Conversations shaping the
intelligent economy
GITEX SUMMIT
7 December 2026 Dubai World Trade Centre
GITEX GLOBAL EXPO
8–11 December 2026 Expo City Dubai
THE GITEX SUMMIT
MON 7 DEC • DUBAI WORLD TRADE CENTRE
Dubai is fast becoming the epicentre of the next tech order, convening ministers, policymakers, tech leaders, investors and founders for one high-level day. As compute, capital and sovereignty are renegotiated, the Summit explores The Compute Economy, The New Map of Capital and Future Frontiers.
YOUR STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE
- Hear where artificial intelligence is headed towards — the UAE thesis for a fragmented tech order.
- Get inside the six Summit themes: compute regions, capital vs. strategic control, frontier monopolies, autonomous economies, machine trust, the new tech order.
- Access four closed-door, invite-only Chatham House strategic briefings: Powering AI, Compute Sovereignty, Sovereign Capital, 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:
- Track the week's daily arc across five stages: MAIN, FALCON (AI), Q (Cyber), DUNE (Startup) and LIVX (health tech).
- 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.
Key Themes
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.
Key Themes
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
LIVX
7–10 DEC • PRESENTED BY GITEX GLOBAL • THE LONGEVITY ECONOMY
Converging the most powerful global ecosystem for longevity, biotech and investment — four shows under one brand, aligned with Dubai's new longevity mandate.
THE CONTENT AT A GLANCE:
- Mon 7 Dec, at the Summit (DWTC): World Longevity Forum — government and research keynotes, headline update on clinical trials for age reversal and disease cures.
- Tue 8–Wed 9 Dec, LivX Stage: Roundtable of Longevity Clinics — medicine's next business and capital model, the women's longevity gap, the AI doctor, GLP and CRISPR.
- Thu 10 Dec, LivX Stage + Academy: LivX Bio-Stack Summit — biology, chips and capital assembling medicine's next industrial stack.
Key Themes
LIVX BIOTECH
Part of the four-show LivX ecosystem.
LIVX LONGEVITY
Part of the four-show LivX ecosystem.
LIVX HEALTH TECH
Part of the four-show LivX ecosystem.
LIVX INVEST
Part of the four-show LivX ecosystem.
ALUMNI NETWORK
The rooms where the rules get written
Featured past speakers across heads of state, ministers and regulators.
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The rooms where the rules get written
Featured past speakers across heads of state, ministers and regulators.
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