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Dubai Future Forum
2023 Edition
The Dubai Future Forum is an annual event hosted by the Dubai Future Foundation at the iconic Museum of the Future. Launched in 2022 with the objective of becoming the world’s largest gathering of futurists, the Dubai Future Forum has reached that milestone and quickly established itself as the single most important global event on the futurist calendar, cementing Dubai’s position as the global hub for future leadership and action.
The 2023 edition of the Forum hosted more than 2,500 participants from varied future-focused sectors and 150 speakers. It featured 70 sessions with 100 participating top global institutions specialised in foresight and future studies. In total, attendees spanned from more than 100 countries for truly global conversations that spanned across four themes: Regenerating Nature, Empowering Generations, Transcending Collaboration and Transforming Humanity.
Distinguished Speakers
Dr. Angela Wilkinson
World Energy Council
Bruce Friedrich
The Good Food Institute
Dr. Ismahane Elouafi
Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research
Agricultural Research
H.E. Ohood Al Roumi
Minister of State for Government Development & Future, UAE
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen
Openwater
Prof. Pascale Fung
Hong Kong University of
Science & Technology
Science & Technology
H.E. Khalfan Belhoul
Dubai Future Foundation
Dr. Aaron Maniam
University of Oxford
Dr. Jamie Metzl
OneShared.World
Dr. Sultan Al Neyadi
Emirati astronaut & Member
of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission 2023
of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission 2023
Dr. Paul Salem
Middle East Institute
James Pomeroy
HSBC
*whurley
Strangeworks
Dr. Sophie Howe
“World’s First Minister for the Unborn”
Sinead Bovell
WAYE
Alice Ruhweza
WWF International
Prof. Marc Buckley
ALOHAS Regenerative Foundation
Sarah DaVanzo
Pierre Fabre Foundation
2023 Themes
REGENERATING NATURE
Our future is undoubtedly centered around minimizing environmental risks, amplifying Nature’s capacity to restore itself and having a positive impact on crucial environmental ecosystems and habitats. This would not only create a more stable, healthier planet for humanity but it would also elevate Nature’s overall standing in this world.
EMPOWERING GENERATIONS
The global population will continue to grow for another three generations. It will be non-trivial to empower societies by offering solutions to humanity’s most complex and universal needs, optimizing systems they rely on, safeguarding against risks that could make societies more fragile in the face of crises and extending individual and collective potential for growth, development and well-being.
TRANSCENDING COLLABORATION
Individually we can achieve only so much. Collaboration, with a twist, is the way forward. Enhanced problem-solving, learning and innovation by redesigning collaborative structures and processes among humans, including different generations, between humans and machines, and between machines.
TRANSFORMING HUMANITY
This is the power to radically change ways of life by replacing the models that countries, communities and individuals live by – if they don’t work. These new models enable individuals and communities to innovate, improve and aid the transformation of humanity to new digital and non-digital realities.
PRESS RELEASES
- November 28, 2023
