About the Event

GITEX AI Europe is the European edition of the GITEX series, organised by KAOUN International, the overseas affiliate of Dubai World Trade Centre. The 2026 edition - the second overall, following the inaugural 2025 launch - takes place June 30 to July 1 at Messe Berlin South Entrance. The event is positioned as Europe's largest international technology and AI exhibition and conference, explicitly built around a Europe-first agenda of digital sovereignty, sovereign AI, and open innovation. It is endorsed by the Berlin Senate, Berlin Partner, the UAE Ministry of Economy, Dubai Economy, the European Innovation Council, EISEA, Digital Dubai, ITU, and the BVDW. Four featured events run within the broader GITEX AI Europe footprint: AI Everything Germany (the AI conference and exhibition component), GISEC Europe (cybersecurity), North Star Europe (startup competition and investor programme), and GITEX Quantum Expo Europe. The 2026 CISO Lounge Sponsor is Trend Micro; silver sponsors include DeepL and ManageEngine.

Audience & Attendees

GITEX AI Europe draws enterprise and public sector technology leaders, technology buyers, startups and scale-ups, investors, and ecosystem builders across AI, cybersecurity, and deep tech. Admission is restricted to trade and business professionals aged 18 and above. The investor programme features institutional and corporate venture capital participants including Antler, Earlybird, DN Capital, UVC Partners, BMW i Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Volkswagen Group, Airbus, Bayer, Beiersdorf, Sony Innovation Fund, Seventure Partners, Fortino Capital, and Hitachi Ventures, among others. Confirmed 2026 speakers include Dr. Karsten Wildberger (Germany's Federal Minister for Digital Transformation), Stefan B. Wintels (CEO, KfW), Andrey Khusid (Founder & CEO, Miro), Ryan Foutty (VP Business, Perplexity), Mark Klein (CDO, ERGO Group), Florian Heinemann (Founding Partner, Project A Ventures), and Geoffrey Hinton, who will appear on stage as the "Godfather of AI." Speaker organisations participating in 2025 included Mercedes-Benz Group, Salesforce, Cloudflare, Fortinet, Lenovo, BlackBerry, and IONOS, among many others.

Programme Structure

The two-day programme runs 9:30am to 6:00pm each day and operates across multiple formats simultaneously. AI Everything Germany delivers the main conference programme with hours of content, keynote addresses, and speaker sessions. GISEC Europe includes a CISO Meetings Programme with 500+ pre-scheduled high-impact meetings, a Government Programme of fireside conversations with heads of national cybersecurity agencies, and an exhibitor floor for enterprise cyber solutions. North Star Europe provides the startup and investor programme, including the Supernova All-Stars pitch competition with a €50,000 equity-free prize for the winner from a pool of 100 finalists. Quantum Expo Europe focuses on quantum technology and deep tech. An Executive Connect Programme and Leadership Roundtables are available for senior executives. The Investor Programme includes a dedicated lounge and pre-scheduled meetings. Eight or more certified workshops and training sessions are available via the Certified Training and Workshop Class delegate pass tiers.

Main Topics

GITEX AI Europe 2026 is structured around five overarching conference themes: Compute & AI Stack - building the computational infrastructure underpinning Europe's intelligence economy; Capital & Scale-Up Engine - channelling liquidity from local founders to global-scale businesses; Deep tech & Critical Supply Chains - turning European research into industrial output; Secure Infrastructure & Cyber Power - building digital defence for the European economy; and Policy to Production - translating European regulation and standards into hard assets and industrial capacity. Sector coverage extends across AI, robotics, cybersecurity, fintech and digital assets, digital health, smart cities, cloud and data centres, IoT, quantum and deep tech, climate tech and green tech, and intelligent connectivity.

Closing Session

The event closes at 6:00pm on July 1. A Post-Show Report is published following the event; the 2025 edition's report is available on the GITEX AI Europe website.

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