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Arab Cinema’s Interactive Future
From auteur to audience co-creation: how AR/VR stages, immersive premieres, and regional studio growth can move Arab stories from local gems to global hits.
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- Creator Economy Workshop 8 December 2:30 - 3:15PM
Snapschool ( How to utilize Snapchat as a creator )
An educational workshop to teach you the best practices of using snapchat as a content creator, unlock monetization and expand your reach!
Workshop Room 1 - Media Fireside 9 December 11:20 - 11:40AM
The Disappearing Job Map of Media
By 2035, PwC projects automation will reshape nearly a third of media jobs, changing how content is created, distributed and monetized. Traditional roles are shrinking while new ones like AI prompt engineers, generative optimization experts and misinformation analysts are emerging quickly. This session focuses on what skills and strategies media professionals need to stay relevant, create value with new tools and build careers that remain essential as technology rewrites the industry.
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- Media Fireside 10 December 11:50AM - 12:05PM
How Stories are a Force of Change
This session bridges economics, geopolitics, and the mechanics of narrative in examining how storytelling shapes markets, public trust, and social behavior. Drawing on George Soros’s reflexivity and Robert Shiller’s narrative economics, we explore how viral beliefs influence everything from capital flows to voting patterns. In a world shaped more by tropes and emotions, not just data, how can a full-spectrum of leaders, from those in government to entrepreneurs, recognize, harness, and respond to stories that fuel action?
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- Technology Presentation 8 December 2:00 - 2:15PM
Superintelligence: The Next Frontier of Human Connection
The keynote explores how technology is reshaping the way we live, work and do business. It shows how AI, creators, messaging and wearables are coming together to drive innovation, efficiency and deeper human connection.
Forum Stage - Media Presentation 9 December 5:10 - 5:20PM
Misinformation—The Nightmare and the Opportunity
It's November 4, 2028, two days before the US presidential election, and news of a major scandal has broken about one of the candidates. Is it true or fake? I'll present a futuristic scenario in which journalistic organizations and misinformation purveyors battle each other and the clock using all the tools of generative and agentic AI, and show how the journalists can win—as long as the media industry and content platforms invest in the right tools.
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