Global AI Show 2026

Riyadh , Saudi Arabia

Sobre Global AI Show 2026

The Global AI Show Riyadh 2026 takes place on 9–10 February 2026 at Malfa Hall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — a major global technology summit with a strong emphasis on the convergence of artificial intelligence, Web3, blockchain and decentralized technologies. While the core theme is AI leadership and future intelligence, the event is co‑located with the Global Blockchain Show, bringing together the top Web3 and crypto community alongside AI innovators and builders. 

This two‑day gathering attracts 10,000+ attendees, 250+ speakers, 200+ exhibitors and 300+ media partners from around the world, including founders, developers, investors, policymakers and enterprise leaders. The combined program touches on blockchain adoption, decentralized finance (DeFi), token economics, and the role of AI in accelerating secure crypto infrastructure — offering practical insights into how AI and blockchain can co‑evolve to power the next generation of decentralized platforms and digital economies.

For those in the crypto ecosystem, the event delivers more than AI thought leadership: it creates networking bridges between Web3 founders, sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors and decentralized project teams, all under one roof in the Middle East. With curated sessions, exhibition zones and side experiences tied to blockchain innovation, the Global AI Show Riyadh 2026 is a springboard for exploring how AI enhances decentralized systems, improves security and enables new Web3 business models.

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Dr. Ibraheem Sheerah
Chief Transformation Officer of Saudi Arabian Airlines Holding Saudi Arabian Airlines Holding
Nezar Al Turki
Chief Information Officer of Ministry of National Guard Ministry of National Guard
Adel Thuwayi
Chief Technology Officer of GIG Saudi Arabia GIG Saudi
Abdullah Alshargi
Chief Technology Officer of Tawuniya Tawuniya
Nosaibah Alrajhi
CEO & Board Member at Forus Financial of National Commitee for Investment, Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry Forus Financial
Adel Tash
Chief Executive Officer of King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah King Abdullah Medical City - Makkah
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Dr. Alaa Moussawi
Chief Data Scientist at Legislative Division, New York City Council New York City Council
Abdullah Biary
Chief Information Security Officer of United Cooperative Assurance United Cooperative Assurance
Kamal Farag
Chief Technology Officer of HelloApp HelloApp
Abdulaziz Alruwieshed
Director of Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity Audit of Confidential Confidential
Javed A. Akbar
Chief Governance-Risk (GRC), Insurance & Data Officer at TASNEE Tasnee
Ksenia Zaykova
Founder of NODE Communications, Chief Communications Officer of AngelsDeck Global Ventures AngelsDeck Global Ventures
Nasser Aljehani
Senior CEO Advisor of Tawuniya Tawuniya
Renat Bekturov
Governor at Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), Republic of Kazakhstan Astana International Financial Centre
Andy Tang
Partner at Draper Associates, Founding partner at Draper Dragon Draper Dragon
Pujya Brahmavihari Swami
Spiritual Leader, Head of BAPS Hindu Mandir, Abu Dhabi BAPS Hindu Mandir
H. E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti
Head of Cyber Security at United Arab Emirates Government United Arab Emirates University
Marwan Alzarouni
CEO of AI for Dubai's Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) and the CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center (DBCC) Dubai Blockchain Center
Cathy Hackl
Tech & Gaming Executive and CEO of Future Dynamics Future Dynamics
Janet Adams
COO of SingularityNET SingularityNET
Thomas Clozel
CEO & Co-Founder of Owkin Owkin
Najyb Al Maskari
Executive Director of Government Cybersecurity Operations at the Department of Government Enablement (DGE), Abu Dhabi Government Cyber Security Summit
Andreas Feil
First Secretary for Climate, Energy and Environment Policy at German Embassy Abu Dhabi German Embassy Abu Dhabi
Dr. Hyunjin Kim
Strategy Professor at INSEAD INSEAD
Marius Raileanu
Chief Data Officer at Department of Health Abu Dhabi Department of Health Abu Dhabi
Abdullah Al Jaziri
Chief AI Officer of DEWA dewa
H.E. Eng. Amal Abdulrahim
Assistant Undersecretary for The Support Services Sector, Chief AI & Innovation Officer of UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment Ministry of Climate Change and Environment
Sally Saab
AI Strategy & Transformation Coach at Mubadala Mubadala
H.E. Dr. Ohoud Shehail
Director General of Department of Digital Ajman Department of Digital Ajman
Bushra AlBlooshi
Director, Governance and Risk Management at Dubai Electronic Security Center (DESC) Dubai Electronic Security Center
Maitha Alnuaimi
GIS Center Department Director at Dubai Municipality Dubai Municipality
Sandeep Nawal
Co-Founder & CEO of Polygon Foundation Polygon Labs
Joseph Bradley
CEO, JMB X & Ex-CEO of TONOMUS (NEOM subsidiary) TONOMUS
Alex Aliper
Co-Founder and President of Insilico Medicine INSILICO MEDICINE, INC
Mohammad Almansoori
Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia
Kevin McAleenan
CEO of BigBear.ai BigBear.ai
Jim McLaughlin
Acting CTO at BigBear.ai BigBear.ai
Zach Casper
Vice President of Technical Solutions at BigBear.ai BigBear.ai
H. E. Mubaraka Ibrahim
Chief AI Officer of Emirates Health Services Emirates Health Services
Ahmed Khalifa Al Houqani
Chief AI Officer of UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA)
Dr. Víctor Mateu
Chief Researcher - Cryptography Research Center of Technology Innovation Institute TII - Technology Innovation Institute
Zaid Kamhawi
Chief Research & Development Officer at Saudi Credit Bureau - SIMAH Saudi Credit Bureau SIMAH
Dr. Saeed Al Mansoori
Director of the Remote Sensing Department at Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre
Philippe Gerwill
Executive Advisor - Digitalization Humanist, Futurist/Board Member at PGEA Ltd PGEA Ltd
Latifa Al Shehhi
Chief AI Officer at Invest UAE by the Ministry of Investment Invest UAE by the Ministry of Investment
Maria D. Toler
Founding and Managing Partner of SteelSky Ventures SteelSky Ventures
Paula Naoufal
Senior Reporter and Presenter at CNN Business Arabic CNN Business Arabic
Alsaadi Alya
Cyber Programme Coordinator at INTERPOL Interpol
Prof. James Ehrlich
Director of Compassionate Sustainability at School of Medicine Stanford University Stanford University School of Medicine
John Lilic​
Shareholder & Advisory Board Member at Hilbert Group Hilbert Capital
Nader M. Ghazal
Chairman, African-Asian Council for AI & Cybersecurity-CAAAIC The African-Asian Council for AI and Cybersecurity
Professor Samir El-Masri, PhD
Founder and President of Arab Society for Digital Transformation, United Arab Emirates Arab Society for Digital Transformation, United Arab Emirates
Quentin Reyes
CEO of Hyperfusion Hyperfusion
Dr. Ebrahim Al Alkeem Al Zaabi
Director Digital Transformation - Cyber Security - AI Expert, Government of Abu Dhabi (UAE) Government of Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Maxim Shkvaruk
Founder and Managing Director of Atlas Ventures Atlas Ventures
Bilal Baloch
Partner at Shorooq Shorooq
Dr. Asma Al Mannaei
Executive Director Digital Health of Department of Health Department of Health Abu Dhabi
Dr. Ali Ismail Awad
Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) United Arab Emirates University
Marwan Alkaabi
Chief Executive Officer at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City - SSMC Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City - SSMC
Deepak Gupta
Group Chief Technology & Product Officer at Automotive Manufacturers Private Limited Automotive Manufacturers Private Limited
Hassa Al Mazrouei
Medical Director at SSMC/ International Patient Experience, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City - SSMC
Samantha Evans
Managing Director at MENA Startup Genome Startup Genome
Helen Ye
CEO of Qubit Underwriting Qubit Underwriting Limited
Mahyar Salek
CTO & President at Deepcell Deepcell
Hasnae Taleb
Managing Partner, Chief Investment Officer at Miltiply Capital Multiple Capital
PJ McCloskey
Director of MCC Economics & Finance MCC Economics & Finance
Timur Kudratov
Co-Founder and Board Member at Enlightened Minds Investments Enlightened Minds Investments
Dr Ruchi Dana
Partner at MFV Partners MFV Partners
Sir Martin Sorrell
Founder and Executive Chairman of S4 Capital PLC S4S Ventures
Dr. Abdalla Sulaiman Ahmed Sulaiman
Chief Innovation Officer & Director of Strategic and Future Department & Chief Innovation Officer at Ministry of Justice UAE Ministry of Justice UAE
Dr. Mo Khodadadi
Executive Director ‑ Data & AI at PureHealth PureHealth
Mark Machin
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Intrepid Growth Partners Intrepid Growth Partners
Pippa Malmgren
CEO of Geopolitica Institute Geopolitical Intelligence Services
Uptin
Creator & Founder of Uptin.co Uptin.co
Raakin Roll
CEO and Co-Founder of Nucleus AI/ The A.I Brain Company Nucleus AI
Mohammed Soliman
Director, Strategic Technologies and Cyber Security Program at Middle East Institute Middle East Institute
Diana Hamade
Founder & Managing Partner of Diana Hamade Attorneys at Law Diana Hamade Attorneys at Law
Nena Dokuzov
Head of Project group for New Economy and Blockchain Technology, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology in Slovenia Ministry of Economic Development and Technology
Herbert Sim
CMO at AICEAN.IO AICEAN.IO
Carter Tian
Chief Solution Architect, AI Expert of META Region at Alibaba Cloud ALIBABA CLOUD JAPAN
Amina Abdulrahim
Executive Director of the ICT and IT Security Department at the American University of Sharjah American University of Sharjah
Barnabas Reynolds
Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell Sullivan & Cromwell
Ian Mahoney
Chief Technology Officer of webook.com webook.com
Faraz Arshad
Chief Technology Officer of STARZPLAY STARZPLAY
Jason Barsema
Co-Founder & President of Halo Investing Halo Investing
Rizwan Tufail
Group Chief Data Officer at PureHealth PureHealth
Tannya Jajal
Founder of AIDEN Aiden
Walid Faza
General Partner at Novo Capital MSA Novo
Imran Moinuddin
Senior Vice President, Data & AI at VentureDive VentureDive
Frederick Khoury
Senior Solution Engineer at Snowflake Snowflake
Bharathi Vokkaliga Ganesh
Head of Responsible AI Research, Development and Literacy at Infosys Responsible AI Office INFOSYS
Caroline Hoffmann
Chief Medical Officer of Owkin Owkin
Sray Agarwal
Head of EMEA at Infosys Responsible AI Office INFOSYS
Maaz Sheikh
CEO of STARZPLAY STARZPLAY
Alp Katalan
MENA Commercial Lead at Desolenator Desolenator
Muhammad Shafique
Global Network Professor of New York University New York University
Dr. Grace S. Thomson
AI Policy Clinic Director, Center for AI and Digital Policy CAIDP Center for AI and Digital Policy
Dariia Vasylieva
Founder & CEO of RaiseTalks RaiseTalks
Kamal Farag
Chief Technology Officer of HelloApp HelloApp
Sami Bashir
Vice Provost - Research Translation & Entrepreneurship of New York University Abu Dhabi New York University Abu Dhabi
Marcello Mari
Ex CEO at SingularityNET / SingularityDAO SingularityDAO
Farah Shamout
Assistant Professor of New York University Abu Dhabi New York University Abu Dhabi
Dr. Yousef Saadeh
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Global Center for AI Excellence The Global Center for AI Excellence®
Dr. Lolowa AlMarzooqi
Associate Vice Provost of New York University Abu Dhabi New York University Abu Dhabi
Amnah Ajmal
Thought Leader, Public Speaker, Top woman in fintech
Carole House
Investor & Board Director at Frontier of AI, Blockchain, Cyber & Quantum | CEO at Penumbra Strategies
Nasser Aljehani
Senior CEO Advisor of Tawuniya Tawuniya
Começar:
9 de fev. de 2026, 09:00 , AST (UTC +3)
Fim:
10 de fev. de 2026, 18:00 , AST (UTC +3)
Local:
Malfa Hall, Riyadh
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