THE WORLD’S LARGEST,

MOST INCLUSIVE TECH

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AND START-UP EVENT
S H O W R E P O R T 2 0 2 2

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The biggest ever edition of
GITEX GLOBAL places Dubai
at the vanguard of cities
opening new horizons for
innovation and shaping the
future of technology,”

HIS HIGHNESS SHEIKH

MOHAMMED BIN RASHID
AL MAKTOUM
Vice President,
Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai

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 170,000
AT T E N D E E S

5,000 +
E X H I B I TO RS

176
PA R T I C I PAT I N G
COUNTRIES

1,000 +

WORLD’S BEST LARGE

STARTUPS

SCALE EXHIBITION 700 +

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INTERNATIONA
*SOURCE: GRS
L INVESTORS

Ground-breaking, agenda-setting and thought-provoking

250 +
24 1,400 +
800
+
CONFERENCE HOURS OF KEYNOTES,
STREAMS SPEAKERS TALKS AND G O V E R N ME N T
PRESENTATIONS ENTITIES
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A RECORD-BREAKING FORCE WITH
POWERFUL ECONOMIC IMPACT

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 Belgium

CELEBRATING USA UK
Germany

CUTTING EDGE Türkiye China

INNOVATION
Poland

FROM ACROSS
THE GLOBE WITH Switzerland
EXHIBITORS FROM
Canada
France

90 COUNTRIES Korea

Pakistan
Morocco

India

Italy
UAE

KSA

Bahrain

TOP 10 EXHIBITING COUNTRIES

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China Germany India Korea KSA Pakistan Poland Türkiye UAE UK USA

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UNIFYING TECH TITANS

KEY EXHIBITORS GOVERNMENT EXHIBITORS

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ACCELERATING
THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
Given the e& transformation journey we embarked on earlier this
year, the 2022 edition of GITEX GLOBAL is truly special for us, as it
is the first major global technology event where we will showcase
the strides we’re taking to progress into a global technology
and investment group that creates technology to empower every
person and organisation to stride into a great wide-open future.”

Hatem Dowidar
Group CEO of e&
It’s where applied science and technology meet.
GITEX is a great platform to innovate for a better
world. GITEX is living proof that technology and
digital transformation exists and comes together to
spearhead the discussion amongst several different
entities, Government & Private, work hand in hand
to innovate for a better world and a better future.”

Noor Shamma
Executive Director of Marketing
and Communication, Technology
Innovation Institute (TII)

GITEX GLOBAL provides us with a golden opportunity to network

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with our customers, partners, industry leaders and experts
from the Middle East region and around the world to explore
how to more effectively unleash digital productivity, promote
the digital economy, and build up stronger digital ecosystems.”

Alaa Elshimy
Managing Director and SVP of Enterprise
Business Group, at Huawei Middle East

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THE FIRST-CHOICE PARTNER FOR
MARKET ACCESS STRATEGIES

We are delighted with our significant presence at GITEX Dr. Ray O. Johnson
GLOBAL, often billed as one of the largest tech events CEO
in the world. We look forward to the networking
opportunities with the technology world’s leaders to
accelerate our breakthroughs in the years to come.

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 INSPIRING R&D AND
TRANSFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Digital Dubai’s
Participation at GITEX
GLOBAL 2022, in partnership
with 32 government and
seven private sector
partners, showcased the
latest digitalization
solutions built by
Dubai Government, also
displaying future plans to
build a holistic city-wide
digital ecosystem ensuring
Dubai becomes a global
benchmark for building
digital economies.

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XPeng
The Chinese car manufacturer, successfully completed the
first public flight of its two-seater flying car, XPeng X2.

The futuristic XPeng X2 is made of carbon fibre and can

carry two passengers while emitting zero carbon dioxide.
It’s been designed with low-altitude flights in mind, so this
futuristic flying car will predominantly be seen in cities.
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INSPIRING R&D AND Cadillac Arabia and e&
In collaboration showcased their InnerSpace concept — a dramatic,

TRANSFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGIES two-passenger electric and fully autonomous luxury vehicle.

With the aim to transform 25 per cent of the total transportation

in Dubai to autonomous mode by 2030, the InnerSpace Concept
exemplifies what the future of mobility could look like within the
Emirate, the UAE and the Arab world.

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Patch XR
The Swiss-Danish mixed reality studio created an unprecedented
music and virtual reality experience at X-VERSE. PatchXR’s tools
combined the best of musical instruments with gaming using building
blocks native to extended realities (xR) and immersive media. At
X-VERSE, visitors were able to feel what it is like to touch sound and
music through surreal, immersive technology.

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 WORLD’S LARGEST PARTNERSHIP
CREATION PLATFORM

Huawei & CPX Holding partner up

to collaborate & strengthen the
UAE’s cybersecurity ecosystem
through strategic digital projects
that will support the nation’s
advancement as a top trusted
digital hub for the region.

G42 and PwC Academy sign

a strategic partnership to
drive innovation of AI across
clients & businesses by
combining PwC’s technology

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Avaya partners with Startek to consulting capabilities with
support global businesses through G42’s AI expertise.
packaged CX offerings.

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 The Dubai Police General Command
signs a MoU with Hewlett Packard
Enterprise (HPE), to develop joint
FORGING ENDURING RELATIONSHIPS activities in areas of common
interest, explore and innovate across
AND OPPORTUNITIES future security projects and develop
security innovations.

e& signed a
partnership with
Dell Technologies
to enable benefits of
edge technologies
for customers
moving forward.

Digital Dubai partner

with the General
Directorate of Civil
Defense in Dubai to
drive the digitization

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of government services
and enable widespread
digital transformation.

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WELCOMING
INFLUENTIAL
BUYERS FROM
AROUND THE WORLD

170,000 40 %
70 % 85 %
OF VISITORS
INTERNATIONAL OF ATTENDEES ARE PLAN TO RETURN
ATTENDEES ATTENDEES C-LEVEL, VPS, DIRECTORS TO GITEX IN 2023

TOP VISITING COUNTRIES

Bahrain Canada China Egypt France Germany India Iran Italy Kuwait

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Oman Pakistan Poland Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia South Africa Sudan UK USA

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A CROSS
SECTORAL FUTURE MOBILITY AI
CURATION OF
GENERATION
NOW TECH CYBERSECURITY DIGITAL CITIES

TELECOM & 5G DATA ECONOMY

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ENERGY & UTILITIES HEALTHCARE

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LIMITLESS
CONNECTIONS 500K
EXHIBITOR
PROFILE VIEWS

GITEX Plus – the digital connector app that enhances your

exhibition experience. 910K
CONNECTIONS
MADE ON THE APP
Making the most of pre-event networking and product-
finding, our GITEX Plus app proved to be immensely popular.

CONCIERGE
632K MEETINGS
BADGES AND
BUSINESS CARDS
SCANNED
5,500

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1M 42K
MESSAGES TOTAL
NO. OF MEETINGS EXCHANGED MEETINGS
ARRANGED VIA THE APP

37,000 15
WHERE GLOBAL 1,400 +
800 +
SPEAKERS
VISIONARIES
CHALLENGE AND
COLLABORATE HOURS OF
42 13 24
CONTENT WORKSHOPS TRACKS CONFERENCE
& CERTIFIED DEDICATED TO STREAMS
TRAININGS GITEX GLOBAL IN TOTAL

55 %
25 %
85
INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME COUNTRIES
SPEAKERS IN UAE REPRESENTED

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 LEADING TECH MINDS SHAPING OUR URBAN FUTURE

H.E OMAR SULTAN

AL OLAMA PAUL ANGELIKA
MISENER GIFFORD
Minister of State for
Artificial Intelligence, VP Global Innovation VP EMEA,
Digital Economy and Policy and Germany
Remote Work Applications Communications, United
States of America

SEBASTIEN DR.GUY EUGENE

BORGET DIEDRICH KASPERSKY
Co-Founder & COO, Global Innovation Co-Founder & CEO,
France Officer & SVP, United Russia
States of America

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DIVYA GOKULNATH DIMITRIOS DOSIS FAISAL SULTAN
Co-Founder President, EEMEA Global Managing
Director

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 POWERING CODING
INGENUITY
Global DevSlam is a great place
to make connections, personal and
business connections, and to help
people stay committed to their craft.

Travis Oliphant
Supported by Featuring the inaugural 11,000 +
90 +
Creator of NumPy & Co-Founder,
Coders Speakers
Continuum Analytics & Anaconda Inc

42 24
Workshops & Scholarships
certified training awarded

World’s most amazing brands

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 EMPOWERING
YOUTH
First of its kind programme in the
region honing and encouraging coding
skills of the youth population providing
unique and exclusive learning and
development opportunities for young
tech innovators.

Coders HQ is an initiative by the

UAE government that is centered on

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attracting the biggest global tech
influencers to the local tech community,
with a prime objective of enabling and
igniting programming passion for coders
& in line with the the UAE’s plans to train
100,000 coders and set up 1,000 digital
companies over the next five years.

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 SPONSORED WORKSHOPS
CERTIFIED A series of exhibitor run workshops that focused on providing
specialized insights into various tools, functions and areas of
WORKSHOPS RUN expertise from leading international tech companies.

BY L E WA G O N
Le Wagon is the world’s most acclaimed
coding bootcamp and together with
the Global DevSlam team have offered
unique bootcamps in Web Development,

R E D H AT M I C RO S O F T
Data Science, Web Scraping and more.

Attendees had the chance to learn from Red Hat

developers how to efficiently incorporate data
W O R KS H O PS
Microsoft offered courses in Introduction to
science and artificial intelligence and machine
Azure Services. Introduction to AI Services
learning (AI/ML) into Red Hat® OpenShift®
on Azure, Introduction to Data Platform on
development workflow using Red Hat OpenShift
Azure, Azure AI Fundamentals, Azure Data
Data Science and handle streaming data using
Fundamentals and much more.
Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka &
also learn and examine the concepts of GitOps
using ArgoCD.

G O O G L E C LO U D
Google Cloud conducted a fast-paced,
hands-on lab gaming experience that
I N T E R SYST E MS allowed participants to test their skills
The InterSystems team organized a Hands- against other engineers and developers in
On Workshop on using their IRIS Data various Cloud Hero Challenges including
Platform and understanding its application Cloud Hero Data Skills, Cloud Hero
to the Python Framework. DevOps Skills & Cloud Hero Infra Skills.

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VMWARE
VMWare offered 4 courses across the show days to registered attendees on
Monolithics to Microservices (Design & Develop), Adopting OSS Databases
Technologies for Transactional and Analytical Workloads, Cluster supply chain
in a multi cloud environment & How to manage Kubernetes across clouds.

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THE WORLD’S LARGEST
METAVERSE WONDER

Amplifying the UAE’s

digital ambitions

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 XVERSE
PARTNERS

HE ADL I NE
SPONSORS

ACTIVATION SPONSO
PRIZE SPONSOR

ACTIVATION SPONSOR
PRIZE SPONSOR

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 THE WORLD’S LARGEST
D U B AI W OR L D T R AD E C E N T R E
STARTUP EVENT

1,000+
Startups

70
Exhibiting Countries

36
unicorns with a total
valuation at $274 BN

700+
Investors
THE FUTURE BELONGS
TO THE REAL
CHANGEMAKERS

1,000 + STARTUPS FROM

70 + COUNTRIES

Europe + CIS 19%

BUYERS
STARTUPS (CORPORATES &
G0VERNMENTS)
NETWORK
LEARN
PITCH
EXPAND

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America 8%
Asia + South Asia 29%

Middle East 16%

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Award
INVESTORS Winning
(ACCELERATORS
+ VC’S) Startups

UAE 20%
Africa 8% 23
BRINGING THE
INVESTORS AND VCs
THAT MATTER MOST

700+ INVESTORS FROM

52 COUNTRIES $500BN Total Assets Under
Management 5,500 Pre Arranged Qualified
Investor Meetings
36 UNICORNS VALUED AT
$271 BILLION

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UNICORNS FROM
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THE WORLD’S BIGGEST
PITCH COMPETITIONS

Winning this incredible prize really demonstrates

how sustainability - and the world’s water crisis in
particular - is now front and centre of global and
regional agendas. This award also highlights how
Dubai, and the UAE are taking a leadership position
on the most intractable sustainability issues facing
the world. We are delighted to win the North Star
Supernova challenge and this prize money will
contribute towards our work to tackle the global
water crisis around the world.

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ALEXEI LEVENE
Co-founder of Desolenator,

477 140 13 54
Grand Prize winner of $100,000

APPLICANTS SEMIFINALISTS WINNERS COUNTRIES

REPRESENTED
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 ONE AFRICA. LIMITLESS
OPPORTUNITIES. AFRICA’S
LARGEST TECH
EVENT

95+
COUNTRIES

125 + The potential for tech on the

continent of Africa is limitless
GOVERNMENT
DELEGATIONS and the time for action is now.”
Mr. Drissi Mohamed Melyani
Director - General,
20,000+ Digital Development
Agency Morocco
TRADE BUYERS

500 +
EXHIBITORS
250 +
LEADING

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INVESTORS & VCS
250 +
300 +
SPEAKERS STARTUPS

140 +
UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF HOSTED BY ORGANISED BY PIONEERED BY
HOURS OF
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AFRICA’S TIME
AFRICA’S TIME
IS IS
NOWNOW EXPONENTIAL DIGITAL
PENETRATION SURGING
CONNECTIVITY
One-sixth of world’s internet users will be in
A YOUNG TECH SAVVY Africa by 2025. 80% OF $100 BILLION
CONTINENT investment in broadband across Africa is
Adoption of ICT regulations to serve expected to be spent on core infrastructure.
45% of the world’s youth will be public services for citizens, organisations and Investments of 250 km of 4G base stations
in Africa by 2040 pan-African government agencies through PPP. and 250 km of fibre with projected migration
to 5G.

SKY HIGH TECH BURGEONING STARTUP ECOSYSTEM

INVESTMENTS
$180 billion by 2025 is the projected value of Africa's
Over the next 25 years, tech internet economy.
investment will rocket

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FLOURISHING FINTECH $115 BILLION

GITEX AFRICA 2023

from
More than$1 MILLION start-up funding
Africa’s fintech revenue will soar to to $712 BILLION
raised every two hours. 6X over global average.
$30.3 BILLION
by 2025. 8X higher than in 2020. 5

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ENGAGING OUR
Total FB
Total LinkedIn
impressions
impressions

COMMUNITIES WITH
2,857
1,241,215 3,530,218
UNRIVALLED REACH
ORGANIC SOCIAL
MEDIA POSTS Total Instagram
impressions 153
2,758,685 MILLION
digital impressions

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MATCHLESS MEDIA PRESENCE 1,700 35
Total Attended Media Countries

Media Clippings doubled year over year

OVER
24,830 $62,6M
Number of Hits AVE Value

Print TV
1,243 184
English
Online Radio
23,244 159 12,304
Arabic
9,644
Others
2,882

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 INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE

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 INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE

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 INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE

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 DIAMOND SPONSOR

TECHNOLOGY &
DIGITAL PARTNER

P L AT I N U M &
L A N Y A R D SPONSOR

GOLD GOLD GOLD

SPONSOR SPONSOR SPONSOR

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SILVER SILVER I N N O VAT I O N CONNEXIONS MAJLIS ATTENDEES
SPONSOR SPONSOR PARTNER LOUNGE SPONSOR LOUNGE SPONSOR BADGE

THANK YOU TO OUR

SPONSOR

SPONSORS AND PARTNERS

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