Day one
Day 1
26 January
Day 2
27 January
Opening Panel
Ballroom
AI Factories: Enabling AI at State Scale
This session explores AI Factories as a new class of digital infrastructure designed to enable large-scale AI development and deployment. AI Factories integrate compute, data, and software platforms to support training, inference, and operationalization of AI systems across multiple sectors. The focus is on how such infrastructure can serve as a foundational enabler for AI adoption at state scale — powering use cases in transportation, energy, public services, and advanced industry, while ensuring scalability, resilience, and long-term impact.
Opening Panel
Ballroom
Welcome Speech
Opening remarks setting the vision and context for Machines Can Think 2026
Keynote
Ballroom
Three and a Half Generations of Video Generation Models
Tech track
Room 1
Fireside chat
Keynote
Ballroom
Gamification of Large Language Models
Keynote
Tech track
Room 1
Long story short – how we keep AI agents focused on your business goal
Workshop
Room 3
From AI Ambition to Delivery: Practical Insights from the UAE Public Sector
YANGO GROUP
Workshop
Keynote
Tech track
Room 1
From Intelligence to Awareness: The Next Layer in Enterprise AI
Tahaluf
Keynote
Ballroom
Panel
Ballroom
AI: Within Us, Around Us, Beyond Us — The Future at the Crossroads of People, Business and the City
Round table
Room 2
Pilot to Policy: AI Safety
Women in AI
Workshop
Lunch
Panel
Ballroom
Why Unicorn Logic Breaks in AI — and What Investors Should Do Instead
Workshop
Room 1
The Future of AI – Key Trends Shaping What’s Next
NVIDIA
Workshop
Workshop
Room 3
Your AI, Your Control: Sovereign AI, From Strategy to Practice
Tahaluf
Workshop
Keynote
Ballroom
A New Playbook for Drug Discovery and Development
Workshop
Room 1
Trace & Proof First: Build Proof-Backed Search Agents with Evals and Live Observability
Optic
Workshop
Workshop
Room 3
What C-levels must know about AI
Polynome AI Academy
Workshop
Keynote
Ballroom
Foundation Models for Biology: From Structures to Systems
Mastercalss
Tech Track
Room 1
The Human Phenotype Project: Personalized Medicine Based on Deep Human Phenotyping
Workshop
Room 3
Architecting an AI-First Culture: The AI Academy’s 2026 Roadmap
Polynome AI Academy
Workshop
Ballroom
Fireside chat
Session
Ballroom
AI Classroom: Rethinking Education for the Knowledge Economy
Session
Tech Track
Room 1
K2 Think: advancing AI reasoning - from model to real-world impact
Keynote
Ballroom
Objective-Driven AI: World Models, Reasoning, and Efficiency
Day 1
26 January
Day 2
27 January