The Global Forum 2022 in Muscat, Oman that we are organizing under the High Patronage of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology.

GLOBAL FORUM 2022, Global Innovation Startup Competition on October 18th

October 17^th– 18^th, 2022 Muscat, OMAN

Muscat has been named Arab Digital Capital 2022

The focus of this year’s edition is

DIGITAL DYNAMICS AND GLOBAL SOCIETAL CHALLENGES

New Realities of Disruption and Resilience.

We are pleased to inform you that the event is arranged and will benefit from synergies with Water & Humanity – a dynamic international network and multi-stakeholder platform based in Oman. 

All participants in the Global Forum are most welcome to attend the third day, October 19^th, of additional sessions and events which venture further into environmental aspects together with Water & Humanity. 

Please see also the GF 2022 full three days’ program 

Additional program info:
Conference program content: Sunday, October 16: WELCOME EVENT [7:00 PM TO 9:00 PM]

October 19, Bonus Day

WEDNESDAY 19TH OCTOBER

Session 9: [8:45 am – 10:00 am]
Youth, Education and Awareness-Creation: Valuing Water
Session 10: [10:00 am – 11:30 am]
Visualizing and Mobilising Action Defending the Global Commons

COFFEE
[11:30 am – 11:50 am]

Session 11a & 11b: [11:50 am – 1:15 pm]
The Role of Business and Stakeholder Engagement
A Comprehensive Approach to Mangroves and Wetlands Development

LUNCH
[1:15 pm – 2.30 pm]
Session 12a & 12b: [2:30 pm – 4:00 pm]
Integrated Management of Unconventional Water Resources
Water, Nutrients, Fertilizers, and Food Security
Final Session: [4:00 pm – 5:15 pm]
Reporting from Plenary Sessions and Conclusions

Monday 2nd & Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Winnipeg, Canada
at the Fairmont Winnipeg Hotel

The Global Forum/Shaping the Future is an internationally recognized think-tank for exchange and networking among governments at national, regional & local levels, private & public organizations, research & development experts.

The Global Forum is an independent, high profile, international, non-for-profit event dedicated to business and policy issues affecting the successful evolution of the Digital Society. The Global Forum brings each year in a different city around the world more than 300 key policy-makers and public/private stakeholders from more than 30 countries from all continents, it is often considered as the Davos for ICT.

The 2016 Global Forum featured many innovative speakers on digitization. It is the 25th Global Forum, befittingly gathered in Eindhoven, the Brainport of the digital eco – system.  The conference featured an inaugural, collaborative event. There is no innovation without startups – so GISCO, the Global Innovation Startup Competition was added to the agenda.

17 companies competed, representing eight nations, covering three continents. The jury consisted of pioneers in the startup industry in the EU and the US (Silicon Valley), including distinguished Global Forum speakers and steering committee members.

The winners are: LocaidMe (Prague/Silicon Valley), a safety app to detect threats in real time in public places in an actionable format.  Second place went to Strategic Security (Virginia, USA), a network vulnerability scanning solution. Third place went to Semiotic Labs, an Amsterdam based equipment failure detection and monitoring solution company that works with private sector and government entities.