Southeast Asia’s digital economy is thriving, rapidly growing year-on-year through accelerated digital adoption and government-backed investments. With the World Economic Forum’s projected 2030 USD1 trillion gross merchandise value becoming increasingly realistic, the inaugural GITEX ASIA x Ai Everything Singapore highlights this potential.
Organised by Dubai World Trade Centre and KAOUN International in affiliation with GITEX GLOBAL, the world’s largest tech show, the first-ever Asian edition takes place in Singapore from April 23-25, 2025.
As Asia’s largest inaugural tech, startup, and digital investments event, GITEX ASIA x Ai Everything Singapore welcomes over 700 global tech enterprises and startups, with over 70% first-time exhibitors in Singapore, alongside 250-plus global investors from over 70 countries.
Under the theme ‘Advancing Bold Partnerships in Asia’, stakeholders will explore collaborative opportunities, enter new markets, and access new capital.
GITEX ASIA x Ai Everything Singapore examines tech’s new frontiers across eight themes and 180-plus hours of content. From AI, cybersecurity, cloud, connectivity, and quantum computing to healthcare, biotech, green tech, and smart cities, the GITEX ASIA Digital Economy Summit stages the most potent debates and thought-provoking perspectives surrounding global shifts and Southeast Asia’s evolving tech trajectory.
Over 330 international expert speakers dive into the emerging AI complexities and use-cases, from AI-powered drug and GenAI era defence to 5G/6G telecom challenges, next-gen data centres, cyber resilience, fraud detection, and intelligent healthcare.
Emerging digital nations showcasing their latest technological advancements, services, and solutions include the Netherlands, France, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, India, Pakistan, and the UAE. Vietnam and Serbia (both debuting nations in Singapore) are supported by the Vietnam National Innovation Center and Serbia’s Chamber of Commerce.
Established tech companies at the event include Ericsson, Kaspersky, Nebius, Fortinet, ManageEngine, and Oracle to Alibaba Cloud, China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Nvidia, and Lenovo.
Supported by the Singapore Tourism Board, SGTech, and Action Community for Entrepreneurship, GITEX ASIA x Ai Everything Singapore is hosted in strategic partnership with international government entities, regulators anddigital agencies from Southeast Asia and wider Asia.
Singapore’s JTC Corporation, UAE Cybersecurity Council, Dubai Department of Economy & Tourism, Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy, India’s Mobile & Electronics Devices Export Promotion Council, CyberSecurity Malaysia, Philippines’ Department of Information & Communications Technology, and Thailand’s National Cyber Security Agency are among the high-profile event partners.
Alongside the evolving competitive tech developments, GITEX ASIA x Ai Everything Singapore features North Star Asia, the region’s largest and most global startup, accelerator, and investor event. It will feature over 400 Series A+ tech startups and early-stage companies from 20-plus industry sectors, from AI, Software-as-a-Service and cybersecurity to green tech and telecom.
With Access Partnerships projecting AI could deliver USD835 billion in economic benefits to Southeast Asian businesses by 2030, several world-first AI innovations take centre-stage at the AI 100 programme powered by Nebius, featuring 100 award-winning AI startups from 30-plus countries.
In another outstanding programme, Singapore 100, the top 100 most promising Singaporean ventures will showcase their breakthroughs, while the world’s fastest-rising startups face off in the Supernova Challenge pitch competition.
Global investors with USD200 billion in assets under management are also participating, including Cisco Investments, SGinnovate, Lightrock, and Rallycap.
GITEX ASIA x Ai Everything Singapore also presents GITEX Cyber Valley Asia, a showcase and conference that gathers cybersecurity companies, national security agencies, and over 200 global CISOs.
With Southeast Asia’s cybersecurity market projected to exceed USD7 billion by 2029, this programme explores regional readiness amidst an increasingly complex threat landscape.
Among the other highlights is the Counter Ransomware Initiative – Crystal Ball. Key private-public decision-makers will discuss the strategies to mitigate the impact of growing ransomware threats on individuals, organisations and critical infrastructure.
