GITEX Global 2025 unites over 6,800 tech firms to spotlight AI, quantum computing, biotech, robotics, and data infrastructure.

DUBAI: GITEX Global 2025, the world’s largest technology and artificial intelligence exhibition, will return from 13–17 October at Dubai World Trade Centre, uniting over 6,800 companies and 2,000 startups from 180 countries in an expansive showcase of AI-powered innovation.

This year’s edition highlights advancements in biotechnology, quantum computing, semiconductors, physical AI, and data centres—domains set to define the next era of digital transformation. With the global AI market expected to reach US$4.8 trillion by 2033, the urgency to adopt cutting-edge technologies across critical industries has never been greater.

Leading tech giants including Google, Microsoft, Huawei, AMD, Salesforce, Oracle, and IBM will headline alongside new global participants such as Qualcomm, Cerebras, Datadog, and Tenstorrent. The event also features high-profile exhibitors from Brazil, Serbia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Canada, Spain, and Ecuador, marking a record year of international representation.

Running in parallel, Expand North Star from 12–15 October at Dubai Harbour will host 2,000 startups and over 1,200 investors with US$1.1 trillion in assets. Brazil has joined as Country Partner, fielding its largest-ever delegation of innovators.

Breakthrough showcases include Tensor’s personal robocar powered by agentic AI, K2’s humanoids for industrial robotics, and Mammoth Biosciences’ CRISPR-based gene therapies. Paradromics introduces the first successful AI-linked brain-computer implant, and Fluidstack unveils a decarbonised AI supercomputer. IBM reveals its next-gen Quantum System Two, while AMD showcases processors optimised for giga-scale AI workloads.

The show also delves into AI in healthcare, smart contact lenses, quantum sovereignty, and sovereign AI chips, placing Dubai at the centre of global tech transformation. As AI, biotech, and physical robotics converge, GITEX Global 2025 reinforces the UAE’s leadership in shaping the digital economy of the future.