Under the patronage of Lieutenant General His Highness Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, the International Exhibition for National Security and Resilience, ISNR 2026, was staged from 19 to 21 May at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi.
Held under the theme Securing Tomorrow Today, the 2026 edition was organised by ADNEC Group, a Modon company, in association with the Ministry of Interior and in strategic partnership with Abu Dhabi Police GHQ.
ISNR 2026 convened senior national security and cybersecurity officials, global buyers, and supply chain stakeholders from both the public and private sectors.
The exhibition spotlighted eight critical sectors, including homeland security, cybersecurity, commercial security, physical security, fire and safety, policing and law enforcement, critical infrastructure protection, and artificial intelligence and surveillance technologies.
This year’s edition achieved growth in scale and participation, with 253 exhibitors participating, a 19% increase compared to the 2024 edition.
National companies accounted for 60% of the exhibitors, showcasing strong domestic participation, while international companies made up the remaining 40%, highlighting the event’s growing prominence on the global stage.
Small and medium-sized enterprises accounted for 20% of the total exhibitors, further emphasising the event’s role in supporting emerging businesses.
The exhibition space expanded to 28,000+ square metres, marking a 17% growth compared to the previous edition.
ISNR 2026 hosted the inaugural AI Security Forum, a high-level, three-day strategic platform convening industry leaders, policymakers, technology providers, and AI experts.
The event introduced the Code Breaker Hackathon, a live competition where participants will engage in real-world cybersecurity scenarios, highlighting the role of digital defences as the first line of protection for modern infrastructure, and delivering practical insights into the evolving threats and breakthrough innovations across the cybersecurity domain.
ISNR 2026 also included the Cybersecurity Hub, held in collaboration with the UAE Cybersecurity Council, to provide a specialised platform to spotlight the latest technologies and solutions in cybersecurity and digital protection.
The hub will highlight the role of advanced technology in enhancing cyber resilience across government entities and critical sectors, as well as the UAE’s commitment to developing a robust and secure cybersecurity infrastructure.
The success of ISNR 2026 was made possible through the active support of several key partners and sponsors who are contributing their expertise and resources to elevate the event’s impact.
Event partners
Rabdan Academy, serving as the Academic Partner for the ISNR, has played a pivotal role in advancing safety and resilience education. The Academy has played a key role in organising the Abu Dhabi Global Sustainable Security Summit with the UAE Ministry of Interior and in collaboration with ADNEC Group.
The Tawazun Council for Defence Enablement joined as the Strategic Enablement Partner for ISNR 2026, reaffirming its dedication to advancing the UAE’s defence and security capabilities. This partnership highlights Tawazun’s pivotal role in driving technological innovation, fostering national security priorities, and supporting the localisation of critical defence technologies.
The Cyber Security Council serves as the Cyber security Partner, addressing critical issues in the rapidly evolving world of cyber threats and resilience. The UAE Cyber Security Council has contributed its expertise to the Cyber security Hub to ISNR 2026, showcasing the latest innovations and technologies shaping the future of digital security.
Presight joined ISNR 2026 as the AI Industry Provider, showcasing the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in enhancing security practices and resilience strategies. The company provides mission-critical AI solutions that empower governments and agencies to improve public safety, accelerate emergency response, and bolster national resilience.
By integrating big data analytics, real-time decision intelligence, and AI, Presight supports agencies in safeguarding communities and addressing critical security challenges.
PwC, as the Knowledge Partner for ISNR, provided strategic insights to help navigate the complexities of the evolving security landscape. Leading experts and strategists from PwC participated in various sessions and panels throughout the event, contributing their expertise to address critical challenges and foster meaningful discussions.
With participation from exhibitors representing 37 countries, ISNR 2026 promised an unmatched opportunity for knowledge exchange, networking and international collaboration.
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of Axis’s presence in the UAE, ISNR Abu Dhabi 2026 featured a full showcase of how Axis solutions strengthen business resilience, increase visibility and improve performance through proactive security and intelligent insights.
According to the recently published Axis Perspectives Report 2026, Axis end customers in the EMEA region are increasingly adopting video systems for business intelligence and operational efficiency, in addition to security and safety functions.
Axis’s presence at ISNR Abu Dhabi 2026 featured:
Perimeter protection: Acting as the first line of defence for many businesses, Axis cameras utilise technologies such as thermal and bispectral imaging, radar integration and object autotracking to maximise visibility and response capabilities. Products on display will include the AXIS Q6088-E PTZ Camera, AXIS P1488-LE Bullet Camera, as well as AXIS D2122-VE and D2123-VE Radar devices.
Body-worn and onboard solutions: Cameras that provide real-time capture for field personnel, combined with secure evidence management and integration into command systems, enable enterprises to protect staff, assets and infrastructure. Visitors at the Axis stand will get to experience the AXIS W110 and AXIS W120 Body Worn Cameras, both of which offer workplace benefits and improve safety and visibility.
Access control and integrated solutions: Attendees can learn more about Axis’s integrated solutions, including door controllers and video intercoms that enhance access control. Showcased devices will include the AXIS A1610 Network Door Controller, AXIS C1710 Network Display Speaker, AXIS D6310 Air Quality Sensor, and AXIS D4200-VE Network Strobe Speaker.
At ISNR Abu Dhabi 2026, Axis will be joined by several co-exhibitors from the Axis partner ecosystem, who will demonstrate key product integrations and services.
Milestone Systems: A provider in open-platform video technology software, Milestone Systems enables enterprises to integrate Axis devices into a centralised system, enabling intelligent surveillance at any scale.
Dell Technologies: A global brand known for offering infrastructure, storage and computing solutions, Dell Technologies enables enterprises to handle high-performance video and analytics workloads with the help of video capture by Axis.
Ipsotek: A Vision AI technology provider, Ipsotek extends the value of Axis camera systems through advanced, edge-based video analytics and GenAI-driven intelligence. Its solutions enable sophisticated behaviour analysis, contextual understanding and real-time insight for large-scale, mission-critical security and operational environments.
At AirQ, the development and production of UAV technology for use across the aerospace industry is attained thanks to a thorough design approach that emphasizes quality. AirQ serves as a force in the expansion of the Unmanned Aviation Industry in the GCC region, both from a technological and regulatory standpoint. This includes R&D of hybrid multirotor-fixed wing VTOL UAV platforms; R&D of specific equipment, components and solutions for VTOL UAV.
Aligned Edges is committed to provide cyber security, ICT and digital transformation services by utilising the best talent and technologies. It focuses on helping clients untangle complex issues by delivering customised services and solutions.
Atlas Group specialises in Telecommunication, Security Solutions, Crisis Management, Optronics, and General Contracting. Operating for more than 40 years in the UAE, ATLAS Group HQ is in Abu Dhabi, UAE
ATLAS Telecom is a telecommunications provider and supported by world-class engineers and technology. ATLAS Telecom has established itself as a trusted partner for businesses seeking reliable connectivity solutions.
ATLAS Security Solutions is the security system integrator across the UAE, bringing a range of security infrastructure solutions primarily to the government sector. It is a suite of solutions range from Physical Security Systems, Cyber Security, Data Centres, and Construction Security Services.
Atlas Security turnkey security solutions can be found in extremely challenging environments and support the security and safety of critical infrastructure.
ATLAS Optronics is redefining Surveillance with Intelligent, High-Definition Solutions in Partnership with HENSOLDT Optronics. In 2016, ATLAS Group and HENSOLDT Optronics GmbH established Atlas Optronics JV. The Joint Venture was officially announced in February 2019 during the International Defence Exhibition, IDEX and Conference. At this event, they also unveiled the capabilities of the Optronics Centre of Excellence, which encompasses Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul services.
Exclusive resellers of Juvare, ATLAS Crisis management Systems is a pivotal division within the esteemed ATLAS Group, specialising in comprehensive crisis management and risk mitigation solutions. Founded on the principles of preparedness, resilience, and adaptability, Atlas Crisis is committed to safeguarding businesses, organisations, and communities from the myriad challenges they may encounter.
Advanced Technology Research Council
Across ATRC and its entities, advanced innovations in AI, cybersecurity, quantum, autonomous systems, and secure communications reflected a clear focus on building smarter, more resilient capabilities for the future. From breakthrough technologies to expert key conversations shaping the future of security, ISNR highlighted how innovation is moving beyond concepts and into real-world impact.
SteerAI is powered by the Advanced Technology Research Council’s dynamic venture builder and commercialization arm, VentureOne, as well as cutting-edge autonomous robotics technology developed at the Technology Innovation Institute. Steer AI turns standard security and defence vehicles into autonomous fleets that can handle complex operations across multiple terrains—letting you scale up your operations while keeping your people safe.
EDGE is participating at ISNR Abu Dhabi 2026 bringing together advanced capabilities across national security, cyber resilience, secure communications, AI-enabled sensing, and mission readiness. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, EDGE consolidates more than 35 entities into six core clusters: EDGE Commercial, Platforms and Systems, Missiles and Weapons, Space and Cyber Technologies, Technology and Innovation, and Homeland Security.
Emirates Gateway Security Services is Owned by Alpha Dhabi Holding and established in 2007. Emirates Gateway Security Services, EGSS was created to focus on a wide array of security solutions, including the training of personnel, personnel supply, deployment, both foreign and domestic, monitoring, surveillance and round the clock control room operation. We also provide bespoke security services and provide cost-effective solutions that ensure mitigating risk within your organization.
EGSS employs more than 5,000 highly trained security personnel that undergo stringent standards to carry firearms and intelligently respond to any unprecedented security situations. We employ highly trained ex-military and police personnel from around the globe to be able to respond to any of your requirements.
EGSS are presently the main security service provider to critical infrastructure facilities and military establishments within the UAE.
Established in 2000, INKAS Armoured Vehicle Manufacturing has been providing armoured vehicles for banks, law enforcement agencies, corporate clients and individuals all over the world. INKAS now specializes in a wide range of custom security and transportation solutions for its clients, including armoured transport vehicles, executive armoured SUVs, armoured cars, luxury sedans, armoured limousine and special purpose vehicles.
Presight is an ADX-listed public company limited by shares whose majority shareholder is Abu Dhabi company G42, is the region’s big data analytics company powered by Artificial Intelligence.
Rakia Group
They are creators of innovative smart big data solutions suited to today’s hybrid reality. Driven by big data platform with its built-in proprietary rule -engine that allows users to easily create, test, manage, and execute decision-making, risk management and process models in real-time environments.
Designed to deliver actionable intelligence that effectively addresses mission critical challenges related to national security, border control, immigration, customs, cybersecurity, risk management and financial crime.
Capable of extracting analysing and aggregating infinite volumes of data from unlimited sources without interruption and with complete security and integrity. Adjusts and adapts to an organisation’s unique needs and capabilities and easily scales in line with organisation growth.
Rabdan Academy is a government-owned, higher education institution established to coordinate and enhance learning outcomes for organisations and individuals in the Safety, Security, Defence, Emergency Preparedness, and Crisis Management sectors.
Rabdan Academy is the first government higher education institution in the United Arab Emirates to obtain accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, and the first specialised institution globally in the fields of defence, security, and crisis management to receive this distinguished international recognition.
The Academy is also the world’s first higher education institution specialising in the SSDEC domain to achieve the highest 5-Star rating under the QS Stars University Rating System across six categories: Teaching, Facilities, Employability, Global Engagement, Academic Development, and Good Governance.
The Academy adopts a dual education model that integrates academic study with specialised vocational training. It recognises prior learning and professional experience and offers accredited, transferable credits across academic pathways and professional roles, ensuring flexibility and alignment with workforce needs.
Obvious Technologies is a pioneering software vendor developing OODA, a next-generation Command and Control suite designed for global security and mission-critical organisations. By leveraging the power of Digital Twin technology, 3D Data Visualisation, and Machine Learning, we empower Global Security Operations Centres to drastically reduce response times.
Obvious Technologies offers an open, scalable, and agile platform that redefines situational awareness, moving far beyond the limitations of traditional legacy systems.
The mission is to eliminate the operational pain points of standard security solutions through a revamped user experience and mission-specific features. With independent R&D expertise in Computer Vision, Data Science, and Deep Learning, OODA remains at the forefront of real-time video analytics and complex event processing.
Headquartered in Paris, Obvious Technologies operates globally with strategic hubs in Dubai, Doha, and Riyadh.
In 2024 Presight signed an MoU with Obvious Technologies at the International Security National Resilience exhibition.
NABS Integrated Technical Services is a system integrator in UAE with Cisco Gold certification and strategic alliance with major brands like Commscope, APC. NABS Integrated Technical Services provides integrated networking along with customer support.
NABS expertise includes consulting, designing and building solutions in hybrid cloud, networking, security, collaboration, unified computing, physical security, passive infrastructure and data centres. NABS employs more than 100 experienced and professional staff based in Abu Dhabi and Dubai serving public and enterprise sectors.
A global defence manufacturer, engineering advanced platforms and fully integrated systems for every domain of modern security. From armoured tactical vehicles and unmanned aerial systems to naval craft and cutting-edge battlefield technology, Streit provides sovereign defence and security forces worldwide with the complete, interoperable capabilities required for operational superiority.
Streit engineers a foundational platforms for ground-based security and defence. The includes armoured personnel carriers, armoured fighting vehicles, mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles, and light armoured multi-role vehicles—all built to withstand high-threat environments while delivering protected mobility and advanced firepower where it is needed most.
Beyond tactical platforms, Streit delivers special-purpose vehicles designed for diverse operational needs, including airport security vehicles, armoured ambulances, tactical fire trucks, utility trucks, and more—ensuring mission readiness across every domain.
Streit provides architecture of modern security, integrating every layer from point air defence systems to fully autonomous swarms. Our ecosystems connect hardened platforms, tactical UAVs, and counter-drone technology with intelligent command networks, creating a unified, responsive shield.
This synergy transforms isolated assets into a cohesive force where air defence radars cue autonomous patrols, and battlefield data informs every strategic decision, ensuring dominance from the ground to the digital frontier.
Prepaire Labs officially unveiled SHIELD, a real-time biological intelligence and response platform designed to help governments, healthcare systems, defence organisations, and humanitarian operators move from detection to response in real time.
The launch took place during ISNR Abu Dhabi 2026, marking the first commercial product release from Prepaire Labs and introducing a new category of operational biological infrastructure built for modern outbreak preparedness, response coordination, and sovereign health security.
The system can operate in cloud, hybrid, or fully sovereign on-premises environments through Shield Spark edge nodes, allowing governments and institutions to retain local control over sensitive data while participating in a federated intelligence network.
SHIELD is designed to support a broad range of operational environments, spanning national public health systems, hospitals and laboratory networks, military and civil defence organisations, humanitarian and NGO response operations, as well as critical infrastructure and remote field deployments. The platform also enables autonomous BSL-3 and BSL-4 laboratory operations, supporting high-containment environments where speed, coordination, and biological security are critical.
The platform integrates directly with Prepaire Labs’ wider biological infrastructure ecosystem, including GenetiQ Digital Twin systems, HAiLO AI-driven countermeasure workflows, Shield Sentinel pathogen sequencing kits, autonomous field laboratories and UAV logistics systems, as well as federated SPARK sovereign intelligence nodes.
The world has spent decades building systems that report outbreaks after the fact. SHIELD was built to reduce the time between signal detection and operational response. Biological preparedness will become one of the defining infrastructure challenges of the next decade. Faster intelligence, faster sequencing, and faster coordination are now essential capabilities. Platforms like SHIELD represent a major step toward integrated preparedness infrastructure.
The platform’s architecture allows hospitals and frontline facilities to participate in Shield’s preparedness network without requiring sensitive patient data to leave local environments.
Hospitals and NGOs can deploy Shield Core as a preparedness layer while selectively activating advanced capabilities such as Digital Twins, pharmacogenomic analysis, pathogen sequencing, and HAiLO-driven therapeutic workflows.
Prepaire Labs also announced a humanitarian access framework for qualified NGOs and outbreak response organisations, allowing approved field operators to use Shield in resource-limited environments while contributing governed pathogen and epidemiological intelligence back into the network.
The company stated that the long-term objective is to create a globally distributed biological intelligence infrastructure capable of improving outbreak readiness, accelerating therapeutic development, and reducing response latency during future biological emergencies.
SHIELD is now available for sovereign, enterprise, hospital, and humanitarian deployment
Shield is a continuous intelligence layer. Not a dashboard, not a report, an environment where signals are detected, interpreted, and acted on in real time. Every system begins with awareness. Shield continuously ingests signals from labs, sensors, environments, and populations. Nothing exists in isolation. Raw data is not intelligence. Interpretation is. Powered by HAiLO, Shield transforms continuous inputs into clear, actionable understanding.
HAiLO identifies non-obvious correlations across biological, chemical, and environmental domains. It surfaces escalation indicators before they enter conventional awareness. Predictive modelling surfaces what matters before it becomes urgent. Every pattern is given probability weights, timelines, and impact assessments.
Intelligence is only valuable if it leads to action. Each insight is translated into ranked, context-aware recommendations for operators. The system learns from each response, refining its models through federated learning while maintaining data sovereignty at the edge.
Shield moves from insight to action, identifying targets, proposing therapeutic pathways, generating countermeasures, or surfacing validated interventions already available.
Execution is where intelligence proves itself. Shield coordinates response across systems, from mission planning and logistics to lab integration and deployment. Objectives are translated into coordinated action plans with resource allocation, timing, and fallback protocols.
Six archetypes enter through different doors. Hospitals begin with Core and Twin Keys, NGOs through Humanitarian Access, SMEs through Shield Watch, ministries and defence through Enterprise tiers.
Each path expands through Spark nodes, Sentinel sequencing, BSL labs, and sovereign integrations as operational needs mature.
Six archetypes enter through different doors. Hospitals begin with Core and Twin Keys, NGOs through Humanitarian Access, SMEs through Shield Watch, ministries and defence through Enterprise tiers.
Each path expands through Spark nodes, Sentinel sequencing, BSL labs, and sovereign integrations as operational needs mature. Final scope depends on deployment posture, data sovereignty, integrations, geography, and regulatory needs.
Secure Armoured Vehicles is a fast-growing company for armoured, security vehicles. From luxury sedans to heavy-duty APCs, Secure Armour delivers precision protection for every mission — blending safety, performance, and reliability without compromise.
Tasleeh aims to bring new technologies for the enhancement of military and law enforcement in the UAE, while also nurturing sustainable development and economic growth for its clients.
Products include Military and Law Enforcement Equipment, Simulation Training Systems, Shooting Range Construction, Consultancy Services, Airsoft, Airguns and Firearms Local Dealer, Defence, Military and Outdoor Retailing.
Government
The Supreme Council for National Security; The Security Industry Regulatory Agency; The UAE Cyber Security Council, participated in ISNR 2026.
The Security Industry Regulatory Agency was established in 2016 by a decree from HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai. SIRA seeks to provide Dubai with the highest levels of safety and security through the implementation of international best practices in security systems, services and guards.
