#UAE #AgenticAI - Dubai Chambers, the umbrella body for Dubai’s private sector, this week launched Chamber AI Hub, the world’s first chamber-led marketplace for agentic AI. Chamber members can now subscribe to 22 ready-made AI agents covering compliance, procurement, operations, finance, sales, human resources and logistics. Dubai Chambers aims to reach more than 295,000 private sector companies via the new hub and expand its offering to 100 AI agents over the next two years. The Chamber AI Hub launch follows directives from Dubai’s Crown Prince, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
SO WHAT? - Despite the increased available of low-code and no-code platforms, relatively few SMEs actually build AI agents themselves. So a Chamber AI Hub that sells them off the shelf helps to remove that barrier for a large share of Dubai’s economy. The target of 295,000 companies is ambitious, and the 14,000 firms in training are the first real test of whether members actually adopt and use the agents. No subscription prices, funding figures or supplier names have been disclosed, so it’s too early to judge uptake or value. If adoption follows, the initiaitve could give other business chambers in the region a model to copy.
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Dubai Chambers launched Chamber AI Hub this week at Dubai AI Festival, describing it as the world’s first chamber-led agentic AI marketplace. The hub lets companies operating in Dubai access ready-to-use AI agents for a wide range of administrative and operational tasks.
The Chamber AI Hub currently offers 22 specialised AI agents across seven functional areas. Users can choose from agents built for compliance, procurement, operations, finance, sales, human resources and logistics.
Dubai Chambers plans to grow the marketplace to 100 specialised AI agents over two years. The programme aims to enable more than 295,000 private sector companies in Dubai.
The launch implements directives from Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, to accelerate agentic AI adoption across the emirate’s private sector. The UAE government has given a lot of focus to agentic AI usage in the public sector, but Dubai wants to make sure that the private sector is not left behind.
Specialised training tracks, recently launched by Dubai Chambers, will enable and train 14,000 Dubai companies to use agentic AI in their administrative and operational processes.
The programme will also support the growth of companies that develop and use agentic AI solutions. It promotes knowledge-sharing and aims to build institutional capabilities across the Dubai Chambers ecosystem.
Dubai Chambers describes the packages as carrying competitive benefits for members, but has not published pricing, the names of the companies supplying the agents, or a launch timetable for the remaining 78 agents.
ZOOM OUT - Dubai Chambers has built this programme in sequence. In September it created an Executive Committee for Agentic AI and launched Dubai Chambers Academy, an e-learning platform offering training tracks to more than 14,000 member companies. The marketplace now gives those firms agents to put the training to use. Incubators for Agentic AI companies and support for local developers are also planned, which could supply the agents of the future. Dubai is trying to ensure that training, supply and demand are all being built together.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
Source: Dubai Chamber, Dubai Media Office
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