IBM Takes Center Stage at MEBIS 2026 as Title Sponsor
IBM has taken on a key role in the 17th Middle East Banking Innovation Summit (MEBIS 2026) as Title Sponsor, bringing its expertise in enterprise AI, hybrid cloud, and data to senior banking leaders from across the region. The summit will be held at Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai on September 16-17, 2026.
Artificial intelligence will be a defining theme of MEBIS 2026, with discussions moving beyond experimentation towards responsible, secure, and scalable AI deployment. Generative AI, agentic AI, intelligent automation, and predictive technologies are creating new opportunities across customer experience, operations, risk, fraud prevention, and decision-making.
According to a global IBM CEO study, banking and financial markets CEOs expect AI to make nearly half of operational decisions without human intervention by 2030. IBM's participation will highlight how its enterprise AI and hybrid cloud capabilities can help banks move from experimentation to action, modernising mission-critical systems, scaling agentic AI, and addressing the trust, governance, sovereignty, and performance requirements of a highly regulated industry.
MEBIS 2026 will bring together more than 400 banking leaders and delegates, 60+ speakers, and 30+ technology solution providers to examine the technologies, strategies, opportunities, and challenges shaping the future of banking. The summit will also address how banks can build stronger data foundations for AI, improve governance and ownership, use predictive intelligence more effectively, and strengthen fraud detection.