A two-day, AI-first healthcare congress in Riyadh, dedicated to applied artificial intelligence in diagnosis, treatment and clinical operations, running alongside the International Patient Experience Congress.
AI Health Connect 2026 takes place on 13 to 14 September 2026 at the Mandarin Oriental Al Faisaliah in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, organised by BII Health. Its 2026 theme is The Extra Hand: Welcoming the Next Era of Healthcare with AI. It is a dedicated AI stream that runs alongside the International Patient Experience Congress, and its agenda is built entirely around applied artificial intelligence in healthcare.
AI Health Connect is a two-day business conference on artificial intelligence in healthcare, held at the Mandarin Oriental Al Faisaliah in Riyadh. It is organised by BII Health, the healthcare arm of the B2B conference organiser BII, and runs as a dedicated AI stream alongside the International Patient Experience Congress, sharing a single exhibition floor. Its 2026 theme is The Extra Hand: Welcoming the Next Era of Healthcare with AI, and its agenda covers clinical decision support, smart hospitals, remote monitoring, precision medicine and responsible AI. The event is explicitly positioned within Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 healthcare agenda.
AI Health Connect 2026 runs from 13 to 14 September 2026 at the Mandarin Oriental Al Faisaliah on King Fahad Road in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is a two-day event.
The congress targets the people deploying AI across Saudi and regional health systems:
The agenda is organised entirely around applied AI in healthcare:
AI Health Connect is a boutique, AI-first congress, smaller and more curated than the Gulf's government-led mega-summits.
| Event | Month 2026 | City | Focus | Typical audience | Price band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Health Connect | September | Riyadh | AI-first, applied clinical AI | Health-system leaders, CIOs | Inquiry-based |
| Abu Dhabi Future Health Summit | October | Abu Dhabi | Longevity, digital health and AI, investment | Policymakers, investors | Free expo, paid forum |
| Global Health Exhibition | October | Riyadh | Broad healthcare, digital health track | All healthcare, exhibitors | Free expo, paid congress |
It runs as a dedicated AI stream co-located with the International Patient Experience Congress in Riyadh, sharing an exhibition floor, so an attendee gets the AI programme alongside the patient-experience congress.
Fully. Unlike broad healthcare events that include AI as one track, AI Health Connect is organised entirely around applied artificial intelligence in healthcare.
AI Health Connect is a compact, AI-first congress in Riyadh that reads as Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 healthcare agenda in event form, with a ministry-heavy speaker roster and an agenda built entirely around applied clinical AI.
Registration is inquiry-based. There is no public price page; attendees submit an enquiry or agenda-request form through the official site, and sponsorship and speaking are handled as separate tracks.
At the Mandarin Oriental Al Faisaliah in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Through an enquiry form on the official site, since pricing and passes are handled on request rather than published.
The International Patient Experience Congress in Riyadh, with which it shares an exhibition floor.
Verified from the official BII Health event pages on 2026-07-09.
| Official website | https://www.biihealth.us/ai-health-connect/ |
| Register | https://www.biihealth.us/ai-health-connect/send-enquiry/ |
| Organiser | https://www.biihealth.us/ |