Comprehensive coverage and updates on DeepFest 2026 across the MENA tech ecosystem.
DeepFest 2026 ran alongside LEAP with more than 120 global AI brands on its exhibition floor, over 180 speakers and a projected 68,000 visitors, with Google Cloud, AMD, Cerebras, Supermicro, Salesforce, EY and Xerox among the exhibitors and sponsors.
PwC's 2026 AI Performance Study reports that Saudi organisations are seeing bigger operating-model gains from AI than their global peers, while arguing the harder test — converting that into financial return — has not been passed.
DeepFest 2026's confirmed speakers include Cerebras chief executive Andrew Feldman, PwC global chief AI officer Joe Atkinson, Adobe EMEA president Luc Dammann and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.
QSS AI & Robotics and UK-based Humanoid have opened a Riyadh showroom for humanoid robots and set out a pre-order framework for up to 10,000 units over five years, with assembly planned in Riyadh and Sudair Industrial City.
Arabic large language models like Saudi Arabia's ALLaM and Abu Dhabi's Falcon are accelerating fast, tuned for enterprise, governance and regional dialects. As LEAP 2026 opens in Riyadh, sovereign Arabic AI has become one of the Gulf's defining priorities.
Chinese robotics maker AGIBOT held a dedicated Saudi launch event during LEAP week and spoke at DeepFest, showcasing four robot series and a purchase-or-rent model aimed at the Middle East.
DeepFest 2026 is running real-time deepfake detection and AI-generated music performances on stage, part of a programme organisers say brings together more than 180 voices across four days in Riyadh.
DeepFest 2026's first-time exhibitor and sponsor list is led by two AI silicon companies, Cerebras and Blaize, alongside Google Cloud, Supermicro, Salesforce, EY and Xerox. Cerebras chief executive Andrew Feldman is on the speaker list.
OmniOps is exhibiting at DeepFest 2026 in Riyadh, where the Saudi AI infrastructure company says it will share updates to its Bunyan sovereign inference platform and its Advanced AI Observability service.
A running guide to the newest LEAP 2026 announcements and what they add up to: industrial AI moving into plant, HUMAIN filling in its stack, an operator scramble up the value chain, and localisation reaching software.