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Speaker
H.E. Khalfan Belhoul
CEO, Dubai Future Foundation
H.E. Khalfan Belhoul is the CEO of the Dubai Future Foundation and a key driver of the UAE’s vision for a diversified, innovation led future. He leads national initiatives that position Dubai as a global hub for emerging technology, future readiness, and transformative innovation. Under his leadership, DFF has built world leading programs shaping the future of government, talent, and technology.
At BRIDGE Summit, Khalfan will outline Dubai’s blueprint for building the future economy and share insights on how nations can design ecosystems that attract talent, innovation, and frontier industries.
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Media
H.E. Khalfan Belhoulat BRIDGE
- Media Panel 9 December 2:10 - 2:30PM
Mobilizing Capital for a New Media Order
As legacy media institutions falter against digital fragmentation and shifting audience powers, investment is decisively moving beyond North American and European strongholds toward ascendant hubs in Dubai, Singapore, São Paulo, and the wider Global South. Rising capital costs, geopolitical tensions, and divergent content governance are profoundly altering financing flows for platforms, studios, and creators. This session spotlights the new partnerships, sovereign vehicles, policy, and cross-border collaborations that will define leadership in tomorrow’s global media landscape, and how investors, founders, and nations can deliberately align capital to foster systems that are competitive, resilient, inclusive, and reflective of rising cultural and creator powers.
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