Sheikh Hamdan announces Dubai Future Week 'will bring together the world’s brightest minds and most ambitious ideas'

Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, and Chairman of the Higher Committee for Future Technology Development and the Digital Economy tweeted about the upcoming Dubai Future Week on Tuesday, September 1.

The four-day event, which will take place between November 18 and November 21, is aimed at bringing together thinkers, innovators, experts and changemakers to exchange ideas and study emerging trends.

Sheikh Hamdan wrote: "We have directed the Dubai Future Foundation to organise Dubai Future Week from 18 to 21 November 2026. We want this annual event to become a defining milestone in shaping the future of humanity, and a distinctive global meeting point bringing together leaders, decision-makers, business leaders and entrepreneurs, alongside futurists, scientists and innovators from around the world.

"In Dubai, future visions will meet the minds capable of turning them into reality, and emerging ideas will evolve into solutions that make a real and tangible difference in people’s lives. We want this to be an exceptional event that places people at the heart of the future, and explores how we will live, think, innovate and work in the years and decades ahead. Dubai has always been, and will continue to be, at the forefront of designing, testing and bringing the future to life. We will continue to bring together the world’s brightest minds and most ambitious ideas to help build a brighter future for humanity."

Organised by Dubai Future Foundation, Dubai Future Week will take place across Emirates Towers and the Museum of the Future. Its programme will feature keynote addresses, debates, fireside conversations, workshops, international challenges and competitions, idea pitches, exhibitions, immersive future experiences, closed-door discussions, specialist sessions, public activations and other formats designed to explore the forces shaping the decades ahead.

The focus will be not only on what is changing, but on how those changes will feel, whom they will serve and how they can improve daily life, says a press release.

Dubai Future Week will bring together more than 10,000 participants, including leading inventors, innovators, experts, investors, policymakers, entrepreneurs, technologists and specialists from critical and future-focused sectors around the world.