A conference-heavy stretch opens Oct 26 with the Dubai AI Festival, leading into GITEX in December. The AI Festival brings 500+ investors and 20,000+ attendees to DIFC, the biggest AI deal-flow moment in the region before year-end. GITEX Global and Expand North Star follow Dec 7-8: the latter is where 2,000+ startups meet 1,300+ investors with $1.1T AUM across three days. For builders in the interim, Superteam's hackathon Oct 6 and AI Tinkerers' demo day Oct 10 are the picks.
