Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Culture Shifting Deal-Making Summit Abu Dhabi: Media, Entertainment & Sports, Innovation & Investing
The daytime Summit will host 100 hand-selected guests, including investors, founders with traction, and other business leaders, designed to accelerate capital deployment, partnerships, and knowledge sharing.
- Where influence becomes long-term enterprise value
- Where media & entertainment become an asset class.
- Where sports become a sovereign strategy.
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November 17, 2026
Abu Dhabi
Location Coming Soon
About the Abu Dhabi Summit
For Abu Dhabi and other global investors, the mission of this Summit is about deals and collaborations. As the region accelerates its investment in creative industries, sports assets, film production, and global partnerships, this convening offers direct access to investors, influencers, founders, operators, and deal flow, shaping the next era of cultural infrastructure.
This Summit will explore how AI, storytelling, and investing in next-gen media, entertainment, and sports are powerful engines of economic growth, soft power, and cross-border influence. From IP ownership and global content distribution to sports-tech, gaming, and experiential entertainment, we will examine where culture is creating outsized financial returns, and how strategic investors can participate early.
Culture Shifting Summits at a Glance
100
Invite-Only
Attendees
(Abu Dhabi Only)
+$3.5B
Inked deals for Attendees
over the past 12 years
17 Years
Hosting Deal-Making Summits
4 Markets
NYC, Abu Dhabi, Boston, London
Global Deal-Making Summit Series.
Culture Shift Lab's Deal-Making Summits are an annual, invite-only series hosted across New York, Boston, Abu Dhabi, and London.
Each Summit brings together senior leaders, investors, entrepreneurs with traction, and innovators to support collaboration, deal-making, and long-term value creation. Think Access to Capital + Access to Deal Flow.
To date, our Summits have enabled over $3.5B in transactions. Our goal is to enable another $1B by 2027.
Summit Purpose
Capital & Deal-Making
Access to Capital + Access to Deal Flow is central to the Culture Shifting Summits. Meet investors, founders with traction, and global decision-makers driving partnerships, investments, and new opportunities.
Media & Entertainment
Meet the investors and innovators shaping the future of media, entertainment, gaming, AI, and the creator economy. Explore how technology, culture, and capital are redefining storytelling, influence, and audience engagement globally.
Sports
Hear from accomplished experts and investors in sports and sports-adjacent sectors on where they are placing their bets now and in the future. Discussions will also explore the evolution of sports investing as an emerging global asset class.
Speakers to be Announced
What our attendees say
There are events, and then there are Culture Shifting Deal Making Summits: curated, outcome-driven, investor-ready gatherings where deals get done.
As part of the Culture Shift Labs community, our PE firm secured a $150M commitment from a Limited Partner we would not have accessed otherwise.
Our bank has partnered with Culture Shifting Deal Making Summits for 5 years because we consistently gain access to new clients we would not have known about. That’s the magic of Culture Shift Labs.
Event Sponsors
Additional Sponsors coming soon
