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Today I have Raya Bichari,

hope I pronounce your name rate. We're going to be talking about disruptive tech trends and possibly

size fest Dubai. Bria, how you doing? I'm good, thank you. How are you?

Good, thanks so much for coming.

So if you would give listeners a little bit of background, tell them what you do and you know, let's introduce

the topic right after that.

So I am a social entrepreneur in science journalist.

As you mentioned, I'm a founding member of Clyphus Dubai, which is an annual festival that promotes

theme education and a public understanding of science through numerous events and initiatives in Dubai.

And over the last three years, our festival has had a cumulative total of 300 events, 400,000 audience and 40,000 audience members, participants, and 500,000 social media followers.

And within Saipis Dubai, I'm also the co-founder of Kappa Science.

Tuk Dubai, which is an initiative that hosts a long-type events in order to inspire the general

public to come and talk about science, technology, astronomy. and where they come in and talk about science in a informal setting.

That's great and I don't traditionally think of Dubai and places like that in the Gulf region as places where a lot of events are held. I know the US, many of them,

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