ADIPEC 2025: where energy and intelligence converge to deliver progress
In an exclusive interview ahead of ADIPEC 2025, Abdulmunim Al Kindy, 2025 Chairman of ADIPEC, shares his perspective on how the world’s largest energy gathering is shaping a new era of progress.
Hosted by ADNOC under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, ADIPEC 2025 will welcome more than 205,000 participants from 172 countries, with 1,800 speakers and 2,250 exhibiting companies. Under the theme ‘Energy. Intelligence. Impact.’, the event will highlight how today’s energy systems must be secured while investing in lower-carbon solutions and intelligent technologies that accelerate global progress.
Q: What is the significance of this year’s ADIPEC theme, Energy. Intelligence. Impact.?
A: We are entering what may be a defining era for human progress. As populations grow, new economies emerge, and Artificial Intelligence advances at an extraordinary pace, the world faces both profound opportunities and pressing challenges.
Energy and intelligence are the twin engines that are setting the pace of global progress. ADIPEC 2025 is designed around this dual imperative: to help ensure secure and competitive energy supply today, while scaling the intelligent energy systems that will fuel the future.
This year’s theme – Energy. Intelligence. Impact. – reflects the convergence between energy systems and artificial intelligence, and the need to transform at pace and at scale. It is also a call to action: to seize the opportunities of this new era while remaining resilient in the face of uncertainty.
Q: How is ADIPEC leading in today’s complex and fast-moving energy landscape?
A: Today’s energy industry is navigating near-term volatility, geopolitics, and infrastructure pressures – but must also keep one eye on the long-term forces reshaping our world.
ADIPEC is a platform for industry leadership and collective action. It has always helped industry collaborate in times of change, but this year’s edition goes beyond a sector-focused event into a platform for system-wide transformation. It is where industries connect, sectors converge, and real outcomes are achieved – not just ideas exchanged.
This year, we are bringing together more leaders from across energy, technology, and investment than ever before – and introducing new zones and forums that reflect the growing complexity of global energy systems.
Q: What scale and impact can we expect from ADIPEC 2025?
A: This year’s ADIPEC will be the most inclusive and wide-ranging in the event’s history. We will welcome over 205,000 participants from 172 countries, 30 national pavilions, and more than 2,250 exhibiting companies. No other global platform convenes such a diverse coalition – from producers and policymakers to financiers, innovators, and industrial consumers.
The expanded conference programme reflects this diversity. Five new focus areas – Emerging Economies, Natural Gas & LNG, Downstream & Chemicals, Diversity, Leadership & Development, and AI & Digitalisation – complement the established priorities of energy security, decarbonisation, hydrogen, finance, and workforce development. In total, more than 1,800 speakers will participate across 380 sessions.
This scale matters because it translates into real-world impact. Last year, more than $10 billion worth of agreements were signed at ADIPEC. With even greater participation from energy, investment, and technology leadership this year, we expect another wave of transformative partnerships.
As I have said before, ADIPEC 2025 is more than a gathering – it’s where ambition becomes action and ideas become measurable impact. In today’s complex world, progress depends on harnessing all technologies – from artificial intelligence to advanced low-carbon solutions – and uniting every part of the energy ecosystem. By bringing together diverse perspectives from across geographies and industries, ADIPEC will help shape a resilient, inclusive and high-growth future where energy security and sustainability advance together.
Q: What can we expect to see from ADNOC at ADIPEC?
A: As proud host of ADIPEC 2025, ADNOC is focused on delivering energy the world needs today, while investing in the energy systems of tomorrow. Across oil, gas, chemicals, and low-carbon solutions, we are scaling every viable source of energy to meet demand – and using AI to fundamentally reinvent how energy works.
You’ll hear about how we are maximizing energy, scaling diverse energy solutions and investing to meet demand, maximizing AI, both unlocking energy for AI, while advancing the use of AI to fundamentally reinvent how energy works, and how we are maximizing our positive impact everywhere we supply, operate and invest.
At ADIPEC, ADNOC will showcase this approach through high-impact announcements, strategic partnerships, and bold investments that create long-term value – not just for our company, but for the world.
