AI for Georgia Summit 2026 (Tbilisi)

The AI for Georgia Summit is the inaugural edition of a new AI deployment and investment forum, held at Hualing Expo Plaza in Tbilisi and billed as a gateway to the Caucasus AI market. It is a commercial trade-show-style event — exhibition, conference and dealmaking — built around moving AI from pilots into production across the region.

On the programme

The two days split between deployment and strategy: day one centres on live AI deployments and demos, moving projects from pilot to production, and real industry use-cases; day two turns to AI vision, policy and governance, market access, investment and partnerships. The exhibition floor is organised into themed zones — AI-powered cybersecurity and threat intelligence, quantum and emerging compute, Industry 4.0→5.0 (AI manufacturing and robotics), predictive intelligence, and dedicated research and academic zones — alongside country pavilions spanning the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caucasus. A Startup Demo Arena (40+ live pitches to investors), an AI Lab Competition run as a 48-hour hackathon across healthcare, fintech, smart-cities, education and climate tracks, and a developer track with a 72-hour hackathon round out the programme. Invited keynotes are drawn from industry and academia — healthcare-AI, enterprise and generative-AI, and deep-tech founders and researchers.

Where it sits in today's AI

The summit reflects a defining dynamic of 2026: smaller states positioning themselves as regional AI hubs by courting deployment, investment and talent. Sitting between Middle Eastern capital, Asian technology and European standards, Georgia is making a bid for companies, capital and a tech-relocation pipeline into the Caucasus. Its execution-over-hype framing — real deployments, buyer matchmaking and startup funding rather than theory — makes it a practical marker of how AI is spreading into emerging markets, and the directory's first listing for Georgia.