Hamdan bin Mohammed meets with President of Microsoft

 H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, contiguous met with Brad Smith, Vice Chairman and President of Microsoft, connected the sidelines of the UAE Government Annual Meetings 2024.
The gathering discussed opportunities to grow practice with Microsoft successful assorted precocious technologies, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a absorption connected driving innovation and accelerating the improvement of integer solutions that tin beforehand sustainable development. The 2 leaders besides explored imaginable exertion collaborations to unlock caller possibilities for divers sectors that are captious to the economy. Sheikh Hamdan praised Microsoft’s important contributions to the tract of AI, acknowledging the company's enactment successful processing innovative technologies that are shaping the future.
The gathering was attended by Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications.
During the meeting, Brad Smith announced an ambitious Microsoft programme to assistance accomplishment 1 cardinal UAE learners with indispensable AI skills by 2027. The announcement follows Microsoft’s caller announcements with section governments successful Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah to equip 100,000 authorities employees with the latest AI skills.
The inaugural is portion of Microsoft’s semipermanent committedness to bridging the planetary AI cognition spread and fostering a civilization of AI innovation crossed the UAE. The inaugural volition supply targeted grooming for leaders, developers, and wide users, aiming to found a productive, AI-enabled workforce.
Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, said : “To payment from AI, radical request to larn to usage AI. That's wherefore we are helping bid 1 cardinal radical crossed the UAE system to get the astir from our technology."
Targeting wide-reaching engagement, Microsoft is inviting authorities entities to research opportunities to physique AI capabilities wrong their departments and businesses to equip their workforce with AI skills to thrust productivity and efficiency, and UAE citizens to leverage AI for mundane tasks. By empowering citizens with applicable AI skills, the inaugural seeks to unlock caller productivity levels and enactment the UAE’s continued maturation successful the integer economy.
Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications, said: “Microsoft’s committedness to AI skills aligns with the UAE’s imaginativeness to go a planetary AI hub. Its latest AI inaugural successful the UAE volition assistance heighten method capabilities and guarantee that AI becomes accessible and applicable to each resident, authorities agency, and concern successful the UAE. We are keen to spouse with starring exertion players astir the satellite to thrust innovation and make caller opportunities for our nation.”
Microsoft’s AI skills trainings are designed to scope each assemblage crossed the UAE, from nationalist institutions to backstage enterprises and idiosyncratic citizens. Microsoft volition collaborate with antithetic entities to make a scope of skilling courses and resources to physique foundational AI skills, make applicable applications, and alteration users to follow AI successful their regular lives and enactment environments

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