The World Summit of Scientists starts tomorrow

The World Summit of Scientists, the largest global gathering of laureates of the Nobel Prize and other prestigious scientific awards, will begin tomorrow, which brings together over three days more than 150 scientists, participants, laureates of the Nobel Prize and other scientific awards, and leaders of research institutions, in conjunction with the World Summit of Governments 2026, which will be held from February 3 to 5. February 3 has been designated as a joint day that brings together scientists with heads of state and government, ministers, and leaders of international organizations and institutions participating in the summit. Global governments.
The World Summit of Scientists, which is organized in partnership between the World Government Summit and the International Association of Senior Scientists, is one of the most important and largest qualitative scientific gatherings in the world and the largest in terms of the scientific weight of the participants, as an elite group of scientists who have won the Nobel Prize, the Turing Prize, the Wolf Prize, the Lasker Prize, the Fields Medals, and the Breakthrough Prize participate, in addition to winners of other prestigious international scientific awards.
The World Summit of Scientists aims to provide a scientific platform for international dialogue that focuses on long-term strategic thinking and enhancing multidisciplinary cooperation, which contributes to supporting the role of basic sciences in facing global challenges, in light of the increase of these challenges at the economic, social and political levels, and the urgent need for innovative solutions to ensure the continuation of development efforts and the continuity of humanity’s civilizational progress.
Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, the Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, and Vice President of the World Government Summit Foundation, said: “Dubai’s hosting of the World Summit of Scientists, in conjunction with the World Government Summit, embodies the vision of the wise leadership of the UAE and its deep belief in the role of science and knowledge as the most powerful engines for innovating solutions that guarantee a better future for humanity. What we aim to achieve through this exceptional summit is to put this vision into practice, by bringing together an elite group of scientists from various specializations in qualitative dialogues in addition to Bringing them together with leaders of world governments and decision-makers, to work to transform the great human legacy of people of mind into a tangible reality that improves people’s lives, and makes science a unified global language to confront the difficult tests that the world is going through today.”
He added: “Through our belief that the mind is the most precious of wealth, in this summit we combine scientific wisdom and decision-making under one roof. We aim to establish a global reference that acts as a strategic shield that protects humanity’s cultural gains and directs the compass for decisions, policies and government plans to be based on scientific foundations. For the UAE to be an incubator for this message that places the human mind at the heart of the global government work system is a privilege and responsibility that we are proud of and will continue to work for to give hope to future generations.”
For his part, Professor Roger Kornberg, President of the International Association of Senior Scientists and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006, said: “The global summit, which brings together the world’s most distinguished minds within the framework of the World Government Summit in Dubai, represents a wake-up call to the world that science cannot flourish in isolation from supportive political will, just as the global policy compass cannot move in positive and effective directions in isolation from sound scientific foundations, and the UAE’s commitment to achieving this message is considered great boldness.” “And a lofty goal to transform basic sciences into a cognitive tool for decision-making that affects the fate of humanity.”
He added: “This summit gives us scientists a rare opportunity to play our role and commitment towards the development of civilization and ensure progress and prosperity for humanity, at a time when our planet is facing tests that cannot be postponed. We hope that this summit will constitute a knowledge road map that contributes to confronting challenges and designing a future worthy of future generations.”
The World Summit of Scientists constitutes an advanced global platform that aims to formulate a forward-looking vision that goes beyond the traditional time frames of public policies. It works to consolidate integration between scientific disciplines, and to link basic sciences to the joints of governmental and political decision-making in the world. The Summit seeks to build a strategic and sustainable cooperation agenda that ensures the flow of knowledge from scientists’ laboratories to the plans of policy makers to ensure continuity of development and civilizational progress.
The agenda of the World Summit of Scientists includes a qualitative program based on the axis of “Basic Sciences: Scientific Harmony to Face Humanity’s Challenges,” and includes major participations, plenary sessions, specialized forums, strategic discussion tables, and expanded dialogues covering various fields, most notably artificial intelligence and machine learning, quantitative sciences and nanotechnology, biotechnology and genomics, data sciences and cryptography, and neurotechnology.
The agenda also includes the global unveiling of scientific indicators and papers aimed at mobilizing the power of science and multilateral cooperation to stimulate solutions to global challenges and meaningfully shape humanity’s collective future. The summit will issue the scientific paper “2050 Vision for a Scientific Civilization: Moving from a Carbon-Based Civilization to a Silicon-Based Civilization — A New Paradigm for Basic Scientific Research,” which comes at a pivotal moment in which artificial intelligence is reshaping knowledge production and restructuring energy systems and human health. The white paper sets a framework for a scientific civilization that can be understood, discussed, and verified. Constantly.
In parallel, the Association will launch three major annual publications, including a global classification of universities, a classification of science cities, and a review of annual scientific events, with the aim of drawing a global map that shows who produces new knowledge, where it originates, and where it is headed.
Discussions address how basic science contributes to governance and economic systems, how to develop emerging technologies responsibly, and how to enhance international scientific cooperation in a complex geopolitical environment.
The agenda of the first day of the summit, in addition to the opening ceremony, includes the “Artificial Intelligence Sciences” Forum, the “Artificial Intelligence Sciences Forum… Is Artificial Intelligence Capable of Discovery?”, the “Transformational Technologies” Forum, the New Energy Forum, and the Scientific Discovery Forum.
The agenda for the second day of the summit includes 9 forums, including the “Sadistic Sense…the Brain” forum, the “Genes and Genomes” forum, the “Life Sciences…Revolution in Medicine” forum, the “Cosmology and Quantum Physics” forum, the “Hospital Presidents” forum, the “Blockchain Science” forum, the “Carbon Materials Sciences” forum, the “Nuclear Physics” forum, and the “Empowering the Beta Generation” forum.
The third day’s activities also include the Young Scientists Forum, and joint sessions between the World Government Summit and the World Scientists Summit.
In addition to Professor Roger Kornberg, President of the International Association of Senior Scientists, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006, the list of speakers during the summit includes an elite group of scientists who have won prestigious international awards, most notably: Professor Omar Yaghi, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2025, the Arab Geniuses Award in the Natural Sciences category in 2024, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2018, and Professor Joel Mokyr, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2025. And several other international awards in economics and history, Dr. John Clauser, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2022, and the Wolf Prize in Physics for the year 2010, Professor David W. C. Macmillan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2021, Professor Ardem Patapoutyan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for the year 2021, and Professor Gregg Semenza, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for the year 2019, and the 2016 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.
The list also includes a number of presidents of prestigious international universities, most notably: the President of the University of Michigan, Professor Domenico Grasso, the Dean of the University of Lisbon, Professor Luis Manuel dos Anjos Ferreira, the Vice President of the University of Auckland, Dawn Freshwater, the Supreme President of the United Arab Emirates University, Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh, and the President of the University of Warsaw, Professor Aloisi Z. Nowak, Founding Director of the International Center for Theoretical Sciences Spinta R. Valley.
The International Association of Senior Scientists includes 187 prominent scientists, including 78 Nobel Prize-winning scientists, as well as winners of the Turing Award, the Wolf Prize, the Lasker Prize, the Fields Medal, the Scientific Breakthrough Award, and other prestigious international scientific awards.
Its members represent disciplines as diverse as chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, economics and computer science, and belong to leading research institutions in 25 countries.
Based on its vision of “Science and Technology for the Common Destiny of Mankind,” the Association is committed to advancing basic sciences, promoting international scientific cooperation, and supporting the development of the next generation of scientists. Through research collaboration and academic exchange, the Association seeks to promote science as a common global endeavor that benefits humanity.