#JoinDubai

Dubai — The Capital of Networking

The #JoinDubai campaign is an intellectual, technological and event investment in the city we believe in.

1,700+events delivered
4,500+CEO & official interviews
65free Dubai meetups
10technologies
A Dubai event

Live reportage

A live media frame from Dubai

Real photos and media, streamed straight from the event floor.

Live media frame from Dubai events by Realtime.Media

The manifesto

Services run the economy. They never had their own trade show.

Services account for roughly two-thirds of global GDP.

≈ 2/3of global GDP is services
170+years of trade shows for goods
1trade show for services
65free Dubai meetups

What a leisure tourist leaves behind

  • A short visit, once a year
  • Spending on shopping, dining and hotels
  • Highly seasonal demand
  • No reason to relocate or invest

What a business traveller can leave behind

  • New companies and regional branches
  • Jobs, hiring and tax revenue
  • Deals, partnerships and legal entities
  • Residents who stay, not visitors who leave

Business tourism has a greater potential to grow Dubai's residents and legal entities than leisure tourism.

Emirates Fashion Week — production reel

The flagship

A new kind of trade show — invented for services, launched in Dubai

Services sell through consultation, visibility and trust.

01

Lead generation

Services are not products for a shelf.

02

Media footprint

If a service is not visible, it is easy to overlook.

03

Touch = handshake

AI prepares warm introductions in advance.

Three focused days

21 Sep · Attract

Attract Services

Marketing · Sales · Media & PR

22 Sep · Expand

Expand Services

Market entry · Legal · Finance

23 Sep · Automate

Automate Services

AI · IT · Software · Cybersecurity

From company profile to physical showcase

No booth walls, build-up days or dismantling costs.

500 m²hall
32spots
160trial slots
Quarterlycadence
Arena showcase spot
1 TV · 2 BAR STOOLS · 1 ROUND BAR TABLE

The format, rendered

Visit thearena.show Dubai Media City · 21–23 September 2026

The toolkit

Technologies brought to Dubai

Born at 1,700+ events. Implemented in Dubai.

Digital Power

The end-to-end media suite behind every #JoinDubai event — instant photography, live media walls and AI matchmaking working as one.

Emirates Fashion Week · Dubai

SecondScreen

A networking companion screen that turns passive attendees into active, connected participants.

Dubai conferences

MediaWall

Large-format live screens broadcasting interviews, quotes and social posts across the venue.

EFW media centres

Instant Paparazzi

Professional event photos captured and delivered to an attendee's phone in real time.

EFW · IntroduceMe

iFrame Reportage

Embeddable live reportage — a real-time photo and media feed streamed into any website.

Realtime.Media

TV Lobby / Realtime.Media

Showcase stands where guests become broadcasters, with QR access to every profile.

Dubai media centres

ExpoChats — AI Matchmaking

AI proposes relevant introductions so a meeting begins as a warm handshake, not a cold walk of the floor.

IntroduceMe · The Arena

QR Lead Generation

A single QR code opens a chat with a whole team and turns floor conversations into a measurable pipeline.

The Arena · QR-Lobby

Already running

Track record in Dubai

None of this is a proposal on paper.

65

Free IntroduceMe meetups

Networking talk shows with AI matchmaking.

2025

Executive Producer, EFW

Technology production for the 15th season.

5

Event media centres

Turnkey media centres in Dubai.

350

TV-style CEO interviews

With CEOs and authorities at trade shows.

#JoinDubai

A PR campaign for the city

Dubai as the capital of networking.

A social contribution, delivered free for the city.

Event media centre — Riyadh
TV Lobby — Realtime.Media promo

Live reportage · EFW 2025

A second live feed — Emirates Fashion Week 2025

The same reportage engine, running live on Emirates Fashion Week 2025.

Live media frame — Emirates Fashion Week 2025

Reportage frame example — Dubai Silicon Oasis

Governmental & economic alignment

Aligned with Dubai's strategies

Each element advances a specific national or emirate-level strategy.

InvestUAE · NIS 2031

UAE National Investment Strategy 2031

We invest proprietary SecondScreen, Realtime Media, Paparazzi, TV Lobby and AI-matchmaking technologies — and a decade of event-tech expertise — directly into Dubai's economy.

D33

Dubai Economic Agenda

The #JoinDubai campaign promotes the attractiveness of opening branches and new companies in Dubai; instant media delivery lets attendees share branded content with their own networks.

Tourism Strategy 2031

UAE Tourism Strategy

A conveyor of exhibitions attracts tens of thousands of business tourists from the GCC, MENA, Asia and Europe — a segment that adds residents and legal entities, not only visits.

AI Ministry

Dubai AI Ministry

AI is implemented as a practical matchmaking and lead-generation tool for SMBs — a technology that was born in Dubai.

Executive Council · RDI

Research, Development & Innovation Programme

A multi-industry exhibition platform lets companies showcase innovations across logistics, IT, telecom, tourism, real estate, fintech, healthcare, AI, e-commerce and more.

Net Zero 2045

Net Zero & Circular Economy

A build-free exhibition format eliminates booth-construction waste; reusing the same equipment across Arenas prevents tons of construction debris.

DWC · ExpoCity

DWC Airport & ExpoCity

Drawing on DWC's passenger flow and the expanding Dubai Exhibition Centre, the format helps double large-scale business events from 300 to 600 a year, scaling daily visitors toward 10,000 per Arena.

Dubai Chambers

Dubai Chambers Memorandums

The format helps local firms promote services to one another and to visiting business tourists — stimulating jobs, tax revenue, deals, hiring, partnerships and new branches in Dubai.

We The UAE 2031

We The UAE 2031 Vision

By providing lead generation, The Arena encourages companies to grow production, revenue and non-oil exports — supporting the vision's headline economic goals.

DET · SMB

SMB Development

The format stimulates activity for hundreds of SMBs, with subsidised subsidy-station entry from just AED 1,800 for small, new enterprises.

The portfolio

Three projects, one direction

Each is live, and each is in Dubai.

Flagship

The Arena

A trade show invented for services.

thearena.show
Fashion & production

Emirates Fashion Week

Now in its 15th season, SS 2027.

emiratesfashionweek.com
Community

IntroduceMe, Dubai

Sixty-five networking talk shows.

@introduceme.dubai
Emirates Fashion Week — production reel
Emirates Fashion Week — Beauty Day

MeYou / Realtime.Media — the technology company behind all three.

Stepan Danilov

Campaign ambassador

Campaign ambassador — Stepan Danilov

  • Founder & CEO of MeYou Arena Events LLC, Dubai.
  • Executive Producer of Emirates Fashion Week.
  • Interviewer of 4,500+ CEOs and officials.
The full story