Dubai Chambers Opens Agentic AI Training for More Than 14,000 Companies: Dubai Chambers Academy Launched on 1 September 2026, a Two-Year Programme With Incubators, Support Funds and an Executive Committee

2026-09-08

On 1 September 2026 Dubai Chambers launched Dubai Chambers Academy, a new integrated e-learning platform, and opened specialised Agentic AI training tracks for more than 14,000 member companies of the Business Groups and Business Councils that operate under Dubai Chamber of Commerce. The launch took place 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; Gulf News and Euronews carried the story on 8 September 2026. The tracks are the first delivered element of the programme to move Dubai’s private sector to Agentic AI within two years, launched on 4 May 2026 by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of the UAE and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, with the stated goal of making Dubai “the world’s leading city in adopting these technologies economically and commercially”. The same programme provides for incubators for Agentic AI companies, dedicated support funds and an Executive Committee for Agentic AI, which Dubai Chambers formed in June 2026. This article sets out what was announced, which companies have access and through which bodies, how the two-year programme is built, how it fits with the federal government’s own Agentic AI framework and what a foreign-owned company in Dubai should do with it.

What Dubai Chambers announced on 1 September 2026

The statement published by Dubai Chambers on 1 September 2026 and carried by Zawya the same day lists the following points:

• Specialised Agentic AI training tracks for more than 14,000 member companies of the Business Groups and Business Councils operating under Dubai Chamber of Commerce, intended to give them the skills to adopt Agentic AI across their operations.
• Delivery through Dubai Chambers Academy, a new integrated e-learning platform that hosts the Agentic AI tracks alongside a range of other training programmes covering diverse areas.
• Content of the tracks: the latest Agentic AI tools and solutions that can improve operations, efficiency, productivity and decision-making; practical approaches to adoption; and turning the potential of the technology into practical solutions that support growth and innovation. Gulf News summarised the foundation of the tracks as an introduction to Agentic AI tools, identifying where the technology applies within a company’s operations and building the capabilities for its growing role in business.
• A launch event attended by Al Mansoori, Lootah and 90 chairpersons of Business Groups and Business Councils.
• Other components of the wider programme: incubators for Agentic AI companies that support Dubai’s transition, support for companies specialising in the development and deployment of Agentic AI solutions, and knowledge-sharing and capacity-building within Dubai Chambers.
• The launch follows the formation of the Executive Committee for Agentic AI, established to accelerate adoption across the private sector, prepare the business community for global technological shifts, enable companies to benefit from advanced AI solutions and reinforce Dubai’s position as a global hub for the digital economy and future industries.

“The programme to transition the private sector towards Agentic AI reflects Dubai’s commitment to advancing the vision of its leadership by preparing the business community to adopt advanced technologies and use them effectively to create sustainable value. This will strengthen companies’ competitiveness and their ability to innovate and grow in the economy of the future,” Al Mansoori said. He added: “Agentic AI is opening up new possibilities for the way companies operate. It can help manage complex tasks, enable more effective decision-making, enhance productivity, and create new opportunities for growth. Through these specialised training tracks, we aim to equip the private sector with the capabilities and expertise needed to understand Agentic AI and translate its potential into practical applications.”

The platform itself sits at academy.dubaichambers.com. When we checked it on 8 September 2026 it opened with a login page rather than a public course catalogue, which matches the wording of the statement: the training is available to member companies of the Business Groups and Business Councils, not to the public. The statement gives neither the duration of the tracks, nor their language, nor a fee, nor an enrolment procedure, and we have not found those details in any official source. A company that wants to enrol should ask the secretariat of its Business Group or Business Council.

Who has access: Business Groups and Business Councils explained

Dubai Chamber of Commerce describes Business Groups as platforms that bring together companies and professionals from a specific industry, and Business Councils as platforms that bring together companies and professionals from a specific country, in both cases to discuss business issues openly, propose improvements to legislation, streamline procedures and promote Dubai as an international business hub. The Chamber is the issuing authority for both and charges no fee for the annual permit; it provides an operations manual, free venue booking at Chamber premises, the Business Voice digital portal for feedback on legislation and shared secretariat support for the first six months of a new group or council. When we checked the Chamber’s public register on 27 August 2026 it listed 72 Business Councils and 66 Business Groups, among them Russian, Georgian and Turkish councils, and the Uzbekistan Business Council was added the same month. Sixty-four groups and councils took part in the Chamber’s second quarterly roundtable of 2026 on 1 May, together with Dubai Customs, the Department of Economy and Tourism, the General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs and Dubai Municipality, and 90 chairpersons attended the Academy launch on 1 September.

The figure of 14,000 companies therefore describes the membership of these bodies, not the Chamber as a whole. Dubai Chambers reported more than 292,000 member companies at the start of 2026, with 72,000 joining during 2025; a further 2,709 companies joined in March 2026 alone, and 7,579 new Indian companies registered in the first half of 2026, taking active Indian members to 85,841 by June. By our arithmetic the companies covered by the Agentic AI tracks are therefore around 5% of the membership: the ones organised in a sector group or a country council. Membership of the Chamber itself covers mainland and free zone companies licensed for commercial, industrial and professional activities; for a Dubai mainland company it comes with the licence, while free zone companies join voluntarily. Membership of a group or council is a separate step taken through the body itself.

The two-year programme: from the 4 May 2026 directive to 2028

The training tracks answer the first of four directives issued on 4 May 2026, when Sheikh Hamdan launched the initiative to transition Dubai’s private sector towards Agentic AI within two years. According to the Government of Dubai Media Office, Dubai Chamber of Commerce was instructed to introduce specialised training tracks for all business councils affiliated with it, to establish incubators for Agentic AI companies, to create new economic opportunities for young people in the field and to set up dedicated funds to back the shift. “Our goal is for Dubai to become the world’s leading city in adopting these technologies economically and commercially, giving us a new competitive edge for the future,” Sheikh Hamdan said. The initiative is placed within the Dubai Economic Agenda D33. The table below puts the milestones of the last four months in order.

The Executive Committee for Agentic AI is chaired by Al Mansoori; its vice chairman is Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications and Chairman of Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy. Its mandate, as published on 4 June 2026, is to build an integrated framework and oversee the two-year plan: approving the training tracks for Business Groups and Business Councils, establishing the incubators, setting up the support funds, coordinating with public and private partners and promoting knowledge sharing across the business community. As of 8 September 2026 no amounts for the funds and no opening dates for the incubators have been published. The training is the only element that companies can use today.

What Agentic AI means in this programme

Agentic AI refers to software agents that plan and carry out multi-step tasks on a company’s behalf, for example processing an order from enquiry to invoice, reconciling supplier statements or preparing a routine filing, rather than answering a single question the way a chatbot does. The Dubai Chambers tracks are built around that distinction: they start with the tools and solutions available, move on to identifying where in a company’s operations an agent can take over a process and end with adoption, that is putting the agent into daily work with the right controls. Al Mansoori’s description covers the same ground: managing complex tasks, more effective decision-making, higher productivity and new opportunities for growth.

The programme lands in a market that is already moving. The ServiceNow Enterprise AI Maturity Index 2026, which we covered on 25 August 2026, put the UAE’s score at 48 out of 100, up 13 points in a year, and found that 57% of the UAE companies surveyed already run Agentic AI in some form. On the federal side, the UAE Cabinet approved on 18 May 2026 a framework under which 80,000 federal employees are to be trained and half of government services and operations are to run on Agentic AI, and on 3 September 2026 it introduced an AI advisor of 32 assistants for its own work together with an AI curriculum for all schools. On 18 August 2026 du Business opened a free Agentic AI programme for 10,000 SMEs across the country. Dubai Chambers’ contribution is aimed at the layer between the government and the smallest firms: established companies organised in sector and country bodies.

What it means for a foreign-owned company in Dubai

• Access runs through the groups and councils. A company that holds a Dubai Chamber membership but sits in no Business Group or Business Council is outside the 14,000. Joining the group for your sector or the council for your country is the practical route to the tracks, and the same bodies are where the Chamber’s quarterly roundtables with Dubai Customs, the Department of Economy and Tourism, the General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs and Dubai Municipality take place.
• The training is available now; the money is not yet. The 4 May 2026 directives include dedicated support funds and incubators, but no amounts, eligibility rules or dates had been published by 8 September 2026. Companies that develop or deploy Agentic AI solutions can look at the memorandum with NASSCOM of 20 August 2026 for the shape of what Dubai Chambers offers partners: business matchmaking, access to investors, events and joint programmes.
• Government procedures are moving in the same direction. The federal target of Agentic AI in half of government services and operations means that licensing, visa and customs interactions will increasingly be handled by agents on the government side. A company whose own processes are documented and digital will have less to change when that happens.
• The pool is small next to the inflow of new companies. Dubai issued 58,337 new business licences in the first half of 2026, and the Chamber added 72,000 members in 2025. The 14,000 companies in the tracks are the ones that organised themselves in a group or council before the programme started; the Executive Committee’s mandate covers the wider business community, but the order of access follows the bodies that already exist.

Checklist for a company that wants to use the programme

• Confirm that your Dubai Chamber of Commerce membership is active and that the licence and contact details on file are current.
• Find the Business Group for your sector or the Business Council for your country in the Chamber’s register (72 councils and 66 groups as of 27 August 2026) and ask its secretariat about joining and about access to Dubai Chambers Academy.
• List three processes in your company that are repetitive, rule-based and documented: order handling, supplier reconciliation, HR onboarding, customer replies. Those are the candidates for an agent, and the tracks ask you to identify exactly that.
• Decide what data an agent may touch (customer records, bank data, personnel files) and who in the company approves its actions before it runs.
• Follow the announcements of the Executive Committee for Agentic AI on incubators and support funds; none had published terms as of 8 September 2026.
• If you build Agentic AI solutions rather than only use them, look at the support for developers and deployers named in the 1 September 2026 statement and at the NASSCOM route for Indian companies.

How Atlant Capital can help

Atlant Capital works with founders and companies from Russia, the CIS and beyond that set up and run businesses in the UAE. The Dubai Chambers programme is addressed to companies that are already licensed and organised, so the first step is the company itself: company registration on the Dubai mainland, where Chamber membership comes with the licence, or in a free zone; work permits and residence visas for owners and staff, including the specialists you hire to run AI projects; corporate bank account opening; and marketing and web services for the digital side of the business that an agent will plug into. Bookkeeping, audit and tax filings are handled by licensed accounting firms from our partner network. To discuss which structure fits an AI-driven business, contact us.

Conclusion

The facts are specific. On 1 September 2026 Dubai Chambers opened Dubai Chambers Academy and Agentic AI training tracks for more than 14,000 member companies of its 72 Business Councils and 66 Business Groups, in the presence of Al Mansoori, Lootah and 90 chairpersons. The tracks deliver the first of four directives that Sheikh Hamdan issued on 4 May 2026 for a two-year transition of Dubai’s private sector to Agentic AI; the Executive Committee for Agentic AI, formed on 4 June 2026 under Al Mansoori with Al Olama as vice chairman, oversees the rest: incubators, support funds and opportunities for young people, none of which has published terms yet. Against a Chamber membership of more than 292,000 companies, the 14,000 in the tracks are the organised 5%, and the way in is the sector group or country council rather than the Chamber membership alone. For a company that plans to operate in Dubai for the next two years, the practical question is not whether Agentic AI will reach its processes but whether it will be in the room when the tracks, funds and incubators are handed out.

Sources: Dubai Chambers statement of 1 September 2026 on the launch of Dubai Chambers Academy and the Agentic AI training tracks, as published on dubaichambers.com and Zawya and reported by Gulf News and Euronews on 8 September 2026; Government of Dubai Media Office release of 4 May 2026 on the initiative to transition Dubai’s private sector towards Agentic AI within two years; Dubai Chambers release of 4 June 2026 on the formation of the Executive Committee for Agentic AI; Dubai Chamber of Commerce pages on Business Groups and Business Councils and its public register as checked on 27 August 2026; Government of Dubai Media Office release of 1 May 2026 on the second quarterly roundtable of Business Groups and Business Councils; Dubai Chambers data on membership as reported by Khaleej Times on 14 January 2026 and on new members in March 2026; UAE Cabinet decisions of 18 May 2026 and 3 September 2026 as reported by the Government of Dubai Media Office, The National and Khaleej Times; ServiceNow Enterprise AI Maturity Index 2026; du Business announcement of 18 August 2026; our check of academy.dubaichambers.com on 8 September 2026.

FAQ

What did Dubai Chambers launch on 1 September 2026?

Dubai Chambers launched Dubai Chambers Academy, an integrated e-learning platform, and opened specialised Agentic AI training tracks on it for more than 14,000 member companies of the Business Groups and Business Councils operating under Dubai Chamber of Commerce. The launch was attended by Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori, Chairman of Dubai Chambers, Mohammad Ali Rashed Lootah, its President and CEO, and 90 chairpersons of Business Groups and Business Councils. The tracks cover Agentic AI tools and solutions, identifying where they apply in a company’s operations and practical approaches to adoption. The platform is hosted at academy.dubaichambers.com and requires a login.

Which companies can take the Agentic AI training tracks?

Member companies of the Business Groups (industry bodies) and Business Councils (country bodies) that operate under Dubai Chamber of Commerce, which the Chamber puts at more than 14,000 companies. The Chamber’s register listed 72 Business Councils and 66 Business Groups on 27 August 2026. Chamber membership alone, which covers more than 292,000 mainland and free zone companies, does not give access; a company joins the group for its sector or the council for its country through that body and then enrols through the Academy. Fees, duration, language and the enrolment procedure were not published in the 1 September 2026 statement.

What is Dubai’s two-year Agentic AI programme and who runs it?

It is the initiative launched by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed on 4 May 2026 to move Dubai’s private sector to Agentic AI within two years, with the goal of making Dubai the world’s leading city in adopting these technologies economically and commercially. It consists of four directives to Dubai Chamber of Commerce: training tracks for all affiliated business councils, incubators for Agentic AI companies, new economic opportunities for young people and dedicated support funds. Implementation is overseen by the Executive Committee for Agentic AI, formed on 4 June 2026 and chaired by Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori with Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, as vice chairman. The training tracks opened on 1 September 2026; the incubators and funds had no published terms as of 8 September 2026.

What should a company in Dubai do now?

Check that its Dubai Chamber of Commerce membership is active, identify the Business Group for its sector or the Business Council for its country and contact that body about membership and access to Dubai Chambers Academy. In parallel, list the repetitive, documented processes that an agent could take over, decide which data an agent may use and who approves its actions, and follow the Executive Committee’s announcements on incubators and support funds. Companies that develop Agentic AI solutions should also look at the support for developers named in the 1 September 2026 statement and, for Indian firms, at the NASSCOM memorandum of 20 August 2026.