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10/14/25, 8:54 AM GITEX GLOBAL 2025: OpenAI, G42, and Microsoft lead landmark dialogues on co-creating AI-native societies
The focus then shifts to real-world deployments with the leadership team from TAMM – Department of
Government Enablement (Government of Abu Dhabi), Presight, Core42, OpenAI, Inception, AIQ, and
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, revealing how governments, industries and
education systems are operationalising AI at scale.

Power agenda on AI geopolitics & economic impact

GITEX GLOBAL 2025’s conference programme converges its largest, most formidable lineup of
ministers, policymakers, tech CEOs, founders, and investors from more than 180 countries, spanning
multiple summits on AI geopolitics & sovereignty, quantum frontiers, cross-sector use cases, investment
priorities, and cyber resilience in the age of AI.

Backed by a show floor of over 6,800 tech enterprises, 2,000 startups and over 40 unicorns, alongside
1,200 investors with $1.1 trillion in assets under management, the conversations on stage carry far-
reaching implications on future strategies, business pivots, collaborations, and economic forces
redefining the tech industry.

Ekaterina Zaharieva, European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, leads the opening
discussions on Europe’s push to turn deep-tech prowess into strategic economic power, while the UAE’s
Minister of Economy and Tourism, H.E. Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri, addresses the recalibrating
economic strategies around AI.

Continuing the high-level dialogues are H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama, UAE minister of State for Artificial
Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, alongside Hon. Evan Solomon, Canada’s
minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, the country’s first AI minister, on the
‘intelligence super-cycle’. The senior leaders explore how nations leverage AI to cushion against
economic volatility and assert digital leadership.

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Steering capital flows for national leaderships

With investment bank UBS estimating a staggering $375 billion funding for AI projects in 2025,
questions are being raised on the geopolitical weight of these investments. In a key session, China’s
outspoken global affairs expert, Victor Gao, chairman of The China Energy Security Institute, spars with
Dr. Jörg Goschin, CEO of Germany’s KfW Capital, Europe’s largest state-backed VC deploying EUR2.5
billion, on the new geoeconomics of investment – how capital is increasingly wielded as an instrument
of technological power.

On the national investment front, Naima Al Falasi, SVP AI Strategy & Transformation at Mubadala –
Abu Dhabi’s sovereign fund managing a $302 billion portfolio, shares strategic insights on embedding
AI and Machine Learning in key sectors, amplifying national competitiveness.

Big tech blueprint – from industrial AI to chip strategies

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