Gitex Global Summit 2026

Name: Gitex Global Summit 2026
Start: 2026-12-07
End: 2026-12-07
Location: Dubai World Trade Centre

Gitex Global Summit 2026 takes place on 7 December 2026 at Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai. B2DB lists 79 speakers and 104 sessions announced so far.

The GITEX Summit is the one-day opening event of GITEX GLOBAL 2026, held on 7 December 2026 at the Sheikh Maktoum Hall, Dubai World Trade Centre. It brings together ministers, policymakers, tech leaders, investors and founders for high-level discussions on the Compute Economy, the New Map of Capital and Future Frontiers, alongside closed-door Chatham House briefings, the LIVX World Longevity Forum, the GITEX Capital Forum and a gala dinner. The GITEX GLOBAL Expo and conferences follow on 8–11 December 2026 at Dubai Exhibition Centre, Expo City Dubai.

Key facts

Dates	7 December 2026 (upcoming)
Venue	Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Speakers	79
Sessions	104
Stages	Main Stage, Cyber, AI for Developers, AI for Government & Enterprise, AI for R&D
Sponsors	21
Official site	gitex.com/agenda

Speakers (79)

Compiled from the published agenda; speakers can claim and verify their own entry.

Margaux Miller Global Event MC & Community Builder, MAM Media
Keith Koo VP US Capital & Founder, Host, Silicon Valley Insider
David Casem CEO, Telnyx
Eugene Kaspersky CEO, Kaspersky
Marc Cieslak AI Correspondent, BBC News
Dr. Johanna Hutchinson Chief Data Officer, BAE Systems
Mikko Hypponen Chief Research Officer (CRO), Sensofusion
Frank van Caenegem Cybersecurity VP & CISO EMEA, Schneider Electric
Sanjay Poonen CEO and President, Cohesity
Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, Ccie National Information Technology Development Agency
Tilly Norwood Actress, Particle 6
Trevor Thompson Managing Director – Global, Scale AI
Jane Wakefield Former Senior Tech & Broadcast Journalist, BBC
Bree Fowler Freelance Cybersecurity & Technology Journalist (Former Senior Writer, CNET, AP & Consumer Reports)
Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos Founder, Abundance Studio
Nathan Swain CISO, Galaxy Digital
H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti Head of Cyber Security for the, UAE Government
André Molina Secretary of Cybersecurity and Information Security, Institutional Security Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil (GSI)
Bryce Case Jr Hacker, Rapper, Amazon Element55
Keshav Malik Product Security, LinkedIn
Kevin T. Shin Head of Information Security, Samsung Semiconductor Inc.
Michelle Bordachar Benoit National Director, Agencia Nacional de Ciberseguridad (ANCI)
Shivkumar Pandey Group Chief Information Security Officer, Adani Group
Abdulla Abdullayev Head of Information Security, NMDC Group
Andreas Horn Founder, Human in the Loop
Arvind Srinivasan Co-Founder, eMudhra
Ayoub Fathi Group CISO, Noon
Biswa Sengupta Chief AI Technologist, JP Morgan Chase
Carter Church Vice President, Forward Deployed Engineer, Insight Partners, Office of AI
Christian Reilly Field Chief Technology Officer, Cloudflare
Corey Deng Chief Security Officer, Huawei Middle East & Central Asia, Huawei
Derek Chamorro Head of Security, Together AI
Dr. Mohamad El Dallal Chair of the IEEE Entrepreneurship Global Committee, IEEE
Ekta Shah Solutions Architect in AI/ML, Aivar Innovations
Fadi Naffah Chief Growth Officer, ARIS
Fayez Ibbini Founder & CEO, Alpha Data
Gina Ortiz Jones Mayor, City of San Antonio
H.E. Sergey Cheremin Minister of the Moscow Government
Ioannis Alexakis Head of General Directorate for Strategic Planning, National Cybersecurity Authority of Greece, Ministry Of Digital Governance
Jamey Butcher Chair & CEO, Chemonics International
Jeffrey Sweeney Founder & Chairman, US Capital Global
Jesson Ni President of ICT MSSD, Middle East and Central Asia, Huawei
Josh Stageberg Group Vice President of Product Management, SolarWinds
Karthik Rameshkumar Field CTO, Entire
Leonard Schreij Vice President, Legora
Linda Sheng President Global Business, MiniMax
Matt Fisher Chief Technology Officer, Efekta Education Group
Mohamed Sadawy Group Chief Information Officer, Bukhatir Group
Mohammad Abulhouf Vice President & General Manager, Middle East & Africa, Nutanix
Nathan Hancock Vice President and Managing Director, UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa, Adobe
Olatunbosun Alake Honorable Commisioner, Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, Lagos State Government
Patrick Johansson Senior Vice President and Head of Market Area Europe, Middle East and Africa, Ericsson
Paul-Francois Fournier Senior Vice President, Innovation, bpifrance
Ryan Wang General Partner, Solaris Venture Partners
Safder Nazir SVP, Public Sector, Middle East and Central Asia, Huawei - UAE
Sarfaraz Muneer Vice President Cyber Security, Mubadala Investment Company
Shubham Agnihotri Senior Data Scientist - Gen AI, IDFC First Bank
Siddhant Agarwal Developer Relations Lead, ClickHouse Inc
Yassine El Bakiouli VP – AI & Applications, Gulf Enterprise, Oracle
York von Eichel-Streiber Sr Technology Evangelist, NinjaOne
Ziad Yunis Regional Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Bybit
Ben Goertzel CEO, SingularityNET
Markus Pflitsch Founder, CEO & Chairman, Terra Quantum AG
Gary Marcus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science [Emeritus], New York University
Ana Paula Assis SVP and Chair IBM EMEA and Growth Markets, IBM
Marc Ganzi Chief Executive Officer, DigitalBridge
Gautier Cloix CEO, H Company
Connor Leahy US Director, ControlAI
Tim Brown General Partner and CISO in Residence, Team8
Aubrey de Grey President & Chief Science Officer, LEV Foundation
Dr. Alex Alipar Co-Founder & President, Insilico Medicine
Dr. Nicole Sirotin CEO, Institute of Healthier Living Abu Dhabi
Gisselle Ruiz Lanza VP & GM, EMEA, Intel
Jeanne Lim Founder & CEO, beingAI Corporation
Mohamed Alabbar Founder, Emaar Properties
Peng Xiao CEO, G42
Phillip Gan SVP, Huawei
T. Ufuk Eren Co-Founder, EnaBridge Ventures
Trevor Martin Co-Founder & CEO, Mammoth Biosciences

Agenda (104 sessions)

Day 1 — Tuesday 8 December 2026

Decentralise AI before AI centralises everything 11:00–11:20 · Main Stage
Can AI make a city more human? 11:20–11:40 · Main Stage
Government that works for people. In any country. 11:40–12:00 · Main Stage
Moderator Remarks 11:55–12:00 · Cyber
MC Remarks 11:55–12:00 · AI for Developers — Margaux Miller
Opening Address: Cybersecurity Global Reset 2027 12:00–12:30 · Cyber — H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti
An agent made the mistake. Who restores the business? 12:00–12:20 · Main Stage — Sanjay Poonen
Introducing Snowflake CoCo & Project SnowWork 12:00–12:30 · AI for Developers
Your AI strategy ends where your network fails 12:20–12:35 · Main Stage — Patrick Johansson
Sovereign AI: Whose Models, Whose Data, Whose Kill Switch? 12:30–13:05 · Cyber — Nathan Swain, Kevin T. Shin, Michelle Bordachar Benoit, Shivkumar Pandey
How developers' roles and workflows are evolving – From Writing Code to Directing Intelligence 12:30–13:00 · AI for Developers — Karthik Rameshkumar
Proof of identity is broken 12:35–12:50 · Main Stage — David Casem
The end of human-controlled security 12:50–13:05 · Main Stage — Mikko Hypponen
Vibe coding versus production-grade engineering – From Rapid Prototyping to Reliable Software 13:00–13:30 · AI for Developers — Ekta Shah, Shubham Agnihotri
The Attackers Have AI: Surviving the "Speed of Light" Era of Cyberthreats 13:05–13:20 · Cyber — Eugene Kaspersky
Beyond connectivity: Resilience for the agentic age 13:05–13:20 · Main Stage — Jesson Ni
What should your company let AI do? 13:20–13:35 · Main Stage
Defenders Need AI Too: Building Sovereign Cyber Capability at National Scale 13:20–13:40 · Cyber — Bree Fowler, André Molina
Who Will You Trust? Humans, Machines and the Future of Cooperation 13:30–14:00 · AI for Developers — Fayez Ibbini
Trust will cost more than compute 13:35–14:05 · Main Stage
In Conversation: Can $1 Billion in AI Credits Fix Cybersecurity's Talent Crisis? 13:40–14:00 · Cyber — Jane Wakefield
Cracking the Impossible: How AI Solved a 217-Year-Old Military Cipher 14:00–14:30 · AI for Developers — Marc Cieslak, Carter Church
Stopping Fraud and Account Takeover in Real Time 14:00–14:15 · Cyber — Christian Reilly
The new partnership between public and private capital 14:05–14:20 · Main Stage — Paul-Francois Fournier
Dialogue: 24 Hours to Confess: Inside Europe's Brutal New Breach Clock 14:15–14:35 · Cyber — Nathan Swain, Ioannis Alexakis
Who owns the customer when an agent is the front door? 14:20–14:35 · Main Stage — Nathan Hancock
The Boring Token Bill: Why Tokenomics Will Decide the AI Race 14:30–15:00 · AI for Developers — Mohammad Abulhouf
When the cloud is on your soil, whose rules does it follow? 14:35–14:50 · Main Stage
640,000 Attacks in a Day: Why No Country Can Defend Alone 14:35–14:55 · Cyber — H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti
How much of your business would you let AI run? 14:50–15:20 · Main Stage
★ DO NOT MISS ★ Drones. Rogue AI. Why I’m Still Optimistic. 14:55–15:25 · Cyber — Mikko Hypponen, Jane Wakefield
LLMOps, Inference Optimisation and Deployment – From AI Experiments to Production-Ready Systems 15:00–15:30 · AI for Developers — Siddhant Agarwal
Waiting for quantum to go mainstream? 15:20–15:35 · Main Stage
Shadow AI Is Only Half the Problem: The AI You Don't Know You Have 15:25–15:40 · Cyber
Building AI in a regulated world: Licensing, compliance and developer innovation 15:30–16:00 · AI for Developers — Marc Cieslak
What does it mean to get left out of the AI economy? 15:35–16:00 · Main Stage
Digital First or Secure First? A Nation’s Cyber Bet 15:40–16:00 · Cyber
MC Remarks 16:00–16:05 · AI for Developers — Margaux Miller
The intelligence economy needs new financial rails 16:00–16:40 · Main Stage

Day 2 — Wednesday 9 December 2026

Moderator Remarks 11:00–11:05 · Cyber
G42 Programme 11:00–12:30 · Main Stage
Panel: The Attack Surface Isn't Yours Anymore: AI, Supply Chains and the New Cyber Risk 11:05–11:45 · Cyber — Jane Wakefield, André Molina, Corey Deng
MC Remarks 11:25–11:30 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Margaux Miller
From Assistance to Authority - The Rise of Agentic Government 11:30–12:00 · AI for Government & Enterprise
★ UNMISSABLE ★ $1.5 Billion, One Wallet, 72 Hours: Inside the Response to the Biggest Heist in Crypto History 11:45–12:05 · Cyber — Bree Fowler, Ziad Yunis
How Much Autonomy Is Too Much? 12:00–12:30 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos, Fadi Naffah, Josh Stageberg
Fix What Matters First: Cutting Through the Noise of 10,000 Vulnerabilities 12:05–12:20 · Cyber
From One Incident to National Prevention: How Chile Is Building Its Cybersecurity Agency 12:20–12:40 · Cyber — Nathan Swain, Michelle Bordachar Benoit
The Token Economy: Who Pays for Intelligence? 12:30–12:45 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Keith Koo, Jeffrey Sweeney
From a $7,500 Bounty to the CISO’s Chair: What the Hacker Mindset Teaches Defenders 12:40–13:00 · Cyber — Bree Fowler, Ayoub Fathi
Sovereign AI or Sovereign Dependence? 12:45–13:00 · AI for Government & Enterprise
AI and the changing business of mobility 12:50–13:10 · Main Stage
Fireside Chat: The New AI Power Race: How Chips, Security and Leadership Will Define the Winners 13:00–13:20 · Cyber — Jane Wakefield, Kevin T. Shin
The Case for Shared AI Infrastructure - Build, Buy or Share? 13:00–13:15 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Keith Koo, Linda Sheng
Safe Enough or Fast Enough? 13:15–13:45 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Marc Cieslak, Dr. Johanna Hutchinson, Safder Nazir
Trust, But Verify: Continuous Assurance Across Your Vendor Ecosystem 13:20–13:35 · Cyber — York von Eichel-Streiber
PAREIDOLIA: When AI Sees What Isn't There 13:35–14:00 · Cyber — Bryce Case Jr
Building the Intelligent Enterprise 13:45–14:05 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Mohamed Sadawy, Yassine El Bakiouli
Government on Autopilot: Securing AI Across Borders 14:00–14:20 · Cyber — H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti
Humanoid Robotics, Embodied AI, and Commercial Deployment 14:00–14:15 · Main Stage — Ryan Wang
Agentic AI in Finance - Surrendering Control or Gaining Edge? 14:05–14:20 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos, Biswa Sengupta
Beyond the Demo: Humanoids at Industrial Scale 14:15–14:30 · Main Stage
50+ Patents, One Lesson: Cryptography Rarely Breaks. The Keys Do. 14:20–14:40 · Cyber — Bree Fowler, Derek Chamorro
From AI Agents to Agentic Enterprises: Turning Intelligence into Action? 14:20–14:35 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Marc Cieslak, Trevor Thompson
LIVE DEMO - AI Glasses as the Ultimate Robotic Interface 14:30–14:45 · Main Stage
From Answers to Ability: Human × AI and the Future of Learning 14:35–14:55 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos, Matt Fisher
Who Owns the Risk? When IT Security Meets the Factory Floor 14:40–15:00 · Cyber — Frank van Caenegem, Nathan Swain
The Humanoid Bet: Revolution, Bubble — or Something in Between? 14:45–15:10 · Main Stage
AI for Humanitarian Foresight: From Early Warning to Action 14:55–15:15 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Jamey Butcher
One Password Away: Can You Assure an AI Agent You Can’t Predict? 15:00–15:20 · Cyber — Jane Wakefield, Sarfaraz Muneer
The Humanoid Race: Who Will Build the World's Workforce? 15:10–15:35 · Main Stage
In Conversation With 15:15–15:30 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Marc Cieslak, Leonard Schreij
Hacking the Hacker: Can You Trick an AI Security Agent? 15:20–15:40 · Cyber — Keshav Malik
Who Sets the Rules for AI-Powered Cities? 15:30–15:45 · AI for Government & Enterprise
Manufacturing the Machines: Inside the Robotics Factory Floor 15:35–16:00 · Main Stage
In-conversation: The Bridge Nobody Guards: Where IT Meets OT, and Why That's Exactly Where Attackers Go 15:40–16:00 · Cyber — Shivkumar Pandey
Meet Tilly Norwood, The World’s First AI Actress 15:45–16:15 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Margaux Miller, Tilly Norwood
MC Remarks 16:15–16:20 · AI for Government & Enterprise — Margaux Miller

Day 3 — Thursday 10 December 2026

Opening Remarks 10:30–10:40 · Main Stage
Leadership Chat: Who Controls the Autonomous City? Governance, Digital Sovereignty and the Urban Operating System 10:40–11:00 · Main Stage — Gina Ortiz Jones
In conversation with Sergey Cheremin, Minister, Government of Moscow 11:00–11:15 · Main Stage — H.E. Sergey Cheremin
In conversation with Rafał Rosiński, Deputy Minister, Poland 11:15–11:30 · Main Stage
Eurasian Cities Panel | From Pilot to Citywide Transformation: What Works, What Fails, What Scales? 11:30–12:00 · Main Stage
Moderator Remarks 11:55–12:00 · Cyber
Tech Panel : Technology in Action: The City That Runs Itself 12:00–12:30 · Main Stage — Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, Ccie
The Billion-Dollar Bet: Winning Boardroom Buy-In and Keeping Cyber Talent 12:00–12:40 · Cyber — Jane Wakefield, Abdulla Abdullayev
MC Remarks 12:00–12:05 · AI for R&D
Introduction to IEEE Entrepreneurship 12:05–12:15 · AI for R&D — Dr. Mohamad El Dallal
Beyond the Chatbot 12:15–12:25 · AI for R&D
Human and AI Creativity: Can AI Help Us Discover Something New? 12:25–12:55 · AI for R&D — Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos
Capital & Investment Chat Who Pays for the Autonomous Economy? Financing the City of the Future 12:30–12:50 · Main Stage — Olatunbosun Alake
True Story: Eight Keys, 18 Months, 14 Hours: What Happens When the Company That Vouches for the Internet Gets It Wrong 12:40–13:00 · Cyber — Bree Fowler, Arvind Srinivasan
The Resilient City: Powering Intelligence, Protecting Infrastructure and Preparing for Climate Extremes 12:50–13:20 · Main Stage
Physical AI: When Intelligence Enters the Real World 12:55–13:25 · AI for R&D
Ransomware: The 935% Surge That Hit Oil and Gas 13:00–13:40 · Cyber
Closing Spotlight 13:20–13:40 · Main Stage
Live AI Research & Innovation Showcase 13:35–14:05 · AI for R&D
In-conversation: The New Battlefield: When Cyberwar and Real War Become the Same War 13:40–14:00 · Cyber
BESTIARY: A Field Guide to AI's Hidden Threats and Defences 14:00–15:00 · Cyber — Bryce Case Jr
The Next AI Stack: Open Models, Compute & Efficiency 14:05–14:35 · AI for R&D
The Agentic Reality Check 14:35–15:05 · AI for R&D — Andreas Horn
Your AI Agent Has a Supply Chain Problem Too 15:00–16:00 · Cyber — Keshav Malik
Debate with Q&A | From Research to Reality: What Will AI Look Like in 2030? 15:05–15:35 · AI for R&D
MC Remarks 15:35–15:40 · AI for R&D

Organisers, sponsors and partners

Gitex Global Summit 2026

Key facts

Speakers (79)

Agenda (104 sessions)

Day 1 — Tuesday 8 December 2026

Day 2 — Wednesday 9 December 2026

Day 3 — Thursday 10 December 2026

Organisers, sponsors and partners

Sponsors (21)

Media Partners (47)

Association Partners (3)

Exhibitors (185)

Supporting Partners (17)