Mini trip report to Dubai – Nov. 18-21, 2024

by Jerome C. Glenn

26 people from The Millennium Project participated in the third Dubai Futures Forum: Paul Saffo, MP Board; Sirkka Heinonen, Finland; Ibon Zugasti, Dept Dir, MP Board, Spain; Mariana Todorova, Bulgaria; Jose Cordeiro, Venezuela; Yadira Ornelas, Mexico; Brian Romer, MP Publications, USA; Tad Davis, MP CTO, Tbilisi, Georgia; Eric Noel, Canada; Muhammad Almheiri, Dubai; Nondas Christophilopoulos, Greece; Geci Karuri-Sebina, South Africa; Selin Ergur, Dubai and Türkiye; Erika Vaiginienė, Lithuania; Kacper Nosarzewski, Poland; Norbert Kolos, Poland; Hale Cide Demir, Türkiye; Sevinc Boy Ersen, Türkiye; Blaž Golob, Slovenia; Lena Tünkers – FEN, Finland; Yuna Lee, former Intern, Korea; Nabil Ali Jaloud, Denmark; Dana Marduk, Iraq; Elaine France, Switzerland; and myself.

For those who arrived early enough, we held an informal meeting about AGI and other work of The Millennium Project.  Paul Saffo took this photo; hence, he is not in it:

Several Node Chairs are also members of the Dubai Futures Foundation’s Global Futures Society that held a planning session to collect ideas about next steps for the Dubai Futures Forum.  All participants in both the GFS and the Forum were invited to give feedback on the Forum. If you would like to make suggestions, email them to Eman Alkadi.

Ibon Zugasti, Sirkka Heinonen, Jose Cordeiro, and I conducted a three-hour session on “Global Futures Research.” We presented the State of the Future 20.0, up-dated progress and next steps on governing the transition to artificial general intelligence, shared how The Millennium Project manages a global futures research system, explained the international movement on Parliamentary Committees for the Future, and listed 26 ways to better connect futures research and decisionmaking.  

According to Trendingview 2 million people watched the Dubai Future Forum on streaming video. Unfortunately, The Millennium Project session was not part of the live stream.  Maybe next year.

Jerry