{"id":"dubai-create-ai-festival-2026","canonicalSlug":"dubai-create-ai-festival-2026","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/dubai-create-ai-festival-2026","language":"en","title":"Dubai AI Festival set for 26–27 October","summary":"The Dubai AI Festival 2026 is scheduled for 26–27 October at Dubai World Trade Centre. Organisers forecast participants from more than 100 countries.","body":["Announced on 20 October by Dubai AI Campus and Dubai International Financial Centre, the event is planned to cover AI governance, investment, enterprise adoption and infrastructure. Organisers expect more than 150 speakers, 500 investors and 200 exhibitors; these are projections, not realized attendance.","The programme is also set to address agentic AI, ethics, skills and the future of work. The announcement describes a discussion and networking event and reports no deals or policy decisions."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"Dubai AI Festival set for 26–27 October\n\nThe Dubai AI Festival 2026 is scheduled for 26–27 October at Dubai World Trade Centre. Organisers forecast participants from more than 100 countries.\n\nAnnounced on 20 October by Dubai AI Campus and Dubai International Financial Centre, the event is planned to cover AI governance, investment, enterprise adoption and infrastructure. Organisers expect more than 150 speakers, 500 investors and 200 exhibitors; these are projections, not realized attendance.\n\nThe programme is also set to address agentic AI, ethics, skills and the future of work. The announcement describes a discussion and networking event and reports no deals or policy decisions.","category":"business","region":"world","topics":["ai"],"eventDate":"2026-10-20","eventDateBasis":"source-event-or-period","publishedAt":"2026-10-20T15:07:15Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-20T15:07:15Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-20T15:02:07Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-20","translatedAt":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://www.wam.ae/en/article/c2u6pcf-dubai-festival-2026-unite-governments-investors","name":"Emirates News Agency (WAM)","licence":"No open reuse licence asserted. Original factual reporting; no source prose or image reproduced.","checkedAt":"2026-10-20","licenseUrl":"https://www.wam.ae/en/article/c2u6pcf-dubai-festival-2026-unite-governments-investors","attribution":"Emirates News Agency (WAM), 2026-10-20","publishedAt":"2026-10-20"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/dubai-create-ai-festival-2026","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/dubai-create-ai-festival-2026","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/dubai-create-ai-festival-2026","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/dubai-create-ai-festival-2026","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/dubai-create-ai-festival-2026","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/dubai-create-ai-festival-2026","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/dubai-create-ai-festival-2026"},"corrections":[],"locations":[{"id":"dubai","name":{"ar":"دبي","en":"Dubai","es":"Dubái","fr":"Dubaï","pt":"Dubai","ru":"Дубай","tr":"Dubai"},"type":"city","source":{"url":"https://www.wam.ae/en/article/c2u6pcf-dubai-festival-2026-unite-governments-investors","name":"Emirates News Agency (WAM)","checkedAt":"2026-10-20","publishedAt":"2026-10-20"},"context":{"ar":"بيانات أو نشاط مُعلن في دبي.","en":"Reported data or activity in Dubai.","es":"Datos o actividad comunicados en Dubái.","fr":"Données ou activité signalées à Dubaï.","pt":"Dados ou atividade relatados no Dubai.","ru":"Сообщаемые данные или деятельность в Дубае.","tr":"Dubai’de bildirilen veri veya faaliyet."},"countryCode":"AE"}],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["industry-event"],"geographies":[{"role":"event-location","countryCode":"AE","subdivisionCode":"AE-DU"}],"evidenceBasis":["plan"],"measurementPeriod":null}}