Qashio and NEXA AI Lab Launch Partnership to Automate Finance Workflows in the UAE
Dubai, UAE – 22 May 2026:Qashio, the UAE’s leading spend management platform, has partnered with NEXA AI Lab, the AI division of NEXA, one of MENA’s leading digital growth agencies, to help accelerate AI adoption across finance teams in the UAE through automation and AI-powered financial workflows.
As part of the partnership, Qashio and NEXA AI Lab will work together to support businesses in adopting AI tools that improve spend visibility, streamline manual processes, and make finance operations more efficient. The partnership will also include a free AI audit to help finance teams identify where AI can deliver immediate operational value and support broader adoption across the business. Both companies say the initiative is designed to move businesses from AI awareness to implementation, in line with the UAE’s national AI strategy targeting full public sector AI integration by 2031.
Industry veteran joins as AI transformssupply chain and spend decisions
May 22, 2026 — JAGGAER, a global leader in AI-powered source-to-pay and supplier collaboration software, has announced the appointment of Craig Cuffie to its Board of Directors. The move strengthens JAGGAER’s ability to help enterprises navigate growing supply chain complexity and make faster, more intelligent spend decisions.
Snowflake’s Data for Breakfast event spotlights path from AI adoption to enterprise impact in Middle East
Dubai, UAE, 21 May 2026: Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, brought together data and AI leaders from across the Middle East at its flagship Data for Breakfast event to explore how enterprises can deploy agentic AI through trusted data foundations. As UAE and KSA organisations accelerate enterprise AI adoption, the event addressed a growing regional priority of moving beyond pilots and building governed, scalable systems that are capable of delivering measurable business impact.
Michel Nader, GM for Middle East, Turkey & Africa, Snowflake
HBS Club of GCC’s Forum on Agentic AI Transformation Organized with KeystoneConvenes Regional Leaders fromPublic, Private Sectors
Themed, ‘Growing in Unity’, the forumfocused on Agentic AI leadershipwas opened by H.E. Mohamed Bin Taliah, Assistant Minister of Cabinet Affairs for Government Knowledge Exchange Affairs
DUBAI; UAE, 21 May 2026:
The Harvard Business School Club of the GCC, in collaboration with Keystone, hosted Growing in Unity: AI & Transformational Leadership in Practice,on Monday 18th 2026 evening at the Park Hyatt Hotel, Dubai, convening top UAE government officials, enterprise leaders, academics, and Harvard Business School alumni for a landmark conversation at the intersection of Agentic AI and transformational leadership.
The event, inspired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashed Al Maktoum’s vision to make the UAE the first government globally to operate with 50% of government sectors, services, and operations run on autonomous AI agents, held in the spirit of the UAE’s Year of Family, bringing together senior figures from government, the private sector, and academia to explore how GCC organisations can harness AI not only for operational performance but to strengthen the human foundations that make sustainable growth possible.
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