Ai Everything Abu Dhabi 2026

The 2026 edition of conference is built around Abu Dhabi's goal of becoming the world's first AI-native government, with public services redesigned around AI from the ground up. The Department of Government Enablement (DGE) is deploying those systems now, and it will have a significant presence at the conference, incl. H.E. Ahmed Tamim Hisham Al Kuttab, chairman; H.E. Wesam Lootah, director general, GovDigital; H.E. Dr Mohamed Al Askar, director general, TAMM; H.E. Ruba Yousef Al Hassan, director general, strategic affairs and future foresight; H.E. Dr Yasir Al Naqbi, director general, GovAcademy; H.E. Najyb Al Maskari, executive director; and Faisal Al Hawi, director, AI Factory.

Conference tracks

AI Summit: New Intelligence. Sovereign AI and compute partnerships, global AI governance, intelligence as sovereign infrastructure, quantum-powered AI, and AI for drug discovery. Speakers include Gautier Cloix, CEO of French agentic AI company H Company, and Prof Dr Virginia Dignum, professor of responsible AI at Umeå University.

Intelligent Infrastructure and New Energy. Sovereign compute, neoclouds and hyperscalers, energy and sustainable scale, new digital borders, and embodied and physical AI. Gauri Singh, deputy director general of IRENA, speaks on this track.

AI Government Excellence Forum. Building the AI-native state, AI in education and workforce, and agentic intelligence. Speakers include Mario Nobile, director general of Italy's digital agency AGID, Ramanan Ramanathan of the India AI Mission, and Yonghua Lin, vice president and chief engineer at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.

AI 360. Enterprise deployment across finance, healthcare, energy, retail and manufacturing, with sessions on banking, AI agents for customer experience, and industrial operations. Speakers include Mohamed Jamal Eddine, group CDIO at AD Ports Group, Alexander Haywood, CEO of MetisJean, and Umesh Sachdev, co-founder of Uniphore.

Session times are not published on the public site. The full agenda sits on the organiser's delegate portal.

The European and CEE presence

• Katre Eljas, CEO of AI and Robotics Estonia (AIRE), the national hub that reports over 64 million euros in added value across more than 300 partner engagements
• Taavi Madiberk, CEO of Skeleton Technologies, Estonia, co-founder of three deep tech companies with a combined valuation above one billion euros
• Dima Gazda, the Ukrainian founder and CEO of Esper Bionics, the AI prosthetics company named to the TIME100 Health List
• Dr Grzegorz Ombach, senior vice president and head of disruptive research, technology and innovation at Airbus
• Enrique Lizaso Olmos, founder and CEO of Multiverse Computing, Spain
• Prof Dr Virginia Dignum, professor of responsible AI at Umeå University, member of the EU High Level Expert Group on AI
• Thomas Clozel, co-founder and CEO of Owkin, which is building clinical AI scientists in Abu Dhabi
• Mario Nobile, director general of AGID, Italy's digital agency
• Axel Badalian, principal at Alpha Intelligence Capital, France.