GITEX EUROPE 2025: Launchpad for Sovereign Cloud, Trusted AI, and Cross-Border Collaboration

AI in Action

• WiseWorld.ai unveiled an AI soft-skills trainer that analyses voice and video to deliver real-time coaching – evidence of generative AI moving into corporate learning

• Multiple exhibitors demoed multilingual AI agents for customer service and knowledge management, emphasising transparency and alignment with the forthcoming EU AI Act

• Georgia’s national innovation team framed responsible AI as an economic growth engine, underscoring the policy focus on sovereign data infrastructures

Sovereign Cloud & Infrastructure

• IONOS positioned its partner-centric cloud as a “made-in-Europe” alternative, highlighting on-site wins with early-stage platforms migrating into EU data centres

• HYCU, Nutanix, and OVHcloud demonstrated an integrated backup and disaster-recovery stack tailored to Digital Operational Resilience Act requirements, signalling strong momentum behind multicloud resilience

• TP-Link showcased zero-touch deployment across its Omada networking and VIGI surveillance lines, simplifying secure edge roll-outs for mid-market enterprises

Cybersecurity & Digital Trust

• Ridge Security introduced an autonomous, AI-directed penetration-testing platform aimed at European critical infrastructure operators

• ManageEngine placed zero-trust architecture at the centre of its updated IT-management suite, adding AI anomaly detection for insider-threat defence

• HackerOne used interactive Lego builds to draw traffic to its bug-bounty and vulnerability-coordination services, reinforcing the need for crowd-sourced security

Ecosystem Partnerships

• On-site collaborations dominated conversation: start-ups signed Memoranda of Understanding with cloud providers to fast-track scaling under the EU Data Act

• Public-private projects such as the Berlin–Tbilisi digital bridge showcased talent exchange and joint AI research, expanding Europe’s innovation corridor

Frontier Innovation

• QBN highlighted quantum-technology toolkits that attracted sustained investor interest, pointing to Europe’s ambition to lead in post-classical computing

• Exhibitors brought hardware into focus, previewing low-power edge devices and AI-accelerator chips set for deeper dives in tomorrow’s dedicated hardware forum

Sustainability & Smart-City Solutions

• Demonstrations centred on AI-driven optimisation of energy and water consumption in data centres and urban infrastructure

• A Lego city model illustrated future smart-city networks integrating mobility, surveillance, and renewable micro-grids – linking tech showcases to measurable climate outcomes

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