Ai Everything Abu Dhabi 2026: World’s Largest AI-First Expo Brings Global Tech Leaders to the Capital
Abu Dhabi is preparing to host one of the biggest technology events on its 2026 calendar, as Ai Everything Abu Dhabi makes its inaugural appearance at ADNEC Centre from 6-7 October 2026.
The sold-out AI-first Expo and Summit will bring together more than 400 AI infrastructure builders, model developers, unicorns and startups, alongside over 200 investors, governments, academics and technology executives from 60 countries. More than 180 speakers are also expected across the two-day programme.
Hosted by the Department of Government Enablement – Abu Dhabi (DGE), with Solutions+ as Global Partner, the event will explore everything from sovereign AI and agentic systems to robotics, computing infrastructure and how artificial intelligence is already being applied across government and business.
Mistral AI and Boston Dynamics Founders Head to Abu Dhabi
Among the biggest names on the programme are Arthur Mensch, Co-Founder and CEO of Mistral AI, and Marc Raibert, Founder of Boston Dynamics, who will appear together in the UAE for the first time.
Their discussions will explore the future of sovereign AI, industrial intelligence and the new alliances emerging around artificial intelligence.
The wider programme will feature more than 180 global AI experts and business leaders, tackling subjects including trusted AI deployment, autonomous systems, agentic AI, computing infrastructure and control.
Visitors will also be able to attend certified training sessions and workshops covering areas such as multi-agent workflows, rapid prototyping, model development and emerging AI tools.
Abu Dhabi’s AI-Native Government Takes Centre Stage
One of the major themes will be how AI is moving from experimentation into everyday government services.
More than 50 UAE government entities will participate, led by DGE, creating what organisers describe as the event’s largest showcase of public-sector AI use cases.
Abu Dhabi is working towards transforming its government into what DGE describes as the world’s first AI-native government by 2027.
The department currently integrates more than 40 government entities into an AI-driven ecosystem, with over 100 AI use cases already live across public services. A US$3.54 billion investment programme supports the emirate’s wider move towards AI-enabled government services and responsible deployment.
For anyone interested in how AI could change everyday life in the UAE, this may be one of the more interesting aspects of the event-not simply what the technology can potentially do, but where it is already being put into practice.
From Banking and Healthcare to Energy and Education
The Expo will showcase practical applications of artificial intelligence across public services, banking, healthcare, energy and education, as businesses face increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable returns from their AI investments.
Abu Dhabi-based organisations participating in the wider AI ecosystem include the Advanced Technology Research Council, Technology Innovation Institute, Hub71, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Abu Dhabi Ports, Khalifa University Enterprise Company and Khalifa Fund, among others.
International technology companies participating include AWS, Alibaba Cloud, ASUS, Cerebras, Cloudflare, Dell, HPE, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, Red Hat, Snowflake and several others spanning chips, cloud computing and enterprise technology.
UAE-Developed AI Technology on Display
The event will also put the UAE’s own AI research in the spotlight.
Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is expected to present 23 demonstrations from nine research centres, with applications spanning energy, materials, maritime infrastructure, aerospace and autonomous systems.
Among them will be GeoAI, a machine-learning model designed to map the subsurface geology of the northern UAE and support national mineral exploration.
TII will also highlight Falcon-H1 Arabic, part of its Falcon family of large language models and developed using high-quality Arabic data.
AI Unicorns Bring Their Latest Technology to Abu Dhabi
Another major focus will be fast-growing AI companies and their latest technologies.
Alongside Mistral AI, ElevenLabs will showcase ElevenAgents, its platform for creating conversational AI experiences, and ElevenCreative, which combines the company’s audio technology with image and video-generation tools.
Rather than focusing solely on where AI could go next, Ai Everything Abu Dhabi is positioning itself around a more immediate question: how can governments and businesses turn AI into secure, responsible and scalable real-world applications?
With government deployments, frontier AI companies, global technology players, investors, researchers and hands-on workshops all coming together at ADNEC, the inaugural edition adds another major technology event to Abu Dhabi’s growing calendar.
Ai Everything Abu Dhabi 2026 takes place from 6–7 October at ADNEC Centre, Abu Dhabi. Further information and registration are available through Ai Everything Abu Dhabi.
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