Impact Fellowship Program 2026 · KSA & UAE
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A facilitated foresight sprint that ends in a decision, not a report, run with the people who will live the answer: organizations with mandates, colleges with disciplines, and the young people who own what comes next.
Commission a LabOne-day workshops produce enthusiasm. Six-week studies produce shelfware. Three days is the shortest path to a defensible answer.
Day one hunts the real frictions with the people who feel them, not the ones written in strategy decks. Honesty is the raw material.
Day two stress-tests every idea against reality: data, ownership, a measurable result. Weak ideas die here for the price of a conversation.
Day three ends in a ranked shortlist, presented by the participants themselves, and a commitment made in the room, while everyone is still in it.
Process walks and pain mapping with operations, classrooms, or cohorts. By evening, the wall carries an honest friction map.
Live demonstrations against real frictions, then the honest test: does the data exist, who owns it, what measures success.
Ranked one-page briefs, presented to leadership or showcased to guests. The room commits before it closes.
The Year of AI has trained the Kingdom in tools. What no course teaches is the harder question every profession now faces: what does AI change about being a doctor, a teacher, an economist, a manager, here, in this decade? So the lab moves into the college itself. Medical students map the clinic. Education students map the classroom. Business students map the firm. Same three days, a different profession every time, ending with a discipline shortlist presented to faculty and industry guests.
“We need AI” is not a profession’s answer. Each discipline has to find its own openings, and the students entering it are the right people to look.
The world’s water conversation is coming to Riyadh, and the generation who will manage the Kingdom’s water in 2040 is sitting in its schools and universities today. The conference is the occasion. The capability is the point. Run labs before December and students arrive at conference season fluent, with positions worth quoting. Run them after, and the global declarations become a youth work program toward Riyadh 2027, not a news story that passed them by.
In 2040, today’s students will run the Kingdom’s water. The only question is whether they start thinking about it now, or after they inherit it.
The water reality. Where water actually comes from, goes to, and gets lost in the Kingdom, traced with real data, from desalination to the tap to the farm.
The 2040 horizon. Global water futures translated into Saudi scenarios: probable, aspirational, provocative. Teams argue them, stress-test them, choose one to stand behind.
The position. Each cohort presents the water problems and opportunities it believes its generation can own, to educators, water professionals, and invited guests.
The world arrives in 2030. The Kingdom turns 100 in 2032. Foresight becomes real when it has a date with national meaning, so the method is simple: anchor the imagination to 2032, create artifacts of that future now, and let the collection grow toward Expo 2030, so that by the time the world arrives, a generation’s answer already exists, made and signed by the students themselves.
Every Expo asks the same question: what do we show the world? The usual answer comes from agencies. This one comes from a generation.
Campus labs. Foresight sprints across the Kingdom’s schools and universities: signals, worlds, artifacts. Made to be shown, not filed.
The Futures Gallery. The strongest artifacts curated into a traveling youth exhibition: Saudi Arabia’s 2032, imagined by the generation that will live it.
The stage. By 2030, a nationally sourced, exhibition-ready collection exists, every artifact credited to its creators by name.
Three to five opportunities, each with a named owner and a readiness grade, plus the map of everything found on the way.
What we advised against, and why. Often the most valuable page.
Participants learn the diagnostic method by doing it, and present the results themselves.
A one-page dispatch from your lab: a signal, a surprise, an honest no, an open question. Credited or anonymised, your choice.
Some Labs end with “not yet, and here’s what to fix first.” That result is worth three days too.
Tell us your context: institution, theme, cohort, timing. We come back with a tailored proposal within five working days.
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