GITEX GLOBAL 2025 Kicks Off in Dubai, Brings Together the AI Ecosystem That Matters
With 6,800 tech enterprises and 2,000 startups from over 180 countries, this year’s edition will highlight significant developments in biotech, physical AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and data centres.
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AI is rapidly expanding its potential to tackle challenges once thought unsolvable—from revolutionizing medicine with gene-editing to fundamentally reshaping urban mobility and infrastructure. The global artificial intelligence market size is projected to reach $4.8 trillion by 2033, as per the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
The future of this advanced technology is being written in Dubai with GITEX GLOBAL 2025, the world’s largest technology and artificial intelligence event, taking place from October 13-17 at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC).
With 6,800 tech enterprises and 2,000 startups from over 180 countries, this year’s edition will highlight significant developments in biotech, physical AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and data centres.
Global tech enterprises that will anchor the event include Alibaba Cloud, AMD, AWS, Dell, e&, G42, Google, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft,Oracle, Salesforce, Siemens, and Snowflake, with new incoming innovations from Cerebras, Datadog, Mitsubishi, Qualcomm, Rital, ServiceNow, Tata Electronics, Telecom Italia, and Tenstorrent.
“Future-critical sectors, including data centres, biotech, quantum, and robotics, are where AI ingenuity is converging with humanity’s most pressing challenges. GITEX GLOBAL 2025 gives new impetus to these transformative technologies, while continuing to be the harbinger of innovation-led progress across industries and global economies,” said Trixie LohMirmand, EVP of DWTC, global GITEX organiser.
The 47th edition sees 2025 as a record year for international participation, with Brazil joining as Country Partner with its largest-ever tech delegation. Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Tech Destination Pakistan as key partners.
O’Leary Ventures, one of the leading global investors in the data center sector and building the world’s largest AI data centre industrial park in Canada, will have a presence at the upcoming event. “The UAE has become the crossroads and a world leader in the development of technology and AI. No other place has the leadership vision, resources, and commitment to attract a world-class cohort across every industry,” said Paul Palandjian, CEO and Co-General Partner, O’Leary Ventures.
Additionally, Hassan Alnaqbi, CEO of Khazna, MENA’s leading hyperscale data centre provider and a G42 company, will lead discussions pertaining to whether infrastructure, energy, and policy can scale fast enough to keep pace with giga AI factories.
With breakthroughs in gene editing, mRNA vaccines, and AI-led drug discoveries driving biotech spending towards $1.7 trillion in 2025, Mammoth Biosciences, Paradromics, and HurayPositive will deep dive into the intersection of AI and medicine.
Tensor will unveil the world’s first personal robocar, while K2 will introduce new humanoids and a concept vehicle designed to extend robotics into industrial environments.
IBM will unveil Quantum System Two, a major step towards large-scale fault-tolerant systems capable of solving computing scale challenges. Shukri Eid, VP and General Manager of IBM Gulf, Levant, and Pakistan, shared, “GITEX GLOBAL is a global stage, but more importantly, it is a platform for action. It brings together the ecosystems that matter: policymakers, business leaders, and innovators driving AI forward.”
AMD will showcase its Instinct GPUs and EPYC CPUs, built to handle the most demanding AI workloads and energy-efficient data centre deployments.
Running alongside GITEX, the startup showcase Expand North Star will take place from 12–15 October at Dubai Harbour, hosted by the Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy. Marking its 10th edition, the event will bring together 2,000 of the world’s most promising startups—featuring the highest proportion of growth and late-stage ventures globally—with more than 1,200 investors collectively managing assets worth $1.1 trillion.
