GITEX GLOBAL 2025 Day 2 Highlights Nation-Scale AI Driving Digital Growth
- Capacity crowds return on Day 2 for breakthrough classes on nation-scale AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and artistic industries
- Global expertise giants showcase next-generation AI enterprise, knowledge, and cloud options
- Strategic MoUs in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and public companies signed to strengthen cross-sector collaboration
The buzz intensified on Day 2 of GITEX GLOBAL 2025, as file crowds and packed convention halls reaffirmed the unstoppable momentum of the world’s largest expertise and AI occasion.
The day’s proceedings opened with a thought-provoking digital dialogue on ‘AI-Native Societies; between Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and Peng Xiao, Group CEO, G42, adopted by influential leaders’ discussions from Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Khazna Data Centres, Cerebras, TAMM – Department of Government Enablement (Government of Abu Dhabi), Presight, Core42, Inception, AIQ, and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, delivering high-impact insights on the structural, financial, and cultural foundations of the intelligence economic system.
Taking place from 13-17 October 2025, the 45th version of GITEX GLOBAL converges greater than 6,800 exhibitors, 2,000 startups, 1,200 buyers, and delegations from over 180 international locations. The second day shifted concentrate on the intricate parts forming nation-scale AI infrastructures – utilizing an integration of quantum computing, cloud, knowledge, tech insurance policies, and software program to drive financial and societal impression.
AI, Compute and Quantum Power Take the Main Stage
Opening Day 2’s dialogue, Jim Keller, CEO of Tenstorrent, delivered insights on “Taking Control of Your Sovereign AI Future,” urging nations and enterprises to construct autonomous compute infrastructure via open supply and future mindset. Jim Keller shared: “Open supply is a path for innovation, but in addition a path to essentially personal it, so you possibly can chart your individual future. Imagine there’s a world the place you might personal the AI IP, CPU tech and there’s open supply software program. You simply created a world the place anyone might construct an AI resolution.”
Diving into the period of innovation powered by AI and quantum computing, Ana Paula Assis, SVP, Chair and General Manager for EMEA and Growth Markets at IBM, supplied strategic insights on the interaction between AI fashions and quantum architectures. Ana Paula Assis defined: “How you deploy AI in a means that not solely is sensible for the person however can be cost-effective. You want to think about this stuff on a regular basis when creating use-cases. With quantum structure, we are able to parallelize a whole lot of operations to run on the similar time, so innovators can give you options at present, which a classical laptop would take years to attain.”
Bringing a monetary lens to the debates and discussions on-stage was Paul L. Palandjian, CEO & General Partner of O’Leary Ventures (USA), based by the famend investor and tv persona – Kevin O’Leary. Paul addressed the debates round sustainability and the race to construct hyperscale knowledge centres. On stage, he shared, “If you’re within the knowledge centre enterprise, by definition you’re within the energy enterprise. Today there’s an amazing scarcity, particularly in North America, for energy.” On AI’s hype vs worth, he shared, “We are within the first half of the primary inning of a five-decade megatrend. The bubble that individuals are speaking about is the over-exuberance for the whole lot AI and the valuations being ascribed to rising AI firms. But the megatrend of energy era or knowledge is just not going away.”
Moving into the inventive area, Eliah Seton, CEO of SoundCloud (USA), addressed “The Future of Music within the Age of AI – Ethics, Equity and Opportunity,” calling for steadiness between creativity and transparency. Eliah elaborated, “AI and music is a query of belief and transparency. One of the key challenges is whether or not generative AI firms have educated their fashions on human artistry, on IP, with out consent. Content identification, AI detection and tagging content material is essential to construct this belief and transparency to respect this artistry.”
Exhibitors Showcase Cloud, Data, and Developer Frontiers
Across the present flooring, enterprise innovation continued to drive crowds.
Google Cloud captivated guests with reside demos of transformative AI-optimised knowledge analytics and sustainable cloud structure for the Middle East, dashing up innovation and enterprise transformation throughout the area.
Abu-Dhabi based mostly firm specialised in superior AI with real-world worth, ai71 introduced its suite of options reworking various sectors. Chiara Marcati, Chief AI Advisory & Business Officer, ai71, commented: “At GITEX GLOBAL, ai71 is demonstrating our utilized AI merchandise for enterprise and authorities and discussing our deployment structure method to working carefully with clients to assist them to beat limitations to enterprise-wide AI adoption and unlock the complete potential of AI to rework enterprise. GITEX GLOBAL is a platform in contrast to every other for ai71 to attach with companions, clients and essential stakeholders from throughout the expertise ecosystem.”
At GITEX GLOBAL 2025, HPE unveiled next-generation options together with Morpheus Enterprise and VME for clever hybrid cloud orchestration, alongside the Cray supercomputing and their Sovereign AI Factory, a modular resolution serving to enterprises and governments deploy and scale trusted, regionally ruled AI infrastructure.
Developer audiences flocked to JetBrains to expertise its highly effective instruments which supply full management over organisational AI utilization, privateness, and productiveness with choices just like the AI coding assistants and AI brokers. In addition, the corporate is presenting its IDE Services for enterprises to spice up collaboration, streamline licence administration, and centralise developer instrument management.
Mangobot, a Dubai-based robotics firm, showcased its lineup of superior humanoid, industrial, and military-grade “Wolf Pack” canine robots. Its flagship A2 humanoid can be taught complicated abilities reminiscent of surgical procedures, redefining digital healthcare and robotics.
Another robotics innovator, Micropolis unveiled an autonomous automobile engineered for police and public security operations, able to deployment in hazardous zones. Equipped with superior sensors and AI-driven monitoring, it detects irregular behaviour, gathers proof, and reviews incidents in actual time.
MoUs Strengthen Multi-Sector Collaboration
Day 2 noticed a collection of high-profile partnership signings to bolster the tech ecosystem development throughout private and non-private sectors.
Microsoft and Dubai Municipality signed a memorandum of cooperation on cloud computing and cybersecurity technique. While Deloitte and IBM introduced a partnership to speed up AI adoption at scale throughout the area, with a strategic concentrate on AI, monetary operations, and cybersecurity. Among many public-private collaborations, First Abu Dhabi Bank additionally signed a collaboration with the UAE Media Council.
Event Momentum Builds with Day 3 Spotlighting Biotech & Digital Health
With each stand buzzing and registration counters overflowing, GITEX GLOBAL 2025 continues to set new data in attendance and impression. Day 3 shifts focus to breakthroughs in digital well being and biosciences.
From gene-editing AI to computer-brain human implants and AI leveraging knowledge from 100 million years of mammal resistance knowledge to energy new drug discoveries, GITEX GLOBAL sparks a brand new age of AI-driven human healthcare.
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