Gitex Global 2025: AI Breakthroughs Take Center Stage

This month, Dubai becomes the epicenter of global technological innovation as Gitex Global 2025 opens its doors, bringing together an unprecedented gathering of tech enterprises and startups. The event solidifies its reputation as the world’s largest tech and AI showcase, focusing intently on groundbreaking progress in biotechnology, physical AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and data center infrastructure. Against a backdrop of accelerating artificial intelligence capabilities, the potential for AI to tackle humanity’s most complex problems, from curing genetic diseases to revolutionizing urban mobility and enabling sustainable data centers, has never been more tangible. With the global AI market projected to hit $4.8 trillion by 2033, the urgency to deploy these technologies across critical sectors is reaching a fever pitch.

Trixie LohMirmand, Executive Vice President of Dubai World Trade Centre, the event’s organizer, emphasized the event’s critical role. She stated that future-critical sectors like data centers, biotech, quantum, and robotics represent the convergence of AI ingenuity with our most pressing global challenges. Gitex Global 2025, she noted, provides powerful new momentum for these transformative technologies, continuing its legacy as a beacon of innovation-driven progress for industries and economies worldwide.

Running from October 13 to 17 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, the event unites over 6,800 tech enterprises and 2,000 startups from 180 nations. This massive congregation features the companies spearheading the planet’s most ambitious AI infrastructure expansion. Industry titans including Alibaba Cloud, AMD, AWS, Dell, e&, G42, Google, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Siemens, and Snowflake anchor the exhibition. They are joined by a host of companies introducing new innovations, such as Cerebras, Datadog, Mitsubishi, Qualcomm, Rital, ServiceNow, Tata Electronics, Telecom Italia, and Tenstorrent.

Happening concurrently is the startup-focused Expand North Star, hosted by the Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy from October 12 to 15 at Dubai Harbour. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the event connects 2,000 of the world’s most promising startups, boasting the highest concentration of growth and late-stage companies anywhere, with more than 1,200 investors who collectively manage a staggering $1.1 trillion in assets.

This year, Expand North Star showcases over 40 unicorns, reinforcing the UAE’s standing as a premier global hub for scaling businesses. Among the highlights, Cerebras is presenting the world’s largest AI supercomputer, developed in collaboration with G42. Fluidstack is unveiling the planet’s first 1GW decarbonized AI supercomputer, while Xpanceo is introducing five distinct prototypes of AI-powered smart contact lenses, pushing the boundaries of augmented reality, healthcare, and consumer hardware simultaneously.

International engagement has reached a new peak at Gitex Global 2025. Brazil is participating as the Country Partner, sending its largest-ever tech delegation. They are joined by the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Tech Destination Pakistan as key partners. New national pavilions are making their debut from Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, and Türkiye, alongside expanded representation from Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Levant region.

Tatiana Riera, COO of ApexBrasil, expressed enthusiasm about bringing over 50 remarkable Brazilian startups and innovation hubs to the event. She described it as a prime opportunity to demonstrate how Brazil is propelling innovation and crafting technological solutions for worldwide challenges. Marko Čadež, President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, added that in this era of ubiquitous AI, Serbian startups at Gitex are demonstrating practical AI applications across diverse fields, from wellness and energy to social media sentiment diagnostics, showcasing the full scope of Serbian technological prowess.

With global data center investments expected to surpass $500 billion in 2025, data center capacity is a major focus. Gitex welcomes one of the sector’s largest global investors, O’Leary Ventures, which is constructing the world’s largest AI data center industrial park in Canada. Paul Palandjian, CEO & Co-General Partner of O’Leary Ventures, remarked that the UAE has emerged as a crossroads and a world leader in technology and AI development. He noted that no other location possesses the leadership vision, resources, and commitment to attract a world-class cohort from every industry. Adding a regional viewpoint, Hassan Alnaqbi, CEO of Khazna, the MENA region’s largest hyperscale data center provider and a G42 company, is leading critical discussions on whether infrastructure, energy, and policy can scale rapidly enough to match the demands of giga-scale AI factories.

Breakthroughs in gene editing, mRNA vaccines, and AI-driven drug discovery are propelling biotech spending toward $1.7 trillion in 2025, creating the backdrop for the fastest AI deployment in this sector. At the event, Trevor Martin, CEO of Mammoth Biosciences, is presenting how their Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR gene-editing technology is leveraging AI in the quest to potentially cure genetic diseases. Matt Angle, CEO of Paradromics, the firm behind the world’s first successful computer-brain implant, is delving into the decoding of human thought using AI and neurotechnology. Adding to this momentum, South Korean startup HurayPositive is unveiling an AI-powered SaaS platform designed to deliver precision medicine to one million patients suffering from chronic conditions.

Global technology leaders are using the platform to debut their latest innovations. Tensor is unveiling the world’s first personal robocar, hailed globally as “agentic AI on wheels.” Meanwhile, K2 is introducing new humanoid robots and a concept vehicle engineered to extend robotics into demanding industrial settings. With the robotics AI market forecast to quadruple to $94 billion by 2031, these advancements underscore how Physical AI is becoming a fundamental pillar of industrial productivity and competitive business advantage.

On the show floor, IBM is revealing its Quantum System Two, representing a significant leap toward large-scale, fault-tolerant systems capable of solving computational challenges of immense scale. Shukri Eid, Vice President and General Manager of IBM Gulf, Levant, and Pakistan, shared that Gitex Global is not just a global stage but a platform for decisive action. It brings together the essential ecosystems: policymakers, business leaders, and innovators who are collectively driving AI forward. Professor Mark Thompson, co-founder of the $6 billion unicorn PsiQuantum, is outlining the strategic path toward achieving quantum sovereignty. Another headline exhibitor is IONQ, recognized as the world’s first publicly traded pure-play quantum computing company on the New York Stock Exchange.

As a global leader in high-performance processors, AMD is presenting its Instinct™ GPUs and EPYC™ CPUs, engineered to manage the most demanding AI workloads and enable energy-efficient data center deployments. Jim Keller, CEO of Tenstorrent, the $2.6 billion AI chipmaker featured on the Forbes AI50 List, is expanding on this critical theme with his talk titled “Taking Control of Your Sovereign AI Future,” highlighting how semiconductors have evolved into a significant geopolitical lever.

(Source: Economy Middle East)