His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has directed that GITEX TechCation 2026, to be organised beneath the supervision of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, and Chairman of The Government Council of Dubai, be developed into the world’s largest occasion within the subject of know-how and synthetic intelligence.
The brand new occasion positions Dubai as a year-end world vacation spot for innovation, funding, and life-style, bringing collectively the world’s main know-how firms, startups, traders, and innovators in an immersive, citywide celebration of know-how and creativity.
Working from 7-11 December 2026, at Expo Metropolis Dubai, GITEX TechCation anchors the world’s largest tech and startup occasion community on the coronary heart of Dubai’s life-style, cultural, and tourism season.
Tapping Into Dubai’s tourism and cultural community
As step one in getting ready for the first-of-its-kind world occasion, Dubai World Commerce Centre (DWTC) and the Dubai Division of Financial system and Tourism (DET) signed a Strategic Partnership to help and promote GITEX TechCation. The partnership was formalised between Issam Kazim, CEO of Dubai Company for Tourism and Commerce Advertising and marketing, a part of DET, and Trixie LohMirmand, Government Vice President of DWTC, world organiser of GITEX.
By way of this partnership, GITEX will leverage DET’s in depth hospitality, tourism, and cultural networks to curate TechCation programmes, campaigns, and immersive experiences that rework Dubai right into a reside, related nexus of tech, tradition, and tourism.
Supporting DET’s aim to make Dubai the very best metropolis to go to, reside, work, and make investments, the programme is designed to encourage prolonged networking itineraries and longer stays, welcoming worldwide executives and traders to immerse within the metropolis’s dynamic and various choices.
His Excellency Issam Kazim, CEO, Dubai Company for Tourism and Commerce Advertising and marketing, mentioned: “GITEX has lengthy been greater than only a tech present, and this new period, guided by our metropolis’s visionary management, is poised to additional elevate its world significance and relevance. Seamlessly mixing innovation with Dubai’s unmatched life-style, GITEX TechCation will underline town’s standing as a premier vacation spot for each enterprise and leisure, in keeping with the objectives of the Dubai Financial Agenda, D33, additional enhancing the customer expertise and permitting the tech neighborhood to return collectively to forge new alternatives. As we construct in the direction of it over the subsequent yr, we look ahead to working carefully with the Dubai World Commerce Centre and our stakeholders throughout the private and non-private sectors to make sure the primary GITEX TechCation showcases Dubai because the world’s most inspiring place to attach, create, and expertise the longer term.”
Trixie LohMirmand, EVP, DWTC, mentioned: “GITEX TechCation represents a basic reconfiguration of worldwide tech occasions; a daring new playbook rewriting how the world’s tech neighborhood connects, celebrates, and innovates, in one of many world’s most future-ready cities. Transferring past typical halls to harness the complete vitality of Dubai – tradition, life-style, and spirit, GITEX advocates an ethos of ‘Tech Laborious, Dwell Laborious’ by probably the most immersive citywide activation.”
A tech convergence on this planet’s most sought-after journey vacation spot
Dubai’s world attract underpins the conceptualisation of GITEX TechCation. The town was ranked No.1 worldwide in Tripadvisor’s Travellers’ Alternative Better of the Greatest Awards for 3 consecutive years (2022-2024), a world first, reaffirming its enchantment to worldwide vacationers.
The town’s culinary scene has quickly gained worldwide prominence, with the 2025 MICHELIN Information that includes 119 eating places from Dubai, together with 19 with MICHELIN Stars, and two eating places making it to The World’s 50 Greatest Eating places for 2025.
Advancing D33 objectives
GITEX TechCation helps the ambitions of the Dubai Financial Agenda D33, which goals to place Dubai among the many world’s high three world cities by 2033. By embedding the world’s largest tech and investor community inside Dubai’s broader tourism and cultural panorama, the occasion strengthens town’s stature as a world vacation spot for expertise, overseas direct funding, and commerce.
Dubai ranked first globally by way of the variety of Greenfield FDI initiatives it attracted for the eighth consecutive half-year interval in H1 2025, and No.1 in Savills’ Government Nomad Index, making it a magnet for entrepreneurs, tech expertise, and traders.