{"id":22577,"date":"2019-09-17T12:28:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T08:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=22577"},"modified":"2019-09-17T12:28:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T08:28:44","slug":"dubai-to-host-three-day-government-foresight-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/dubai-to-host-three-day-government-foresight-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai To Host Three-Day Government Foresight Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UAE Ministry of Education in collaboration with Messe Frankfurt Middle East are to host the Government Foresight Summit in Dubai from September 23-25, when regional and international government leaders, strategists, planners, futurists and IT specialists will share best practices to ensure future organisational readiness.<\/p>\n

The Summit, held at Le M\u00e9ridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre, will comprise presentations, interactive panel discussions and foresight labs as well as a final day masterclass, which will revolve around the future of human resources, careers and skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be an exploration of the future and what all public and private sector leaders need to do to be ready for it, or as ready as they can be,\u201d explained Sarah Phillips, Head of Conferences at Messe Frankfurt Middle East. \u201cIt will be a wake-up call with tool kit recommendations from some of the finest brains in organisational preparedness and future-gazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet foresight comes with its challenges according to Summit panel member Florence Gaub, Deputy Director of the European Union Institute for Security Studies who works on future-oriented policy-planning with a focus on the Middle East and Europe. She will input on how modern technology can improve foresight, what can be done to mitigate the unpredictable and identifying the foresight mindset.<\/p>\n

Summit panellist and strategy artist Jabir Walji of the UK\u2019s Systematic Innovation says changes in governmental mindsets are needed if they are to successfully plan for society and create a better future now. Governments, he says, need to move from \u2018Scientific\u2019 mindsets to win-win \u2018Holarchy\u2019 mindsets. The mindset sea change, he says, would lead to \u201ccultural innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, Walji is turning futurism on its head calling for \u2018back cast\u2019 exercises over forecasts. This would involve identifying the ideal future and working backwards how to achieve it. Disruptive thinking, says Walji, is needed in an era in which \u201cthe balance between power and knowledge has shifted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walji believes the future of foresight planning is three-way collaboration between the private sector, governments and educational institutions.<\/p>\n

And providing insights into the future thinking of educational policy makers and administrators will be Dr. Peter Bishop, Professor Emeritus & Exec Director at the University of Houston who will argue adding uncertainty and emergence to the existing system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe uncertainties resulting from the increasing rate of change and more frequent disruptive events require a different approach to planning, one that takes multiple futures into account. The turbulent future environment also requires an approach to planning that emphasizes emergence more than development and contingency more than linearity,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The final day masterclass will be a probing examination of the future of human resources, careers and skills. \u201cThe masterclass will explore the people and technology drivers, future skills forecasting, and the co-ordination required from governments, the private sector and educational institutions,\u201d added Phillips. \u201cThe outcomes will identify the new skills needed in the future and how the right candidates can be sourced.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information, visit: www.governmentforesight.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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The UAE Ministry of Education in collaboration with Messe Frankfurt Middle East are to host the Government Foresight Summit in Dubai from September 23-25, when regional and international government leaders, strategists, planners, futurists and IT specialists will share best practices to ensure future organisational readiness. The Summit, held at Le M\u00e9ridien Dubai Hotel & Conference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22580,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22577\/revisions\/22580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}