Hotels have more technology options than ever, but choosing the right solutions remains a challenge. ExploreTECH co-founder Ralph Melis discusses how hotels evaluate vendors, what makes technology adoption difficult, and how the way hotels discover, buy, and manage technology is evolving.
Doers Summit Dubai connects founders, investors, operators and enterprise decision-makers from Europe, the GCC, Asia and the Global South.
Doers Summit Dubai connects founders, investors, operators and enterprise decision-makers from Europe, the GCC, Asia and the Global South.
G42 and five of its portfolio companies have signed MoUs with Greek government and partners, as Greece and the UAE mark 50 years of diplomatic relations.
From connected dining lamps to digital humans and smarter hotel operations, here's what we saw at the Startup Den, part of Dubai’s Future Hospitality Summit.
The Recursive co-founder Etien Yovchev talks to H.E. Wesam Lootah, Director General of GovDigital at DGE, on how the Abu Dhabi Government upskilled 95% of its workforce for AI, how it balances global tech partnerships with data sovereignty, and why governance guardrails matter most for public trust.
Part of Dubai Future Finance Week, the invitation-only gathering will bring family business owners, next-generation leaders, family offices, and global experts to Madinat Jumeirah on November 5.
Organised by DIFC, the 4th edition of the Dubai FinTech Summit gathers C-level leaders, decision-makers, regulators, innovators, and market pioneers from across the world.
The inaugural Dubai Future Finance Week, led by DIFC, runs 2-6 November. Over 850 speakers are confirmed across 85 events and 12 signature forums. The programme covers FinTech, tokenisation, Islamic finance, family wealth, sustainable finance and private capital.
Ai Everything Abu Dhabi is one of the year’s biggest applied AI showcases, bringing together AI enterprises, unicorns and startups building the infrastructure, frontier models, and full stack AI solutions across industries.
Events, investors, free zones, councils, and trade agencies: in this listicle, we start mapping the initiatives and stakeholders building the bridges between Central and Eastern European communities.
The Gulf adopts technology quickly, but the decision follows the relationship rather than the pitch. Romanian founder Antonia Dumitriu shares her journey of entering the GCC, adapting the product to local privacy norms, and learning why the meetings had to happen in person.
This article tracks the history of Gulf Investors backing some of the most defining deep tech companies coming out of Central and Eastern Europe in the past 5 years. These scaleups operate cargo drones, robotaxi ecosystems, voice AI, hypercar manufacturing, clean energy, and longevity biotech.
At Techsylvania in Cluj-Napoca, the CEO of SPARK, Sharjah's Research, Technology and Innovation park, made the case for partnership over competition, explained the role of government vision for attracting world-class talent, and was candid about what European founders get wrong about the Gulf.
Ivan Maltsev has spent a decade building and investing in crypto across three continents. His read on 2026: the UAE leads on regulation and ecosystem, the US still owns the venture capital, and Europe is maturing, just more slowly.
Norma's natural language analytics, already adopted across 10,000 Foodics branches, will now power the next generation of agentic AI for restaurant operations.
Treating emerging markets as a monolith is a costly mistake. Utopia’s Alina Truhina explains how to leverage strategic arbitrage between emerging markets and GCC, and why local nuance is the ultimate sourcing advantage.
The CEE-born company is becoming the definitive bridge between high-growth regional tech ecosystems. C-level of The Recursive will lay the groundwork in 2026 through onsite presence across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Vienna, Munich, and Berlin.
GITEX Global in 2026 launches into an entirely new dimension. A show already unmatched in scale and influence is being reimagined with new energy, new dates & an iconic new home.
