<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Dubai Future Foundation and Meta Global announced the conclusion of the first edition of the Llama Design Drive program in the UAE, which witnessed the participation of 30 innovators and startups from around the world to develop innovative solutions using the “Llama 3” model of artificial intelligence within 7 diverse challenges in which Emirates Airlines, Dubai Holding, the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai, and Chalhoub Group participated.</p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );">Ideas and Projects Development Program</span> </h2><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:765/370;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/edf75937-013d-4eb6-b66f-bc7b58d15f2d.webp" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Over the course of 4 weeks, the program participants worked on developing unique ideas and projects that employ the promising potential of artificial intelligence and its various tools to design the future of aviation, transportation, retail, and real estate sectors and bring about a qualitative shift in them. </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:1000/750;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/2d570db0-6acf-41ea-a668-e0aca2d74150.jpeg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Participants in the Lama Design Drive program were selected from 135 applications that were evaluated in collaboration with the Startup Boot Camp team.</p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );">Closing day activities</span> </h3><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:640/480;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/afc49e11-b90e-4beb-a5a1-8a0b316f973f.jpeg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The final day of the Lama Design Drive programme witnessed a showcase of the most prominent of these projects in the presence of representatives of the programme’s partners, including innovative solutions from Indigo Hive and Icom Innovation to employ artificial intelligence to enhance the experience of travellers with disabilities and the elderly.</p>