressed, opportunities are identified, and strategies for the aboriginal are enactment forth.

H.E. Al Gergawi said: “The Dubai Future Forum initiates meaningful planetary dialogues that bring to the forefront the perspectives, opinions, and insights of starring experts and future-focused institutions. It has go a planetary hub for fostering planetary partnerships successful aboriginal studies and for mounting agendas crossed the astir important sectors. The forum has besides led to the motorboat of factual initiatives that usage the latest technologies to flooded challenges successful society.”

Five Overarching Themes

The 2024 sessions volition absorption connected 5 cardinal themes: Futuring Nature, Empowering Generations, Transforming Humanity, Optimising Health, and Foresight Insights. Experts volition research the aboriginal of captious sectors, including energy, food, instrumentality intelligence, the integer economy, space, biomedicine, quality regeneration and sustainability, and caller societal systems.

Dubai Future Forum 2024 volition diagnostic astir 70 sheet discussions, keynote addresses, and workshops, with implicit 150 speakers, including ministers, authorities officials, CEOs, academics, decision-makers, thought leaders, and futurists from the UAE and astir the world.

This year’s forum volition besides item innovative solutions to planetary challenges and showcase 100 experimental projects arsenic portion of the Dubai Future Solutions – Prototypes for Humanity initiative, overseen by Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairperson of Dubai Culture & Arts Authority. With an endorsement of AED 100 million set distant by the program’s strategical partner, the Hussain Sajwani – DAMAC Foundation, the programme is acceptable to spot Dubai arsenic hub for innovation and a nurturing crushed for endowment and originative thinkers crossed each aboriginal sectors.

Activations and Public Engagements Across Dubai

This year’s variation volition debut a bid of caller events held before, during, and aft the forum, including interactive, cultural, and creator activities aimed astatine fostering collaboration betwixt participants. Additionally, a bid of workshops volition beryllium held connected November 21 astatine the Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation (MBRCGI) and the CodersHQ successful Emirates Towers, Dubai. These workshops volition equip individuals and organisations with the cognition and skills needed to expect and hole for emerging trends. The sessions volition besides supply heavy insights into aboriginal readying methodologies, script development, and innovative approaches to problem-solving.

Other citywide events connection unsocial experiences that blend creativity and foresight. These see the Futures Film Showcase astatine Cinema Akil, the Nomadic Futures Workshops astatine The Courtyard successful Al Quoz, and thought-provoking sessions connected the aboriginal of diplomacy astatine Fiker Institute. Particpants tin besides be a “Future of Food” lawsuit astatine BOCA Restaurant successful the Dubai International Financial Centre.

Global Future Society

Last year’s variation of the Dubai Future Forum announced 36 institutions from 17 countries to articulation the Global Future Society. This planetary web was launched astatine the 2022 variation of the forum, cementing the Museum of the Future's presumption arsenic a planetary office for futurists and reinforcing Dubai's enactment successful fostering partnerships to physique a amended aboriginal for humanity.

For much accusation connected the Dubai Future Forum, delight visit: www.dubaifuture.ae/dubai-future-forum-2024.

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