Redbrick and MDX Dubai Forge AI-Powered Education Alliance at GITEX 2025

Redbrick has taken another step onto the global tech education stage, striking a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Middlesex University (MDX) Dubai’s Innovation Hub during GITEX Global 2025. The deal—signed on 16 October—focuses squarely on boosting cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) education and research.

For those unfamiliar, the MDX Dubai Innovation Hub sits in the heart of Dubai’s Knowledge Park and serves as a lively bridge between classrooms and boardrooms. It brings students and companies together to tackle genuine industry challenges in emerging fields such as data science, AI and digital transformation. There’s an energy to the place that, frankly, reminds me why at Arageek we’re so keen on anything that connects academia with the startup grind—it’s the sweet spot where ideas turn into impact.

In this new partnership, Redbrick will give MDX students access to its AI content creation platform and its educational AI agent technology—essentially letting students get their hands dirty building and testing tools in live projects rather than just in theory. That’s spot on, in my book. Too often, graduates come out with shiny degrees but little real-world experience. This initiative could help fix that particular gap.

The signing ceremony gathered a fair line-up of heavyweights: Professor Cedwyn Fernandes, the Pro-Vice Chancellor and Director of MDX Dubai; Professor Fehmida Hussain, Deputy Director and Head of the Innovation Hub; Dr Jeongsoo Han and Dr Engie Bashir, the Hub’s co-chairs; plus Redbrick’s own CEO Yeongmo Yang and Co-founder Kwangyong Lee.

Yang said in the announcement that the firm hopes this is just the beginning, with plans to broaden its network of global education partnerships. He added that these efforts are meant to build a model where AI genuinely benefits the education sector—not just in theory but in tangible classroom outcomes. I reckon that’s ambitious but not unrealistic, given how fast digital learning has evolved in the UAE.

On the flip side, forging strong collaborations is easier said than done. Getting students, faculty and startups to all row in the same direction can be, well... a bit of a faff. But if they pull it off, the payoff for local talent could be huge.

Redbrick is already part of Abu Dhabi’s Hub71 community, one of the region’s premier tech ecosystems, and aims to deepen ties with local universities and research bodies. That said, partnerships like these are what give the UAE’s education-tech space real teeth—it’s no longer just about degrees, but about nurturing home-grown innovators who can go toe to toe with international players.

Personally, I’m chuffed to bits seeing more cross-border synergy between Korea and the Emirates in the AI scene. It’s a reminder of how collaboration, when done right, can spark both innovation and opportunity for the next generation of tech leaders across MENA.

And believe it or not, even for seasoned players, teaching machines to think is still a learning curve for humans too—definately keeps things interesting.

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