Dubai: Dubai will host the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) second Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils, on November 11-12, 2017.
More than 600 world-leading experts will participate in the meeting. The meeting aims to find new ways of preparing countries, businesses and people for the huge wave of technological disruption that will come with the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The Global Future Councils, a network of 35 distinct councils each focused on a specific issue, industry or technology that has the potential to bring about huge change for the future. The purpose of the network, and the meeting, is to develop new and original ideas to positively shape the future in a time of rapid technological change.
In addition, members of Global Future Councils will link up the representatives and partners of the Forum’s new Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco, USA, to zero in on how particular technologies can bring new economic and societal benefits. These include artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, drones, digital trade, the Internet of Things and precision medicine.
