Under the directives of the UAE President, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has unveiled a framework to convert 50% of the UAE Government's sectors, services and operations to self-executing, self-directing Agentic AI models — within two years. Ministers and directors-general will be evaluated on how fast they master it. This programme prepares you to be on the right side of that evaluation.
AI models can today monitor change, deliver analysis, raise recommendations, manage operations and execute an independent chain of actions without human intervention. AI will be our government's executive partner.HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al MaktoumVice President & Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai · UAE Cabinet, 23 April 2026
The Reality Behind the Hype
Ambition is not the problem — execution is. Across the research, the overwhelming majority of AI initiatives never deliver measurable value. This programme is built on G&K's framework for being in the minority that succeeds.
A Two-Day C-Suite Intensive · Dubai
A boardroom intensive for the public and private sector's most senior leaders — built to convert the UAE's agentic-AI mandate into a strategy, an operating model, and a personal command of the technology that now executes alongside you.
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Why This, Why Now
The shift from digital government to autonomous government rewrites how decisions are made, how services are delivered, and how performance is judged. The leaders who understand the operating model — not just the tools — will define the next two years.
Performance across government will be measured by speed of adoption and mastery of AI in redesigning the work itself — an accountability you carry, not a project you delegate.
Where government leads at this scale, regulators, suppliers and customers follow. Boards that move early on agentic operating models will set the terms for their markets.
When systems monitor, decide and execute autonomously, the questions become governance, accountability and human-in-the-loop design — squarely board and C-level territory.
The timeline is fixed and public. The advantage goes to leaders who can sequence transformation under real deadlines — not those still building awareness.
Executives are now expected to direct, challenge and govern AI agents with confidence. Surface familiarity is no longer a credible posture in the room.
This is not a technology briefing. It is designed by operators who have led transformation inside Fortune 500s and government — for those who must now deliver it.
From Digital to Autonomous
The UAE moved from e-Government to Smart Government to a unified digital identity used by over 13 million people. Agentic AI is the next step change: systems that perceive, reason, decide and act. The difference between the 95% that fail and the few that succeed is not the technology — it is the strategy, the framework, and the leadership around it.
Who Should Attend
A single, deliberately small cohort that brings public-sector mandate-owners and private-sector principals into the same room. The peer exchange is part of the curriculum.
A Method, Not a Motivational Talk
The two days build on three foundations: MIT's Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy framework — what AI can and cannot do, and the role of data and organisation; Porter's strategy lens for where to compete; and G&K's Strategic AI Initiative Assessment Matrix to turn it into a scored portfolio and a phased plan. You leave with the framework applied to your own organisation.
The Programme
Day One builds the strategic and governance command of agentic AI. Day Two turns it into an operating model and a personal, hands-on fluency you carry back to your organisation on Monday.
Confront why up to 95% of AI initiatives fail, ground in MIT's framework for the business implications of AI, then build the strategic foundation that separates the few who succeed — and assess your own organisation's readiness.
The UAE's two-year agentic-AI mandate set against the 95% failure rate. Why ambition is not the constraint — execution is.
PlenaryThe sobering statistics — zero-return pilots, stalled ROI, projects stuck in proof-of-concept — and the real reasons behind them, beyond the technology.
KeynoteThe MIT framework for leaders — what machine learning genuinely can and cannot do, the central role of data, and the organisational implications of putting AI to work.
MIT FrameworkWhy success is 70% people & process, 20% data, and only 10% algorithms — and the "commodity trap" that catches 87% of leaders.
MasterclassPorter's generic strategies — cost leadership, differentiation, focus — as the lens for where AI should, and should not, be applied in your organisation.
MasterclassA comprehensive AI-readiness assessment — strategic approach, technological landscape, workflows and data — and opportunity mapping across ML, RPA, NLP and Computer Vision.
WorkshopTranslating readiness into candidate initiatives — automation, personalisation, operational excellence, customer experience — closing with an off-the-record peer exchange.
RoundtableMove from analysis to disciplined execution: govern responsibly, prioritise your portfolio with the G&K assessment matrix, take direct command of an AI agent, and leave with a phased implementation plan and the metrics to prove it.
From AI tools to autonomous agents that monitor, decide and act — what the government's mandate demands and what changes for leaders accountable for delivery.
KeynoteResponsible AI: governing "Shadow AI" (a 94% risk), mitigating algorithmic bias, and the workforce strategy — upskilling, role evolution and human–AI collaboration.
MasterclassThe one tool you take to the board: rank every initiative across Strategy Fit, Business Impact, Ease of Implementation and Cost into a defensible portfolio.
WorkshopGuided, executive-level practical. Each leader directs, challenges and supervises a live agent on a realistic task — and feels where the controls and limits are.
LabThe phased path: Foundation (0–6 months), Core Systems (6–12), Advanced (12–18) — sequencing transformation under the two-year clock.
WorkshopDefine the business and growth metrics that prove ROI, then build a board-ready 100-day roadmap for your own entity — pressure-tested live by faculty and peers.
CapstonePersonal commitments, the cohort network, and award of the joint certificate of completion.
ClosingWhat You Leave With
Your own AI initiatives evaluated and ranked across Strategy Fit, Business Impact, Ease of Implementation and Cost — a defensible portfolio, not a wish list.
A practical model for accountability, risk, bias and "Shadow AI" oversight you can put in front of your board or your minister.
The confidence to direct, challenge and supervise AI agents personally — leading from knowledge, not from a deck.
A sequenced implementation plan — Foundation, Core Systems, Advanced — mapped to the two-year clock and pressure-tested by faculty and peers.
A trusted, cross-sector circle of fellow principals navigating the same mandate — and the same deadline.
Recognition of completion, co-issued by Galal & Karawi and Gloria — credible with both government and enterprise stakeholders.
Co-issuedA Joint Delivery
Strategic advisory depth paired with disciplined executive learning design — so the thinking is credible and the experience is exceptional.
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Investment
The mandate is set, the timeline is public, and leaders are already being measured. Two days now is the difference between directing the next two years and being directed by them.