Gary Brecka

Remember, what, 25 years of rain in 24 hours.

And as I was getting on the plane, you know, all these images I'm looking at on my phone, cars floating down the roadway.

There's someone on a jet ski going by the Burj Khalifa.

I thought I was gonna land in the middle of a natural disaster.

And I landed and I got off the plane and I was going to the hotel and I felt like somebody forgot to tell you guys that there had just been a disaster.

This city was perfectly clean, no trash on the sidewalks.

The rapid response that you had to this

know unforeseen i would say uh you know weather event that you had there's no way you could have pre-planned for this because it never happened it just shows the resilience and and the way that uh your culture and your ministry and the infrastructure could just respond yes um because it was almost unnoticeable 48 hours yeah i mean gary remind me of this this actually reminds me of a few incidents and i'll start with the one you mentioned i mean of course that day

Yeah, and I know that you have such a strong focus on technology.

Yes.

I've gotten to know your minister of AI.

Yes.

He's a great human.

I've gone to some of his events.

He's quite a comedian too.

No, I'll tease him about that when I see him.

So how do you embrace technology to move a city like this forward and use technology to enhance rather than replace human potential?

Please feel free to explain it to me because my kids try to tell me all the time.

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