Culture Summit 2025:
Culture for Humanity and Beyond
Culture Summit is the annual global forum that convenes international leaders from the cultural and creative industries, to identify how culture can transform societies and communities worldwide. Culture Summit Abu Dhabi 2025 will take place at Manarat Al Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi from Sunday 27th to Tuesday 29th April 2025.
Culture Summit is a global annual gathering in Abu Dhabi that brings together an exceptional collective of creative thinkers, decision-makers, artists, designers, changemakers, and leaders from the culture and creative industries. Its ambition is to identify ways in which culture can transform societies and communities worldwide and turn these ideas into actions and solutions.
Launched in 2017 by the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, Culture Summit is organised in collaboration with international partners, including UNESCO, The Economist Impact, the Design Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, Google, and Recording Academy®, among other leading arts, technology, and media organisations.
This year the theme of Culture Summit 2025 is Culture for Humanity and Beyond which will explore the dynamic relationship between culture and humanity in this period of unparalleled transformation for Humanity. The first quarter of the Century has seen profound global power shifts, leading to the sense of an uncertain future, and to us questioning what it means to be Human in a post-Human world. This may require a collective rethinking of human emancipation, humanism and new common ground to build a sustainable future together.