Abu Dhabi to Host Global AI Expo 2026, Showcasing AI Innovations and International Collaboration
September 23, 2026
Abu Dhabi will host Ai Everything Abu Dhabi 2026, a global AI Expo and Summit from October 6–7 at ADNEC Centre, bringing together 400 infrastructure builders, 200+ investors, and participants from 60 countries to showcase live AI use-cases.
The event aims to demonstrate tangible business returns and national progress through evidence-based AI research, live demonstrations, and international collaboration, positioning Abu Dhabi as a global AI hub.
Global AI leaders and unicorns, including Mistral AI and ElevenLabs, will present on stage, with Mistral AI valued at over €21 billion after a €3 billion Series D, and ElevenLabs showcasing its AI voice and creative tools.
Solutions+ (a Mubadala company) serves as Global Partner, highlighting how sovereign infrastructure and enterprise platforms can embed AI into services to deliver measurable value and sustainable growth.
Over 50 UAE government entities will participate, marking the world’s largest public-sector AI showcase and discussions on AI-enabled governance and infrastructure.
TII’s Falcon family of LLMs will be featured with 23 demonstrations, including GeoAI for subsurface geology, underscoring UAE-led sovereign AI research and accessible AI for organizations with limited compute.
The Intelligence Grid concept from G42 will be showcased, presenting a full-stack approach—compute, platforms, agents, and governance—to build AI-native societies, with participation from Abu Dhabi entities and global tech giants such as AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, and Snowflake.
Abu Dhabi will promote itself as an AI-native government model, led by the Department of Government Enablement to integrate 40+ entities into a single AI-driven ecosystem and roll out over 100 live AI use-cases, anchored by a US$3.54 billion investment program.
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Abu Dhabi to showcase 100+ live government AI uses at global summit