AI Everything Abu Dhabi looks beyond AI experimentation to real-world deployment

As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation toward wider deployment, AI Everything Abu Dhabi will bring together more than 350 AI enterprises and startups from over 60 countries, alongside governments, investors, researchers and technology companies. The event will focus on how AI is being applied across sectors, including government, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy, with research, pilot projects, and live use cases taking center stage.

The event will also bring together companies developing Arabic large language models, open-weight and multimodal AI, voice technology and enterprise agents, reflecting a market that is broadening beyond a handful of foundation-model developers toward more specialized and industry-specific applications. Participants include Mistral AI, MiniMax, ElevenLabs, Uniphore, Owkin and Multiverse Computing, as well as major technology providers such as AWS, Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud.

Investment will be another major focus, with more than 200 investors managing around $50 billion in assets expected to meet more than 150 AI-focused startups from around the world.

AI AND THE FUTURE OF GOVERNMENT

With the Department of Government Enablement – Abu Dhabi (DGE) serving as Host Partner, and Solutions+, a Mubadala Company, as Global Partner, the event will put particular emphasis on the role of AI in government. Discussions will explore Abu Dhabi’s ambition to develop an AI-native government, alongside broader questions around how public services, administration and policymaking can be redesigned around AI.

Participants, including the Advanced Technology Research Council, UAE Cybersecurity Council, Technology Innovation Institute, Khalifa University, and Abu Dhabi Ports, will join private-sector organizations such as G42, Hub71, and First Abu Dhabi Bank, and Solutions+.

BUILDING THE AI STACK

Beyond applications and models, AI Everything Abu Dhabi will examine the infrastructure required to deploy AI at scale. Data centers, compute, energy, sovereign security, quantum technologies and connectivity will feature alongside enterprise and agentic AI, highlighting the growing importance of the physical and digital infrastructure underpinning AI systems.

The event will also focus on building practical AI capabilities through workshops, certified training and the Qwenwork AI Hackathon, covering agentic systems, multi-agent orchestration, responsible AI, physical AI and rapid prototyping.

Together, the program reflects a broader shift in the AI market: from demonstrating what AI can do to building the infrastructure, skills and applications needed to put it to work at scale.