Web Summit Qatar 2026
1 February 2026 – 4 February 2026
Doha Exhibition & Convention Center, Doha, Qatar
419 sessions · 424 speakers
Organiser (1)
Host (1)
Government Communications Office (GCO)
Media Partners (11)
CNBC · Fadaat Media Group · Semafor · Al Jazeera Media Network · Euronews · Dow Jones · Fast Company Middle East · Forbes · Inc. Arabia · Arabian Business · Axios
Sponsors (175)
Trustar Bank · Qatar Insurance Group · UN Global Compact · XDNA Group · Qatar Manpower Solutions company · Figma · Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Qatar) · Fabnet · Al Abdulghani Motors (Toyota | Lexus) · Capital Numbers · Qatar Sports Investments · Amazon · Informatica · Ooredoo Group · Sadad · Vodafone Qatar · Lisbon Mayor's Office · Investment House · CEREBRUM · Tamanna BNPL · Red Hat · Neo Ventures · Kafy · NextMove Holding / Odoo · Dell Technologies · Alvarez & Marsal · Reson8 Media · Gravo Trading and Services · Jgroup · G2A.com · Infatica.io · Young Entrepreneurs Club · Intalio · GWC Logistics · Embassy of the Netherlands · FoundHers Ventures · IBM · Google, Inc. · Gem Soft · Manjam Capital · ONLYOFFICE · Meta · Noqoody · badr Technology · Qatar Investment Authority · StrategEast · Urban Point · Mannai Technologies TechHub · Tech Monkeys · Cisco · Snoonu · Fortinet · Trend Micro · Phi Gold Wallet · Receipts · Fadaat Media Group · NextFrame · Qatar Foundation · KRESTON SVP CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS · Asma Muftah Al-ghanem Advocates & Legal Consultants · iHeartMedia · Italian Trade Agency (ICE) · Incredible Visibility · City Hall | Invest.Rio · Export Bahrain · SOIN Soluciones Integrales · Palestine Pavilion · Sun Dew Solutions Private Limited · ICEX · Invest Saudi · Microsoft · Forcepoint · Visit Qatar · Genesis · CoreLine · Tamkeen (Labour Fund) · Doha Bank QPSC · Huawei · Mannai InfoTech · Shell Ventures · Zscaler · Pass · Gaza Sky Geeks · Rapid Clearing House (RCH) · Lumo Hubs · Trade Developement Authority of Pakistan · Embassy of Switzerland in Qatar · Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia · The German Mittelstand GCC Office · Applab · Snap Inc. · University of Doha for Science & Technology · Genspark · MBCOM Technologies | Broadcom Representative · SkipCash · TAMALAK TECHNOLOGIES LLC · Qatar Finance and Business Academy · Presto App · Kingdee · HEC Paris, Doha · Media City Qatar · NBOX Now · PayLater · NeoSOFT · Diyar Middle East · Startup Portugal · Nestwork · Wittify AI · EasySignage · Growa Services and Consultancy · Apify · Zoho · IRIZ Consulting · PwC Middle East · McKinsey & Company · Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP) · American Chamber of Commerce - MENA · Quantinuum · Itqan Clinical Simulation and Innovation Center · QATAR NATIONAL BANK · Wizardcyber · Euronews · Hamad Bin Khalifa University · HeeWaa · Dibsy · Workaholics · MEmob+ FZ LLC · Scale AI · intella · Fast Company Middle East · Deloitte · Ypo · B2B INTERSALES · HUB17 Startup Studio · Accenture · Manus AI · Tech Connect Africa · Ibtechar · Outcode Software · Jeel Media · CARMA · State Audit Bureau · Nestlé Nespresso · beIN MEDIA GROUP · Gobi Partners · Cohesity · Cloudflare · Mzad Qatar · TrustLink · Madre Janus · Bahrain Economic Development Board · nizek · Barwa Bank · KARTY · Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar · Qatar Living · City University Qatar (CUQ) · Scalable AI · TURCORN · Northwestern University Qatar · Qatar Airways · Startup Qatar · QRDI Council · TAQAT · REGULYNX · Qatar Development Bank · ZEX PR WIRE · TikTok · Prospekt Design · Transfero Group · Uber · Golden Gate Ventures · Brinc · talabat · Eva Social AI
Agenda
- DJ performance by Questlove 1 February 2026
- Robots in motion 1 February 2026
- Welcome to Web Summit Qatar 2026 1 February 2026
- An address by His Excellency the Prime Minister 1 February 2026
- The view from the Midas List 1 February 2026
- Breaking the sound barrier: The voice agent era 1 February 2026
- Building the platform Big Tech won’t 1 February 2026
- Capital, attention, and influence: The new playbook for founders 1 February 2026
- Qatar's digital agenda 2030: Building a knowledge-based digital economy. [Hosted by Ministry of communications and information technology] 2 February 2026
- Breakout Startups 2 February 2026
- The necessary shift in AI value creation: Building competitive advantage in the new AI economy. 2 February 2026
- Opening remarks 2 February 2026
- Securing Agentic AI 2 February 2026
- Understanding sports fan communities with AI: The scope-tra method for developing fan personas with large language models [Hosted by Northwestern University Qatar] 2 February 2026
- Opening remarks 2 February 2026
- How to turn data into engaging stories [Hosted by Al Jazeera] 2 February 2026
- Human first: Re-centering ethics in the age of artificial intelligence 2 February 2026
- Redesigning learning for the intelligent future: The changing role of academic institutions [Hosted by HBKU] 2 February 2026
- Live podcast: Tech Stuff 2 February 2026
- Infrastructure and mobility First: The Prerequisite for Economic Innovation 2 February 2026
- From MENA to South Asia: Building the next global growth corridor 2 February 2026
- What's next for VC in MENA? 2 February 2026
- Shaping the world of SME through innovation [Hosted by QNB Group] 2 February 2026
- From Fear to Progress: Human-Centric AI Leadership for a Sustainable Future 2 February 2026
- From pitch to greenlight: The podcast development pipeline [Hosted by iHeartMedia] 2 February 2026
- The end of capitalism and what comes next 2 February 2026
- From AI that chats to AI that acts: Infrastructural robotics' rise 2 February 2026
- Venture in emerging markets 2 February 2026
- Is AI the new critical infrastructure 2 February 2026
- Integrating AI into design and prototyping [Hosted by Ministry of communications and information technology] 2 February 2026
- Unlock next-level growth with AI: scaling smarter, not harder 2 February 2026
- Microsoft Foundry: Accelerating enterprise AI [Hosted by Microsoft] 2 February 2026
- Recurring Income Mandate: Generating guaranteed above market returns in volatile markets [Hosted by Embassy of Switzerland in Qatar] 2 February 2026
- Harnessing agentic AI for smarter operations [Hosted by Shell] 2 February 2026
- Building in the AI nation [Hosted by PwC Middle East] 2 February 2026
- Level up fast: Your creator skills upgrade [Hosted by TikTok] 2 February 2026
- AI everywhere: Expanding AI use cases 2 February 2026
- PITCH group round 1 2 February 2026
- The BforeAI journey: From HBKU research to a $100M global company [Hosted by HBKU] 2 February 2026
- Securing the metals of tomorrow, today 2 February 2026
- Winning the AI funding race in 2026 2 February 2026
- From Strategy to Scale: Making Innovation Work Inside Large Organisations 2 February 2026
- From Snapchat to Specs: making computing more human 2 February 2026
- Transforming CO₂ into value 2 February 2026
- The AI-Brokerage: Reinventing client experience (From execution to intelligence) [Hosted by QNB Group] 2 February 2026
- Press conference with Government of Greece Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis 2 February 2026
- The investor perspective on AI 2 February 2026
- Building a transformation office that delivers [Hosted by QNB Group] 2 February 2026
- Investing in culture: Museums, creative industries and the knowledge economy 2 February 2026
- Sovereign AI: Building technology in a fragmented world 2 February 2026
- Why you can't ignore the Middle East in 2026 2 February 2026
- A new ‘quantum-print’ for global power 2 February 2026
- Living and learning abroad: Perspectives on an international U.S. university experience [Hosted by Northwestern University Qatar] 2 February 2026
- From hubs to high growth 2 February 2026
- International support for digital identification in the global South [Hosted by Northwestern University Qatar] 2 February 2026
- In-country Private Cloud in Qatar – unlocking the potentials for the future [Hosted by Deloitte] 2 February 2026
- Press conference with Yuno CEO Juan Pablo Ortega, and Tap Payments Co-Founder and CEO Ali Abulhasan 2 February 2026
- Trusted AI [Hosted by KPMG] 2 February 2026
- Beyond tools: Building an agentic AI system that works for you [Hosted by Al Jazeera] 2 February 2026
- PITCH group round 2 2 February 2026
- The career ladder 2 February 2026
- How Rio de Janeiro is using clean energy to develop an AI city 2 February 2026
- Public vs. private: The end of the distinction? 2 February 2026
- Innovating for commerce 2 February 2026
- From sick care to health care 2 February 2026
- The new electro-industrial stack 2 February 2026
- Entrepreneurs & Executives Residencies [Hosted by Jusour (Qatar Manpower Solutions Co.)] 2 February 2026
- How to stand out: The power of high-quality content [Hosted by TikTok] 2 February 2026
- How Qatar Is Engineering a knowledge-driven economy 2 February 2026
- The power of voice: How audio shapes thinking, culture, and the modern mind 2 February 2026
- Global innovation imperatives for a secure digital future 2 February 2026
- Building high-impact ecosystem partnerships [Hosted by QIC] 2 February 2026
- The African diaspora: Leveraging global communities [Hosted by Tech Connect Africa] 2 February 2026
- QNB GTB: Redefining global transaction banking [Hosted by QNB Group] 2 February 2026
- Secure digital innovation for asset performance [Hosted by Shell] 2 February 2026
- Closing Remarks 2 February 2026
- Gulf futurism [Hosted by Northwestern University Qatar] 2 February 2026
- Living well in a noisy world: discipline, meaning, and modern life [Hosted by iHeartMedia] 2 February 2026
- Opening remarks 2 February 2026
- Qatari Vision, Swiss Precision: Trusted AI for Global Impact. Can Doha Accomplish in Decades What Basel Took 300 Years to Achieve [Hosted by Embassy of Switzerland in Qatar] 2 February 2026