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GITEX GLOBAL 2024 To Showcase Leading AI Tech Talent
The Dubai expo will bring thought leaders, founders, and investors together in a landmark event celebrating the UAE’s growing success as a global AI hub.
Over 3,500 of the tech sector’s most well-known brands will converge at the World Trade Centre in Dubai between 14 and 18 October for GITEX GLOBAL 2024, the world’s largest technology and startup event.
This year, the tech expo will see thought leaders, industry heavyweights and even government representatives gather to showcase and discuss breakthrough AI technologies while forging potential collaborations that could lead to future advancements in one of the world’s fastest-growing sectors.
GITEX GLOBAL 2024 will highlight the potential challenges surrounding AI, including ethics, government policies, and regulations. Experts will also uncover key opportunities for applying the technology in the tech, health, and finance sectors and explain how it might shape the future of work and employment.
The UAE has become increasingly prominent as a global AI hub due to a long-term government agenda aiming to harness the new technologies’ full potential. The UAE’s National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence offers a clear and determined vision to make the country an AI world leader by 2031, with significant funds already allocated to public services, tourism, energy, and education.
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AI solutions are increasingly seen as vital tools for enhanced productivity and economic growth amongst world leaders and industry experts. In a recent GITEX Tech Waves podcast, Thomas Pramotedham, CEO of Abu Dhabi-based AI enterprise Presight, explained: “Today you’ll see companies applying AI and AI evolving — in five, ten years, it will get smarter, and when it gets smarter, you’ll get more efficiency and shorter routes to answers for difficult and complex questions. In return, that will be to the betterment of society and the world we live in”.
GITEX headliners for 2024 include a host of tech giants such as Adobe, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Builder AI, Dell, G42, Google, HPE, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Open AI. In addition, the conference will feature a star-studded lineup of keynote speakers, including Isabell Gradert, VP of Central Research and Technology at Airbus (Germany), Michael Spranger, President of Sony AI (Japan), and Stephen Ibaraki, and many more.
For more information about GITEX GLOBAL 2024, head to the official website.
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LUVED Is A New Curated Preloved Marketplace For The UAE
Sellers keep 100 percent of every sale and AI can build a listing in five seconds — though the app’s smartest tools are still coming.
Secondhand shopping has become mainstream in the UAE, but the experience is still scattered across resale sites, social media and informal group chats. LUVED, a mobile-first marketplace that launched in Dubai this month, is betting it can pull that activity into one place — and that the thing buyers and sellers actually want is not more inventory, but trust.
The app trades in what it calls circular luxury: preloved fashion and lifestyle pieces across men’s, women’s and children’s categories, bought, sold or given away peer to peer. Its main pitch is economics, with sellers keeping 100 percent of every sale under a zero-commission, fast payout model, while buyers are promised vetted pieces at lower prices.
Where LUVED is staking its reputation is verification. Sellers pass a KYC check, and items run through a two-layer authentication system powered by Entrupy that pairs instant AI screening with human expert review for high-value pieces. Authenticity certificates travel with each item, payments sit in escrow, and a buyer-protection package the company calls The Safety Net adds a 48-hour return window and dispute resolution. Door-to-door logistics removes the in-person meetups that make most resale deals awkward.
An in-app assistant called Luvbot — offering selling insights and demand-based recommendations — is soon to be introduced to the platform. Other features include autofill and dynamic pricing that lets users build a listing in as little as five seconds from three photos, plus a swipe-based feed, story-style drops and in-app chat in English and Arabic. Finally, a gifting layer, Luved & Gifted, lets users pass items to others inside the app rather than sell them.
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“After moving to Dubai, I saw how difficult it was to sell or even give things away,” says founder and CEO Shaima Sibtain. The friction is real, and so is the competition. In resale, trust is won transaction by transaction — and that is the test LUVED has set itself.
The app is live on the App Store now, with Google Play to follow. The company also plans to expand across the region, which will be the real test for a marketplace staking everything on trust.
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