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UAE’s $3.7 Billion Tech Economy Takes The
Spotlight In Berlin At Inaugural GITEX EUROPE x

Ai Everything
(24 May 2025)
Europe’s largest inaugural tech, startup and digital investment event, GITEX
EUROPE x Ai Everything, was held at Messe Berlin this week, with the UAE’s
innovation taking centrestage.

The three-day show, which concludes today,brought together more than 1,400
exhibitors, 600 top global investors and over 500 speakers from 100-plus
countries, together marking the strongest cross-border tech mobilisation the
continent has seen. National pavilions stretched from India to Italy, Morocco to
South Korea and 35 European states, alongside participation from the UAE
showcasing how the nation is becoming a global reference for technology
advancement across multiple industries including governance and public service.

The UAE’s IT services market is forecast to achieve record growth to reach $3.76
billion in 2025, according to fresh Statista data, a momentum that was impossible
to miss on a show floor featuring 65 UAE organisations - the nation’s biggest ever
entrepreneurship and digital investment delegation to a European tech event.

UAE Ministry of Economy Pavilion:Steering Climate, Healthcare and Smart City
Innovation

The Ministry of Economy pavilion presented a cohort of home-grown tech ventures
aimed squarely at addressing global challenges. Among them is Zeroe, delivering
comprehensive carbon management to accelerate net zero goals; Hikmah Labs,
merging AI with cutting-edge research to transform industries; IngenioData,
deploying AR and BLE based indoor navigation, asset tracking and analytics; and
Responsive Drip Irrigation, creators of the world’s first plant-responsive irrigation
system, which allows the plant to self-regulate its own water delivery.

Among the dignitaries inaugurating the momentous first European edition, Her
Excellency Alia Al Mazrouei, UAE Minister of State for Entrepreneurship, shared in
her welcome address: “Germany is now the UAE’s second largest trading partner
within the EU. And Berlin as a global capital of innovation plays a central role in
that story. It mirrors the trajectory; dynamic, diverse, and globally connected.
Together, we are shaping a new economic corridor, one powered by innovation
and grounded in common purpose.”

Joining the UAE delegation were Hazza Al Mansoori, the first Emirati astronaut to
travel to space and Nora Al Matrooshi, the first female Emirati astronaut. Hazza Al
Mansouri shared insights on the aerospace evolution in a media briefing, “Artificial

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