The Dubai AI Festival 2026 will be held at Dubai World Trade Centre on 26 and 27 October, in Hall 1 and Za'abeel Hall 3. The event is organised by Terrapinn and is listed on the Dubai World Trade Centre calendar as a conference and exhibition dedicated to artificial intelligence.
The festival brings together AI developers, enterprise technology buyers, government digital transformation teams, investors and start ups over two days of keynotes, panels and exhibition. The programme is organised around the deployment of AI in government services, finance, healthcare, logistics and media, alongside the infrastructure, data and governance questions that come with it.
The event is relevant to executives because AI adoption has become a board level question in the UAE, where government entities and large companies have set public targets for automation and digital services. Chief information officers, chief digital officers and business heads use the festival to compare suppliers and to hear how peers are handling procurement, talent and risk.
Dubai AI Festival sits in a crowded autumn technology calendar in the UAE that also includes GITEX Global at Expo City Dubai in December and AI Everything at ADNEC in October. Registration and the programme are published on the organiser's site.
