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What does it look like when a government becomes a laboratory for the future?

So you get the entrepreneurs, you get the investors, and you back it up by also investing as government

and create an environment, which is what we call the sandmocks environment, which is really testing those ideas in a safe matter.

That's His Excellency, Calphan Belhul. He's the CEO of the Dubai Future Foundation.

He sat down with TED curator Whitney Pennington Rogers for a conversation

about the ways Dubai is supporting bold experimentation in everything from AI and emerging tech

to innovative finance solutions and climate change. They discuss why governments and organizations

must embrace failure as an integral part of progress and why global collaboration

is the only path forward in this age of AI, climate risk, and geopolitical tension.

The world has recently been giving us so many signs, so many signs that there's no other way

forward than us to all get together.

That's coming up after a quick break.

And now our conversation of the day.

Thank you for being here, Your Excellency.

You run the Dubai Future Foundation.

For those of us who are not initiated, what is a future foundation?

So imagine you run a lab, and the owner of the lab comes to you and says,

you can do whatever you want,

and you have my full backing, and you have solid amount of financial resources.

If rules are an issue, we can change them for you.

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