# Inside Dubai's mission to build the city of the future | His Excellency Khalfan Belhoul, Whitney Pennington Rodgers

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-talks-daily-980370/inside-dubai-s-mission-to-build-the-city-of-the-future-his-excellency-khalfan-belhoul-whitney-pennington-rodgers
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-talks-daily-980370/inside-dubai-s-mission-to-build-the-city-of-the-future-his-excellency-khalfan-belhoul-whitney-pennington-rodgers.md
Podcast: [TED Talks Daily](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-talks-daily-980370)
Published: 2026-06-06T15:00:00+00:00
Episode link: http://go.ted.com/hekhalfanbelhoul
Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/67587e77c705e441797aff96/e/6a1f8e814815e3a83c4212a8/media.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ted-talks-daily-980370/episodes/inside-dubai-s-mission-to-build-the-city-of-the-future-his-excellency-khalfan-belhoul-whitney-pennington-rodgers
Duration seconds: 890

## Resource

What does it look like when a city becomes a laboratory for innovation? His Excellency Khalfan Belhoul, CEO of the Dubai Future Foundation, explains why Dubai is cutting the bureaucratic red tape to experiment with big ideas in everything from AI and emerging tech to finance and climate solutions. The future, he says, depends on those willing to test it. (This conversation is hosted by TED's Whitney Pennington Rodgers.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ted-talks-daily-980370/episodes/inside-dubai-s-mission-to-build-the-city-of-the-future-his-excellency-khalfan-belhoul-whitney-pennington-rodgers/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-talks-daily-980370/inside-dubai-s-mission-to-build-the-city-of-the-future-his-excellency-khalfan-belhoul-whitney-pennington-rodgers.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.