The Museum of the Future has established itself as a destination for visionaries, innovators, and those passionately looking forward to a better future for humanity, transforming, in less than two years since its opening, into a global knowledge platform and an international center for designing and creating the future.

Today, Dubai, through the Museum of the Future, presents an innovative and integrated model for the partnership of government and private agencies in designing the future of various vital sectors, which reflects the quality of human life and societies.

As one of the most important events held at the museum, and one of its most important goals, the Dubai Future Forum has become an annual global platform that attracts experts to work on continuing to develop the future foresight system, expand the application of its tools and seize its opportunities.

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“Dubai Future Forum”, the largest global gathering of future experts and designers, is held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of the Executive Council and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation. In its second session during the year 2023, it attracted more than 150 participants. Speakers from the UAE and the world participated in 70 dialogue sessions, keynote speeches and workshops over two days.

More than 2,500 specialists in vital future sectors from 100 countries participated in the global event, in addition to the presence of about 100 international institutions and organizations in the fields of future design.

When announcing the second session of the forum, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum stressed that Dubai is competing with cities in the world in designing the future, and we will continue our journey to provide the world with an integrated model for designing the future. His Highness said: Dubai’s success in developing its forward-looking vision and future plans over the past years is the result of its bet on adopting the concept of future design in its various vital sectors, and its keenness to anticipate rapid transformations and keep pace with their trends.

His Highness added: The world views Dubai as the city of the future, and we look to the future with a positive and systematic vision based on international cooperation and partnerships and the exchange of future experiences and knowledge. This vision embodies the thought of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, patronized by him. God, and his belief in the necessity and importance of anticipating the future.

His Highness the Crown Prince of Dubai added: Dubai is competing with cities in the world in designing the future, and we will continue our journey to provide the world with an integrated model for designing the future, adopting a culture of preparing for the future, enhancing readiness for its transformations, and seizing its opportunities.

The Museum of the Future seeks to achieve the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, to be the world’s window to the future from the heart of Dubai.

In this field, Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi, Managing Director of the Dubai Future Foundation and Chairman of the Museum of the Future, confirms that the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is a living example that proactive thinking is the secret of success and the most important factor in achieving what others may find impossible. .

Al Gergawi pointed out at the Dubai Future Forum 2023, which was held at the Museum of the Future, that His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum taught us that creating the future is the result of visions, work, determination, confidence and positivity, and that human creativity is the key to designing the promising future that people and societies aspire to. And a title for its inspiring and successful models that governments and countries seek.

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The Museum of the Future in Dubai receives thousands of visitors every day, and in its first year it succeeded in receiving more than a million visitors, forming a distinguished station in the journey of Dubai and the UAE to design and create the future.

On February 21, 2023, Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi, Chairman of the Museum of the Future, announced that the museum received more than one million visitors from 163 countries around the world during a full year since its official opening, in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. May God protect him, on February 22, 2022.

Al Gergawi stressed that the Museum of the Future contributed to bringing about a clear shift in the traditional view of museums, and demonstrated the importance of the concept of anticipating the future and transforming it into an integrated institutional methodology in line with the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, that imagining the future and focusing on employing its changes and transformations is a pivotal pillar in the success of Governments and societies.

He said: “Mohammed bin Rashid’s vision made the Museum of the Future a global headquarters for the most important future designers and experts and the most prominent international future forecasting institutions, and humanity has become more confident that the future can be designed and its changes should not be ignored. The Museum of the Future, with its unique architectural design, has become a global symbol of the future and a major address for the scientific and knowledge movement in the region and the world.”

The “Museum of the Future” established Dubai’s global leadership as one of the best cities of the future, and became a successful global model for the ability of future cities to employ technological transformations to serve societies, and presented an important humanitarian message from the UAE to the entire world that the future requires more positive cooperation and joint work for the sake of our future generations. .

• Outstanding achievements

The “Museum of the Future” hosts an event every two days on average, distributed between global events, conferences, or local and international forums in various sectors of technology, entrepreneurship, economics, space, tourism, culture, and various sectors of the future. Since its opening, it has received hundreds of delegations, leaders of countries, international figures, ministers, and officials. Experts and media professionals from all over the world.

Since its opening, the “Museum of the Future” has won 10 international awards from international institutions and specialized magazines in the fields of quality of museum content, future sciences and engineering design, which the museum won in its first year, in addition to the platinum (LEED certificate) in the field of sustainability of operational processes and the use of advanced technologies.

• Future dialogues

The museum witnessed distinguished international dialogues within the sessions of the “Future Dialogues” initiative, which hosted an elite group of the most prominent visionaries and thought leaders in the world, and with the aim of strengthening its role as a global headquarters for future-foreseeing institutions from various countries of the world, and expanding joint cooperation and exchanging experiences in various fields and sectors of future-foreseeing, it was held Dubai Future Foundation has cooperation agreements with the Association of Future Forecasters, the Millennium Project Foundation, the International Federation for Future Studies, and the Network for Foreseeing the Future of the Public Sector.

• Embrace ideas

The Museum of the Future constitutes a center for future forecasting experts in various sectors across the region and the world, and a comprehensive laboratory for testing and developing future technologies and ideas. The museum has established its keenness and tireless endeavor to invest in embracing ideas, projects, initiatives, research and studies that have qualitative and added value to future products in various scientific and cognitive fields.

• Future experiments

The “Museum of the Future” provides the opportunity for hundreds of its visitors every day to view essential experiences that showcase potential opportunities for humanity by contributing to solving current challenges to build a better world, including simulating the experience of launching to the orbital space station “Amal”, which was designed in a way that simulates a home. For humanity in space.

The museum has taken tens of thousands of its visitors on virtual trips to outer space, during which they discover the various missions and research being carried out on board the station. Upon successful completion of the mission, visitors leave space and return to Earth to discover an imagined picture of what Dubai and the world will become in the year 2071 with the efforts Efforts to restore the health of the natural system and the sustainability of the planet’s resources.

• Future technologies

The museum employs the latest future technologies, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and interaction between humans and machines, to launch meaningful dialogues that motivate visitors to draw their own perceptions about the future.

The museum building, which is 77 meters high and extends over an area of ​​30,000 square metres, was designed to be an architectural and engineering marvel that connects the past with the future. It was designed in a style different from the concept of traditional museums, using the latest innovative technologies.

From the International Space Station, on June 26, 2023, Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi announced a strategic partnership between the “Museum of the Future” and the “Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre,” with the aim of consolidating the UAE’s position as one of the best countries in the world in various fields of future design and space exploration. And employing science, technology and innovation.

Al Neyadi said: “Together we work hand in hand to achieve new achievements and ambitions in technology and space… and together we achieve the impossible in a country that does not know the impossible.”

The signing of the agreement was attended by the Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, the Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, the Deputy Managing Director of the Dubai Future Foundation, Omar Sultan Al Olama, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, Hamad Obaid Al Mansouri, and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre, Yousef Hamad Al Shaibani. Salem Humaid Al Marri, Director General of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, and Khalfan Juma Belhoul, CEO of the Dubai Future Foundation.

Under the partnership, the “Museum of the Future” will host the activities and initiatives that will be organized by the center, to introduce the world to its projects, plans and successes.

The “Museum of the Future” hosted a direct call with Al Neyadi from the International Space Station, in the presence of more than 130 representatives of local and international media outlets to talk about the most prominent missions and experiments he is carrying out within the longest space mission in Arab history.

The museum also witnessed the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre’s announcement of the details and objectives of the second mission of the UAE Astronaut Programme, in February 2023.

• The largest artificial intelligence competition

On November 5, 2023, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of the Executive Council and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation, directed the organization of the “International Artificial Intelligence Challenge,” the largest competition of its kind in the world, with prizes worth up to one million dirhams, for developers. Innovative solutions based on generative artificial intelligence, within an initiative organized in partnership between the Dubai Center for the Uses of Artificial Intelligence and the Dubai Future Foundation.

The challenge, which will be hosted by the “Museum of the Future” in May 2024, includes three main categories: literature, art, and programming, and aims to enhance the leadership of Dubai and the UAE, as a destination for minds and entrepreneurs, an incubator environment for talented people in the fields of generative artificial intelligence, and a center for developing a new generation of innovations specialized in Developing code architecture for generative artificial intelligence applications.

His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum stressed that Dubai is working within its proactive methodology, inspired by the visions of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, to accelerate the process of development and digital transformation, and strengthen sectors. Promising in the digital world, by providing an integrated digital infrastructure, it constitutes a stimulating and enabling environment for the community of programmers, specialized entrepreneurs, and emerging companies in the fields of generative artificial intelligence, which will shape the features of the global future and contribute to creating proactive solutions to its challenges.

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