The Doha Forum is a global platform aimed at promoting international dialogue, bringing together policy leaders to discuss the worlds most critical challenges, and build innovative and active-driven recommendations. Held annually since 2003 under the banner of 'Diplomacy, Dialogue and Diversity', it has ignited crucial discourse for over twenty years, contributing to the production of cross-border built solutions. Focusing on imperative topics of security, economics, climate, technology, trade and education, the forum has become a key diplomatic hub, fostering major themes including 'Building Shared Futures', 'Development, Stability and Refugee Crisis', 'Transforming for a New Era' and 'Shaping Policy in an Interconnected World'.
The 2024 theme centered around 'The Innovative Imperative', highlighting that in order to face the complex, ambiguous and volatile challenges impacting our world, innovation must be at the core of our solutions-process, recognizing cutting-edge ideas built through active collaboration as the key to diplomatic success. Asking integral questions such as "how can the key principles of innovation be applied to the major problems facing our world today? How can we solicit honest feedback, adapt, and remain open to change? How can we ideate by thinking outside the box and combine existing concepts and approaches in new ways?", the forum offered expert discourse on a global stage.