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VisionSeek Fellowship

Program Managers for Critical Capabilities — Incheon · Gulf

A dark map of the Arabian Peninsula and nearby seas, with a path of light from Incheon toward the Gulf, titled VisionSeek Fellowship.

Behind every large technological leap stood one person who chose to own it from the first step to the last. That is what DARPA calls a program manager. The Arab world needs a generation of these people: leaders who turn national ambition into a capability the state actually owns.

What the Fellowship is

A selective program of VisionSeek Institute. It chooses a small cohort of the strongest Arab minds and prepares them to lead critical-capability programs in the DARPA manner. Fellows learn and work between Incheon in Korea and the Gulf, on real projects inside institutions, across foundational technologies.

Principles

  • Selective

    A small cohort, chosen on merit alone.

  • Learn by doing

    Each fellow leads a real question for a real institution, not a theoretical study.

  • A bridge between two places

    Learn from the Korean experience, and apply it in the Arab region.

  • It continues after the program

    Fellows remain a network of capability leaders in the Arab world.

The fellow's path

  1. 01

    Incheon

    Go deep into the DARPA method and the VisionSeek method, and get close to the Korean technology system.

  2. 02

    The question

    With an Arab institution, name one critical capability and write Heilmeier questions for it.

  3. 03

    The build

    Lead the program inside the institution, with guidance from Korea and from the world.

  4. 04

    The evidence

    Present a measurable result to a panel. After that, the institution owns the capability.

Who it is for

Engineers, scientists, founders, and younger leaders in Arab institutions who have a record of delivery and want to lead technological change in the region.

What a fellow leaves with

The title «VisionSeek Fellow», the experience of having led a real capability program, a network in Korea and the Gulf, and a place in a community of Arab capability leaders.

Status

The first cohort is coming soon.

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Ahmed Abdelalim

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