Step Dubai, the MENA area’s main expertise convention, is ready to return for its thirteenth version on February 19-20, 2025, in strategic partnership with Dubai Web Metropolis, the area’s premier expertise hub and a part of TECOM Group PJSC.
This yr’s version is poised to welcome over 8,000 attendees, 200+ audio system, and a formidable $9 billion USD in fund presence, reinforcing Step Dubai’s place because the foremost platform for innovation, collaboration, and funding within the tech ecosystem.
As Dubai Web Metropolis marks 25 years of fostering digital transformation, Step Dubai 2025 introduces 5 new thematic tracks that discover essentially the most impactful developments shaping the way forward for expertise:
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Founders & Funders – A hub for startup founders, traders, and accelerators to debate methods for scaling and securing funding within the MENA area.
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AdTech 2.0 – A deep dive into AI-driven promoting, programmatic expertise, viewers concentrating on, and model security.
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PropTech – Debuting in partnership with Dubai Land Division, this monitor highlights AI-powered actual property options, blockchain transactions, and sensible city growth.
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AI Brokers, LLMs & Cloud – A complete exploration of AI’s affect on industries, cloud infrastructure, and enormous language fashions.
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FinTech for SMBs – Insights into fintech options that improve monetary administration for small and medium-sized companies.
The PropTech monitor underscores Dubai Web Metropolis’s and Dubai Land Division’s dedication to advancing actual property expertise. The REES Initiative by Dubai Land Division additional reinforces Dubai’s position as a worldwide PropTech hub by selling sensible actual property options and AI-driven providers.
Majida Ali Rashid, CEO of the Actual Property Growth Sector at Dubai Land Division, said:
“Dubai’s place as a worldwide innovation hub is reaffirmed by main occasions like Step Dubai 2025. The introduction of a PropTech monitor displays the speedy digitization of the true property sector, the place expertise performs a basic position in enhancing providers, transparency, and investor expertise. Dubai Land Division stays on the forefront of PropTech development, aligning with our imaginative and prescient to create an built-in digital ecosystem.”
Ammar Al Malik, Government Vice President of Industrial at TECOM Group and Managing Director of Dubai Web Metropolis, added:
“Entrepreneurs and innovators are driving the way forward for expertise. Step Dubai 2025 continues to be a platform that unites visionary minds, whereas Dubai Web Metropolis, celebrating 25 years of empowering the digital financial system, stays dedicated to fostering a collaborative atmosphere for groundbreaking concepts. Aligned with Dubai’s Financial Agenda D33, our ecosystem will assist significant connections, strategic partnerships, and transformative improvements.”
This yr, BIM Ventures joins Step Dubai 2025 as a Tremendous Companion, enhancing the occasion’s networking alternatives. Highlights embrace The Startup Basecamp, Pitch Competitors, Mentor’s Nook, and Investor Conferences, providing entrepreneurs direct entry to international traders and enterprise capitalists.
Business leaders set to talk embrace Blake Beltram (Mindbody, father or mother firm of Classpass), Mohsen Moazami (Groq), Elie Khouri (Vivium Holding), Michael Lahyani (Property Finder), Anjali Aggarwal (Midday Funds), James Wang (Alibaba Cloud), and extra.
Ray Dargham, CEO of Step, emphasised:
“The worldwide tech panorama is quickly evolving, with AI at its core. Step Dubai 2025 is embracing this transformation by increasing its AI-focused monitor, creating alternatives for startups and traders to drive the following wave of innovation.”
A dynamic group of startups from in5, TECOM Group’s entrepreneurship incubator, will even take part, together with Lika (planning app), Zenadmin (IT administration platform), Parfumery (customized fragrance design studio), and Estaie (PropTech specialist). These ventures are a part of a broader in5 group that has collectively raised over AED 7.8 billion since 2013.
Step Dubai 2025 Venue & Registration
Step Dubai 2025 will happen at Dubai Web Metropolis, residence to over 4,000 companies and 31,000 professionals, together with international expertise leaders comparable to Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia. Tickets at the moment are out there for buy, and startups can submit their purposes right here.
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