With convention season now effectively underway, the eyes of expertise fans are consistently switching throughout the globe.

However this consideration might quickly be targeted firmly on the Center East, which now claims to be the house of the world’s largest tech occasion.

GITEX International 2022, held at Dubai’s World Commerce Centre and attended by TechRadar Professional, won’t but be as well-known as CES in Las Vegas or Cellular World Congress in Barcelona, however the organizers have large plans to vary that.

GITEX 2022

Following a troublesome few years throughout the pandemic, GITEX International welcomed its largest ever attendance, with a reported viewers of over 120,000 attendees listening to from greater than 5,000 corporations from 90 international locations, together with over 1,000 audio system.

Spanning your entire two million sq. foot measurement of the Dubai WTC, the convention was an exhausting expertise for a lot of, with the crowded halls making it exhausting to succeed in talks and panel periods in time, particularly when heading to venues that required an outdoor trek within the boiling desert warmth.

In a rustic that goals to show that greater is all the time higher, maybe having such a sprawling convention with no concrete theme or agenda throughout such a large house was maybe not the wisest alternative – and hopefully an oversight the organizers will deal with in coming years.

However with a line-up that included world expertise heavyweights similar to Microsoft, Dell Applied sciences, Huawei and lots of extra, and that includes a number of UAE and Dubai authorities spokespeople, the convention did have some hidden gems on provide.

The headline attraction was the world’s first “flying automobile”, proven off by Chinese language firm XPENG, whose X2 car carried out a profitable (if barely underwhelming) take a look at flight on the outskirts of the convention.

Wanting ahead, the organizers clearly have large plans for the long run, asserting the inaugural GITEX Africa in Could 2023 in an try and seize a number of the large-scale funding and growth throughout the continent.

And with specially-designed zones for builders, the metaverse and start-ups, it could be that GITEX and its satellite tv for pc occasions do quickly turn into the proving grounds for a number of the subsequent nice expertise companies.

Though it could nonetheless take a while to seize the headlines like CES and MWC do, with the would possibly and willpower (to not point out the monetary help) of Dubai and the UAE behind it, we would not wager in opposition to GITEX International rising even additional in years to return.

• TechRadar Professional’s journey and lodging in Dubai have been funded by the Dubai World Commerce Middle, however the group had no editorial management over the content material of this text.