Three routes, depending on where the business is.
Hold an Abu Dhabi licence and you are already a member. No registration needed.
Aspiring entrepreneurs
You have not chosen a licence yet.
Workshops and training you can attend without registering, and guidance on which licence actually fits.
Home-based businesses
You want to trade without renting premises.
The Mubdi’ah licence for Emirati women — legal licensing with fee exemptions, and a route from trading at home to owning a business outright.
Growth-stage founders
The buyers do not know you yet.
Exhibitions and pop-ups, international and local delegations, and the council’s partner network.
The Chamber established this council in 2001.
Twenty-five years in, it represents women in business inside the Chamber’s own programmes and at the levels where policy is set — not alongside them. Membership is not a separate thing to join.
- Type
- Business council
- Established
- 2001
- Its role
- Representing a business segment
Programmes and initiatives.
The named things ADBWC runs — where a pathway above stops being a description and becomes something on a date.
- Mubdi’ah
- The home-business licence for Emirati women, with fee exemptions.
- MindMeet
- Sector-focused panels between entrepreneurs, experts and industry leaders.
- Summer Camp
- A programme for the next generation of women in business.
- Ra’idah
- A year-long programme of training, mentorship and pitching for ten women-led SMEs, with Publicis Groupe Middle East.
The rest of the network.
The Chamber does more than connect you to seven influential entities. It offers direct, exclusive access to their expertise, networks, and momentum.
Part of Abu Dhabi Chamber
- Establish yourself as a young entrepreneur.
Young entrepreneurs find their launchpad through mentorship, connections, and access.
- Evolve from a family into an institution.
Family businesses plan modernization and succession with confidence.
- Built for doers. Made for impact-makers.
The benchmark-breakers. The standard-setters. Earn the credibility you deserve.
- Franchise without borders.
Take your brand to the world. Bring the world home. Franchising, now made simple.
- Resolve disputes, fast.
Commercial disputes get resolved quickly and fairly, keeping business moving.
- Cultivate your next generation of leaders.
Develop tomorrow’s leaders today, backed by real structure and support.