The summit was hosted by UAE-based Polynome Group under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Strategic backers included Digital Dubai, Dubai Police, Emirates, Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, IBM, SAP, MBZUAI among others.

“In just three years, MCS has evolved from a specialist meet‑up into a true crossroads for the world’s top minds in science, business and public policy. The week proved that when researchers, entrepreneurs and governments share one stage, we move a step closer to transparent, human‑centred AI that delivers real value for society,” said Alexander Khanin, founder & CEO of Polynome Group

Landmark agreements announced live on stage

During the two‑day programme, several high‑profile agreements were signed at the summit, including:

• A trilateral Memorandum of Understanding between Astana Hub (Kazakhstan), IT‑Park Uzbekistan and Al‑Farabi Innovation Hub (UAE), creating a Central‑Asia‑to‑MENA soft‑landing platform for high‑growth start‑ups.

• A Google Cloud initiative offering no‑cost “Gen‑AI Leader” learning paths and discounted certification vouchers to accelerate responsible AI adoption across the region.

Polynome Group officially launched AI Academy, an educational initiative developed in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi School of Management and supported by NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute. The Academy will offer short executive seminars and a specialised four‑month Mini‑MBA in AI, aimed at equipping leaders and innovators with practical AI knowledge to bridge the gap between technology research and commercial application.

Policy & talent

Day one opened with a ministerial round‑table – “Wanted: AI to Retain and Attract Talent to the Country.” Ministers Omar Sultan Al Olama (UAE), Amr Talaat (Egypt), Gobind Singh Deo (Malaysia), Zhaslan Madiyev (Kazakhstan) and Meutya Hafid (Indonesia) detailed visa‑fast‑track programmes, national GPU clouds and cross‑border sandboxes designed to reverse brain‑drain and accelerate R&D.

Breakthrough research

• Prof. Michael Bronstein (University of Oxford/Google DeepMind) demonstrated Geometric Deep Learning applications that shorten drug‑discovery timelines and model subatomic physics.

• Marco Tempest (NASA JPL/MagicLab.nyc) blended GPT‑4o dialogue with mixed‑reality holograms, turning the stage into an interactive mind‑map.

• Prof. Michal Irani (Weizmann Institute) showed perception‑to‑cognition systems capable of reconstructing scenes from a single gaze sequence.

• Andrea Vedaldi (Oxford) premiered a 3‑D generative‑AI pipeline for instant city‑scale digital twins, while Marc Pollefeys (ETH Zurich/Microsoft) demonstrated real‑time spatial mapping at sub‑10 ms latency.

Industry workshops & panels

AWS ran a hands‑on clinic – “Building Enterprise Gen‑AI Applications” – covering RAG, agentic orchestration and secure deployment. NVIDIA’s workshop unveiled its platform approach to production generative‑AI on Hopper‑class GPUs, complementing its newly announced Service Delivery Partnership with Polynome Group’s legal entity, Intelligent Machines Consultancies. Dubai Police hosted a closed‑door DFA session on predictive policing, while X and AI workshops explored social‑data pipelines on GPU clusters.

The parallel Machines Can Create forum examined AI’s role in luxury, digital art and media, with speakers from HEC Paris, The Sandbox, IBM Research and BBC, culminating in the panel “Pixels and Palettes: The Canvas of Tomorrow.”

Prof. Marc Pollefeys, Director of the Mixed Reality and AI Lab at ETH Zurich and Microsoft, highlighted the role of cutting-edge technology in daily life: “We are at a turning point where technologies like spatial AI and real-time 3D mapping are moving from laboratories into everyday life, transforming cities, workplaces, and how we interact with the digital world. The Machines Can See Summit underscores how collaboration between researchers, industry, and policymakers accelerates this transition, bringing innovative solutions closer to everyone,” he said.

Ethical & security focus

Panels “Good AI: Between Hype and Mediocrity” and “Defending Intelligence: Navigating Adversarial Machine Learning” stressed the need for continuous audits, red‑teaming and transparent supply chains. Dubai Police, TII UAE and IBM urged adoption of ISO‑aligned governance tool‑kits to safeguard public‑sector deployments.

High‑profile awards

On Day Two, H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum presented trophies for the Global Prompt Engineering Championship, for breakthroughs in multilingual, safety-aligned LLM prompting.

Key takeaways

The summit underscored three strategic imperatives for the decade ahead. Talent aviation – backed by unified tech visas, national GPU clouds and government‑funded sandbox clusters – is emerging as the most effective antidote to AI brain‑drain. Spatial computing is moving from laboratory to street level as sub‑10‑millisecond mapping unlocks safe humanoid robotics and city‑scale augmented‑reality services. Finally, secure generative AI must couple adversarial robustness with transparent, explainable pipelines before the technology can achieve mass‑market adoption in regulated industries.

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Machines Can See is staged by the Polynome Group, a machine vision, AI, robotic, and industrial design company based in the city.

This is the third year of the event, and will bring investors, business leaders, and policymakers together to explore AI-centric expansion opportunities. Machines Can See, as the name suggests, will have a particular focus on computer vision.

Each discussion and keynote is designed to be firmly rooted in practical applications of AI technology, but organisers hope that the show will be permeated with a sense of discovery and that attendees will be able to explore the possibilities of the tech on show. “We are not just shaping the future of AI, we are defining how AI shapes the world,” said Alexander Khanin, head of the Polynome Group.

UAE Government officials attending the event include H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama, UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications, and H.E. Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, the Director General of Digital Dubai.

Polynome Group has said that X will be the official streaming partner for Machines Can See 2025, and the US company will host workshops titled “X and AI” to show solutions that merge AI and streaming technologies, with GRok X central to those sessions. Via interactive demos, attendees will gain firsthand experience of GRok’s potential in AI delivery, analysis and optimisation.

Investment and business opportunities

UAE’s AI market is projected to grow by $8.4 billion in the next two years, and the summit is designed to serve as a venue for investors to engage with AI startups, existing enterprises, and government decision-makers. Attendees at Machines Can See will get to meet with investors and venture capital firms, be given the opportunity to meet executives from AI companies (including IBM and Amazon), and connect with startups seeking investment.

The summit is supported by Amazon Prime Video & Studios, Amazon Web Services, Dubai Police, MBZUAI, IBM, SAP, Adia Lab, QuantumBlack and Yango. The involvement of many organisations and large-scale enterprises should provide many opportunities for funding and collaborations that extend the commercial use of AI.

Local and international investors include Eddy Farhat, Executive Director at e& capital, Faris Al Mazrui, Head of Growth Investments at Mubadala, Major General Khalid Nasser Alrazooqi General Director of Artificial Intelligence, Dubai Police UEA, and Dr. Najwa Aaraj, the CEO of TII.

Speakers and insights

The summit will feature several US-based AI professionals, including Namik Hrle, IBM Fellow and Vice President of Development at the IBM Software Group, Michael Bronstein, DeepMind Professor of AI at Oxford University, Marc Pollefeys, Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, Gerard Medioni, VP and Distinguished Scientist at Amazon Prime Video & Studio, and Deva Ramanan, Professor at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.

The event will feature a ministerial session composed of international government representatives to discuss the role of national IT development.

Among speakers already confirmed for the event are Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia’s Minister of Digital, H.E. Zhaslan Madiyev, Minister of Digital Development, Innovation, and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan, and H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama, UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications.

Event organisers expect to announce more representatives from overseas in the coming days. Read more here.

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