Dubai Future Week concluded yesterday under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Office, highlighting key ideas and future innovations that improve the quality of life and serve human communities through community involvement. In the imagination and manufacture of the future, and acquainted with modern technological tools and their effects on his life in the years to come.
The week's events, which saw a wide participation of community members, experts, specialists and researchers from different countries of the world, included a major group of events through which the community was involved in initiatives and perceptions of the future, and provided an inspiring platform for young people to support them and encourage them to participate in the process of development in the UAE Employing emerging technologies to find innovative solutions to the most important challenges in vital sectors.
Dubai Future Week focused on three main themes to reach out to the community by organizing and hosting a range of activities, events and workshops that enabled visitors to participate in live, practical and interactive experiences through imagining the future, designing the future and implementing the future, where they tested solutions to tomorrow's challenges. Using robots and artificial intelligence.
Khalfan Juma Belhoul, CEO of Dubai Future Foundation, said that Dubai Future Week, through its innovative events organized for the first time in the UAE, reflected the leadership vision in enhancing awareness and knowledge of emerging technologies, and its role in designing and creating the future of all vital sectors, and as innovative solutions to the challenges. Future.
He added that the week was a community celebration of the future, and provided a platform for the meeting of minds and experiences from different countries of the world to discuss prospects for the future, and inspire young people to use their energy to innovate in the technologies of the future, which begins today, stressing the distinctive level of innovations made by young people, and their role in making fundamental changes In the work of vital sectors, and what will be an incentive for Arab youth to continue innovation to serve their communities and humanity.
The Dubai Police presented a virtual simulator, developed at the Virtual Technology Center, which avoids the risks that the rescuers may be exposed to while performing their duties.The robot executes the mission, but the control operations remain in the hands of humans through the simulator. The required task as quickly, safely and more accurately.
The Chief of Scenario Design at Dubai Police, Lieutenant Abdulrahman bin Fahd, said that the device has the possibility to use it of different ages, and consists of a robot, a screen and a virtual vision glasses that enables the user to control the robot similarly to control the drones, while the device includes an interface Use in both Arabic and English, pointing out that the device was developed internally by police cadres specialized in the development of educational games, awareness and training, and animation films two and three-dimensional.
The Saudi inventor, Alaa Al-Qarqoush, the recipient of the “Innovators Under 35” Award organized by Dubai Future Foundation in partnership with MIT Technology Review Arabia, presented a visual audio distributor that reduces acoustic imperfections and purifies sounds from echo and impurities. Thoughtfully redistributed in places with high accuracy.
Innovation with US and Saudi patents brings the interior design of buildings and engineering spaces to a new level of qualitative design, optimizing materials, offering wide and sustainable design options, and the most important feature is that it does not require a power source, as it relies on sound reflections. Based on the shape of the design and the types of materials, taking advantage of static and kinetic energy, which allows it to play a role similar to the role of electronic sound systems that promote the sounds and amplified and distributed.
The Palestinian researcher, Omar Aboudia, presented an innovation in a cost-effective platform to analyze the specific dismantling of high-sensitive enzymes, after he saw that getting a blood sample from the far reaches of remote tropical villages of the Congo, or the distant Amazon towns and tropics to city laboratories to check for diseases such as Ebola Lethal, or Zika, is a difficult process that involves a lot of suffering, time and money, especially in communities where there is no proper medical care.
This innovative technique is used anywhere to analyze a single molecule of DNA to detect a number of diseases, tumors and viruses, easily and quickly through the use of a small paper tape, at a cost not exceeding $ 1 per interaction, and the result of detection can be obtained in no more than an hour, It only requires a constant temperature of 37 ° C.
The Jordanian entrepreneur and entrepreneur, Bahaa Abounjim, presented his experience in the field of entrepreneurship, highlighting the possibilities of success and excellence available to the Arab youth, if taking the right paths in taking advantage of future technologies and harnessing them to serve development goals.
Bahaa Abounjim was one of the first to focus on the localization of 3D printing technology in Jordan and the Arab world. He considered expanding the learning of programming languages a fast track to achieve qualitative transitions in the field of technology that promote economic, social and human development, and believed in the importance of entrepreneurship in achieving digital and technological transformation in societies. To improve their future chances.
The Lebanese innovator, Haitham Dabouq, was inspired by the idea of employing generous sunlight in the Arab world and the desert regions of the Mediterranean basin countries, and how to convert them into sustainable and clean energy to protect the natural and environmental resources of future generations.
Dabouq presented his solar-based innovations, which are being utilized in various sectors and vital areas, such as agriculture and animal production, recycling, and providing alternatives to electricity generated from conventional fossil fuels, oil and gas derivatives.
Babar Khan, an American of Pakistani descent, said his project relies on the use of chemicals that form an early warning system to detect bacteria in water purifiers that can be treated early. Khan is like dealing with cancer. It is in the early stages, while it is difficult in the advanced stages.
In conjunction with Dubai Future Week, the fourth edition of the World Future Councils was held over two days, in partnership between the UAE government and the World Economic Forum, with the participation of 700 officials, supervisors and experts from 70 countries. Recap more than 30 thousand hours thinking about the future.
The Dubai Future Week was launched last Sunday, in an initiative that forms a new and innovative platform to engage members of the community, and inspire the talented and the minds and ideas and innovators in the UAE and Dubai, stimulate their participation in the outlook and industry of the future, by offering key themes for the role of emerging technologies in the future of humanity, In employing technology in the areas of future work, the future of digital health, the cities of the future, the future of virtual reality technologies, the future of energy and sustainability.
Human experience
Visitors to the future traveled through Silent Cinema technologies, enjoyed 3D food, created virtual music, demonstrated mind-control capabilities through drones, and explored future human upgrades. Through the 'Human Experience 2.0', enjoy the art of virtual reality through the use of emerging techniques to draw graffiti, chess with artificial intelligence, virtual hockey and digital caricature.
The Museum of Human Experience 2.0 provided an opportunity for visitors and participants to explore the future generation of man, enhanced by technology rather than machine or operating systems, perhaps because machines and systems will integrate with us and increase our mental and physical abilities.
Revolutionary transformation of growth
Innovative interactive spaces in the 2071 area of Emirates Towers witnessed interactive dialogues, presented by experts in the fields of forward-looking in the sectors of education, labor, economy and transport, and also organized interactive workshops, discussed with the attendees topics of the future 4.0 and the revolutionary transformation of future growth, and the experience of blockchain, cloud and intelligence Artificial, the Internet of Things in the new digital world and the perspective of cybersecurity, and Blockchain Live. The week also featured lectures on Rubex and Minecraft cubes, the future of schools, the Idea Store 4.0, building revolutionary companies, global architecture reinvention, the future of wildlife, youth power, positive leadership, the challenge of talent management in the 21st century, and the future of work, while providing an experience Interactive for young people through the initiative of talents of large spaces.
- The activities of «Dubai Future Week» witnessed a wide participation of community members, experts, specialists and researchers.
- «Dubai Week» engages the community in imagining and making the future.