Capacity Middle East 2027

Capacity Middle East is the region's annual meeting place for the wholesale telecoms and digital infrastructure community. The 2027 edition runs at the Grand Hyatt Dubai Conference & Exhibition Centre, with main event days on 16-18 March and a pre-event day on 15 March, under the theme 'Building the Digital Foundations for Growth and Resilience'. It is co-located with Datacloud Middle East.

Who attends

The organizer expects more than 4,500 decision-makers from 100+ countries and 1,000+ companies, drawn from two communities: connectivity and data centres.

• Carriers, fibre operators and wholesale providers
• Subsea cable and interconnection companies
• Cloud platforms and hyperscalers
• Data centre operators, power and construction firms
• Investors and technology providers

Programme

Content covers the carrier, fibre, subsea, interconnection and cloud connectivity markets, and data centre, hyperscaler, power, construction and investment topics. Alongside the main conference sit dedicated summits and forums.

• Datacloud Middle East
• Digital Infra Leaders Summit
• Security and Resilience Summit
• Global Leaders' Forum
• Capacity Iraq Connect (15 March)
• Connected Türkiye (15 March)

Meetings and networking

The event is built around pre-booked meetings. At the 2026 edition the organizer reports 2,628 meetings scheduled through its app, 11,643 connections and more than 300 meeting spaces, with half of attendees at director level or above.