Welcome to Dubai Lynx 2018

11 - 14 March 2018
Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai

MENA's biggest celebration of creative communications

Dubai Lynx is all about showing off the MENA region's incredible creative output. It’s a four-day event that brings together top creatives, the world’s best brands, fledgling start-ups and everyone in between to learn, network and celebrate creative excellence in communications.

See highlights

Jeremy Perrott

McCann Health

Mohammed Assaf

Winner of Arab Idol

Kay Hsu

Facebook

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"Dubai Lynx showcases the world's best work, allows the creative community to unite and enables young professionals to meet their heroes."

Yousef Tuqan

Group Vice President, Brand Marketing & Loyalty, The Jumeirah Group

Come along to the awards show to see if your work has earned one of the industry's biggest seals of approval.

Get to know a diverse community of brand, agency and world leaders, innovators, tech entrepreneurs, brilliant creatives and many more in a laid-back setting.

Hear thought-provoking, agenda-setting talks on the topics that matter to communications today from the people leading the change.

Learn more about the Festival

The Dubai Lynx awards are all about showing off the creativity you need to see. They celebrate, nurture and set the standard for brilliant work in the MENA creative communications industry each year.

New for 2018

Celebrating brave and innovative ideas within the health, wellness and pharmaceutical communications, 2018 sees the introduction of the Healthcare Awards at Dubai Lynx.

Learn more about the awards

"Dubai Lynx raises creative energy and makes creatives raise the bar."

Joao Camacho

Creative Director, Tonic International

“Dubai Lynx is the only regional event where we can come together once a year to celebrate, network and most importantly, be inspired by our peers."

Reem Hameed

Executive Producer and Partner, Collective BKP

"Dubai Lynx is a great place to share and swap ideas, connect with people in my industry and see where the industry thinks creativity will go."

Ema Linaker

Head of Digital MEA, Edelman

No matter what stage in their career, creative people are always ready to develop - and the Training Academies at Dubai Lynx are carefully curated to help meet those needs.

Developing, inspiring and showcasing the keen-to-learn university students that call MENA home.

Four fast-paced competitions that give young creatives a platform to make their portfolio pop, show off their style and gain industry-wide recognition.

Dubai Lynx offers a host of opportunities that enable your business to reach MENA's influential communications industry by partnering with us before, during and after the Festival.

Find out how to be a sponsor

Passes for Dubai Lynx go on sale on 23 October 2017 but before that, there are lots of ways you can be involved with Dubai Lynx 2018.

If you think you've got what it takes to inspire MENA's creativity community, submit your idea for a talk.

Our festival representatives are champions of creativity. Find your local Rep here