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Where Stadium Operators And Tech Leaders Design The Fan Journey To 2034.
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Digital Stadium Saudi: Tech & Fan Experience Congress is a high-level, operator-led forum shaping how Saudi Arabia’s stadiums are designed, digitised, operated, and monetised in line with AFC 2027, FIFA 2034, and Saudi Vision 2030.
Taking place in Riyadh, the congress brings together stadium owners, giga-project developers, and global technology leaders to address one core question: how to deliver future-ready, digitally integrated, and legacy-driven stadiums.
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Digital Stadium Saudi is not another generic “sports business” event. It is a working congress built for the people who carry P&L responsibility for Saudi’s stadiums and multi-purpose venues.
Digital Stadium Saudi is designed around your buyers’ real decisions, not around expo floorplans. The entire experience is built to help serious product providers build pipeline and close the right kind of business in the Kingdom.
The room is curated around CIOs, IT directors, heads of ticketing, digital, CRM, F&B, payments, security, facilities and esports – the people who actually drive specification and selection.
Position your brand clearly within connectivity, ticketing, apps, CRM, media, F&B tech, payments, security, automation or esports infrastructure – not lost in a catch-all tech show.
Our sessions and working groups are structured around AFC 2027 and FIFA 2034 readiness and Vision 2030 milestones, so discussions translate quickly into funded projects.
Use the Saudi Stadium Tech Spotlights to showcase live deployments with your client, demonstrating hard numbers on revenue, efficiency, safety or satisfaction.
The closing “Deployment Roadmaps” session is explicitly designed to generate follow-up actions – with named stakeholders, budgets and indicative timelines.
Digital Stadium Saudi is built to create high-value conversations between venue operators and curated technology partners. Expect a tight, senior audience not a mass trade show.
The entire congress is structured around ten connected technology pillars. Get these decisions right between 2026 and 2028, and your venues will be ready for AFC 2027, FIFA 2034 and beyond. Get them wrong, and you’ll be paying for work-arounds and retrofits for decades.
Wi-Fi 6/7, private 5G and DAS that can handle football, concerts and esports without breaking fan experience.
Secure, mobile-first access and fan ID that unlocks data, safety and flexible event formats.
A single digital front-door for tickets, journeys, content, offers and in-venue services.
A unified view of the fan and venue to prove ROI, segment effectively and optimise decisions.
In-bowl, concourse and façade media that can be monetised and tailored by event.
Systems that turn queues into cash and adapt easily between football and other events.
Cashless, global-ready payment experiences that increase conversion and generate rich data.
Integrated safety, crowd analytics and incident management across venues and precincts.
Comfort and sustainability through smart control of HVAC, lighting and more.
Making arenas and stadiums ready for gaming, creators and hybrid live/online events.
Why 2026–2028 is the last window to get your digital decisions right for AFC 2027, FIFA 2034 and Vision 2030.
Fixing connectivity, ticketing & apps before contracts and concrete lock in your limitations.
Turning fan data and payments into measurable uplift in ticketing, hospitality and lifetime value.
Designing broadcast-ready, multi-purpose venues that can handle football, concerts and the world’s biggest esports events.
F&B, retail and cashless journeys that grow per-cap spend while keeping fans happy.
Security, crowd and building automation that protect fans, optimise energy and increase event throughput.
Local case studies of tech deployments in Saudi and the GCC – hard numbers, not hype.
Facilitated working session turning ideas into 12-month implementation canvases for your venue.
Saudi Arabia will host the 25th edition of the FIFA World Cup, marking the first time the tournament will be held in the country. This event will feature 48 teams competing across 15 stadiums.
The 19th edition of the AFC Asian Cup will take place in Saudi Arabia, featuring 24 national teams from across Asia. Matches will be held in eight stadiums across three cities.
Neom, a planned cross-border city in the Tabuk Province of northwestern Saudi Arabia, will host the 10th Asian Winter Games. This will be the first time the event is held in Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh will host the 22nd edition of the Asian Games, a multi-sport event featuring athletes from across Asia. This further establishes the country's commitment to becoming a global sports hub.
Digital Stadium Saudi is a curated, high-intent meeting not a mass expo. We prioritise senior decision-makers from stadiums, clubs, leagues, federations and giga-projects, along with a balanced group of solution partners across the ten tech pillars.
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