Just over a month after hosting their first in-person AI Mastery Summit for senior corporate leaders, MyAI has convened a second edition, and the room looks noticeably different.
The first Summit, held in June, drew more than 100 senior managers and executives from banking, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and RMG. The second, held on 17 July at the Renaissance Dhaka Gulshan Hotel, again brought together more than 100 senior professionals. However, this time, the guest list included figures from the Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Police, national newsrooms, and healthcare.
What changed in thirty days? The AI conversation in Bangladesh is no longer confined to corporate boardrooms.
When MyAI cofounders Saif Noman Khan, Associate Professor at IBA, University of Dhaka, and Mark Anupom Mollick, Founder of iDEAN Consulting, launched the first Summit in June, their thesis was that AI fluency should be a standard leadership capability. The first event tested that thesis with the corporate sector. The second proved it has legs far beyond.
“The first Summit showed that corporate Bangladesh is ready to lead with AI,” said Mark Anupom Mollick. “This room shows the conversation has outgrown any single sector. When the people who shape our banks, our newsrooms, our hospitals, and our public institutions sit together to work out what AI changes about their work, that is how a country gets ready for it.”
The Summit featured seven speakers, including Fahim Mashroor, Founder & Managing Director, BDjobs.com, Brig. Gen. Md Khalil Ur Rahman, ndc, psc, te (LPR), Bangladesh Army, Khandker Kabir, Founder & President, Leaders Forum BD; Banker, The City Bank, A B M Jabet Sultan Pias, Chief Digital Business Officer, Prothom Alo Digital, Md Mahbubur Rahman Bhuiyan, BPM (Bar), DIG (PRL), Bangladesh Police, and Prof. Dr. Mohammad Rashidul Hassan, Clinical and EBCP Practitioner.
In their sessions, speakers shared how AI is already reshaping hiring, journalism, banking, healthcare, and public institutions, and what it takes for leaders to move from curiosity to capability.
The Summit is the flagship in-person event of AiPS (AI for Professional Success), a two-month AI capacity-building programme run by MyAI. Earlier online sessions drew more than a thousand professionals, and hundreds of senior corporate professionals have completed the full two-month track.
The programme’s rapid growth, from online sessions to a 100-person in-person Summit in June to a second, broader Summit in July, suggests demand for AI fluency training among Bangladeshi professionals is accelerating faster than many anticipated.
“AI is still early, but it is maturing fast, and the distance between those who adapt and those who wait grows every month,” said Saif Noman Khan. “Our goal is to make AI fluency a normal professional skill in Bangladesh, not a specialist one.”
The presence of the Bangladesh Army and Police alongside private sector leaders is worth noting. Senior representatives from these institutions attending a public, multisector summit suggest a willingness to engage with AI’s implications, and a recognition that AI capability is becoming a matter of professional competitiveness across sectors.
The thesis behind MyAI remains that AI fluency should be a standard leadership capability, not a specialist skill. The first Summit tested this with HR heads, CFOs, and division leaders. The second Summit extends the same logic.
That framing is meaningful in Bangladesh. Large local corporates and multinational subsidiaries tend to be hierarchical, with adoption decisions concentrated at senior levels. If senior leaders across sectors don’t understand AI, adoption stalls. If they do, it accelerates.
MyAI is betting that building fluency at the top is the fastest path to building capability throughout the organization. Two Summits in two months, with a broadening guest list, suggests they might be right.
