UAE’s Vision for AI: Transformational Leadership at HBS Forum

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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Core42’s $550M Funding to Drive AI Cloud Development Across US & Europe

Core42 Raises USD 550 million from HSBC to Scale Global AI Infrastructure

UAE-headquartered AI infrastructure operator strengthens capital base to scale cloud and compute deployments across the United States and Europe

21May, 2026, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates:Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, today announced the successful arrangement of two structured trade financefacilities (“the facilities”)amounting toUSD550million with HSBC to accelerate its AI cloud and compute deployments across the United States and Europe. The facilities of USD240 million and USD310 millionwere completedinFebruary 2026 and May 2026 respectively.

Neha Gupta, Chief Financial Officer, Core42

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Alteryx Enhances AI with Unified Data and Business Logic

Alteryx Puts Business Logic at the Center of Agentic AI, Enabling Enterprises to Operationalize AI at Scale

May 21, 2026Alteryx, Inc., a leading AI-ready data and analytics company, today unveiled new product capabilities that advance agentic automation across the enterprise. New enhancements to the Alteryx One platform unify data, business logic, and AI in a single system, enabling organizations to move beyond experimentation and operationalize analytics as intelligent outcomes.

Extending Trusted Workflows into Agent-Driven Systems

Alteryx is introducing new capabilities that make it easier to turn data-to-insight workflows into agent-driven systems, including Agent Studio and the Alteryx One MCP Server. Agent Studio allows teams to package trusted datasets and business logic into reusable agents within Alteryx One, while MCP Server extends those agents into enterprise applications such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, as well as AI agents and LLMs like Claude and OpenAI.

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7X Expands ‘ADEED’To Strengthen UAE’s Supply Chain Continuity

  • Tariq Al Wahedi: Supporting supply chain continuity now demands a higher level of cross-entity integration as well as more effective links between need and execution capability.
  • Expanding the platform’s partner ecosystemto include over30 new entitiesacross express delivery companies,transport firms, logistics providers, and entitieslinked to trade and supply chainecosystems.
  • Rate of request closures or appropriate track directions reaching 100 per cent.
  • Enabling access to trade finance, funding, and financial risk mitigation support.
  • Launching ADEED Radar, the operational AI layer for real-time monitoring of trade flow and supply chain indicators.
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A Guide to Financial Planning for Eid

Attribute to: Dr. Farah Hashim, Manager – Operations, Vault22

Eid is one of the most joyful times of the year, a season of generosity, togetherness, and gratitude. But for many households across the UAE and beyond, it also quietly becomes one of the most financially demanding periods of the year. The gifts, the gatherings, the travel, the Eidi for the children, all adds up faster than expected. And by the time the celebrations wind down, the financial stress can linger well in the following month.

Dr. Farah Hashim, Manager – Operations, Vault22

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