FEEL: A Disruptive Futures Program
About the Program
Who are we looking for?
Mid to top-level executives, entrepreneurs, change-makers, thought leaders, policymakers, investors, industry experts, or venture capitalists
Open to all nationalities
Minimum of 5 years in a leadership role
Fluent in spoken and written English
Ready to commit for the whole duration of the program (4 weeks)
Program Goals
Enhance participants' capabilities with expert lectures, practical applications of future technologies, and impactful advanced projects.
Introduce in-depth future studies focused on sustainable development and longevity.
Reinforce Dubai’s status as a global center for exceptional talent.
Program Objectives
This program develops the next generation of visionary leaders where participants will gain cutting edge insights in futures thinking and foresight, leadership, longevity and critical thinking from world renowned experts.
Participants will be immersed in hands-on experiences with exclusive field trips to Dubai's innovation hubs and labs.
Participants will get exposure to groundbreaking technologies where they will internalize and feel the impact of these advancements.
Immersive Experiences
FEEL the Innovation
- Lab visits and hands-on experiences
- Field trips and industry visits
- Practical Projects with positive impact
- Activities focusing on health and longevity
- Networking Opportunities
Facilitators
Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Research - Microsoft Research Ltd
Ant was awarded the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award in 2016, the ACM EuroSys Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020 and the British Computer Society in 2010.
Author and Professor of Government, Austin Community College
His political science research focuses on German, ancient, and social contract philosophy as well as the study of leadership and US foreign policy.
Dean of the Dubai Future Academy
Managing Director, Mission Excellence
Associate Professor at MIT; CEO & Co-founder of Cartesian
Adib has over 80 peer-reviewed papers and patents to his name. He was named one of the world’s top innovators under 35 by Technology Review in 2014, recognised as an ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar in 2023, and named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2024. He is also the recipient of the 2024 Great Arab Minds Award (referred to as the ‘Nobel Prize of the Arab World’) from His Highness Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. His research has been featured worldwide and he has presented his work to notable figures such as President Barack Obama at the White House.
Foresight Lead, Dubai Future Foundation
In her role at the Dubai Future Foundation, Heba identifies and analyses signals that shape future opportunities across various sectors, including the economy, engineering, environment, government, health, manufacturing, social sciences, and technology.
Besides leading and advising on related strategic projects, programmes and initiatives, her research interests include the nexus of innovation, business and society.
Founder and CEO - neooverse, neooAI, and Little Python
Research Associate in Exercise Physiology, The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, Yale University SGU Productions, LLC
CEO, WakeCap Technologies
Preventive Cardiologist, Founder of Precision Preventive Cardiology
Publisher, Skeptic Magazine
CEO and Founder of AIE3, Chairperson of UN AI for Good Impact Initiative, Expert AI Executive & Tech Visionary Leader, Top 100 global leaders in AI by H2O.ai’s inaugural AI 100 list.
With over 14 years of experience in artificial intelligence, Smart cities, and digital telecom, Dr. Almazrouei has made significant contributions by leading cutting-edge projects and initiatives that have advanced technological capabilities worldwide. Dr. Almazrouei has been invited to major global forums, including the closed sessions of the first AI safety summit in the UK and the inaugural UN Governance Day in 2024. She is also the first Emirati woman to earn a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communication Engineering and Computer Science. Dr.Ebtesam Almazrouei plays a key role in shaping AI strategies and frameworks and building international collaborations on a global scale. Her vision is to leverage AI to address global challenges and drive meaningful societal impact.
Director, Reos Partners
Adam is a leading organizer, designer and facilitator of processes through which business, government, and civil society leaders can work together to address such challenges. He has worked in more than fifty countries, in every part of the world, with executives and politicians, generals and guerrillas, civil servants and trade unionists, community activists and United Nations officials, clergy and artists.
Adam is the author of Solving Tough Problems, about which Nelson Mandela said: “This breakthrough book addresses the central challenge of our time: finding a way to work together to solve the problems we have created.” He is also the author of Power and Love, Transformative Scenario Planning, Collaborating with the Enemy, Facilitating Breakthrough, and Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems.
Adam is a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2022 he was named a Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Managing Director, LEAP 71
Before starting her current venture in 2023, she was the Strategic Engineering Lead at German 3D-printing startup Hyperganic. She has a Master’s Degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/ Space Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. From 2017 to 2018, as part of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, she contributed to the aerodynamic design of Lewis Hamilton’s championship-winning car. In 2018, she joined the newly founded Formula E Team at Porsche Motorsports.
Ms. Lissner is an avid runner, winning the 110km Hadrian’s Wall Ultramarathon in 2018. She and her partner, LEAP 71 co-founder Lin Kayser, live in Dubai.
Co-founder, LEAP 71
In 2000, he founded IRIDAS, a company that invented video processing technology for Hollywood’s emerging digital movie industry. IRIDAS powered the world’s first digital cinema to create The Matrix movies in 2002. A year later, the company was the first to adopt GPUs for high-speed image processing, years before others followed. Adobe acquired IRIDAS in 2011.
Mr. Kayser continued his entrepreneurial journey by founding the German 3D-printing software startup Hyperganic in 2014. In 2023, he co-founded LEAP 71 with Josefine Lissner. As a self-taught software engineer, Mr. Kayser has been coding since childhood. He developed PicoGK (“peacock”), the foundational software stack for LEAP 71, which the company open-sourced in October last year. Mr. Kayser and Ms. Lissner live in Dubai.
UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies, IIUM - Tamkang University, Metafuture.Org, IIUM
Inayatullah has authored and co-edited twenty-eight books, including: Understanding Sarkar (2002), CLA 3.0: Thirty Years of Transformative Research (2022); From Anticipation to Emancipation (2022); The End of the Cow and other Emerging issues (2022); Futures Thinking in Asia and the Pacific (2020) and What Works: Case Studies in the Practice of Foresight (2015).
Director, Metafuture.org and Metafutureschool.org
Dr. Ivana Milojević is Senior Lecturer at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland. She is the Co-Founder and Director of Metafuture – an Australian based globally oriented foresight thinktank focused on the practical use of futures tools and methods through action learning approaches. In that capacity, she has delivered speeches and facilitated workshops for governmental and academic institutions, international associations, and non-governmental organizations around the world.
She is the author of the Heroine’s Journey book series which includes, The Gold Maker, The Peace Maker and the Future Maker. Her academic books include CLA 3.0, The End of the Cow and other emerging issues, and Breathing.
Research Professor, University of Belgrade – Institute for Multidisciplinary Research Liquid3
Secretary General and board member, The Digital School
Silicon Valley-based forecaster and Principal of Saffo Advisors
Co-Founder and President of Insilico Medicine