16-17 NOVEMBER 2026 | MBRL, DUBAI
Architecture
of Trust
institutions
16-17 NOVEMBER 2026 | MBRL, DUBAI
Architecture
of Trust
Artificial intelligence and the future of knowledge
institutions
16-17 NOVEMBER 2026 | MBRL, DUBAI
Architecture
of Trust
Artificial intelligence and the future of knowledge
institutions
About the Summit
Hosted by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Library, the Dubai International Library and Publishing Summit 2026 brings together visionaries, creators, and innovators redefining how the world reads, learns, and connects.
Top Reasons to Attend
A two-day focused exchange for everyone responsible for how knowledge is created, protected and shared.
Ideas that move institutions
Hear how global leaders are building responsible, resilient knowledge systems for an AI-shaped world.
Connections across sectors
Meet decision makers spanning libraries, publishing, research, culture, technology and government.
Solutions you can apply
Discover practical tools and models for access, preservation, discovery and trusted digital transformation.
Key Themes
The four pillars tracing the changing architecture of knowledge
Making Knowledge
How AI is changing who and what can produce knowledge, and what this means for creativity, research, publishing, translation and intellectual ownership.
Making Knowledge
Trusting Knowledge
Explores how credibility is established when knowledge can be generated, manipulated and reproduced at scale, and how institutions can respond to changing ideas of expertise, provenance and truth.
Trusting Knowledge
Whose Knowledge?
Questions which languages, histories and knowledge traditions are represented within intelligent systems, who can access them, and who remains absent from emerging knowledge infrastructures.
Whose Knowledge?
Keeping Knowledge
Considers what should be collected and preserved in an age of abundant digital and synthetic content, and how archives and libraries can safeguard authenticity, continuity and cultural memory.
Keeping Knowledge
WHY DILPS 2026 MATTERS
Trust is no longer assumed. It must be designed.
AI is changing how knowledge is authored, discovered and believed. Institutions now face a defining choice: react to that change Or shape it.
DILPS 2026 creates the shared space to move forward bringing cultural memory, academic rigour, publishing expertise and technological ambition into one global conversation.
“The future of knowledge needs an architecture people can trust.”
Attendee Profile
One summit. Seven communities. A rare chance to see the future from every side.
Libraries
Publishing Houses
Universities
Museums
Research Centres
AI Companies
Government entities
Speakers
Voices Shaping the Conversation
The 2026 line-up will bring together influential thinkers from across the global knowledge industry.
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Sponsors & Exhibitors
Who exhibits?
DILPS is the platform for companies at the forefront of the Knowledge Industry.
Position your products and solutions in front of libraries, publishers, universities, museums, research leaders, AI innovators and government decision-makers.
Behind the Summit
Organizing Committee
Ibrahim Al Hashmi
Jamal Al Shehhi
Ali Al Tamimi
Fatma Fikree
