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Catch A Glimpse Into The Future Of Tech At Step Dubai 2025

Scheduled for February 19-20, 8,000+ attendees, 350+ speakers, and 400+ startups will gather for the MENA’s leading technology festival.

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1 year ago

February 5, 2025

Nour Nasir

catch a glimpse into the future of tech at step dubai 2025

We’re excited to be part of Step Dubai 2025, the region’s premier tech festival, set to take place on February 19-20, 2025, at Dubai Internet City. Over the past ten years, Step has been a driving force behind innovation in MENA, and this year’s event is shaping up to be bigger than ever.

Bringing together more than 8,000 attendees, 400+ startups, and 350+ speakers, along with a staggering $8.5 billion in funding opportunities, Step Dubai 2025 is a must-attend event for anyone passionate about the future of technology. Held over two action-packed days, the expo will be filled with insights, groundbreaking ideas, and opportunities to connect with some of the most influential minds in the industry.

The speaker lineup this year includes notable names such as H.E. Alia Bint Abdulla Al Mazrouei, Minister of State for Entrepreneurship, Groq President Mohsen Moazami, Amal Dokhan from 500 Global, Elie Khouri of Vivium, Dr. Aseel Addawood from Oracle, and Dany Farha of BECO Capital. They’ll be sharing their expertise on key topics spanning startups, fintech, AI, proptech, adtech, and beyond.

As well as thought-provoking panel discussions and keynote speeches, attendees can take advantage of:

Hands-on workshops
Networking opportunities
A packed and diverse exhibition space
Meet-ups and exclusive satellite events across Dubai

Are you planning to attend Step Dubai 2025? Take advantage of an exclusive discount on your ticket by using promo code TECHMAG. If you’re part of a startup, now’s your chance to apply and showcase your innovations at one of the biggest tech expos in the region.

Places are filling fast — click here to learn more about Step Dubai 2025 and don’t miss this opportunity to be part of MENA’s tech evolution.

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Instagram Now Lets You Tune Its Algorithm, But There’s One Big Catch

The new controls promise users “agency” over their feed, but asking to see more from accounts you actually follow returns an error.

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3 days ago

June 11, 2026

Nour Nasir

Instagram

Instagram has expanded its algorithm personalization feature to the main feed, letting users specify which topics they want surfaced more or less often in recommendations.

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri framed the change as a matter of user control. “I believe it’s in our best interest as a business to empower people to shape Instagram into something that works for them, and that people should be able to have a meaningful amount of agency over the products they spend so much time in,” he wrote on Threads.

Though it turns out that agency has limits. The controls only accept interest-based topics, such as “rescue dogs” or “parenting humor”. Requesting “posts from people I follow” returns no results, which is obviously a sore point for creators whose posts rarely reach their own audiences. Mosseri conceded the tension: “Who you follow used to be a meaningful tool people had for shaping their own experience, and as recommendations took over the main feed that tool quietly stopped working”.

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Instagram credits large language models for making its algorithms legible enough to personalize, and says it is “actively working on supporting requests for people, different moods or vibes, content types, and more” – potentially leading to a fully “bespoke” version of the app.