The UAE Authorities and the World Financial Discussion board (WEF) in the present day concluded the Annual Assembly of the International Future Councils 2024 (AMGFC24) that happened in Dubai from 15-17 October. The assembly gathered 700 outstanding figures, together with senior authorities officers, decisionmakers, futurists, specialists, thought leaders, CEOs, teachers, researchers and representatives from worldwide organizations and NGOs from 80 international locations who convened in 30 councils.
His Excellency Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cupboard Affairs and Co-Chair of the International Future Councils, mentioned: “The UAE has established itself as a platform for worldwide partnerships and a world hub for shaping the longer term. Our management has created a mannequin for shaping the longer term that it has shared with the world.”
HE Al Gergawi mentioned: “The sector of designing the longer term is just not a spot for isolationist insurance policies, however relatively an open world platform for sharing data. That is the main target of the UAE’s imaginative and prescient and the philosophy of its management, which facilities on worldwide partnerships. Finally, future readiness is one thing that have to be developed collectively, by all sectors, societies and teams.”
His Excellency added: “We’re witnessing the affect of the cooperation between the UAE Authorities and the World Financial Discussion board, a relationship that has spanned greater than twenty years, turning into a world mannequin for collaboration and foresight. We stay up for reporting extra achievements from this ongoing cooperation and are dedicated to strengthening this partnership as we search to combine efforts and concepts throughout sectors and geographies.”
AMGFC24 sought to foster a standard world understanding of how numerous macro tendencies are impacting sectors and societies, whereas attaining consensus on how finest to satisfy these tendencies. With a deal with designing a extra sustainable, inclusive and resilient future, AMGFC24 explored methods for governments to reinforce financial improvement, construct abilities and human capability and put together for the longer term. The councils mentioned future alternatives in 5 areas: know-how and synthetic intelligence, atmosphere and local weather, governance, economic system and finance, and society.
Key Takeaways
The outcomes of AMGFC24 will likely be summarized in a report that may assist form the agenda of the 2025 WEF Annual Assembly in Davos. Among the many primary takeaways is the necessity for policymakers and companies to arrange the longer term workforce for an age the place each job will likely be impacted by synthetic intelligence (AI). Delegates agreed that governments should set clear requirements to control the event of AI to make sure economies and societies can harness its full potential and mitigate dangers.
Urgent Challenges
AMGFC24’s classes coated urgent world challenges and upcoming alternatives regarding AI, antimicrobial resistance, the care economic system, cybersecurity, meals and water safety, geopolitics, accountable funding, house, sustainable tourism, clear air, the vitality transition, artificial biology, the way forward for cities, governance, ideas of development, humanitarian motion, the quantum economic system, superior manufacturing and job creation, amongst others.
Since its launch in 2008, the International Future Councils have hosted greater than 12,000 contributors from 100 international locations in additional than 900 councils. They characterize a number one world community for sharing concepts and designing options to challenges.
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