MyAI, a newly founded organization focused on building AI fluency across Bangladesh's corporate sector, held the country's first in-person AI Mastery Summit for senior professionals on June 19th at Renaissance Dhaka Gulshan Hotel, under the banner "Leading Bangladesh's AI Future." More than 100 senior managers and executives from banking, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and RMG attended, many representing multinational companies operating in Bangladesh.
The event comes at a moment when AI conversation in Bangladesh has largely run on two separate tracks. A startup and developer community experimenting with AI tools. And a corporate sector that has mostly treated AI as a procurement or IT decision rather than a leadership one.
MyAI's summit was built specifically to target the second group and the second track, not engineers, but the HR heads, CFOs, and division leaders who decide whether an organization actually changes how it works.
The speakers and the sessions
Four guest speakers anchored the program, each drawn from a different part of the industry.
Sultan Mahbubul Haque, Head of HR at Square's Textiles Division Corporate Office, spoke about AI's effect on people functions inside a manufacturing major.
Raisul Kabir, Founder and CEO of Brain Station 23, brought a technology-vendor's view of AI adoption.
Mahmudul Hasan Akhand, Executive Vice President and Head of HR at Prime Bank PLC, and Md. Morshedul Hoque, CFO of Bitopi Group, rounded out the panel with banking and finance perspectives.
Together, the sessions addressed what AI is already changing inside large organizations across people, technology, and finance, and how leaders move from curiosity about the technology to actually building capability with it.
The AiPS program behind the summit
The Summit was the flagship in-person event for AiPS (AI for Professional Success), a two-month AI capacity-building program run by MyAI. The organization is co-founded by Saif Noman Khan, Associate Professor at the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka, and Mark Anupom Mollick, Founder and Executive Consultant at iDEAN Consulting, a Dhaka-based strategy and AI training firm.
More than a thousand professionals have already gone through AiPS's earlier two-day online sessions, and hundreds of senior corporate professionals are currently working through the full two-month track.
The June 19th Summit marked the first time the program brought participants together in person at this scale, a step up from the online-only format the program has run on so far.
“Bangladesh’s biggest industries are run by the people in this room, and they will decide how fast the country adopts AI,” said Mark Anupom Mollick, co-founder of MyAI. “Our goal is not a single event. We are building an AI-fluent Bangladesh, starting with the leaders who set the direction for banking, manufacturing, healthcare and beyond.”
The corporate AI gap MyAI is betting on
The thesis behind MyAI is that AI fluency should be a standard leadership capability, not a specialist skill held by a handful of technical staff.
Putting an HR head from Square, an HR executive from Prime Bank, a CFO from Bitopi, and a software CEO on the same stage signals that the organizers see this as a management and organizational-behavior problem first, and a technical problem second.
That framing is meaningful in Bangladesh.
Large local corporates and the multinational subsidiaries operating here tend to be hierarchical, with adoption decisions concentrated at senior levels rather than diffused through individual contributors experimenting bottom-up. If that's true, then training engineers or analysts on AI tools without first getting buy-in and fluency at the leadership layer probably produces limited organizational change.
MyAI bets that starting at the top, with the people who control budget, headcount, and process, is the faster path to real adoption inside large Bangladeshi organizations.
What comes next
The harder question is durability. Bangladesh has seen plenty of well-attended one-off workshops and summits that generate good attendance and quiet energy but little measurable change inside the companies that show up.
AiPS has more structural backing than a standalone conference, since the Summit sits inside a two-month program with a cohort already moving through it, rather than being the entire offering.
Whether that translates into real change will depend less on attendance at the next summit and more on whether companies like Square, Prime Bank, and Bitopi can point to specific changes in how they deploy AI internally a year from now.
MyAI describes its ambition as building an AI-fluent country, not running a single high-profile event. Bangladesh's corporate sector has historically been slow to adopt new operating models when adoption requires sustained behavior change rather than a one-time tool purchase. Whether MyAI and AiPS can convert leadership interest into the kind of organizational follow-through that Bangladeshi companies have generally struggled with, rather than another item in the calendar of corporate events, is the real test ahead. That said, the timing for AiPS is impeccable. The company indicates it aims to do more.
