Future World Forum Dubai Chambers opens agentic AI training to 14,000 member companies
Cities announce AI strategies constantly. What is rarer is a city announcing that it will teach its small companies to use one.
The announcement
On 1 September 2026 Dubai Chambers launched specialised training tracks in agentic AI for the 14,000-plus member companies in the Dubai Chamber of Commerce's Business Groups and Business Councils.
Where it lives
Dubai Chambers Academy, a newly launched e-learning platform operating under Dubai Chambers.
What agentic AI is taken to mean here
H.E. Eng. Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori, Chairman of Dubai Chambers, defined it in operational terms: technology that can manage complex tasks, support decision-making, raise productivity and open new avenues for growth. H.E. Mohammad Ali Rashed Lootah, President and CEO, was present at the launch.
What has not been published
Neither a delivery period nor a price. The announcement does not say whether the tracks are free to members, and does not set out a schedule.
The interesting part is the audience rather than the technology. Agentic AI adoption so far has been a large-enterprise story, because agents need process documentation, system access and someone to own the failure modes — all things a 20-person trading company does not have. Aiming the training at chamber members is a bet that the binding constraint is knowledge rather than infrastructure, which is arguable. Watch for two things as the programme fills out: whether the tracks are sector-specific (a logistics agent and a retail agent are not the same problem), and whether anything is said about governance, since the standard failure of an agentic deployment in a small firm is an agent given more system permissions than anyone intended.
Source: Dubai Government Media Office checked against the source
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