Dubai Chambers Launches Agentic AI Training for 14,000 Member Companies

Dubai's push to embed AI across its private sector has moved from strategy documents to a concrete training pipeline. Dubai Chambers this week launched specialised Agentic AI training tracks aimed at equipping more than 14,000 member companies operating under its Business Groups and Business Councils, delivered through a new integrated e-learning platform called Dubai Chambers Academy.

The initiative forms part of a wider programme to transition Dubai's private sector toward Agentic AI, launched under the directives of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai. The Academy was launched in the presence of Eng. Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori, Chairman of Dubai Chambers, Mohammad Ali Rashed Lootah, President and CEO of Dubai Chambers, and 90 chairpersons of Business Groups and Business Councils, signalling that this is being treated as a flagship initiative rather than a routine training rollout.

"Agentic AI is opening up new possibilities for the way companies operate," Al Mansoori said, adding that the training tracks are designed to help companies "build a strong foundation in Agentic AI, identify practical applications across their businesses, and develop the capabilities needed to prepare for the technology's growing role in the future of business." The tracks themselves focus on practical adoption: exploring current tools, applying them to improve operations and decision-making, and working through real adoption approaches rather than abstract theory.

The Academy launch follows Dubai Chambers' formation of an Executive Committee for Agentic AI, and sits alongside other initiatives including incubators for Agentic AI companies and support for firms building and deploying agentic solutions. Taken together, the moves are a reminder that the region's agentic AI push is being driven top-down by government mandate as much as by market demand, with Dubai positioning itself to lead not just in deploying the technology but in exporting the expertise to run it.

Scale is the notable feature here. Training 14,000 companies is a materially different undertaking than a pilot programme at a handful of large enterprises, and it raises the same governance question that has surfaced elsewhere in the region's rush to adopt agentic systems: rolling out AI agents at speed to organisations of wildly varying technical maturity, without embedded safeguards, is exactly the kind of gap that has previously turned automation failures into real operational incidents, as one recent case involving an ungoverned agentic deployment in the region illustrated. Whether Dubai Chambers Academy's curriculum addresses that governance layer, and not just tool literacy, will likely determine how much of this training translates into safe production use rather than shelved certificates.

For now, the initiative reinforces Dubai's stated ambition to lead as a global hub for the digital economy, and gives thousands of private-sector companies a structured, government-backed on-ramp into Agentic AI that most GCC peers have not yet matched at this scale.