UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence Office Opens Registration for Seventh Cohort of National AI Program to Accelerate Agentic Government Systems

DUBAI — In a decisive step to accelerate cognitive public sector modernization and reinforce the nation’s technological leadership, the Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications Office has officially opened registration for the seventh cohort of the UAE Artificial Intelligence Program. Developed in strategic academic partnership with the prestigious University of Birmingham, the comprehensive executive curriculum is engineered to equip national cadres, directors, and technical specialists with the advanced operational capabilities required to deploy generative and agentic artificial intelligence solutions across federal and local government bodies. The launch of the seventh cohort directly advances the strategic directives established by the UAE Cabinet, which mandates government entities to adopt proactive technological roadmaps aimed at transitioning 50 percent of standard administrative and transactional government operations to autonomous, AI-driven systems within a two-year horizon. By training public sector leaders in practical algorithmic deployment, the program ensures that the UAE’s civil service remains agile, responsive, and positioned at the global forefront of digital governance. Since its inception, the UAE Artificial Intelligence Program has served as a primary institutional pipeline for cultivating high-level technological expertise within the public sector. The program has successfully graduated hundreds of national leaders,…