Riyadh’s Premier AI & data center summit.
Join policymakers, hyperscalers, investors, enterprise technology leaders, cloud providers, energy innovators, and digital infrastructure specialists in Riyadh for a summit focused on the physical and strategic foundations of AI at scale.
The Future of Intelligent Infrastructure
The AI Infrastructure & Data Center Summit is designed to convene the full ecosystem behind next-generation digital growth — from compute and cloud to energy, investment, policy, and enterprise adoption.
As Saudi Arabia accelerates its national AI agenda, the market opportunity now extends far beyond technology deployment to include infrastructure readiness, resilience planning, capacity expansion, and trusted long-term partnerships.
This summit creates a high-value platform for market intelligence, commercial collaboration, thought leadership, and practical discussions on how to build, power, govern, and scale AI-ready digital infrastructure in the Kingdom.
The conversations shaping the next wave of infrastructure-led AI growth.
Built around the issues that matter most to operators, investors, policymakers, and enterprise leaders.
Saudi Vision 2030: AI at National Scale
Sovereign AI architectures, national LLMs, digital resilience, and secure compute infrastructure.
Next-Gen Data Centers for the Kingdom
Hyperscale expansion, hybrid environments, modular designs, and cooling innovations for desert climates.
AI Transformation & Edge Intelligence
Sector-specific use cases across healthcare, finance, etc., AI-enabled infrastructure, and edge-powered services.
Cybersecurity & AI Risk Management
Responsible AI, regulatory frameworks, data sovereignty, and secure digital ecosystems.
Semiconductor & Hardware Acceleration
Advanced chips, wide band gap semiconductors, and compute-optimized infrastructure.
Sustainability & Energy Leadership
Green data centers, renewable-powered compute, carbon neutrality strategies.
Two days of strategy, execution, innovation, and deal-making.
The program is structured to move from high-level market vision and national priorities into infrastructure delivery, enterprise adoption, technical innovation, and commercial partnership opportunities.
AI Infrastructure, Data Center Expansion & High-Performance Computing
Opening protocol, keynote addresses, market outlooks, digital infrastructure panels and executive networking.
Delegate arrival, networking breakfast & exhibition walkthrough
Ideal opening slot for registration desk, coffee networking and sponsor activation exposure.
Gigawatt AI: Is Saudi Arabia Ready for Hyper-scale Compute Clusters?
An in-depth outlook, examining power readiness, land availability, grid resilience, and sovereign compute ambitions.
Designing Next-Generation Data Centers for Extreme AI & HPC Workloads
Exploring architectural strategies for GPU clusters, low-latency fabrics, and ultra-dense compute environments.
The New Economics of AI Compute: Scaling Efficiently with GPUs, NPUs & Accelerators
How hyperscalers and enterprises are balancing performance, cost, and capacity for the AI era.
Panel Discussion: The Rise of Mega Data Centers in the Gulf: Power, Real Estate, Investment & Expansion Strategies
Leaders discuss the region’s rapid data center growth, investment models, and infrastructure readiness.
Liquid Cooling, Immersion & Sustainable Cooling Models for AI-Era Density
Why liquid cooling is becoming essential for sustainability, performance, and thermal efficiency.
Build vs Buy: Should the Kingdom Develop Its Own AI Compute Stack?
Insights on custom silicon, Arm-based ecosystems, or reliance on global providers.
Panel Discussion: Who Controls the AI Backbone? Utilities, Developers or Hyperscalers?
Experts share ownership models for sovereign AI infrastructure.
Panel Discussion: AI Infrastructure Procurement at Scale: GPUs, Networks, Storage & Vendor Ecosystems
Procurement leaders reveal how organizations navigate global supply constraints and technology choices.
Panel Discussion: From Brownfield to AI-Ready: Retrofitting Legacy Data Centers for High-Density Workloads
Practical frameworks for transforming older facilities to support modern compute demands.
Compute Workload, energy , Data Governance & Automation
Enterprise AI adoption, deep dives, showcases, startup energy and partnership outcomes.
From 10kW to 120kW per Rack: Engineering for Ultra-High-Density AI Workloads
What AI rack density means for design, cooling, substation upgrades, and CapEx.
Scaling Model Training Pipelines: Orchestration, Data Fabric & Distributed Compute Workflows
Techniques for optimizing multi-node training, data flow, and high-throughput AI workloads.
AI-Driven Data Center Automation: Predictive Maintenance, Energy Modeling & Self-Optimizing Systems
Using AI to automate facility operations, reduce downtime, and enhance efficiency.
Data Sovereignty, Governance & Localization: Building a National AI Cloud Frameworks for Large-Scale AI Deployments
Policy makers and experts discuss responsible AI use, data residency, and national AI governance
Liquid Cooling at Scale: Immersion vs Direct-to-Chip for AI Factories
Performance benchmarks, cost comparison and operational risks.
Panel Discussion: The $50 Billion Question: Who Funds the AI Infrastructure Boom
Sovereign wealth, private equity, hyperscaler CapEx and blended finance.
Panel Discussion: Semiconductor Ambitions: Can the Kingdom Enter the AI Chip Ecosystem?
Assembly, advanced packaging, or full fabrication?
Autonomous Data Centers: Robotics, Automation & Zero-Touch Operations
A look into the next frontier of fully autonomous data center management and robotic intervention.
The Road to Net-Zero Data Centers: Innovations in Efficiency, Circularity & Green Engineering
Innovations enabling sustainable, low-carbon, and environmentally responsible data centers.
AI 2030: What Must Be Built in the Next 48 Months?
Concrete commitments across energy, compute and capital.
Hear from the leaders defining the future of AI-ready infrastructure.
Dr. Naveed Sherwani
Chief Executive Officer, National Semiconductor Hub of Saudi Arabia
Adil Alaskah
Vice President, Technology & Innovation – AI Data Centers, HUMAIN
Wasif Hasan
Chief Product & Technology Officer, A PIF Company
Gaurav Mathur
Chief AI & Data Centers Officer, JLL Saudi Arabia
Chloe Jian Ma
Chief Business Officer, EPIC Semi
Eng. Khalid A. Almulhim
HVAC Engineering Consultant, Aramco & Chairman, SASO HVAC Equipment Standards Committee
Dr. Mansour Ali Baig
Digital Transformation and AI Expert, Research & Innovation, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center
Mureed Bukhari
VP Operations, EPIC Semi Saudi Arabia
A summit built for AI infrastructure, data centers and national-scale digital growth.
Designed for operators, investors, policymakers, hyperscalers and enterprise technology leaders, the summit brings together the conversations that matter most for Saudi Arabia’s next wave of AI-ready infrastructure.
What to expect at AIDC Summit 2026
This is where the event becomes more than a conference: it becomes a strategic platform for market intelligence, partnerships, investments, technical solutions, policy direction and commercial collaboration.
Visionary keynotes
Hear from industry leaders on sovereign AI infrastructure, digital transformation, data center expansion and the region’s long-term capacity roadmap.
Live technology showcase
See practical innovations in AI compute, data center design, cooling systems, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and intelligent operations.
High-value networking
Meet decision-makers, secure partnerships and build commercial relationships across the AI, data center and digital infrastructure ecosystem.
Built for industry leaders across the AI infrastructure value chain.
Data center operators
Colocation groups, facility owners, hyperscale delivery teams and digital infrastructure architects.
AI & cloud leaders
Enterprise AI heads, cloud strategists, platform architects and transformation decision-makers.
Energy & utilities experts
Power, cooling, grid, renewable and resilience stakeholders supporting high-density infrastructure growth.
Investors & policymakers
Sovereign funds, ministries, regulators, strategic investors, ecosystem enablers and national champions.
Partners and sponsors powering the summit ecosystem.
Be part of the region’s most important AI infrastructure conversation.
Whether you are looking to position your brand, generate leads, secure partnerships, enter the Saudi market, or lead the conversation on the future of digital infrastructure, this is the room to be in.