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In personAI for Good Lab

From connectivity to intelligence: UAE capacity building week

    • Date
    21 October 2026
    Timeframe
    10:00 - 17:00 GST, Dubai
    Duration
    7 hours
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    AI for Good Sandbox – UAE kick-off workshop

    This workshop is being organized to as part of the collaboration between ITU and TDRA to set up the AI for Good Sandbox in UAE. It aims to highlight opportunities for researchers in UAE to experiment with, design and deploy AI models, and to develop end-to-end AI-enabled innovations using the ITU AI for Good sandbox which is one of the pillars of the AI for Good Lab.

    The main objectives of the workshop are to

    • Kickoff the activities to start the implementation of the ITU AI for Good Sandbox for UAE.
    • Explain opportunities in the Sandbox and onboard interested partners.
    • Showcase international efforts on local LLMs, agentic solutions, and open knowledge bases using the Sandbox environment.
    • Convene experts from around the world to share best practices and lessons learnt.
    • Identify policies and strategies that complement and enable the technical solutions developed in the Sandbox.
    • Discuss the intersection of AI strategies, solutions, standards, and skill set requirements.

    The workshop is organized around two main thematic tracks: a Technical track and a Policy track. The technical track will showcase international initiatives and good practices relating to local large language models, agentic AI solutions, open knowledge bases and global hackathons, drawing on lessons learned from around the world. A complementary policy track will explore the policies and strategies needed to enable and support these technical solutions. The workshop will conclude with announcements of specific collaborative initiatives to be developed as part of the collaboration.

    Schedule
    • Experience sharing on collaborative innovation and regulation using national hackathons 
    • Channeling academic research to standards and solutions 
    • Role played by domain-specific knowledge bases in enabling equitable AI solutions. 
    • Standards gaps identified through AI solutions, input to policies and strategies 
    • AI for Good Sandbox Global Hackathon as a connecting thread across the panel discussion points. 
    Panelists:
    • Mapping priority domains and innovations to policy initiatives. 
    • Co-creation, validation and benchmarking using Sandboxes 
    • Monitoring AI solutions and innovations. 
    • Role of data, training and infrastructure in regional AI ecosystem development. 
    • Layered policies and domain specific inputs to the AI strategies at grass roots level. 
    Panelists:

    1. Sandbox Network for Arabic-AI (SNAI): Launch of pan-Arab Arabic-AI platform that uses the ITU AI for Good Sandbox as its neutral, standards-based connective layer between national LLM initiatives. 

    2. Launch AI for Good Sandbox Global Hackathon 

    3. Call for collaboration on domain-specific open knowledge base. 

    4. Launching Global open repository of AI agents and metadata hosted in ITU AI for Good Sandbox 

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