Setting MENA’s creative benchmark since 2007
The Dubai Lynx Awards celebrate the very best in advertising and brand storytelling from across the region. Alongside the Awards Ceremony, Dubai Lynx Creativity Week brings together global jurors, brand leaders, and creatives to explore the trends and insights shaping effective creative work today.
To help build the future of regional creative excellence, our talent and training initiatives support students and young professionals with opportunities to learn, network, and elevate their skills even before they enter the industry.
Call for Content
Lynx Creativity Week
We are inviting brands, agencies, and creative leaders to contribute to the region’s most influential celebration of creativity. This is your chance to share insights, spark discussions, and inspire the next wave of innovation as part of our two-day content programme. Nominate someone you know or submit an idea for your own session or panel. Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2026.
CREATIVITY WEEK
A week of ideas, insights, connections
Creativity Week is a series of sessions leading up to the Dubai Lynx Awards Ceremony. It brings together marketers, creatives, and industry leaders for practical discussions and networking. Hear from global jurors, brand leaders, and creators about what’s working in the region and globally. Join the conversation, submit the call-for-content.
30 and 31 March 2026
Celebrate MENA's creative excellence
Dubai Lynx Awards Ceremony
Join the most senior leaders and change-makers of the creative marketing industry from agencies, brands and government as we celebrate the best of MENA creativity. Plus, see who made it to the top in our student and young Lynx initiatives. Awards seats and tables can be bought from 20 January onwards. Stay tuned.
1 April 2026 at the Emirates Golf Club, Dubai
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Student Initiatives
Take the ideal step from academia to professional life. Discover free-to-participate competitions and two-day hackathons. Submit your work in response to a brief set or apply to be selected amongst 20 top advertising students in the region for a two-day programme. All winners are honored on-stage at the Dubai Lynx Awards Ceremony.
Dubai Lynx 2025: The Recap
Hands down, what makes Dubai Lynx unique is its relevance to the region. There are many similar industry events out there. But none has its finger on the pulse of culture as much as Dubai Lynx.
Maian Alken
Creative Director
Leo Burnett MEA (Middle East & Africa)
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