– Underneath the patronage of Hamdan bin Mohammed, Dubai AI Week to welcome business leaders, specialists and officers from over a 100 international locations
Mohammad Al Gergawi: The occasion displays our dedication to advancing nationwide methods that put innovation on the coronary heart of future-readiness
– International occasion heralds an intensive lineup of high-level summits, exhibitions, hackathons and competitions throughout town
– Bringing collectively over 10,000 contributors, AI showcase options over 150 classes and workshops, and over 140 activations, with over 180 audio system sharing key insights
The Dubai Future Basis (DFF) has introduced the official agenda for the inaugural Dubai AI Week, going down from 21-25 April 2025, and held below the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of DFF.
Organised by the Dubai Centre for Synthetic Intelligence and overseen by the Dubai Future Basis, the worldwide occasion will convene AI pioneers, innovators, decision-makers, and business leaders from over 100 international locations to foster worldwide collaboration and highlight the function of AI in reimagining authorities companies, accelerating financial development, and constructing future-ready societies.
Dubai AI Week marks a pivotal second within the UAE’s mission to form the worldwide AI panorama – one which shall be delivered to life by a collection of flagship initiatives, immersive experiences, and high-impact collaborations.
His Excellency Mohammad Al Gergawi, Minister of Cupboard Affairs and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Managing Director of the Dubai Future Basis, affirmed that Dubai has turn into a worldwide vacation spot for shaping the way forward for AI and a number one hub for the world’s prime tech corporations on this fast-evolving area. He emphasised that this progress is pushed by the imaginative and prescient of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and the continued steering and help of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
“Dubai AI Week marks a significant milestone within the UAE’s journey to speed up the adoption of synthetic intelligence throughout governments and industries,” Al Gergawi stated. “It displays our dedication to advancing nationwide methods that put innovation on the coronary heart of future-readiness, and to turning AI potential into sensible, real-world influence.”
He added: “The week will carry collectively good minds from around the globe to develop sensible, scalable options that serve humanity and open new pathways for innovation and progress. It is going to additionally function a worldwide platform to spotlight finest practices in AI adoption and encourage the following wave of concepts and experimentation.”
Public-private partnership enabler
His Excellency Al Gergawi highlighted the significance of participation from UAE and worldwide authorities entities, noting that Dubai AI Week is a novel alternative to strengthen collaboration between the private and non-private sectors, showcase cutting-edge breakthroughs in AI, and discover how rising applied sciences can help each financial development and social development.
He additionally welcomed the presence of nationwide pavilions from international locations around the globe, calling it a helpful likelihood to alternate experience, highlight expertise, and join forward-thinking corporations with international alternatives.
9 AI-driven occasions
The Dubai AI Week encompasses a lineup of key occasions throughout town starting from high-level summits, exhibitions, hackathons and international competitions which are devoted to advancing AI. These occasions embody, AI Retreat, Dubai Meeting for AI, International Immediate Engineering Championship, Machines Can See Convention, Dubai AI Pageant, Dubai AI Hackathon: Agentic AI, eighth Worldwide Convention on Schooling High quality, HIMSS Government Summit, and AI in Faculties – designed to introduce college students and educators to AI ideas.
Over 10,000 AI specialists and contributors are anticipated to attend the week-long occasion, which is able to host over 180 native and worldwide audio system, greater than 150 classes and workshops in addition to over 140 activations. Capitalising on Dubai AI Week’s international enchantment, the occasion is about to host over 25 international tech corporations together with Google, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Gartner and Swift, apart from welcoming over 15 nation delegations showcasing their newest improvements in AI, together with the US, South Korea, India, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Italy and Germany.
A platform for strategic partnerships
With collaboration being integral to the success of the worldwide AI business, Dubai AI Week has been instrumental in facilitating impactful native and worldwide partnerships. This 12 months, the occasion’s Strategic Companions embody, Digital Dubai Authority, DEWA, Dubai Chamber of Digital Economic system and the UAE AI Workplace.
Further companions embody international tech leaders and AI pioneers, reminiscent of Meta, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Gartner, OpenAI, Swift, Nvidia, Palantir, Cohere and ElevenLabs.
The AI Retreat on 21 April on the Museum of the Future shall be an unique, invite-only occasion gathering over 100 international leaders, tech giants, decision-makers, and AI specialists from each authorities and personal sector to deal with AI challenges, purposes and alternatives regionally and globally. The occasion may also host closed roundtable discussions addressing Economic system and Funding, Information and Governance, Infrastructure, and Expertise Improvement.
Dubai Meeting for AI from 21–25 April, being held at AREA 2071 at Emirates Towers, will host over 2,500 international AI leaders, policymakers, and executives, that includes 25 classes and dwell AI activations introduced by main AI corporations.
The International Immediate Engineering Championship, from 22–23 April at AREA 2071 at Emirates Towers, will witness 24 finalists and AI fans from amongst a worldwide pool of three,800 candidates competing in Dubai for AED1 million in prizes throughout 4 classes, together with Artwork, Gaming, Coding, and Video.
The championship affords inventive native and international abilities a platform to display their expertise within the area of immediate engineering by crafting exact directions for an AI instrument to generate desired distinctive content material.
Organised by Dubai AI Campus in partnership with DIFC and the UAE AI Workplace, the Dubai AI Pageant, being held from 23–24 April at Madinat Jumeirah, will host 8,000 business specialists, 500 buyers, and 100 exhibitors from around the globe – offering a vibrant platform for networking, partnerships, and collaboration.
Organised by Polynome Occasions in collaboration with the UAE AI Workplace and DFF, the Machines Can See Summit, from 23-24 April, on the Museum of the Future and AREA 2071 at Emirates Towers, will characteristic keynotes and classes, workshops and an expo zone. The summit delves into how AI can function a power for good, driving constructive change throughout industries and societies.
The eighth Worldwide Convention on Schooling High quality, from 22-24 April, being hosted on the Grand Hyatt Lodge is organised by the Normal Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs – Dubai in collaboration with the Emirates Academy for Id and Citizenship. The convention brings collectively main specialists, researchers, decision-makers, and college college students to debate the most recent developments in synthetic intelligence and innovation in public companies and schooling.
Organised by HIMSS and supported by Dubai Well being Authority, the HIMSS Government Summit 2025 on 23 April at Emirates Towers Lodge will discover the potential of generative AI in healthcare, genomics and precision drugs, and the deployment of revolutionary instruments to speed up digital maturity.
Dubai AI Week Hackathon on 25 April, being held at AREA 2071 at Emirates Towers, is organised by DFF in collaboration with Hackmasters. The hands-on competitors will problem innovators to design autonomous AI brokers able to independently fixing real-world issues.
AI Week in Faculties, being held from 21-25 April in collaboration with the KHDA, seeks to introduce college students to AI ideas and purposes, inspiring a brand new era of AI-literate innovators.
Promising sectors
Dubai AI Week 2025 highlights the alternatives and future influence of synthetic intelligence throughout key sectors together with Authorities and Regulators, International Trade Leaders, Future-driven Expertise, Startups and Buyers, Tech Innovators and College students and Educators.
Every of Dubai AI Week’s occasions is designed to activate these sectors in significant methods – from shaping agile coverage on the AI Retreat, to exploring cutting-edge developments with international leaders on the Dubai Meeting for AI. The International Immediate Engineering Championship and Agentic AI Hackathon highlight rising expertise, whereas the Dubai AI Pageant connects startups and buyers in a dynamic enterprise atmosphere. The Machines Can See Summit brings collectively tech innovators driving developments in robotics and autonomous techniques, and AI Week in Faculties introduces the following era to the instruments and pondering that may form their futures. Via this built-in method, Dubai AI Week fosters collaboration, unlocks alternative, and accelerates AI readiness throughout all the innovation ecosystem.
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