Dubai AI Week 2026

Shaping the Future
of AI from Dubai

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Dubai AI Week 2026

Dubai AI Week 2026 brings together global leaders from government, industry, and academia to drive the next wave of AI innovation, governance, and application.
Across five days and multiple citywide venues, the week showcases Dubai’s vision for AI, aligned with the Dubai Universal Blueprint for Artificial Intelligence and the D33 economic agenda.

AI Week serves as a platform for learning, collaboration, and real-world deployment, strengthening Dubai’s position as a global benchmark for AI adoption and impact.

"Our goal for the next phase is to double the positive impact of AI for the betterment of humanity."

— HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

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About the Challenge

The biggest global challenge for developers of Gen AI innovative solutions

This challenge will be an open competition, the largest of its kind in the world, for developers of innovative generative AI solutions. It will be organized in partnership between the Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence, the Office of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications, and DFF.

The challenge, which includes three main categories: literature, art, and coding, aims to strengthen Dubai’s and the UAE’s positions as destinations for talent and entrepreneurs as well as a center for developing a new generation of innovations associated with prompt engineering.

The challenge will take place at the Museum of the Future over two days in May 2024. The first day will focus on selecting the top 30 international programmers in the field of prompt engineering among the candidates, who qualify for the final phase on the second day. Programmers will then be split into five groups who will compete to provide the best content in the three categories. The completed projects will be evaluated by a specialized evaluation committee based on speed, quality, and accuracy.

The winners in the three categories of the challenge will be awarded a prize of AED 1 million, as well as an opportunity to get the Golden Visa.

Dubai AI Week 2026

Key Pillars / Themes

AI Strategic Initiative
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Empowering Society

Advancing AI for education, workforce skills, public trust, and digital literacy.

Education Public Trust
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Governing the Future

Enabling government excellence, ethical policy, and responsible global governance frameworks.

Policy Ethics
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Accelerating Infrastructure

Driving industry growth with advanced compute capacity, chips, and sovereign technology.

Chips Sovereign Tech
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Reimagining Health

Revolutionizing precision care, accelerating life sciences research, and improving global wellbeing.

Life Sciences Precision Care
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Sustaining Our Planet

Leveraging AI for climate resilience, energy systems, and food and water sustainability.

Climate Energy
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Expanding the Frontiers of Knowledge

Accelerating science, advanced research, quantum computing, and frontier discovery.

Quantum Research

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