Riyadh (UNA/SPA) – Under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) is organizing the fourth edition of the Global AI Summit from September 15 to 17, 2026, at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, with the participation of a number of government leaders, decision-makers, CEOs of major technology companies, experts, innovators and researchers in the field of data and artificial intelligence from around the world.
The President of the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority, Dr. Abdullah bin Sharaf Al-Ghamdi, expressed his thanks and gratitude to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for sponsoring the fourth edition of the Global AI Summit, stressing that this comes as an extension of His Highness’s continuous and ongoing support for SDAIA’s efforts in the field of data and artificial intelligence, which has played a major role in the Kingdom’s leading global indicators in this advanced technological field, and in strengthening national efforts aimed at raising it towards global leadership in data and artificial intelligence.
He said: This summit comes at an exceptional time for the world as a result of the rapid qualitative leap in data and artificial intelligence technologies and their uses that have permeated our contemporary lives, creating a different era than previous ones, where our present is developing in all its manifestations moment by moment in parallel with our ability to foresee the features of our distant future, accompanied by new, more efficient and higher-quality innovative methods that collectively contribute to supporting the Kingdom’s efforts in transforming into a knowledge economy, and contributing to building a national economy based on data and artificial intelligence in order to achieve the objectives of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.
He added that the fourth edition of the Global AI Summit continues the success achieved by previous summits in 2020, 2022 and 2024, whether in terms of high-level attendance or in terms of participation, presentations, agreements and initiatives that were announced and had a tangible impact on humanity and technological progress, including the launch of the International Center for Research and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (ICAIRE) under the auspices of UNESCO and based in Riyadh, to establish the ethics of these advanced technologies and achieve optimal benefit from them at the global level.
Dr. Abdullah Al-Ghamdi explained that this summit embodies the Kingdom’s vision of building a sustainable knowledge-based economy and providing a distinguished experience in the world of artificial intelligence amidst a diverse international presence of experiences, knowledge and capabilities. It also confirms the Kingdom’s excellence in its ability to organize major global events, in addition to being an active partner in the global race with artificial intelligence technologies, working to shape the features of these technologies, as well as opening new horizons for a more innovative future that benefits all of humanity and fulfills our country’s aspirations to be a global center for artificial intelligence.
The Global AI Summit is being held in Riyadh, a practical embodiment of Vision 2030, which has made innovation and digital transformation two essential pillars for building a thriving, sustainable, and globally competitive knowledge economy.
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