DMCC launches trade knowledge push for firms facing global disruption

DMCC Campus and DMCC Intelligence will focus on training, advisory and market insight

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Nivetha Dayanand, Assistant Business Editor
DMCC launches trade knowledge push for firms facing global disruption

Dubai: DMCC is planning to launch DMCC Campus and DMCC Intelligence, two new platforms designed to help businesses, governments and institutions navigate a global trade environment being reshaped by technology, geopolitics and economic change.

The Dubai-based international business district said the initiative will expand its role beyond trade facilitation, company formation and business infrastructure into executive education, knowledge exchange and strategic advisory services.

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The two platforms will sit under a unified knowledge platform, combining professional development, market intelligence, industry expertise and consulting services for organisations looking to strengthen competitiveness and adapt to changing trade flows.

Beyond company formation

DMCC Campus will focus on learning and professional development, bringing together executive education, industry masterclasses, webinars, specialist training and knowledge-sharing programmes.

The platform will build on DMCC’s existing educational activity across commodities, technology and trade-focused business communities. It will cover areas including commodity trading, trade finance, emerging technologies, sustainability and global trade.

Advisory platform

DMCC Intelligence will provide advisory and consulting services to governments, economic zones, industry bodies and corporations.

The platform will combine DMCC’s practical experience with proprietary research, market intelligence and AI-enabled analysis, helping organisations improve competitiveness, attract investment and position themselves for long-term growth.

The service is expected to draw on DMCC’s more than two decades of experience as a trade hub, along with its network across commodities, technology, finance and business services.

Dubai trade role expands

The launch builds on DMCC’s existing work in industry education, thought leadership and advisory support across commodities, technology, trade finance and economic development.

Existing initiatives, including the DMCC Coffee Centre, DMCC Tea Centre, Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange, DMCC AI Centre and academic partnerships, will form part of the broader knowledge platform.

DMCC said the rollout will take place in phases. The first phase will focus on educational content, strategic advisory services and partnerships with companies, institutions and industry organisations across its global network.

Nivetha Dayanand
Nivetha DayanandAssistant Business Editor
Nivetha Dayanand is Assistant Business Editor at Gulf News, covering aviation, financial markets and commodities. A business and financial journalist with a strong interest in multimedia storytelling, she regularly takes complex financial and economic subjects beyond the written word, producing explainer videos that make them easier for a wider audience to understand. Nivetha has interviewed senior policymakers, business leaders and global financial figures both on and off camera. Her past guests include UAE Minister of Economy and Tourism Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud, a member of the House of Saud and the founder and CEO of KBW Ventures, Jihad Azour, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund and Indian ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and N. Chandrababu Naidu. She has also hosted and moderated panels, conferences and awards shows, bringing her newsroom experience to live conversations on business, finance and the economy. An Erasmus Mundus journalism alum, Nivetha is drawn to stories that affect people directly and to reporting that gives a platform to voices that might otherwise go unheard. She was among the first journalists to speak to Petrofac employees in the UAE about unpaid salaries, broke the news of the planned demolition of Dubai’s well-known “Toyota Building”, and helped set the record straight on widely circulated claims that a giant replica of the Moon was coming to Dubai. More recently, her exclusive interview with EDGE Group CEO Hamad Al Marar revealed how the UAE-based defence group deployed its systems along the country’s shore border and established a geofence around the UAE within 48 hours of the February 28 escalation. Prior to joining Gulf News, Nivetha worked at ITP Media, where she helped launch Finance Middle East, a new publication covering the region’s financial sector. Her role spanned reporting and editing, video production, interviews and events. Across print, digital, and video, she focuses on finding the people behind business stories and explaining why those stories matter to the audience reading or watching them.

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