The Arabian AI & Agentic Summit 2026

Monday, October 26, 2026

The Arabian AI & Agentic Summit 2026

One-day summit on agentic, conversational and generative AI for enterprise, government and startup leaders in the Gulf.

Date and Time

Monday, October 26 · 10 - 4pm GMT+4

Location

ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi

Khaleej Al Arabi Street Abu Dhabi

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About This Event

The Arabian AI & Agentic Summit 2026 is a Technology event taking place 26 Oct 2026 at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The Arabian AI & Agentic Summit is the first Abu Dhabi edition of the European Chatbot & Agentic AI Summit series, which has run since 2020. It gathers enterprise AI leads, government transformation teams, researchers and startups for a day of talks and masterclasses on putting conversational, generative and agentic AI into production across the UAE and GCC, with a focus on Arabic NLP, automation and real-world use cases.

What's covered

The key topics published for the 2026 summit move from strategy to hands-on delivery.

  • Turning GenAI, LLMs and AI agents into production systems
  • AI sovereignty: strategy, governance and ROI (workshop)
  • Human-centric conversational design
  • Generative AI experimentation
  • Agentic AI autonomy and decision-making
  • Voice AI agents
  • Safety and security in conversational and generative AI
  • Ethics, compliance and diversity in AI
  • AI and the future of work

Who attends

AI leaders, innovators and decision-makers from enterprises, government entities, academia and startups working on chatbots, agentic AI, voice AI and CX automation in the UAE and wider GCC.

Formats

The day combines conference talks, masterclass sessions, an exhibition and a business networking zone. A sold-out Sovereign AI workshop runs alongside the main programme, and speakers and partners gather at a speaker dinner.

Tickets & passes

  • Visitor Pass — AED 100: Reduced from AED 150. Full-day exhibition and conference access, official event app
  • Delegate Pass — AED 250: Reduced from AED 800. Main event, masterclass session, networking zone, lunch and refreshments
  • Sovereign AI Workshop: Sold out

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About this listing

Details are collected from the organizer’s official site, thearabianchatbot.com.

Companies & Speakers

Speakers

Marwan Alzarouni· Chief AI Officer, Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism (DET)Paul Dawalibi· CEO, Innovation City - Government of Ras Al KhaimahBasema Aljaberi· Lead PMO & Transformation, Abu Dhabi Government | Principle Advisor – Oryxs solutionsAlaa Dalghan· AI Expert. C-suite Advisor. Keynote SpeakerVishal Mishra· Chief AI Officer, IDC DigitalDr. Anas Najdawi· Director of Dubai Campus, Abu Dhabi UniversitySherin Mathew· Chief AI Officer, Intelligen AIAshish Kulkarni· Sr Director and Group Product OwnerAkshay Dalal· Head of Regional Regulatory Affairs, Risk and Compliance - Middle East, Turkey & Africa, GoogleChristoph Esslinger· FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, IDEABAY AIPreethi Premnath· Advisor. Common Digital Platforms, Department of Government EnablementEnas Yousif· Chief Customer Experience and Operations Office, MTN SudanMoatasem Elberbawy· Senior Product Manager, Abu Dhabi TAMMAdel (Abdulla) Miran· Director of Facilities Management & Administration, Dubai HoldingWael Handous· Chief Executive Officer, Frank AIJesse Lucas· Founder & CEO, MantiaNoor J. Aziz· Senior GRC Expert | GRC Team Lead, Leejam Sports CompanyKelechi Enyioha· Head Digital Execution & Centre of Excellence, NLNGHani Khalaf· Field CTO, Dell TechnologiesJulius Oyekanmi· Founder & CEO, FinnovaMohammed Benzakour· AI Transformation Leader | International Speaker | Author of Human-Led, AI-EnabledSomnath Biswas· Head of AI Products, The AARodrigo Aviles· Senior Manager - CX & AI, rpc – The Retail Performance Company GmbH the consultancy for inspiring customer-centric transformationLee Mallon· Founder, YALPOPLogman Ali· Principal Consultant - Strategy and Performance, General Authority of Islamic Affairs & EndowmentsGeeta Khatwani· Head of AI & Digital Transformation, SANNEMohamed Essam· Product Lead, Abu Dhabi TAMMAnemone Kasasbeh, PhD· Manager of Data Science & Clinical AI, AscensionMohamed Abduljawad· AI Engineer, Department of Government EnablementAart Miedema· Conversational AI, RabobankNader Torki· Chief Strategy Officer, Cognit DXBhavin Faldu· Tech Lead, Hexaware Technologies

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Monday, October 26 · 10 - 4pm GMT+4

The Arabian AI & Agentic Summit 2026