Inquiry 2026 · Convene · Abu Dhabi
أبوظبي
Conversations in Abu Dhabi
The finale of the 2026 Inquiry
After the majlis: one circle, every guest received
- Date
- December 2026
- Place
- Abu Dhabi
- Same week as
- Culture Summit Abu Dhabi, 8–10 December 2026
- Entry
- By invitation
Four invitation-only conversations close The Future Is Behind Us, held during the week of Culture Summit Abu Dhabi. Founders, artists, researchers, and cultural institutions sit at one table to ask what the past can teach the futures we are building.
The 2027 Inquiry
تساؤل 2027- 01Abu Dhabi is building an AI economy and a cultural district at the same time, and side by side: the world’s first graduate university dedicated to AI, and a museum island where the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens this December. Few cities hold both questions at once.
- 02Our Inquiry asks what the past can teach us about the futures we are building. Here that is not an abstract question. It is how the city is being made, museum by museum and model by model.
- 03It sits between the places we work, Asia and the West, and it is where the region’s own voices and the world’s can share one table. That is why the Inquiry ends here, and why the next one begins here.
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The 2026 Inquiry