Knowledge and the 4 th Industrial Revolution: Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation Announces Knowledge Summit 2017

The fourth annual Knowledge Summit - "Knowledge and the fourth Industrial Revolution - is scheduled take place on November 21-23, 2017, reveals the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Structure (MBRF).

Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and by regulations from MBRF Chairman H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Summit provides an extensive global knowledge platform to go over one of the most pressing problems and difficulties encountering the knowledge industry and suggesting services to address them. The event brings together decision makers, intellectuals, experts, researchers, and academics from all around the world to share experiences, insight, and best practices.

His Excellency Jamal bin Huwaireb, CEO of MBRF, said: "The Knowledge Summit has actually established itself as a catalyst for the regional knowledge motion, functioning to modernise the production, dissemination, and localisation of knowledge. With the support of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Summit has handled - because its very first edition - to develop a discussion among all stakeholders in the knowledge industry in order to promote ideas and introduce innovative programs and initiatives."

" The activities held throughout the Knowledge Summit include remarkable momentum to the event," H.E. bin Huwaireb proceeded, "specifically as it holds the awards ceremony of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award, which honours those who play an effective duty in the efforts to build a knowledge economic situation and protect intellectual possessions. The Summit likewise constitutes the main platform to disclose the outcomes of the Arab Knowledge Index and the Arab Reading Index - both accurate clinical tools that track the condition of knowledge and reading in the Arab region."

Meanwhile, His Excellency Tony Abbott, Former Prime Minister of Australia, said: "The Knowledge Summit is a unique and highly good occasion that collects popular experts, decision makers, tokens, and knowledge fanatics from differing geographies, cultures, and histories, all in an initiative to start and maintain a discussion concerning the global knowledge industry. Throughout of Summit, these prominent professionals participate in positive discussions to determine the current status of knowledge, identify the difficulties - present and future - that admit it, and recommend innovative and insightful services to address them.".

" The Summit includes a variety of innovative indices that measure the metrics and data concerning the Middle East's knowledge industry," H.E. Abbott added. "This mosts likely to show that the event relies on objective, concrete data in all of its recommendations and searchings for.".

The Knowledge Summit has established itself as a key occasion that consistently attracts knowledge professionals and enthusiasts from around the world, claimed Dr Jawad Anani, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Jordan, noting that the Summit has actually considerably contributed to advertising knowledge in the region. The Knowledge Summit's sessions and workshops take on the most important problems of the knowledge industry - most notably, the production and dissemination of knowledge - and advertise the beginning of innovative remedies for the growth and transfer of knowledge.

H.E. Dr Anani included: "The summit becomes all the more important once we factor in the launch of the Knowledge Index and the Reading Index - the last being the first of its kind in the region - as part of the Arab Knowledge Project, which intends to advertise the Arab region as a knowledge center and to construct knowledge-based cultures and achieve region-wide lasting development.".

The annual Knowledge Summit, organised by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Structure, has been a global platform considering that its creation, His Excellency Dr Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Cabinet Member and Minister of State for Higher Education, including that the Summit brings together specialists, leaders, and anyone engaged or thinking about the dissemination of knowledge; attendees exchange understandings, discuss finest methods, and work to discover innovative methods to spread out knowledge in the region and the world - especially in light of the extraordinary details boom that has provided the knowledge industry a key source of nationwide income.

H.E. Dr Al Falasi included: "The Knowledge Summit is an exceptional occasion that underscores the value of buying knowledge and searching for ideal methods to produce, localise and distribute it, in an effort to empower human resources - specifically, the youth - and sustain innovation. The distinguished Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award included even more energy and significance to the Summit; the award reflects our sensible leadership's passion for knowledge and honours intellectual success in the region and the world.".

The Knowledge Summit 2017 will focus on the background of industrial revolutions and their duty in transforming individuals's lives for the better, on the one hand, and in sustaining the growth of knowledge societies, on the other. The Summit will certainly discuss the first, second, and third industrial transformations carefully, prior to taking on the subject of the Fourth Industrial Revolution - a.k.a. "The Digital Transformation" - which began first of the 21 st Century.

The Summit is likewise set to discover the partnership in between the Fourth Industrial Change and the "Knowledge Culture", shedding light on the transformative results of the Fourth Industrial Change on such vital markets as education, youth affairs, atmosphere, medical care, innovation, and media, to name a few. Accompanying the Year of Offering 2017 initiative, the 4th yearly Knowledge Summit will certainly link the succeeding industrial changes to social initiatives that advertise charity and knowledge.

The Knowledge Summit 2016 - birthing the theme: "Knowledge ... Present and Future" - checked out the idea of projecting and preparation for the future, as well as the ways to attain that. It highlighted Dubai's successful performance history in the future industry and the initiatives and campaigns released in this regard. The Summit discussed the future of markets that are vital for the advancement of nations, including reading, medicine, modern technology, and education.

Throughout the 2016 Summit, the Structure disclosed the results of the first-ever Arab Reading Index, which was created together with the United Nations Advancement Program (UNDP). MBRF additionally revealed the searchings for of the Arab Knowledge Index 2016, honoured the winners of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award for 2016, and organised a series of workshops on the side.