Dubai. The Gulf anchor.
The Dubai chapter convenes senior AI leadership across the UAE and the adjacent Gulf markets. The room is weighted toward enterprise transformation, financial services, and tech-forward government entities.
The room most exposed to enterprise AI at scale.
Dubai is the chapter most exposed to the operational realities of running material AI workloads inside regulated, commercial environments. The cohort is shaped by Emirati and adjacent senior leaders whose firms have moved beyond pilots and are now negotiating the full economic and governance weight of production AI.
Sector mix
Banking and capital markets, aviation and logistics, hospitality at scale, real estate technology, telecommunications, energy transition, and the federal AI programme.
Cadence
Four roundtables per year, with a closed dinner held on the same evening for members travelling in. Sessions rotate between member-hosted venues across the Emirate.
Four questions on the Dubai table.
- Sovereign capacity — what hosts inside the GCC, what outside Q1
- Model selection — the closed-vs-open debate, two years in Q2
- Customer-facing AI — consent, complaint, redress Q3
- State of Enterprise AI — chapter input to the annual Index Q4