Cairo ICT 2026 · 30th edition · “AI in Action” · presents
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Cairo Khayal — The Tech × Art Summit
The Tech × Art Summit
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November2026
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01 · The platform
Built inside the region’s biggest tech event
Khayal is the media flagship of Cairo ICT’s 30th edition — ministers on the floor, government patronage, and one badge that opens every hall.
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02 · What Khayal is
The region’s first summit of technology × art
Three days of showcase
AI-made content beside hand-made content — films, games, music and campaigns from both schools on the same screens, plus live demos where AI filmmaking meets the newest cinematography hardware.
Hands-on, not hand-waving
Prompt battles and a 48-hour Create-athon on the AI side; real cameras, lighting and lenses on the other — a student walks in with a phone, out with a portfolio.
Industry in the room
Keynotes, masterclasses and a creator market with speed interviews — talent meets money and tools.
Tech and art under one roof — AI content and classic content given equal billing, so the industry that built Arab cinema and the generation rebuilding it both buy a ticket to the same three days.
03 · Every field · every form belongs
All forms of content. One summit.
Every field brings its own object — and every object here is set in type, not drawn. Hover or tap a field to change its voice.
04 · The media core
One summit, seven tracks of media
Film & Video
Generative filmmaking, virtual production, the festival
VFX & Animation
AI pipelines, zero-budget VFX masterclasses
Music & Sound
Voice models, AI production, the rights debate
Games & Immersive
AI NPCs, one-person studios, AR, projection mapping, the 48-hour jam
Journalism & Creators
Verification, deepfakes, podcasts, the creator economy
Advertising & Design
Generative campaigns, live brief-to-billboard battles
TV & Social Media
Broadcast meets the feed — AI in TV production, social media, vertical content, anchors’ AI doubles
Every track runs both ways: classic craft beside the AI pipeline. And the whole venue is an immersive layer — AR moments, projection mapping and interactive installations between the stages.
05 · The big shout
Film Festival
EGP1,000,000in prizes
06 · On stage and in the room
The stars, the masters & the next generation
Main Stage / Khayal Stage
- On stageAgency CEOs · directorsInternational AI filmmakers and influencers in filmmaking, design & AI
- SessionA Disney animation journeyby Ahmed Teleb
- Case studyHigh Value Targetfrom pre-production to screen
- The festival Film FestivalEGP 1,000,000 in prizes
- Mega eventsQatar Asian Cup openingthe mega-events mastermind
- LiveCelebrity vs his avatarsoon
The Sound Stage
- SessionsSong writing · song composingAll with AI & without AI
- SessionsSFX & sound design · music scoreCelebrity singers workshops
- Dolby AtmosObject audio, mixed liveDolby Atmos songs · Dolby Atmos for films
- RoomAcoustically isolated listening roomMusic, cinema and festival films in Atmos — the third stage is for the ears
Avatar vs Actor
A star meets their AI avatar live… and we find out if it can actually act.
Directing the Machine
One scene, real actors vs AI, same director.
Can AI Write a Hit?
Composers judge the models, blind.
The Newsroom vs the Deepfake
Anchors against the fakes, live.
- Celebrities & actors
- Directors & producers
- TV anchors & presenters
- Composers & musicians
- Media professionals
- Marketing directors
- Event planners
- The next generation
Speaker lineup in confirmation — names announced progressively
07 · Who is in the room
The audience brands can’t reach anywhere else
Young creators
Teenagers and twenty-somethings making films, music and games with AI — caught at the exact moment they choose their tools, platforms and heroes.
Students at scale
Connecta brought 62,000 students last edition — feeding directly into Khayal’s workshops, jams and the Creator Market.
Industry & government
The directors, composers and studios of classic Egyptian cinema beside broadcasters, agencies, telcos and ministers — the people who commission, hire and legislate.
The people who build the shows are here too — a trade floor for the industry behind every premiere, concert and broadcast. The venue itself is the showroom: every screen, beam and hologram on the floor is a live demo by the company that makes it.
Light & Rigging
Lighting designers and intelligent fixtures — the beams that make the stages cinematic
Screens & LED
Transparent OLED, curved LED walls, the vertical cinema wall — the signature of the venue
Holograms & Projection
Holographic displays and projection mapping — the immersive layer between the stages
Sound & Broadcast
Audio systems, capture and streaming — every stage broadcast-ready from day one
08 · Partner with Khayal
Not a logo on a wall — a role in the show.
Partners meet this audience through their products, their stages and their prizes. Every track is nameable — one partner per vertical, category exclusivity included.
The vertical takeover
Own the Vertical Short prize, name the TV & Social track, and premiere the winners on the transparent wall and on-platform at the same moment.
Every pixel here runs on you
Every AI demo, render and battle at the summit runs on your silicon — three days of live benchmark in front of the region’s creators.
Connect the creator generation
The venue runs on your 5G, and the Audience Choice award is voted through your app.
The venue is your showreel
The Stage, the Sound Stage, the Main Stage, the walls and the holograms — supplied by you, credited everywhere, photographed for three days straight.
The agentic studio
The Agents & MCP track, Build-an-MCP live, and three days of generation, rendering and streaming on your cloud.