Ree-thinking Sustainability

Continuing on from our previous episode with Ricardo, we sit down with two more UNICEF fellows, Norhan and Iman, who co-created the Youth Future Foresights Playbook. Both share some great insights into the challenge of putting such a mammoth project together and how diverse perspectives of youth in North Africa and Sub Saharan Africa are incorporated. This groundbreaking initiative has been created to build youth engagement capacities, to find tangible opportunities for meaningful youth engagement, and to inspire young people. It is also intended for those who work with young people, to not only embrace foresight methods and tools but to make them accessible, thereby fostering a collaborative environment where youth are engaged as equal partners in shaping all our futures.   This episode was recorded at the Dubai Future Forum, the world’s largest gathering of futurists organized by Dubai Future Foundation. Gathering more than 2,500 global experts from diverse future-focused fields at the Museum of the Future to discuss the most pressing matters that shape tomorrow.   Follow Us   Instagram: reethinking_sustainability   Our Hosts   https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmccabe1/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nourhan-badr-el-din/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/1manbashir/   

Ricardo Guzman is a Sustainable Development Engineer at heart. Originally from Honduras, he has dedicated his time and research to development, sustainability, climate change mitigation and decarbonisation. He is a decarbonisation leader and promoter of climate action empowerment in Honduras and has been working with UNICEF to cocreate the UNICEF Youth Foresight Playbook. This groundbreaking initiative has been created to build youth engagement capacities, to find tangible opportunities for meaningful youth engagement, and to inspire young people. It is also intended for those who work with young people, to not only embrace foresight methods and tools but to make them accessible, thereby fostering a collaborative environment where youth are engaged as equal partners in shaping all our futures.  This episode was recorded at the Dubai Future Forum, the world’s largest gathering of futurists organized by Dubai Future Foundation. Gathering more than 2,500 global experts from diverse future-focused fields at the Museum of the Future to discuss the most pressing matters that shape tomorrow.  Follow Us  Instagram: reethinking_sustainability  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ree-thinking-sustainability Dubai Future Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dubaifuturefoundation/ Dubai Future Forum: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/dubai-future-forum/posts/?feedView=all   Our Hosts  https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmccabe1/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardopinedaguzman/  

In this episode we are joined by Co-Founders Brett Thompson and Tasneem Karodia of Newform Foods, a foodtech startup offering a B2B bioproduction platform for cultivated animal and food products. Newform Foods is leveraging a continent-spanning research and development network to help food producers, retailers and business owners develop and scale cultivated animal products, at a significantly lower cost than the industry norm. They represent the convergence of cost-efficiency and pioneering science. Through their cutting-edge bioplatform and tailored solutions, including media development, cell line creation, and bioreactor plans, they are partnering in constructing the future of food.  This episode was recorded at the Dubai Future Forum, the world’s largest gathering of futurists organized by Dubai Future Foundation. Gathering more than 2,500 global experts from diverse future-focused fields at the Museum of the Future to discuss the most pressing matters that shape tomorrow.  Follow Us  Instagram: reethinking_sustainabilityNewform Foods: https://newformfoods.com/   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mccabeandpartners LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/newformfoods/   Our Hostshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/benmccabe1/https://www.linkedin.com/in/nourhan-badr-el-din/   

Sinead Bovell is the Founder of WAYE and she has been bridging the gap between young entrepreneurs and the digital future by revolutionising the way that young people learn about technology. Everyday 600+ Millennials and Gen Z tune into WAYE’s platforms to learn about the intersection of business, technology and the future.  WAYE educates young people on the intersection of business, technology, and the future, with a focus on minority markets. WAYE supports young people in building career paths that will sustain the digital shift. WAYE equips young people with a framework to evaluate emerging and disruptive technologies. WAYE inspires and challenges how young people think about the future in order to expand their beliefs on all that could be possible, while fostering innovation to create.  This episode was recorded at the Dubai Future Forum, the world’s largest gathering of futurists organized by Dubai Future Foundation. Gathering more than 2,500 global experts from diverse future-focused fields at the Museum of the Future to discuss the most pressing matters that shape tomorrow.  Follow UsInstagram: reethinking_sustainability  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ree-thinking-sustainability Dubai Future Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dubaifuturefoundation/ Dubai Future Forum: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/dubai-future-forum/posts/?feedView=all    Our Hostshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/benmccabe1/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinead-bovell-89072a34/   

In this episode Kwamou gives us some great insight into the work she has been doing in Africa, providing safe spaces and more importantly a voice for women often overlooked in policy making based on current and future needs. Kwamou is an anticipation specialist seeking the adequacy between our imagined futures and our values, especially fighting against the replication of 'used futures' onto the global South. She is an experienced facilitator and lab designer involved in labs run mainly in Africa and Europe since 2014 for governments, NGOs, CEOs, but also in family settings. Feukeu is also a member of the editorial board of two scientific journals, Futures and Prospective et stratégie. She has spoken for a variety of constituencies: Stanford D.school, World Bank, UN Office for Africa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, African Technology Policy Centre, etc. She previously worked for UNESCO on building futures literacy in Africa and worldwide, the African Union on diaspora issues, and several NGOs in Niger, Uganda and Tanzania on minorities' rights and the implementation of necessary training for the actual fulfillment of their rights. This episode was recorded at the Dubai Future Forum, the world’s largest gathering of futurists organized by Dubai Future Foundation. Gathering more than 2,500 global experts from diverse future-focused fields at the Museum of the Future to discuss the most pressing matters that shape tomorrow. Follow Us Instagram: reethinking_sustainability LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ree-thinking-sustainability Dubai Future Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dubaifuturefoundation/ Dubai Future Forum: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/dubai-future-forum/posts/?feedView=all  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mccabeandpartners LinkedIn: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reecycle-app/  Our Hosts https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmccabe1/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwamou/  

Children and young people have been a driving force for change throughout history. It makes sense therefore that they should also be deeply involved in imagining the future – their future, our future, the future of the planet, and that their absence from foresight and decision making spaces greatly hinders our capacity to anticipate how the world is changing. In this episode we sit down with Fisayo Oyewale. Fisayo is an agriculturist, a Futurist, and a Facilitator working at the intersection of agriculture, technology, youths, and futures. As a foresight practitioner, she uses strategic foresight methodologies to rethink Africa’s futures in data governance, food systems, youth engagement, and artificial intelligence for development. She is a UNICEF Youth Foresight Senior Fellow, a 2021 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneur, a Young Africa Leadership Initiative RLC Fellow, and one of 100 delegates at the Global Youth Agriculture Summit 2021. Fisayo, along with several other fellows was responsible for putting together the recent UNICEF Youth Foresight Playbook which was launched at the Dubai Future Forum 2023. This episode was recorded at the Dubai Future Forum, the world’s largest gathering of futurists organized by Dubai Future Foundation. Gathering more than 2,500 global experts from diverse future-focused fields at the Museum of the Future to discuss the most pressing matters that shape tomorrow. Follow Us Instagram: reethinking_sustainability LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ree-thinking-sustainability Dubai Future Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dubaifuturefoundation/ Dubai Future Forum: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/dubai-future-forum/posts/?feedView=all  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mccabeandpartners LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unicef LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reecycle-app/  Our Hosts https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmccabe1/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/fisayo-oyewale/