Ibtechar, a leading innovation and capacity-building consultancy, reinforced its strategic leadership at Web Summit Qatar 2026 for the second consecutive year, demonstrating how AI (artificial intelligence)-driven innovation labs and ecosystem collaboration deliver real-world impact.
Through hands-on activations and high-level engagement with global innovators and policymakers, Ibtechar highlighted its role as a trusted partner supporting organisations to embed AI, accelerate innovation, and align their digital transformation with national priorities.
"AI is not just a technology; it is a catalyst for organisational and societal transformation. At Web Summit Qatar 2026, we demonstrated how structured, AI-powered innovation labs enable organisations to scale ideas responsibly and achieve measurable impact, advancing the nation’s transition toward a knowledge-based, future-ready economy,” said Khalid AbouJassoum, co-founder and chairman of Ibtechar.
Ibtechar’s booth welcomed many attendees to a dynamic, multi-activation experience that brought AI, innovation, and automation to life. Visitors engaged with the interactive question wall, sharing their biggest AI challenges and sparking meaningful conversations. Visitors also connected with Ibtechar’s diverse team and leadership, engaging in meaningful conversations about innovation, AI, digital skills and capacity building.
"Web Summit Qatar 2026 provided a strategic platform to engage with global innovators, founders, and policymakers, and to demonstrate how AI-enabled innovation can address pressing organisational challenges while delivering measurable outcomes, aligned with national priorities,” said Nayef al-Ibrahim, co-founder and chief executive officer of Ibtechar.
Through the interactive booth activations, delivered in collaboration with its partners, attendees experienced how Ibtechar develops AI-ready talent through its academy arm, while implementing high-impact innovation solutions through the consultancy arm.
Web Summit Qatar 2026 also served as a platform to showcase Ibtechar’s strategic partnerships with like-minded global players. AI Crafters and CurveUp delivered hands-on activations at Ibtechar’s booth, showcasing practical AI applications across organisational and entrepreneurial contexts.
AI Crafters featured an AI maturity assessment and automation lab, guiding participants through real-world AI readiness and use-case development, while CurveUp offered one-to-one sessions enabling attendees to build AI-structured roadmaps to turn ideas to reality and challenges to solutions.
Having designed and managed over 70% of Qatar’s innovation spaces, Ibtechar continues to strengthen the nation’s innovation infrastructure through capacity-building and innovation-driven initiatives for both public and private institutions.
The newly launched Ibtechar Majlis further reinforces the organisation’s commitment to advancing Qatar’s transition toward a diversified, knowledge-based economy by providing a platform for dialogue, knowledge exchange and co-creation of impactful solutions, inspired by the traditional spirit of the Qatari Majlis in the field of innovation.