18 – 19 November 2026

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Global AI Show Abu Dhabi Agenda

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09:00

Open

Registration & Networking

10:00

Open

WELCOME TO GLOBAL AI SHOW

10:15

OPENING KEYNOTE

AI 2031: Building Autonomous Intelligence for the Future

What governance layer is required before AI can make sovereign decisions?
What does “autonomous intelligence” mean beyond copilots and copiloted workflows?
How do we architect systems that self-optimize without constant human retraining?
Are we building tools or digital economic actors?

10:30

PANEL DISCUSSION

Who Decides When AI Becomes the Co-Pilot of Governance?

How must C-suite roles evolve when AI systems operate faster than human decision cycles?
How do boards and governments enforce meaningful human oversight at the speed of influence?
What does accountable leadership look like when outcomes are co-produced with autonomous systems?
Is the traditional hierarchy of authority compatible with multi-agent organizational architectures?

Panelists

Bishoy Sameeh Matta, Chief Data Officer, GB Corp
Arun Tewary, Chief Information Officer, Alpine Group

11:10

HEADLINER

From Innovation to Regulation: Navigating AI Governance & Security Standards

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11:30

PANEL DISCUSSION

AI in Defense: Shaping the Next Era of National Security Capabilities

How is AI deployed into unmanned systems and defense platforms today?
Why is sovereign AI capability becoming important in national defense strategies?
What are the limits of AI in threat detection, and where does human judgment remain essential?
What role does AI play in protecting critical infrastructure from emerging digital risks?

12:10

FIRESIDE CHAT

The Autonomous Edge: Integrating AI into Joint and Tactical Operations

What doctrinal and training changes are required to operationalise intelligent systems effectively?
How do militaries integrate autonomous decision-support systems while preserving meaningful human oversight?
How can autonomous capabilities enhance coordination, tempo, and combat resilience in multi-domain operations?
How should international humanitarian law and maritime law evolve to establish clear accountability? mechanisms for autonomous military systems while ensuring compliance with principles of distinction, proportionality, and precaution?

12:35

HEADLINER

Global Autonomy Standards: Building Trust, Safety and Readiness

What does global readiness look like in a fully autonomous digital economy?
What role should human oversight play in high-impact autonomous decisions?
How do we prevent misuse of autonomous systems while enabling innovation?
How do organizations transition from pilot projects to production-grade autonomy?

13:05

KEYNOTE

The New Frontier of National Security: Genomes as Infrastructure

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09:00

Open

Registration & Networking

10:15

Open

WELCOME TO GLOBAL AI SHOW

10:30

OPENING KEYNOTE

The Rise of Autonomous Threats: Security in the Age of AI Warfare

10:45

PANEL DISCUSSION

Quantum Countdown: Is Your Encryption Already Obsolete?

The ‘harvest now, decrypt later’ threat, why adversaries are already collecting encrypted sovereign data today
Quantum key distribution vs. post-quantum algorithms, which approach fits a sovereign national security architecture?
How Nation’s Quantum Centre is positioning the nation as a first mover in quantum-safe infrastructure?

11:20

HEADLINER KEYNOTE

AI-Powered Cybersecurity: Defending Tomorrow’s Digital Economy

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11:40

HEADLINER KEYNOTE

National Cybersecurity Strategy 2027 and Beyond: Strengthening the UAE’s Digital Resilience

12:00

HEADLINER KEYNOTE

AI for Good: Human Values in the Age of Digital Consciousness

Speakers

Pujya Brahmavihari Swami, Spiritual Leader, Head of BAPS Hindu Mandir, Abu Dhabi

12:30

PANEL DISCUSSION

The Deepfake Era: The New Battle for Digital Trust

How AI-generated synthetic media is being weaponised for political destabilisation, financial fraud, and social engineering at scale?
Technical approaches to provenance, watermarking and content authenticity can we build an internet of verifiable trust?
The regulatory response: what legal and technical frameworks must governments deploy to protect the information ecosystem?
How nations are developing national media integrity standards in an era of AI-generated disinformation?

13:05

SPOTLIGHT SESSION:

Autonomous AI Nations: The Future of Sovereign Clouds

Will “Sovereign AI” eventually move from massive data centers to decentralized, energy-independent micro-clouds across the UAE’s landscape?
Should national LLMs be optimized for cultural context, economic strategy or security posture?
Can sovereign AI clouds support multi-agent ecosystems across ministries and enterprises?
Does true sovereignty require a nation to own the entire physical silicon stack, or is software-level control over the “Weights” sufficient?

Speaker

H.E. Renat Bekturov, Governor, Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), Republic of Kazakhstan

09:00

Open

Registration & Networking

10:00

Open

WELCOME TO GLOBAL AI SHOW

10:15

OPENING KEYNOTE

Building Competitive Economies in the Age of AI

How can AI shift the UAE from a resource-based to a data-wealth economy by 2031?
Is the race for AI supremacy actually a race for the highest “Efficiency-to-Carbon” ratio?
What policy mix accelerates AI-native industry creation beyond digital transformation?
How do nations measure AI productivity contribution to GDP in real terms?
Can sovereign AI infrastructure attract global talent and frontier labs at scale?

Speakers

H.E. Raja Al Mazrouei‏, Chief Executive Officer, Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI)

10:30

FIRESIDE CHAT

From Vision to Velocity: How National AI Strategies Become Economic Reality

What separates countries that publish AI strategies from those that execute them?
How does the UAE’s unique governance model accelerate AI policy implementation?
Which AI investment categories deliver the fastest sovereign economic returns?
How should governments balance AI openness with strategic infrastructure protection?

11:00

HEADLINER

The Next Frontier: AI as the New Sovereign Infrastructure

Why is AI increasingly being viewed as sovereign infrastructure rather than just technology?
What infrastructure is required to build nationally resilient AI ecosystems?
How can countries reduce dependence on external AI ecosystems and platforms?
How important is local talent development to sovereign AI ambitions?

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11:20

PANEL DISCUSSION

The CAIO Era: Intelligence, Readiness and the AI Imperative

Is the CAIO a long-term role or a bridge to fully decentralized Sovereign AI?
How does a CAIO technically balance Edge AI latency against centralized governance latency?
What are the hardware-level prerequisites for an “Intelligence Readiness” organizational benchmark?
How can CAIOs defend against multi-vector adversarial prompt injection at the enterprise layer?
Should model explainability be a technical requirement or a trade-off for predictive performance?

12:05

SPOTLIGHT KEYNOTE

Regulating Intelligence: Governing Autonomous AI in a Rapidly Evolving World

Why existing regulatory models are structurally unfit for agentic AI systems
How the UAE can lead in establishing adaptive, outcome-based AI governance
Balancing innovation velocity with accountability in high-stakes AI deployments
What a globally interoperable AI compliance framework actually looks like

12:20

KEYNOTE

The $500 Billion Bet: How Sovereign Wealth Is Rewriting the Rules of AI Investment

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12:40

PANEL DISCUSSION

Dealmaking in the Age of AI: What’s Fundable, What’s Not

How has AI shifted LP expectations and VC fund thesis construction in 2026?
Which AI verticals , foundation models, infra, or applications,offer the best risk-adjusted returns?
Are valuations in generative AI sustainable or are we approaching a correction?
How do investors evaluate AI moats when model capabilities commoditize rapidly?
What does a winning AI startup look like from a due diligence perspective in 2026?

13:25

KEYNOTE

The Rise of the AI Creator Economy: From Content to Intelligence as an Asset

From static content outputs to dynamic, adaptive intelligence systems
The emergence of “AI-native creators” vs traditional digital creators
How AI enables content to become self-updating and context-aware
Building trust in a world of infinite content generation

09:00

Open

Registration & Networking

10:15

Open

WELCOME TO GLOBAL AI SHOW

10:30

OPENING KEYNOTE

Hyper-Personalisation at Scale: How AI Is Redefining the Customer Experience

Why the era of segmentation is over. AI enables audiences of one at enterprise scale?
How real-time behavioural intelligence is replacing static customer profiles?
Which industries will see the fastest CX transformation through AI in the next 24 months?
How do you balance deep personalisation with consumer privacy and trust?

10:45

FIRESIDE CHAT

From Touchpoints to Trust: Building AI-Powered Customer Journeys That Last

How are leading brands using AI to shift from reactive service to predictive engagement?
What does a seamless omnichannel AI experience look like in practice?
How do you measure emotional resonance and loyalty in an AI-mediated CX?
Can AI-driven CX become a genuine competitive moat, or will it commoditize quickly?

Speakers

Prof. Samir El-Masri, Founder and President, United Arab Emirates

11:15

HEADLINER

The End of Traditional Careers and the Rise of AI-Augmented Roles

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11:35

PANEL DISCUSSION

Scaling Governance for the Future: Unlocking Efficiency Through Intelligent Systems

Can we move from reactive policy-making to “Simulated Governance” where AI predicts societal impact before laws are passed?
How do we operationalize “Simulated Governance” using real-time service data to test policy impact before nationwide rollout?
What specific AI frameworks are required to achieve a “Zero-Bureaucracy” digital state by the end of the decade?
How can governments eliminate service fragmentation by using AI to orchestrate cross-agency workflows in real time?
What infrastructure is required to scale AI-driven public services across federal, emirate, and municipal layers?

Panelists

Omran Ahmed Ali Alshamsi, Chief AI Officer, Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation
Joseph Nadi, Chief AI Officer, Abu Dhabi TAMM

12:20

FIRESIDE CHAT

The Agentic Enterprise: Transitioning from ‘Chatbots’ to ‘Digital Employees’

Is a “Digital Employee” a software tool or a new class of “Synthetic Talent” in the UAE workforce?
How do we measure productivity of digital employees within UAE enterprises?
Can multi-agent systems operate across HR, finance and operations securely?
Will enterprises restructure org charts around AI agents by 2030?
Will 2026 be the year we stop “Using AI” and start “Managing AI Teams” as our primary labor force?

12:20

KEYNOTE

The $500 Billion Bet: How Sovereign Wealth Is Rewriting the Rules of AI Investment

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12:50

KEYNOTE

Reimagining urban transport through advanced electric air mobility

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13:10

FIRESIDE CHAT

Powering the Future: How Renewable Energy Is Accelerating the EV Revolution

How is solar-to-wheel integration reshaping the economics of electric mobility in the Gulf?
What role does AI play in optimising renewable energy supply chains for EV infrastructure?
Can the UAE become a net exporter of clean mobility technology by 2031?
How do public-private partnerships accelerate grid-scale EV charging deployment?

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