Google Cloud Summit Saudi Arabia Returns to Riyadh on 13 October with an Agentic AI Agenda

Google Cloud will hold its Saudi Arabia summit on 13 October 2026 at the Sofitel Riyadh Hotel & Convention Centre, running from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM local time. The event is in person only and compressed into a single day, which Google describes as enough to take an organization from experimenting with AI to running it at enterprise scale.

The programme is organised around agentic AI rather than generative AI broadly, a distinction the agenda makes repeatedly. Sessions on the Agentic Data Cloud address turning institutional knowledge into what Google calls an autonomous growth engine, while a security track presents Agentic SecOps as a shift from reactive defence to intelligent agents that hunt threats and automate mitigation continuously.

Who It Is For

The summit is pitched at four audiences at once: CXOs, IT leaders, business decision makers, and developers. The developer track is the most concrete of them, promising hands-on work with current agent development frameworks and a focus on modernising legacy processes and deploying production-ready agents in hours rather than months.

Alongside the main stage, the event carries an expo hall with interactive demo lounges, a dedicated Partner Zone for the Google Cloud partner community, and a networking gala. Regional use-case sessions feature companies building AI-first products in the Middle East.

Regional Context

Google positions the summit against the Kingdom's Vision 2030 programme, presenting cloud and AI infrastructure as an accelerant for it. That framing places the event alongside a dense calendar of Gulf technology gatherings, though its single-day, practitioner-heavy format is narrower than the multi-day expos that dominate the regional circuit.

Google notes that capacity for the physical sessions is limited and encourages early registration for access to the keynotes, technical tracks and gala.