CONVERSATIONS SHAPING THE INTELLIGENT ECONOMY

GITEX
SUMMIT Dubai World Trade Centre

7 DEC

2026

GITEX GLOBAL
EXPO Dubai Exhibiton Centre - Expo City

8–11 DEC

2026

THE GITEX Summit

MON 7 DEC • DUBAI WORLD TRADE CENTRE

Dubai - a city built to adapt, connect and scale with confidence - brings global leaders together for one high-level day. Ministers, policymakers, tech leaders, investors and founders explore the forces reshaping the intelligent economy - The Compute Economy, The New Map of Capital and Future Frontiers.

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YOUR STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE

 

Hear where AI is headed towards - the UAE thesis for a fragmented tech order

 

Get inside the 6 Summit themes: compute regions, capital vs. strategic control, frontier monopolies, autonomous economies, machine trust, the new tech order

 

Access 4 closed-door Chatham House briefings on AI, compute, sovereign capital and post-quantum security

 

Network across the Executive Breakfast Briefing, Private Lunch and Gala Dinner - ministers, C-suite and sovereign funds in the room

Key Themes

THE COMPUTE ECONOMY

 

Intelligence has become an industrial project — the world races to finance the gigawatt data centres, advanced fabs and frontier models future economies will run on.

When there isn't enough to go around, what gets built first?

THE NEW MAP OF CAPITAL

 

Capital has become an instrument of national strategy; sovereign wealth now sits inside frontier cap tables.

Which bets do governments call national priorities — and which do they leave to the market?

FUTURE FRONTIERS

 

Humanity is entering its deepest frontier — engineering biology, harnessing quantum, extending healthy life, sending intelligence into the physical world.

How far can companies push before governments step in?

EXHIBITION & CONFERENCES

TUE 8 – FRI 11 DEC • EXPO CITY DUBAI

The world's biggest tech expo comes with a full conference program running alongside it. Featuring 5 conference stages, leadership roundtables, certified trainings and workshops and free to attend Tech Talks.

THE CONTENT AT A GLANCE:
  • DAY 1 - Start with the Exec Breakfast Briefing, shape the big conversations at The GITEX Summit and Capital Forum + Roundtables, explore the future of longevity at LIVX World, then close the day at the Gala Dinner.
  • Day 2 — The Physical Layer: grid decisions, sovereign AI in practice, cyber at machine speed, AI-native founders.
  • Day 3 — The Upper Stack: the compute mandate, agentic enterprise playbooks, agentic threat surfaces, new M&A/CVC models.
  • Day 4 — Autonomous Everywhere: China Summit, architecting agentic systems, recoverable systems, deeptech & quantum funds.
  • Day 5 — Expo Finale: high-value dealmaking and GITEX Techcation activations through F1 week.

MAIN STAGE

 

Grid decisions, the compute mandate, the China Summit — the macro view of the intelligent economy

FALCON (AI)

 

Sovereign AI in practice, the agentic enterprise playbook, architecting agentic systems.

Q (CYBER)

 

Cyber at machine speed, the agentic threat surface, recoverable systems.

DUNE (STARTUP / ENS)

 

AI, agents & physical AI • AI-native founders • deeptech, quantum & future frontier funds.

EXPAND NORTH STAR

8–10 DEC • DUNE STAGE, EXPO CITY • THE STARTUP SHOW OF GITEX

The most influential founders and investors extend beyond ENS to become core to the GITEX Global Main Stage program. The distance between a thesis and a term sheet becomes a hallway: policymakers, unicorns and investors in the same hall.

YOUR STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE
  • Three curated days feeding the daily lens of the week: Physical AI & New Capital (Day 1), Agentic AI, M&A, CVC & Exits (Day 2), Quantum, Dual-Use & Future Frontier Funds (Day 3).
  • New Founders Academy (Startup Pass): Builders Lab, MVP & GTM Lab, Expansion Lab — a three-day path from idea to exit.
  • Free Open Floor access: YouthX Unplugged, Community Circles, and Startup Campfire live pitching feed the deal room.
  • Commercially stackable: delegate tickets, paid Startup Pass, 36+ sponsorship opportunities across Main Stage, Academy labs and Summit briefings.

ENS MAIN STAGE

 

Day 1: Physical AI, Hardware & New Capital

Day 2: Agentic AI, M&A, CVC & Exits

Day 3: Quantum, Dual-Use & Future Frontier Funds

FOUNDERS ACADEMY (NEW)

 

Builders Lab — frontier innovation to investable systems

MVP & GTM Lab — build less, sell faster

Expansion Lab — founder–investor–buyer alignment

OPEN FLOOR (FREE ACCESS)

 

YouthX Unplugged — universities & national youth goals

Community Circles — practitioner-led sessions

Startup Campfire → live open pitching