You have already tried AI. You opened ChatGPT or Copilot, asked it something, got an answer that was... fine, and then quietly went back to doing the work yourself. Almost all of us did exactly that.
And while we were busy being mildly unimpressed, the city around us made a very different decision.
In April, HH Sheikh Mohammed himself put it in writing: within two years, half of the UAE government's services and operations will run on agentic AI. No pilot project. No "let's revisit this next year." The first government anywhere to run at that scale on AI that decides and acts on its own.
And few days later, HH Sheikh Hamdan handed the same two-year deadline also to Dubai's private sector, with funded training, incubators, and real money behind the businesses that move.
The goal was said out loud: Dubai wants to be the best city in the world at actually using this technology, not just talking about it.
So whatever your job is here, you now live and work in a place that has decided to run on AI before anyone else does. That is the air you breathe at the office now.
Here's the part that matters for a normal working week, and it's all about execution. We all have some tasks we wish would just do themselves. The email you sketch few times. The report you dread. Spreadsheets, summaries, proposals – built from scratch or templates every single time. That is exactly the work this stuff was built to lift off your plate.
"Agentic" is the word you'll keep hearing, so let me make it simple. Ordinary AI answers your question and waits. An agent doesn't wait. You give it the goal, and it works through the steps and hands the job back finished. Less a search box, more a capable colleague or teammate who actually gets things done.
And here's what surprises me most: the people getting most value out of these are not the tech wizards. They're normal professionals who set it up properly once, instead of opening a blank chat every morning and explaining their whole job again. That's the entire secret. On my own repeat tasks, I've cut a full day down to an hour, and an hour down to minutes. Not because I prompt like a genius. Because I built a setup. Anyone in your office could do the same.
That setup is what we build together on 12 June, in a hands-on session for FBC members at Media One Hotel. No lecture on "what is AI." No code. You sit down with your own real work and walk out with a system that fits it: your own AI handbook, a reusable context pack, and one task from your week automated end to end. Limited seating, so act fast (https://www.fbcuae.fi/events/2026/5/15/kdg0mb5pw816zn32k7isqclbqoi936).
You don't need to be a programmer, or become one. You don't need anyone's permission. You just need to stop scrolling past the headlines and spend one afternoon getting your hands on this properly. The city around you has already woken up. Consider this a friendly nudge for the rest of us to do the same, before "I've been meaning to learn that" quietly turns into "everyone around me already did."
See you on the 12th.
Tommi Linna CEO & Founder, Aigentics
