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Biography

Chantal Matar is a multidisciplinary Lebanese-British Architectural and Generative Designer that works at the intersection of mixed media and architecture.

Chantal has worked with various international architecture firms, such as Zaha Hadid Architects, Atelier Des Architectes Associés and Bernard Khoury Architects. Her Generative Design Agenda is highly influenced by art, nature and mixed-media. Chantal has taught Generative Art and Design at various institutes, such as UCL the Bartlett School Of Architecture and Middle East Architecture Lab. She has participated in international exhibitions such as Galerie Fractal in Paris and the Venice Biennale, the Italian Pavilion.

Blending her long experience in architectural design and knowledge of digital tools, Chantal aims her exploration at new emergent technologies, harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence to create novel and immersive spatial experiences. 

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As an entrepreneur, Alyaa is shaping and designing the longevity landscape in the UAE by driving advocacy and advisory to private sector, investors and the public sector. She specializes in enhancing healthspan, wellbeing, and the longevity economy through innovative public policy frameworks.

Alyaa has led the workplace wellbeing initiative under the UAE’s National Program for Happiness & Wellbeing, creating a robust, evidence-based framework and implementing tools to boost wellbeing in both public and private sector organizations .She was involved in projects to design better spaces for human’s longevity and recently, she co-authored the chapter on Dubai, UAE as a regional longevity hub in the new book “Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging” led by MIT AgeLab, The MIT Press.

In addition to her policy work, Alyaa serves as a lecturer at the Geneva College for Longevity Science and has previously been a Visiting Senior Lecturer in Positive Psychology & Positive Societies at the University of East London. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School and was an academic fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, Oxford University. Alyaa has also been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Future Council on Human Enhancement and Healthy Longevity.

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Herbert is a versatile and highly accomplished CIO/CDO level executive, executive partner and business owner with a career track in enabling companies to be successful in their digitization and digital transformation ambitions while applying a holistic approach from vision, strategy, operating model, organization, processes to identifying the most relevant, innovative technologies as appropriate in the respective business.

 Herbert’s professional career over the past +25 years is with landmark name corporations across various industries and geographies where he had the opportunity of being instrumental in significant transformation and optimization initiatives with global footprint and scope.

Throughout his career, Herbert established himself as an innovator, achiever and thought leader across the “build”, “run”, “transform” and “secure” spectrum of IT and the business.

Herbert holds an MSc as well as an Executive MBA as well as conclusion of post-grad programs at well reputed US business schools.

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Robin is a cultural researcher, ethnographer, and insights analyst with a background in public policy, trend forecasting, and communication strategy. With a decade of experience in consumer research, future trends, and marketing analysis, Robin specializes in advising organizations with cultural intelligence and qualitative analysis. Robin has an academic background in political science, and was previously an assistant professor at the University of Texas in Austin. More recently, he has worked for the likes of the UK Government's Defra futures team, Protein, Pearson, and WGSN, and currently holds the position of Senior Futures Advisor at SOON Future Studies.