Dubai AI Festival 2026

Join the Dubai AI Festival 2026, scheduled from 7th to 8th April 2026, in Dubai, UAE. The event features a hundred and fifty+ classes, 50 workshops, and roundtables on AI governance, ethics, immersive studies, future of labor, AI literacy, infrastructure, and funding. It aims to boost AI adoption aligned with Dubai’s Economic Agenda D33 and DIFC’s Strategy 2030, assisting Dubai as an international AI innovation hub.

Organized By

Dubai AI and Web3 Campus is the MENA region's largest dedicated cluster for AI companies, launched in 2023 at DIFC's Innovation Hub to build and scale AI startups through incubation.

Event Highlights

• 20000+ business leaders
  
• 200+ global speakers
  
• 500+ investors
  
• 200+ exhibitors
  

Global FutureTech Leaders

• 20+ global unicorns
  
• 20+ government agencies/ministries
  
• 20+ global enterprises
  
• 20+ top venture capitalists
  

Event Them

• Discover the future of work
• Learn how AI Conerstone
• Explore the innovation and ethics in AI
• Learn about AI literacy
• Discover the infrastructure and investment
• Get to know how AI is taking over everything
• Explore global AI governance
• Immersive AI experience

Agenda

• Opening Remarks
• AI and space as economic infrastructure
• From human‑driven to AI‑first: Leading the transition to autonomous business models
• Capital, courage & conviction: leadership lessons from AI visionaries 
• Agentic AI: From assistants to autonomous operators
• Building safe AI: Responsible deployment in practice
• Designing national AI ecosystems: Talent, compute & regulation 
• Building trusted AI: Global safety & risk frameworks 
• The global AI constitution: Shared principles for safe, fair & inclusive AI 
• AI first cities: Cities re‑engineered — from Dubai to the world
• How governments are deploying AI across public services
• Using AI to scale climate & sustainability solutions 
• Beyond the buzz: Driving enterprise transformation with AI
• How global partnerships accelerate AI deployment
• Securing nations in the age of AI & cyber threats 
• How AI is re‑engineering banking operations & risk
• AI in public safety & justice: Ethical automation of high‑stakes decisions
• National cyber sovereignty in an AI‑driven world 
• Responsible GenAI: Guardrails for model use & safety 
• Deep tech to deep impact: Commercialising high‑risk AI innovations 

Speakers

• H.E. Essa Kazim - Governor
• Jason Warner - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
• H.E. Arif Amiri - Chief Executive Officer
• Robert Nishihara - Co-Founder
• Sagnik Nandy - Chief Technology Officer

Dubai AI Festival 2026 is a global platform driving AI innovation, learning, and collaboration for the future.