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Unlocking business potential: GITEX GLOBAL 2024 fulfils cross-continental collaboration promise in record-breaking edition

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A momentous week saw involvement from over 6,500 exhibitors, 1,800 startups, and 1,200 investors alongside governments from more than 180 countries worldwide”Cross-continental collaboration is the name of the game for any tech company aspiring to thrive in this new AI digital economy” – Trixie LohMirmand, Executive Vice President of DWTC

DUBAI, UAE, Oct. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Live from Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), this week has witnessed international community engagement, networking, and collaboration at its finest as GITEX GLOBAL welcomed the entire technology ecosystem to the UAE for its record-extending 44th edition.

Since its inception over four decades ago, the world’s most brilliant minds, most innovative talents, and most pioneering companies have made GITEX GLOBAL their home – inspiring influential, geographical-transcending socio-economic development contributions amidst an evolving Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).

With this, its profile and popularity have scaled new and exponential heights, so much so that for some time now, GITEX GLOBAL has reigned supreme as the world’s largest and best-rated tech event.

But with unprecedented digital transformation has come a non-negotiable necessity to ensure future preparedness for the inevitable and unassailable winds of technological change.

For enterprises, industries, and nations alike, rallying up investments, updating digital roadmaps, and keeping abreast of the competitive landscape is paramount. Enter GITEX GLOBAL.

With technology evolving in ways few could have predicted just several years ago – whilst complex challenges multiply and advantageous opportunities simultaneously manifest – the event returned with a brand-new mandate this time round, one clearly illustrated through its 2024 theme: Global Collaboration to Forge a Future AI Economy.  

As GITEX GLOBAL 2024 concludes with its legacy about to unfold, it’s well within the realms of possibility that this week’s edition will come to be remembered as a defining moment where the world’s AI economy was formed.

A new benchmark for future editions to emulate

Held at DWTC from 14-18 October, GITEX GLOBAL 2024 has been historic across every metric. A momentous week saw involvement from over 6,500 exhibitors, 1,800 startups, and 1,200 investors alongside governments from more than 180 countries worldwide – making it the biggest-ever international edition thus far.

From a conference standpoint alone, the most eagerly anticipated tech event of 2024 was a resounding success, receiving unanimous audience acclaim as five different themes headlined across its five-day duration.

Spanning tech investment, AI, cybersecurity, data centres, and emerging technologies redefining the boundaries of possibility, visitors lauded an enlightening series of keynote speeches, fireside chats, and specialist panels and presentations. Led by a distinguished cast of world-leading experts, these shone a unique spotlight on the urgent challenges, emerging threats, and innovative opportunities facing individuals, enterprises, industries, and nations worldwide.

One was on full display this week when an International Data Corporation (IDC) study revealed that Microsoft and its partners are set to generate $74 billion in new revenues for the UAE economy over the next four years. The study, titled ‘Microsoft Cloud Dividend Snapshot’ for the UAE, highlighted the critical role that Microsoft’s cloud services, along with its partner ecosystem, are playing in advancing the UAE’s digital economy, fostering innovation, and creating jobs. 

But that’s not all. On a week when over 3,000 companies with AI innovations also piqued the curiosity and interest of attendees, a series of ambitious, eye-catching new partnerships were signed and sealed under the GITEX GLOBAL banner.

“Connecting participants and bringing together new communities, stakeholders, personalities, and influencers is the beauty of GITEX events – it’s in our DNA and what we stand for,” revealed Trixie LohMirmand, Executive Vice President of DWTC, the organiser of GITEX GLOBAL. “It’s through this DNA that the relations forged during our events flourish and the ecosystem thrives.”

With transformation comes trajectory

At the scene of the world’s largest public-private sector collaborative platform, many local, regional, and international participants have converged in the spirit of entrepreneurship – making new connections, actuating plans, launching new solutions, and forging new cross-continental alliances.

Amongst the many examples, the UAE’s global technology provider e& finalised a $1 billion agreement with US-based Amazon Web Services. The new alliance will combine AWS’s cloud infrastructure and solutions with e&’s network capabilities to address the most stringent customer requirements across the public sector and regulated industries in the Middle East, including healthcare, finance, and oil and gas in the Middle East.

Core42 (UAE), a G42 company, also announced a strategic partnership with AMD (US) to drive secure cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) deployment in the UAE and beyond. This collaboration will focus on trialling AI and machine learning technologies while exploring confidential computing for both public and private cloud infrastructures.

“Cross-continental collaboration is the name of the game for any tech company aspiring to thrive in the new AI digital economy.” LohMirmand said. “It’s what drives our impetus each year because the tech industry is moving so fast – it’s all about momentum.”

Elsewhere at GITEX GLOBAL, another trans-Atlantic partnership was forged between Deloitte (UK) and Palo Alto Networks (US) as the two committed put pen to paper on a strategic collaboration to accelerate the adoption of leading cybersecurity capabilities. Vodafone IoT, part of British multinational telecom company Vodafone, also unveiled its collaboration with e& to supply automotive IoT connectivity to Mercedez-Benz AG in the UAE.

“AI and deep tech have smashed the boundaries of tech and it’s the beginning of a new era for all of us,” added LohMirmond. “This why every year, we ask the international tech community to come with us on a wonderful five-day journey of discovery.

“We invite the entire world to discover the competition, benchmark,  identify opportunities, and make new connections in an ecosystem full of great organisations, opportunities, and strategic partnerships.”

GITEX GLOBAL is seamlessly connecting the world’s largest network of tech events with a stellar list, including GITEX EUROPE Berlin, GITEX ASIA Singapore, GITEX AFRICA Morocco, and GITEX NIGERIA. In 2024, these will foster global collaboration and cross-continental innovation to shape the tech landscape of tomorrow.

GITEX GLOBAL 2024 also welcomed many of the world’s most iconic and reputable technology companies, from Huawei, solutions by stc, Google Cloud, and Lenovo to Dell, IBM, Oracle, TII, and more.

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About GITEX GLOBAL

GITEX GLOBAL, the world’s largest tech event, is returning for its 44th edition at Dubai World Trade Centre from 14-18 October 2024. The 2024 edition will feature 6,500 exhibitors, and welcome 200,000 tech executives from 180 countries, converging the best minds, future-focused government leaders, and the most visionary enterprises and start-ups to scrutinise, challenge, define, and empower the digital agendas of the world. Independently rated globally as the world’s best tech show, GITEX GLOBAL’s continued expansion is amplified by the launch of GITEX EUROPE Berlin, GITEX ASIA Singapore, and GITEX NIGERIA in 2025, as well as the growth of GITEX AFRICA Morocco leading up to its third record-breaking edition. More information: www.gitex.com

About Dubai World Trade Centre

A global business facilitator since 1979, Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) is home to the region’s leading purpose-built convention and exhibition centre. DWTC provides a platform for connecting people, products, innovation and ideas from around the world through a dynamic calendar of international trade exhibitions and its own roster of sector leading mega events. As a designated free zone, complemented by award-winning commercial real estate, DWTC plays an integral role in Dubai and the region’s growth story. Since its inauguration, DWTC has hosted over 6,000 events, with an estimated economic output of AED 248 billion, attracting over 38 million business visitors to Dubai.

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Trip.com Group Sincerely Accepts Administrative Penalty Decision Issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China

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SINGAPORE, July 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trip.com Group Limited (Nasdaq: TCOM; HKEX: 9961) today announced that it has received the administrative penalty decision issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China.

Trip.com Group sincerely accepts the decision and will adopt rectification measures in accordance with applicable laws and regulations to implement the decision’s requirements. The Company will strengthen its long-term governance mechanisms and strive to contribute to the sustainable development of the travel industry.

Trip.com Group’s management team will host a conference call at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on July 27, 2026 (or 8:00 PM Hong Kong Time on July 27, 2026).

The conference call will be available on Webcast live at: http://investors.trip.com.

All participants must pre-register to join this conference call using the participant registration link below:
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Upon registration, each participant will receive details for this conference call, including dial-in numbers and a unique access PIN. To join the conference, please dial the number provided, enter your PIN, and you will join the conference instantly.

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NAVER Partners with Brookfield and NVIDIA to Expand Korea’s National AI Factory Infrastructure Buildout

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NAVER, Brookfield and NVIDIA announced an expansion of Korea’s sovereign AI factory infrastructure. New investments will increase the initial NVIDIA DSX™ AI factory deployment from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts.

Announced during Korea President Jae Myung Lee’s AI Summit visit to San Francisco, the planned 200-megawatt expansion will be built with the NVIDIA DSX platform at NAVER’s GAK Sejong hyperscale data center in Sejong, South Korea. The expanded infrastructure will provide Korea- and U.S.- based AI innovators with access to production-scale AI compute for building next-generation models, agents and AI-powered services.

Under the terms of the agreements, Brookfield will fund up to $9 billion as the exclusive capital partner, NVIDIA will invest $1 billion and NAVER will fund the remaining amount to finance the $10 billion project.

This builds on NAVER’s June announcement to extend its GAK Sejong data center with NVIDIA DSX, with a long-term path to gigawatt-scale sovereign AI infrastructure serving Korea’s enterprises, industries, government organizations and global AI cloud customers. Combining Brookfield’s capital with NVIDIA’s computing platform, the investment supports NAVER’s AI factory deployment.

“NVIDIA’s strategic investment and our infrastructure supply agreement with Brookfield have propelled NAVER’s vision for the AI Factory business into a robust execution phase,” said Haejin Lee, Founder and Chairman of NAVER. “Leveraging the solid partnerships with our global partners, we will drive technological innovation, foster a sovereign AI ecosystem, and spearhead efforts to strengthen South Korea’s AI competitiveness.” 

AI Factory Expansion and Open Model Collaboration to Fuel AI Innovators

NAVER, as an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, provides deep expertise in operating hyperscale infrastructure powered by the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform. The 200-megawatt AI factory, featuring NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell platforms, will establish a dedicated resource pool for emerging AI companies, providing the compute, software and support needed to develop and deploy competitive AI models and applications at scale.

This expanded infrastructure also builds on NAVER and NVIDIA’s collaboration on open model development for agentic and physical AI. NAVER is advancing its HyperCLOVA X models to be based on NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Ultra open models with its proprietary data and training expertise. NAVER is also the first Korean company to join the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining, post-training and reinforcement learning.

NAVER plans to launch an AI agent platform in Korea in the second half of the year, powered by NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software including NVIDIA NemoClaw™ blueprints. NAVER is also developing a Seoul World Model using proprietary urban street-view and spatial modeling data, built on NVIDIA Cosmos™ world foundation models.

About NAVER

Founded in 1999, NAVER is Korea’s largest Internet company and one of the world’s top tech companies. Leading cutting-edge technologies, NAVER operates the No.1 search engine in Korea and holds various business portfolios encompassing commerce, fintech, cloud, AI and robotics.

NAVER recorded sales of KRW 12.04 trillion (USD 8.18 billion) in 2025. TEAM NAVER continues to enhance its business portfolio and expand its global presence across Japan, North America, and Europe, while pursuing innovation through continuous research and development in future technologies.

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Beijing Review: Walking Through Time: China and U.S. Youths Explore Dali’s Past and Future

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BEIJING, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On July 17, a China-U.S. youth delegation came to Dali of Yunnan Province. By examining how Dali’s rich history intersects with modern development, the delegates explored new pathways for rural development.

They visited Dali Old Town, tried their hand at making the Bai people’s Three-Course Tea and also explored the ancient town of Xizhou, where they learned how modern tourism and indigenous life coexist.

In Yunnanyi Village, they explored its history as a stop along the Tea Horse Road and learned about the role it played during the Second World War (WWII).

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“I think it’s a very underappreciated part of World War II history. Hearing these stories of different countries working together despite cultural differences is incredibly inspiring.

I also think there are many stories like these that haven’t been widely told, simply because World War II is such a complex period in history. That’s why I think it’s so meaningful to visit museums like this and experience these stories firsthand.”

At Xiangyun Economic and Technological Development Zone, they visited a local new energy company to see how green, low-carbon development is driving regional growth.

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“I recently started studying energy transitions. I know China has been really big in the renewable energy sector. So actually getting to hear more about [China’s] 2060 [pledge], learning more about carbon neutrality [goals], as well as other zero-carbon goals, was cool.”

During their stay in Dali, they also strolled along the Erhai Lake Ecological Corridor.

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“I’d describe this journey as “to be continued,” because my own connection with Yunnan is far from over. For the U.S. delegates, this was only their first visit, so they’ve only had a glimpse of what Yunnan has to offer. I hope they will have more opportunities to come back to China, explore other cities in Yunnan, and discover even more of its people, culture and traditions.”

After Dali, the delegates will visit Beijing for more tours and exchanges. The event was co-hosted by China International Communications Group (CICG) Center for the Americas and the U.S.-based International Student Conferences.

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