Honored Highest High Noble Today, the Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF), Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, met with participants of the accelerator program at the Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DCAI). He reassured that Dubai will continue to be open to AI experts, entrepreneurs and innovators from all around the globe.
During his visit to AREA 2071 at Emirates Towers, His Highness reaffirmed Dubai’s commitment to become a hub for the development of innovative technologies with global effect. During his visit of AREA 2071 at Emirates Towers, he engaged in conversation with business owners, innovators, and AI industry experts.
I met with entrepreneurs and experts from 30 international companies participating in the Dubai Centre for AI’s Accelerator Program. Together with key government entities, we are working to harness the power of AI to build innovation in our government and media services.… pic.twitter.com/dEFqRceMfJ
— Hamdan bin Mohammed (@HamdanMohammed) October 5, 2023
The AI experts gathered here are a representation of the 30 companies from all around the world who are now participating in the DCAI’s freshly launched accelerator program’s final round.
“Dubai embraces entrepreneurship and has transformed into a destination for business success and excellence. In Dubai, we have all the necessary elements, including the technological and legislative framework, to partner with the world’s leading entrepreneurs and future shapers.
Designing the future is a specialist domain that Dubai has mastered over five decades. Today, future design forms an integral part of the emirate’s inspiring success story and its world-leading development model. Dubai continues on this path by strengthening its position as an international testbed for ideas, concepts, innovations, tools and programmes to anticipate the future, including promising AI technologies that can be harnessed to serve humanity.” His Highness said.
His Highness reaffirmed Dubai’s commitment to being a center for the development, testing, and deployment of artificial intelligence applications across a wide range of sectors vital to the economic and social progress of nations and communities worldwide.
“Dubai is committed to keeping pace with the latest future trends and is an attractive destination for talents, entrepreneurs, innovators and creative minds working in the vital sectors of the future.
Among these sectors is AI, which has a host of applications within the economy, education and healthcare sectors. Dubai’s commitment to enhancing these spheres through AI technologies is part of our city’s overall goal to become a global hub that works to help create a better future for all humanity.”
“We are keen to continue building capabilities, developing skills and attracting talent brimming with future ideas and technologies so we have the expertise needed to keep pace with rapid transformations and develop innovations to reimagine, inspire and design the future.” His Highness added.
AI at AREA 2071:
AREA 2071 has become home to the last round of the DCAI accelerator program, which has drawn entrepreneurs from all over the globe, including the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Egypt, Pakistan, Italy, Lebanon, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and others. These businesses were chosen to take part in the program out of a total of 615 applicants from 55 different countries who had originally submitted their applications.
Over the next eight weeks, these companies will work with a variety of Dubai government organizations to develop innovative concepts and applications that use these AI-based technologies. Their primary target markets are the government service sector and the media and communications industries.
In order to help government agencies in Dubai make effective use of emerging technology and prepare for potential disruptions in key industries, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed founded the Dubai Creative Arts Institute (DCAI).
The purpose of the DCAI is to educate one thousand government employees from more than thirty various government entities on the uses of AI, in addition to building pilot projects and modernizing government services that may leverage these applications. As a result, government workers as a whole will be more productive.
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