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Step Conference Opens Its Doors On February 21, 2024
The event is now the largest tech festival in Dubai, attracting hundreds of global startups, investors, and over 8,000 attendees.
Dubai’s premier tech expo, Step Conference, is gearing up for its 12th event on February 21st and 22nd at Dubai Internet City, welcoming over 400 startups and 8,000 attendees. The annual conference has become known as a place to forge connections with like-minded individuals, as well as a platform for potential investment opportunities.
Step Conference hosts 4 stages of tech-related content, workshops, entertainment, and more. This year’s event will explore the latest trends and innovations across the startup, fintech, AI, and wellness sectors. Industry leaders, including Faraz Khalid, CEO of noon, Zuby, Amjad Masad of Replit, Dr. Jonathan Doerr of Antler MENAP, and GV Ravishankar of Peak XV Partners, will be on hand to share insights and lead discussion panels.
This year, Step Conference will also unveil several exciting new additions. The AI Track will immerse event goers in captivating discussions, embracing topics including Large Language Models (LLMs), Co-pilot systems, and advanced neural networks. Meanwhile, the Founder’s Circle will host exclusive discussions for startup founders seeking expert guidance. The new features promise to enrich the Step Conference experience, helping to promote innovation and reshape the tech landscape.
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If you’re a startup founder, industry expert, or simply interested in tech and innovation, Step Conference promises to be a standout event for early 2024.
To unlock early bird pricing and buy tickets, head over to the official website. If you’re a startup and interested in attending, you can submit an application here.
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A Three-Clinic Network Bets Dubai Is Ready For Longevity Medicine
Longevium has enlisted nearly 100 clinicians and created an AI platform in a bid to sell biological-age tracking as a medicine, not a wellness service.
Dubai has been busily creating the scaffolding for a longevity industry, including a dedicated regulatory authority and a health market deep enough to sustain it. Now the clinics are arriving.
Longevium, a longevity clinic network, has opened three locations across the city: a flagship at Triple Seven Mall on Jumeirah 3, and branches in Jumeirah Lake Towers and Jumeirah Village Circle. Together they house a multidisciplinary team of nearly 100 physicians and specialists offering what the company bills as “a measurable medical system for longevity”.

The pitch is that longevity medicine should look less like a wellness menu and more like continuous clinical care. Each patient’s biological age assessment, laboratory results, body composition, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic markers, and lifestyle data feed into a single profile, with a proprietary AI platform helping physicians track progress and adjust protocols against the patient’s own biomarkers.
“Healthy aging must be approached clinically through diagnostics, biomarkers, physician supervision, longitudinal tracking, and protocols tailored to the individual,” said Dr. Ksenia Butova, Longevium’s founder and CEO. “Our goal is to help patients understand their health trajectory before disease develops, and then actively change that trajectory”.
The treatment list spans peptide-based protocols, exosome therapies, stem cell approaches, GLP-1 metabolic optimization, hormone balance programs, cardiovascular prevention, and regenerative aesthetics — a model built for the entrepreneurs, executives, and international patients the clinic says want measurable results rather than generic wellness. A signature offering, Longevity Day, compresses biomarker testing, ultrasound and vascular imaging, specialist consultations, IV therapy, and a personalized optimization roadmap into a single three-hour visit.
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“Here, longevity, biotechnology, AI, prevention, and regenerative medicine are converging into a single ecosystem,” said Butova. “This is why Longevium was built in Dubai, and why we believe the UAE can become a global reference point for longevity medicine”.
The emirate established the Dubai Longevity Authority in 2026 to oversee its longevity, wellness, and advanced health sectors, and the Dubai Health Authority reported insured beneficiaries exceeding 4.9 million in 2025, up around 6.5%, with insurance claims reaching approximately 49.6 million, up around 13.5%.
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