ARC

The operating system for the Life Economy™

Presenting ARC Forum · Edition One · Dubai

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IThe mandate

10 June 2026

Dubai moved first again.

EmiratesBurj KhalifaExpo 2020Museum of the FutureThe Dubai Longevity Authority

In a single generation, Dubai turned vision into the thing the world watches.

With Law No. 17 of 2026, Dubai established the Dubai Longevity Authority and placed it under the Department of Economy and Tourism. The signal is clear: the economics of human longevity is the next arena in which Dubai intends to lead the world’s attention, and the influence that comes from owning the category.

Government of Dubai Media Office, 10 June 2026: Law No. 17 of 2026 establishing the Dubai Longevity Authority.

IIThe shift

A new economy has formed around one human ambition: to live longer, and better.

The Life Economy™

The convergence of longevity science, cognitive performance and regenerative medicine into a single economic force. Named and trademarked by ARC’s founder years before any government moved to formalise it.

1.4bn

people aged sixty and over by 2030, up from about one billion in 2020

$Tns

the market organising around longevity, performance and regenerative health, estimated in the multiple trillions by 2030

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agreed standards, metrics or trust mechanisms governing it today

Population: World Health Organization ageing projections. Market: industry estimates, which vary by definition and scope.

Its standards will be set once, by whoever is present and prepared at the beginning.

IIIARC Forum · The front door

One week in Dubai. One hundred and fifty people. By name.

001of 150. No registration, no badges, no walk-ins.
The Sovereign TicketEvery seat offered by name and delivered as an object worth keeping.
Four days, minimumDays 1 to 4 or Days 4 to 7. Anyone who cannot commit is declined, whoever they are.
A campusMornings for ideas, afternoons for working rooms, evenings together. Triple-diamond hospitality throughout.

Who is in the room

35Fortune 500 CEOs and capital
20Scientists and physicians
20Founders and builders
15Global leaders and policymakers
15Athletes and cultural figures
15ARC Fellows on scholarship
12Artists and designers
10The unexpected: a centenarian, a young inventor
8Journalists, here to think, never to report

Seven days, rising to Day 6

1ArrivalsPairingsOpening night
2Main stagePolicy sessionsDinners
3Breakouts, walksPartnershipsDinners
4Field visits in DubaiThe whole room overlapsCulture night
5Body sessionsLearningsDinners
6Dawn with the cityThe Ideas Bracket finalCelebration
7CommitmentsDeparturesClose

Every hour engineered for longevity

Sleep

Curated rooms and evenings, and a jet-lag plan from the moment of acceptance.

Rise

Dawn breathwork, meditation and movement led by athletes.

Nourish

Every meal designed around each guest’s week by the nutrition faculty.

Recover

Recovery protocols, and Wellness Engineering on request. Uniformed faculty all week; ninety-nine per cent frictionless.

Four rules hold the room

IChatham HouseUse what you hear; never attribute it.
IIA closed loopNothing inside is recorded or reported. Invited press works off site.
IIIThe Build RuleNo negative opposition. Every response adds to the idea in front of it.
IVTitles at the doorThe young inventor has the same access as the billionaire.

The Authority’s annual convening.

  • ARC Forum sits under the Dubai Longevity Authority, produced by Leverage House.
  • Every clinical element of the week runs only through DLA-authorised providers.
  • Security is overbuilt on purpose: private arrival, a closed campus, close protection, strict NDA and a private network.
IVCultural gravity

Science earns credibility. Spectacle earns attention.

Dubai has always understood that attention moves markets, capital and people to a place. The most-watched people on earth are already consumed by the pursuit Dubai has made its mandate: extending their lives, their performance and their prime. ARC’s leadership holds those relationships.

Convene

The heads of state, scientists, capital and cultural figures who set the agenda, in one room, once a year.

Commit

The people the world imitates, in sustained residence in Dubai, as participants in the science itself.

Broadcast

Their presence turned into sustained global attention, on terms the Authority controls.

Dubai does not attend the conversation about the future of human performance.Dubai hosts it.

VDubai’s return

One week that works all year.

1.5×

guest fees brought to Dubai for every dirham Dubai commits

900+

guest nights in Dubai’s finest hotels, before families

150

of the people who move capital, science and culture, in the city four days or more

Estimates from ARC’s operating model. Every figure is reported back to the Authority and the Department after the close:

Room nightsVisitor spendFamilies hostedResidency and real estate interestPartnerships formedGuests returning

Edition One

Base campus
Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab
Opening night
Bulgari Resort Dubai
Satellites
One&Only One Za’abeel · Six Senses The Palm

Recommended, and confirmed through site visits with the tourism team. Families stay in Dubai with their own programme, which doubles as the residency and real estate track.

  1. SigningVenue secured; the Sovereign Ticket made
  2. InvitationsSeats offered by name; Founding Circle confirmed
  3. ProgrammeTalent under contract; pairings engineered
  4. BuildCampus, security and the guest app in place
  5. The weekDates TBD. Should the region require it, the week moves and Dubai’s commitment carries to the new dates.
VIWhat the Forum opens onto

Five institutions, built as one compounding loop.

Forum Residency Arc-Certified™ Arc Index™ Arc Fund ARC THE OPERATING SYSTEM

Forum

The convening authority: heads of state, science, capital and the world’s most-watched cultural and athletic figures. The front door.

Residency

Sustained residence in Dubai, generating the longitudinal evidence that regulation requires.

Arc-Certified™

An independent methodology that separates proven science from theatre.

Arc Index™

A measurement framework for healthy life expectancy, built for adoption by government.

Arc Fund

Capital deployed on evidence, where the standard points.

The Authority is the mandate.ARC is the operating system.
VIIThe ask

$6.5M

from Dubai, to build Edition One.

What it coversThe full week, fifteen Fellowship seats and a ring-fenced production protection fund. No request mid-development, ever.
Partnership, not profitARC’s margin is 20%. A further 10% is committed as a rollover reserve for the next edition, a Dubai office and the pillars that follow.
Dubai aloneNo outside sponsor takes a cash position, a logo, a seat or a right.
Skin in the gameThe producer is paid inside the budget, half of it held in escrow until production milestones are met. ARC and Leverage House own or license the IP.
VIIIWho makes it

Built by operators and market makers.

Producer of record

Leverage House

An operator capital studio at the intersection of capital markets, brand architecture and luxury hospitality.

Strategy across more than two dozen companies representing over three billion dollars in aggregate enterprise value, and two decades behind the brands and public figures of the performance and wellness economy. Owner and developer of the ARC IP.

Executive producer and director

Soren West

Thirty years building, operating and transacting companies that help the world’s most celebrated performers, brands and business leaders shine at mission-critical moments.

Concert touring production design, music television, festivals and live broadcast; large-scale corporate events, brand activations, Upfronts and Newfronts. Former Chief Executive, MENA, for TAIT, based in Riyadh.