MASTER CLASS
WARTIME SCENARIO PLANNING
MASTER CLASS | Thursday May 7th, 2026 13:00 - 16:00 (GST)
HOW TO BUILD ADAPTIVE STRATEGY IN TIMES OF DISRUPTION?
WHAT IS IT?
A 3 HOUR FUTURE HACK WEBINAR WHERE PARTICIPANTS WILL BE IMMERSED IN MILITARY GRADE SCENARIO PLANNING TECHNIQUES TO BE THE FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THE FIRST TO ADAPT AND THE FIRST TO EXPLOIT DISRUPTION.
WHO IS IT FOR?
THE RETAIL ECOSYSTEM IN DUBAI (PUBLIC + PRIVATE SECTORS + SUPPLIERS)
Senior leaders in charge of strategic and scenario planning in the retail sector.
Operational leaders who are in charge of addressing the challenges of disruption to normal operations.
Government leaders who are in charge of supporting the growth of the retail sector.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
BE THE FIRST TO UNDERSTAND: How to build company specific open source intelligence streams to provide real time updates to drivers of change.
Intelligence not news.
BE THE FIRST TO ADAPT: How to adapt to evolving situations by developing multiple scenarios and tracking their momentum.
Adaptive not reactive strategy.
BE THE FIRST TO EXPLOIT: How to exploit change by developing risk and reward strategies associated with each of the scenarios and how they impact the business, strategically, operationally and financially.
Keeping the focus on winning despite the situation.
delivered by
SAHER SIDHOM
Engagement Lead and Programme Designer
Founder of HACKMASTERS a scenario planner and strategic advisor with a decade of experience building scenarios and strategies for a number of the UK intelligence services.
EDWARD OWEN-BURGE
Intelligence and Operations Specialist
Former military intelligence officer with scenario planning and operational training responsibilities for intelligence teams across the British Army.
LAURA DAVIES
Strategist from the Future Lab at the UK Ministry of Defence
Co-founder of the UK’s Ministry of Defence Future Lab with both engineering and design experience leading the development of scenarios and strategic actionable exploitations.
what hackmasters will bring
Pre-developed scenarios to enable participants to rapidly develop their own in the session.
Customisable AI Open Source Intelligence tools, specifically for the retail sector in the region.
Covering early warning indicators per scenario.
Actionable exploits / per scenario: e.g. hedging, alliances, resilience building.
Live simulations of the potential impact of actionable exploits on synthetic audiences representing typical pro les of retail customers in Dubai.
LOCATION
ONLINE WEBINAR
DATE
THURSDAY MAY 7TH, 2026
TIME
13:00 - 16:00 (GST)
PRICE
1,000 AED
JOIN US
Online on Thursday May 7th, 2026 13:00 - 16:00 (GST)