{"id":26581,"date":"2026-09-23T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=26581"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:06:00","slug":"worlds-largest-ai-first-expo-and-summit-in-abu-dhabi-solidifies-the-capitals-rise-as-a-global-intelligence-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/09\/23\/worlds-largest-ai-first-expo-and-summit-in-abu-dhabi-solidifies-the-capitals-rise-as-a-global-intelligence-powerhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Largest AI-First Expo And Summit In Abu Dhabi Solidifies The Capital\u2019s Rise As A Global Intelligence Powerhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abu Dhabi<\/a> is accelerating its role as a global force in applied AI, mega-scale compute infrastructure, and real-world deployment, as the UAE<\/a> capital gets set to host the world\u2019s largest AI-first Expo and Summit, featuring the largest gathering of global AI unicorns, from 6-7 October 2026 at ADNEC Centre.<\/p>\n

Ai Everything Abu Dhabi 2026<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0arrives as shifting global dynamics compel businesses and governments worldwide to forge ahead with AI spend commitments, pouring nearly US$ 2.59 trillion<\/u><\/a>\u00a0into the transformative technology this year, a 47% jump from 2025 (Gartner).<\/p>\n

The sold-out Expo and Summit shall articulate \u2018The New Intelligence Order from Abu Dhabi, The AI Capital of the World\u2019. It shows the world how that translates into tangible business returns and economic value through evidence-based AI research, new models and live industry use-cases.<\/p>\n

Organised by inD, Ai Everything Abu Dhabi<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0convenes over 400 AI infrastructure builders, model makers, unicorns and startups, and 200-plus investors with US$ 91 billion assets under management, alongside governments, academia, and tech executives from 60 countries. Over 180 speakers lead the Summit lineup, headlined by Arthur Mensch, Co-Founder & CEO of Mistral AI, now valued at over \u20ac21 billion<\/u><\/a>, and Marc Raibert, Founder of Boston Dynamics, will appear together in the UAE for the first time to discuss the future of sovereign AI, new alliances, and industrial intelligence.<\/p>\n

World\u2019s first AI-native government takes centre-stage <\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

More than 50 UAE government entities are participating, spearheaded by the Department of Government Enablement, Abu Dhabi (DGE) as Host Partner, representing the largest showcase of public sector AI use-cases. At the Summit, H.E. Ahmed Tamim Hisham Al Kuttab, Chairman of DGE, and H.E. Wesam Lootah, Director General of GovDigital at DGE, will bring Abu Dhabi\u2019s model of
\nAI-native government into sharp focus on the global stage.<\/p>\n

DGE is steering Abu Dhabi Government\u2019s transformation into the world\u2019s first AI-native government by 2027. The department integrates more than 40 government entities into a single AI-driven ecosystem, with over 100 AI use-cases already live across the emirate\u2019s public services. A US$ 3.54 billion investment programme underpins Abu Dhabi\u2019s wider push towards AI-led public services, economic value creation and responsible deployment.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the ambitious AI transformation plan and the event, H.E. Wesam Lootah, Director General of GovDigital, DGE, said: \u201cAbu Dhabi will become the world\u2019s first AI-native government next year, and the evidence is already clear in the way we\u2019re redefining public services for millions of people and businesses. We have built the blueprint, and Ai Everything Abu Dhabi<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0is our invitation to the world to examine it, to see what intelligent governance looks like at scale, and the enormous benefits it delivers to people\u2019s lives today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trillion-dollar global infrastructure leaders power AI\u2019s economic impact<\/b><\/strong>
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As companies double down on AI spending, the pressure to deliver measurable returns is mounting. Ai Everything Abu Dhabi<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0puts that proof to the test with the widest showcase of live AI use-cases\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>and applications\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>across public services, banking, healthcare, energy and education.<\/p>\n

Solutions+, a Mubadala company and the show\u2019s Global Partner, is powering smarter organisations by combining AI, digital innovation and human expertise to transform how businesses operate.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Solutions+, we help bridge national ambition with operational delivery by bringing together sovereign infrastructure, enterprise platforms, trusted partners, and the expertise required to embed AI into real services and workflows. As Global Partner of Ai Everything Abu Dhabi 2026<\/b><\/strong>, we look forward to demonstrating how agentic AI, strengthened by human judgement and accountability, can improve services, raise productivity, and create measurable value. This is how we turn AI into more than a technology investment \u2013 a driver of sustainable growth and national progress,\u201d shared Nasir Al Nabhani, Managing Director, Solutions+.<\/p>\n

Delivering that impact at national scale takes a full stack: compute, platforms, agents and governance working together as one system. G42 calls this the Intelligence Grid, its model for building AI-native societies.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn AI-native society takes shape when intelligence becomes something people can depend on: getting care, running a business, accessing a public service. The real measure of progress is how widely that possibility becomes everyday reality. That is the ambition behind G42\u2019s contribution to AI Native Societies, connecting the infrastructure, capabilities and partnerships needed to make AI useful at the scale of a society,\u201d said Faheem Ahamed, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, G42. \u201cAt Ai Everything Abu Dhabi<\/b><\/strong>, \u2018The World of AI\u2019 brings us and our partners together around that work. From our home in Abu Dhabi, we want to help close the distance between what AI can do and what people actually gain from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leading Abu Dhabi entities join them in advancing the AI-native agenda and building the sovereign stack, including the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), TII, Ministry of Investment, UAE Cybersecurity Council, UAE ICP, Abu Dhabi Ports, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Hub71, Awqaf Abu Dhabi, Public Prosecution, Alef Education, Higher Colleges of Technology, Khalifa Fund, Khalifa University Enterprise Company and Q Mobility.<\/p>\n

International AI titans including AWS, Alibaba Cloud, ASUS, Cerebras, Cloudflare, Coursera, Dell, HPE, IFS, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Nokia, Nutanix, Oracle, Red Hat, Seagate, and Snowflake dominate an international exhibitor list spanning chips, cloud compute and enterprise software, together representing over US$10 trillion in collective market capitalisation.<\/p>\n

Trixie LohMirmand, CEO of Ai Everything, said: \u201cBeyond the speculative sheen of AI, its true impact lies in transforming science, services and society. Abu Dhabi is moving decisively into that territory, with the leadership assembling the infrastructure, institutions, research capabilities and global partnerships needed to turn AI ambition into national capacity. The response from the international AI community for Ai Everything Abu Dhabi<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0has been emphatic. The world\u2019s leading enterprises are coming to Abu Dhabi to engage a market investing, deploying and setting a benchmark in new intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

UAE\u2019s sovereign AI research and deployment come to the forefront<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi\u2019s Advanced Technology Research Council, has built its Falcon family of large language models on the principle that capability comes from how a model is built, not how large it is. Falcon-H1 Arabic, trained on high-quality Arabic data with a purpose-built architecture, now leads the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard.<\/p>\n

This approach lowers the barrier to entry: organisations without the infrastructure that very large models demand can still deploy AI. At the show, TII will present 23 demonstrations drawn from nine research centres, weighted towards sectors where the UAE has real depth, energy, materials, marine and maritime infrastructure, aerospace and autonomous systems. Among them is GeoAI, a machine-learning model of the subsurface geology of the northern UAE, built to support national mineral exploration.<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s largest gathering of AI unicorns <\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

More AI unicorns will take the stage in Abu Dhabi than at any other AI event this year, another marker of Abu Dhabi leading the race to build the world\u2019s intelligent future.<\/p>\n

Mistral, Europe\u2019s AI leader participating at Ai Everything Abu Dhabi<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0for the first time, will address the question of who controls AI as it takes on more autonomy. The French decacorn recently closed a record \u20ac3 billion (US$ 3.49 billion) Series D funding, Europe\u2019s largest ever single funding round, valuing it at more than \u20ac21 billion (US$ 24.42 billion).<\/p>\n

Mohamed Zouari, Mistral\u2019s Managing Director MEA, shared, \u201cWe believe that control is becoming the defining topic in AI adoption. This is what we are building with Abu Dhabi\u2019s most innovative organisations and what we will demonstrate at Ai Everything Abu Dhabi.<\/b><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

ElevenLabs, the AI company behind the industry\u2019s leading voice and audio models, will showcase two innovations: ElevenAgents, a platform for building human-level conversational experiences into products and services, and ElevenCreative, which pairs its audio models with image and video generation tools. ElevenLabs serves enterprises and governments across 80 countries.<\/p>\n

Across the Summit and sector-focused conferences, more than 180 global AI experts and business leaders spar on the debates now testing the AI economy, from trusted deployment and autonomous systems to agentic AI at scale and the contest over computing power, infrastructure and control. Certified trainings and workshops extend that conversation into hands-on learnings, spanning multi-agent workflows, rapid prototyping, model development and emerging AI tools.<\/p>\n

Together, the programme traces AI from policy and principle to the harder task now confronting governments and industry: turning new intelligence into secure, responsible, and scalable progress, with Abu Dhabi increasingly serving as a live reference point for this shift.<\/p>\n

To find out more and register for the event, visit www.aieverythingabudhabi.com<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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