Our Campus: Dubai AI Campus, DIFC

Every Klaster Academy programme runs in person at the Dubai AI Campus on Gate Avenue, in DIFC. The sessions take place in DIFC Innovation One, and the address for the centre is Unit IH-00-01-03-OF-05, Building IH-00-01-CP-05, Gate Avenue, DIFC, Dubai.

DIFC is the financial district in the centre of Dubai, and Gate Avenue runs through it. Because the campus sits inside a business district rather than a mall, families arrive straight off Gate Avenue, and the session starts on time.

Gate Avenue is the pedestrian spine of DIFC, and the campus is reached from it at the building named above. Families usually drop students at Gate Avenue and collect them at the end of the session; the session times on this page are the times to plan around.

If you need help with directions, parking or building access before the first session, the team will walk you through it: email hello@klaster.me or call and message +971 52 159 6049. It is better to ask once than to arrive late on the first Saturday.

The room is a working room, not a lecture theatre. Mentors set the task, teams work on it at tables with laptops open, and the session ends with each team showing where it got to. Laptops are compulsory: every programme asks for a laptop with a charger, and nothing needs installing beforehand.

Presentations happen here too. The Young CEO finishes with Demo Day in front of the company owners and partners who set the challenge. The Young Investor finishes on Demo Day with senior leaders from the finance industry. The Young Cybersecurity Leader finishes with a Final Day in front of a panel of industry practitioners acting as the board, with parents and school representatives invited. The December Camp ends with each team presenting to mentors and parents.

Cohorts are deliberately small. The Young CEO takes 25 students, and the cyber programme works in teams of four to five.

Four programmes use the campus, all for students aged 14 to 20.

On a January Saturday the building holds two groups at once. The Young Investor works from 13:30 to 15:30 and The Young Cybersecurity Leader from 13:00 to 15:30, in separate rooms with their own mentors. The Young CEO meets earlier in the day, 11:00 to 13:00, and its teams also have a short online mentor session on a Monday evening.

Because the venue is a working innovation campus, the atmosphere is closer to an office than to a school: adults moving through, meetings in progress, and a room set up for teams to build in.

Klaster Academy is a KHDA-certified training centre (permit 1151351) and holds DIFC licence CL11414. Every programme is taught in person by practitioners, and mentors come from firms including Deloitte, Accenture and Bloomberg.

To arrange a visit before registering, or to ask about access on the day, email hello@klaster.me or call +971 52 159 6049.