Abu Dhabi is set to host Ai Everything Abu Dhabi 2026 from 6–7 October at ADNEC Centre, bringing together AI companies, government leaders, investors, researchers and technology executives from more than 60 countries.
The sold-out inaugural Expo and Summit will feature more than 400 AI infrastructure companies, model developers, unicorns and start-ups, alongside more than 200 investors representing US$91 billion in assets under management.
Hosted by the Department of Government Enablement – Abu Dhabi (DGE), with Solutions+ as Global Partner, the event will feature more than 180 speakers. Arthur Mensch, Co-Founder and CEO of Mistral AI, and Marc Raibert, Founder of Boston Dynamics, will appear in the UAE for the first time to discuss sovereign AI, emerging alliances and industrial intelligence.
The event comes as global investment in AI continues to accelerate, with businesses and governments seeking to move beyond experimentation towards measurable economic and operational value.
AI-native government takes centre stage
More than 50 UAE government entities will participate, creating a major showcase of public sector AI use cases.
DGE is leading Abu Dhabi Government’s ambition to become the world’s first AI-native government by 2027. The department is integrating more than 40 government entities into a single AI-driven ecosystem, with more than 100 AI use cases already deployed across public services.
A US$3.54 billion investment programme supports Abu Dhabi’s wider drive towards AI-enabled public services, economic value creation and responsible technology deployment.
“Abu Dhabi will become the world’s first AI-native government next year, and the evidence is already clear in the way we’re redefining public services for millions of people and businesses. We have built the blueprint, and Ai Everything Abu Dhabi is 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’s lives today,” said H.E. Wesam Lootah, Director General of GovDigital, DGE.
Turning AI investment into business value
The event will also focus on how organisations can translate rising AI investment into tangible business outcomes, with live use cases spanning public services, banking, healthcare, energy and education.
Solutions+, a Mubadala company, will demonstrate how AI, digital innovation and human expertise can be combined to transform enterprise operations.
“At 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, 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 – a driver of sustainable growth and national progress,” said Nasir Al Nabhani, Managing Director, Solutions+.
G42 will meanwhile showcase its Intelligence Grid concept, which brings together compute, platforms, AI agents and governance to support the development of AI-native societies.
“An 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’s contribution to AI Native Societies, connecting the infrastructure, capabilities and partnerships needed to make AI useful at the scale of a society,” said Faheem Ahamed, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, G42.
“At Ai Everything Abu Dhabi, ‘The World of AI’ 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.”
Other participating Abu Dhabi and UAE entities include the Advanced Technology Research Council, Technology Innovation Institute, 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.
The international exhibitor line-up will span semiconductors, cloud computing, infrastructure and enterprise software.
Trixie LohMirmand, CEO of Ai Everything, said: “Beyond 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 has been emphatic. The world’s leading enterprises are coming to Abu Dhabi to engage a market investing, deploying and setting a benchmark in new intelligence.”
Sovereign AI moves into focus
Sovereign AI will be another major theme. The Technology Innovation Institute, the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council, will showcase developments from its Falcon family of large language models.
TII’s Falcon-H1 Arabic was trained using high-quality Arabic data and a purpose-built architecture. At the event, TII will present 23 demonstrations from nine research centres, with applications spanning energy, materials, marine and maritime infrastructure, aerospace and autonomous systems.
Among the demonstrations will be GeoAI, a machine-learning model of the subsurface geology of the northern UAE designed to support national mineral exploration.
Mistral AI will also address questions around control and sovereignty as AI systems become increasingly autonomous.
“We believe that control is becoming the defining topic in AI adoption. This is what we are building with Abu Dhabi’s most innovative organisations and what we will demonstrate at Ai Everything Abu Dhabi,” said Mohamed Zouari, Mistral’s Managing Director MEA.
ElevenLabs will showcase ElevenAgents, its platform for building conversational experiences into products and services, alongside ElevenCreative, which combines its audio models with image and video generation tools.
Across the Summit and its sector-focused conferences, discussions will cover trusted AI deployment, autonomous systems, agentic AI at scale and the growing competition around compute infrastructure and control.
Training sessions and workshops will complement the conference programme, covering areas including multi-agent workflows, rapid prototyping, model development and emerging AI tools.
The event will ultimately focus on the challenge now facing governments and enterprises alike: moving AI from ambition and experimentation towards secure, responsible and scalable deployment.
