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Wed 16th Oct
Thu 17th Oct

Wednesday 16th Oct

10:00
Opening Remarks

10:00 - 10:30 GMT+4

Featured

Opening Remarks

Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi

Opening Plenary

10:30 - 11:15 GMT+4

Opening Plenary

Masood Ahmed, Jane Burston, Mirek Dušek, Omar Sultan Al Olama, Tolu Oni

11:00
Opening Press Conference

11:30 - 12:00 GMT+4

Opening Press Conference

Mirek Dušek, Omar Sultan Al Olama, Lauren Woodman

16:00
Betazone: Keeping AI on Track

16:00 - 16:30 GMT+4

Betazone: Keeping AI on Track

Erik Brynjolfsson

Reimagining Growth

16:00 - 16:45 GMT+4

Reimagining Growth

Paul Gruenwald, Mona Haddad, Eric Parrado, Kellee Tsai

UAE: The Next Decade

16:00 - 16:45 GMT+4

Featured

UAE: The Next Decade

Rebecca Anderson, Maryam bint Ahmed Al Hammadi, Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri, Euvin Naidoo, Danny Quah

Betazone: Green and Fair?

16:45 - 17:15 GMT+4

Betazone: Green and Fair?

Andrew Harper, Tolu Oni

Thursday 17th Oct

11:00
Skills in the Age of AI

11:15 - 12:00 GMT+4

Skills in the Age of AI

Jo O’Driscoll-Kearney, Nela Richardson, Stuart Russell

Building Bridges for Climate

11:15 - 12:15 GMT+4

Building Bridges for Climate

Ama Francis, Fernando J. Gómez, Angel Hsu, Samir Saran, Lutfey Siddiqi, Gauri Singh, Vijay Vythianathan Vaitheeswaran

Betazone: Precisely Where Needed

11:15 - 11:45 GMT+4

Betazone: Precisely Where Needed

Megan Frisk, Faisal Khan, Robert Speight

14:00
Betazone: Accelerating Development in the Intelligent Age

14:15 - 14:45 GMT+4

Betazone: Accelerating Development in the Intelligent Age

Masood Ahmed, Megan Palmer

The Nexus of Innovation

14:15 - 15:00 GMT+4

The Nexus of Innovation

Azeem Azhar, Freeke Heijman, Chantal Shen

15:00
Collaboration in A More Contested World

15:30 - 16:15 GMT+4

Collaboration in A More Contested World

Florence Gaub, Liu Qian, Danny Quah, Sarah Thorn

16:00
Closing Plenary: Collaboration for the Intelligent Age

16:30 - 17:30 GMT+4

Closing Plenary: Collaboration for the Intelligent Age

Khalfan Belhoul, Erik Brynjolfsson, Mirek Dušek, Emma FitzGerald, Megan Palmer, Samir Saran

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