As part of the Digital Wallonia programme of Wallonia's digital strategy, AWEX in collaboration with the Digital Agency organised a mission for Walloon companies and players at the Dubai GITEX, which took place from 6 to 10 October 2019.
GITEX is a four-day event that attracts the world’s leading technology companies (Amazon, Alibaba, Huawei, HP, Microsoft and SAP to name but a few). GITEX is the biggest annual event in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. In addition, the city of Dubai has established itself as the Digital Hub of the Gulf and, more broadly speaking, the whole of the Middle East.
In 2018, GITEX welcomed more than 150,000 visitors and 4,500 exhibitors from 97 countries. The 38th event of its kind was organised around five themes: 5G networks, Smart Cities, the IoT, VR/AR and Artificial Intelligence.
A “GITEX Future Stars” area, dedicated to international start-ups, was organised at the event, attracting over 1,000 start-ups from 19 different sectors, presenting their inventions and competing for the highest honours of the Supernova Challenge and four innovation cups sponsored by the industry.
The 2019 GITEX event will be focusing on the sector’s six hottest themes:
- 5G: From smart vehicles to high quality streaming on our mobile devices, GITEX 2019 will be showcasing the greatest evolutions in 5G technology and its entire ecosystem.
- Future Mobility: How technology is affecting transport in all sorts of new directions - from driverless cars to automated traffic management.
- Smart Cities: How technology is taming the urban jungle to create cities of the future that are better connected, greener and more citizen-focused.
- Artificial Intelligence: By enhancing human capabilities and commercial success thanks to unbelievably better performance, explore AI as it is today, and as it will be in the future.
- Lifestyle Tech: New “always connected” lifestyles, with surprising new consumer products and innovations that will change the way we work and live.
- Mind + Technology: Synergy between the mind and technology. Infinite technological possibilities and genuine collaboration between men and machines, to create a new international economy.