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BELOBABA Is Heading to Middle East Energy 2026

25 August 2026

BELOBABA Is Heading to Middle East Energy 2026

1–3 September · Dubai World Trade Centre.

Some events are about the products on the floor. Others are about the conversations happening around them. Middle East Energy is both — and this September, BELOBABA will be there.

Now in its 50th year, Middle East Energy has become the region's largest gathering for the global electricity and energy industry — over 35,000 attendees, more than 1,900 exhibitors, and professionals from 150+ countries converging on Dubai World Trade Centre for three days. Utilities, EPCs and contractors, manufacturers, consultants, distributors, and government regulators from across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe will all be in the room, alongside five expert-led conferences covering everything from grid resilience to energy storage and renewable adoption.

For BELOBABA, this is a natural place to be. The energy sector runs on cross-border transactions — international suppliers, multi-currency contracts, capital moving between jurisdictions at a scale and speed that traditional banking often struggles to keep pace with. It's an industry where being able to hold, convert and move money across USD, EUR, AED and other currencies isn't a convenience — it's operational infrastructure. And increasingly, it's an industry where digital assets are entering the conversation around settlement, treasury and cross-border payments.

That overlap — global trade, multiple currencies, and a growing openness to crypto-native financial tools — is exactly where BELOBABA operates every day.

We won't have a stand this year. We're going as attendees, to listen, to meet the people building and financing the region's energy infrastructure, and to understand firsthand where the friction points are when money needs to move as fast as the projects it's funding.

If you're attending Middle East Energy and want to talk about multi-currency accounts, crypto-friendly banking, or how BELOBABA supports international operations for companies in energy and adjacent sectors, we'd like to meet you there.

Get in touch before the event: support@belobaba.io