Khurram Badar

Convergence thinker, operator and writer, based between Dubai and Karachi. Thirty years of C-suite and founder work across the UAE, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Singapore.

How this page is sourced

Every dated claim below comes from a record held in this archive — correspondence, a licence, a contract or a published piece — and links to the exhibit it came from. Where the archive cannot evidence something, this page does not say it.

Record

• What it cost to put Anthony Robbins on a Dubai stage
  March 2008. He asked whether Anthony Robbins would headline a two-day seminar for 300–500 Dubai property brokers. The reply came from the President and General Counsel of Anthony Robbins Holdings: $250,000 minimum in the United St
  2008-03-05 · The ask
• Brian Tracy: $35,000 a day, and dates held
  The same seminar, the same month — he was working both names at once. This one got further: a phone call with the Vice President of Brian Tracy International, then a written quote of $35,000 per day plus expenses, with April 19th
  2008-03-05 · The ask
• Dubai Shopping Festival, Summer Surprises, National Day
  October 2008, in his own words: the years working with the Government of Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing — the festival calendar, the heritage-site events, then concerts and funfairs for 10,000–20,000 people.
  2008-10-29 · Dubai, the early years
• Two Saudi runs, 2009
  June and September 2009: no-objection letters for Saudi visas, filed on Spotlight FZE letterhead, one of them for a multiple-entry visa through the Saudi Consulate. They corroborate the two trips he made with the machines.
  2009-09-23 · SkyH2o
• Costa Coffee — the cards and the bag
  Spring 2012. Business card proofs, bag proofs and samples, run directly with the brand’s marketing office in Dubai.
  2012-05-02 · Brand work
• Water out of air, nine years before it was fashionable
  From March 2009 he ran Skywater in the Gulf — atmospheric water generation, on his own theskywater.com address. Distribution across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan; water expos in Singapore and Dubai in 2009 and 2010; quality c
  2012-08-27 · SkyH2o
• The installed base: Abu Dhabi, Wafi City, Sharjah Electric & Water
  The machine list from 2012. A single S300 unit installed for Khalifa Al Kindi in Abu Dhabi, valued at USD 15,000 — on a roster that also carried Sheikh Mohammed, Saif Khalifa Al Suwaidy at Wafi City and the Sharjah Electric & Wate
  2012-11-20 · SkyH2o
• Filli Cafe — the artwork
  July and August 2014. Cafe artwork produced through his studio partners in Dubai.
  2014-08-13 · Brand work
• A 1986 Porsche 928, kept alive from Dubai
  From 2013 he sourced parts for a 1986 928 out of the two specialist houses in the United States — 928srus and 928 International — shipping to the Gulf. Water pump, power-steering belt, S4 parts, year after year.
  2014-09-12 · Porsche 928
• 99News HD — Director, Sales & Marketing
  August 2021. An appointment to run sales and marketing from the Dubai office, sent by the chairman’s office.
  2021-08-21 · The offers
• Lockr Finance — Marketing & Content Strategist
  June 2022. A fintech offer: content strategy for a consumer finance platform.
  2022-06-15 · The offers
• Pakistan has a crypto generation
  August 2026, unsent. The thread that runs from the archive straight into the work on this site: on-chain, unstoppable, and nobody marketing to them.
  2026-08-08 · Now

Subjects

• Marketing and brand120 entries
• Logistics and supply chain120 entries
• Education118 entries
• Learning and masterclass79 entries
• AI systems67 entries
• Fintech and payments53 entries
• Retail and e-commerce52 entries
• Crypto and web347 entries
• Tooling and developer experience44 entries
• Government and policy41 entries
• Media and content39 entries
• Legal and compliance37 entries
• Real estate34 entries
• ESG and climate33 entries
• Metals and commodities26 entries