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Field notes, in date order
Where the team has been, and what the agenda on each floor actually showed. Every entry is dated by the engagement it reports, and carries a link to the part of the platform it is about.
Events & engagements
Exhibitions and conferences the team has taken part in, written up after the event.
Upcoming
Events the team is scheduled to attend, published ahead of the dates.
Middle East & North Africa
Dubai AI Festival 2026: perception and governed decisions on the agenda
Two days at the Dubai World Trade Centre, on AI perception and governed decision support for industrial and robotics operations.
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ADIPEC 2026: AI perception for asset-heavy operations
Four days in Abu Dhabi on predictive anomaly detection and production-cell digital twins, where much of the energy agenda is now operational AI.
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Advanced Engineering 2026: a software layer for UK engineering supply chains
Two days at the NEC with OEMs and engineering supply-chain teams, on where software now decides competitiveness.
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Dubai Future Week 2026: where public ambition meets applied AI
An open forum rather than an exhibition, and an agenda that increasingly treats AI and robotics as operational infrastructure.
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GITEX Global 2026: robotics orchestration on the agenda
Five days at Expo City Dubai, alongside Expand North Star and the World Robotix track, on one question about real production floors.
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World Future Energy Summit 2027: asset intelligence on the agenda
Three days within Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, to meet operators and technology partners working on asset intelligence.
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Web Summit Qatar 2027: an industrialising technology agenda
Four days in Doha following two tracks: industrial AI adoption programmes, and the robotics agenda behind them.
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Big Data & AI World 2027: governed AI in production
Back at ExCeL London as part of Tech Show London, on what "governed" has to mean once a decision reaches the line.
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LEAP 2027 and DeepFest: the Saudi AI agenda at scale
Four days in Riyadh, where large programmes in energy, logistics and manufacturing are where integration is most of the work.
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Ai Everything Abu Dhabi 2027: enterprise AI that reaches production
Two days at ADNEC on enterprise deployment across manufacturing, energy and mobility.
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All-Energy 2027: asset intelligence for the energy transition
Two days in Glasgow, where renewable and grid assets run on exactly the sensor streams anomaly detection is built for.
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Smart Manufacturing Week 2027: from cell twins to orchestrated lines
Back at the NEC with Smart Factory Expo and Drives + Controls, on three capabilities manufacturers most often run as disconnected pilots.
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Field notes
Written up after the event, from what the floor actually showed.
Middle East & North Africa
LEAP 2026: the Saudi industrial AI agenda is in build-out
Across energy, logistics and manufacturing, the discussions in Riyadh were about delivery rather than announcements.
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Smart Manufacturing Week 2026: UK manufacturers ask the right questions
Smart Factory Expo, Drives + Controls and the conference programme under one roof — and three questions that map straight onto the platform.
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Robotics & Automation 2026: machine vision and orchestration own the floor
Two days at the NEC made the pattern hard to miss — the robot is rarely the bottleneck any more; the software around it is.
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Big Data & AI World 2026: governed AI moves from slides to the line
The agenda in London kept returning to AI that is governed, explainable and measurable — and to where those decisions actually get executed.
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ADIPEC 2025: energy operations are becoming software operations
The operational AI agenda in Abu Dhabi was concrete — anomaly detection on sensor-heavy assets, production-cell twins, and decision support that stands up to an audit.
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GITEX Global 2025 — field notes from Dubai
A week on the GITEX floor, where the question had moved on from whether industrial AI works to how it behaves in production.
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Engagement record
Every exhibition and conference attended
The record runs from October 2025 and is maintained as a plain list of dates, cities and regions.
A line here states attendance and nothing more. Where an entry has been written up, the row links to it; the remaining rows have no write-up, and the record says so rather than implying one exists.
| Dates | Event | City | Region | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ai Everything Abu Dhabi 2026 | Abu Dhabi | Middle East & North Africa | Record only | |
| Big Data LDN 2026 | London | United Kingdom | Record only | |
| GAIN Global AI Summit 2026 | Riyadh | Middle East & North Africa | Record only | |
| LEAP 2026 | Riyadh | Middle East & North Africa | Read the entry | |
| London Tech Week 2026 | London | United Kingdom | Record only | |
| Smart Manufacturing Week 2026 | Birmingham | United Kingdom | Read the entry | |
| All-Energy 2026 | Glasgow | United Kingdom | Record only | |
| MACH 2026 | Birmingham | United Kingdom | Record only | |
| Dubai AI Week 2026 | Dubai | Middle East & North Africa | Record only | |
| Robotics & Automation 2026 | Birmingham | United Kingdom | Read the entry | |
| Big Data & AI World 2026 | London | United Kingdom | Read the entry | |
| Web Summit Qatar 2026 | Doha | Middle East & North Africa | Record only | |
| World Future Energy Summit 2026 | Abu Dhabi | Middle East & North Africa | Record only | |
| ADIPEC 2025 | Abu Dhabi | Middle East & North Africa | Read the entry | |
| GITEX Global 2025 | Dubai | Middle East & North Africa | Read the entry |
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