The Recursive co-founder Etien Yovchev talks to H.E. Wesam Lootah, Director General of GovDigital at DGE, on how the Abu Dhabi Government upskilled 95% of its workforce for AI, how it balances global tech partnerships with data sovereignty, and why governance guardrails matter most for public trust.
Part of Dubai Future Finance Week, the invitation-only gathering will bring family business owners, next-generation leaders, family offices, and global experts to Madinat Jumeirah on November 5.
Organised by DIFC, the 4th edition of the Dubai FinTech Summit gathers C-level leaders, decision-makers, regulators, innovators, and market pioneers from across the world.
The inaugural Dubai Future Finance Week, led by DIFC, runs 2-6 November. Over 850 speakers are confirmed across 85 events and 12 signature forums. The programme covers FinTech, tokenisation, Islamic finance, family wealth, sustainable finance and private capital.
Ai Everything Abu Dhabi is one of the year’s biggest applied AI showcases, bringing together AI enterprises, unicorns and startups building the infrastructure, frontier models, and full stack AI solutions across industries.
Events, investors, free zones, councils, and trade agencies: in this listicle, we start mapping the initiatives and stakeholders building the bridges between Central and Eastern European communities.
The Gulf adopts technology quickly, but the decision follows the relationship rather than the pitch. Romanian founder Antonia Dumitriu shares her journey of entering the GCC, adapting the product to local privacy norms, and learning why the meetings had to happen in person.
This article tracks the history of Gulf Investors backing some of the most defining deep tech companies coming out of Central and Eastern Europe in the past 5 years. These scaleups operate cargo drones, robotaxi ecosystems, voice AI, hypercar manufacturing, clean energy, and longevity biotech.
At Techsylvania in Cluj-Napoca, the CEO of SPARK, Sharjah's Research, Technology and Innovation park, made the case for partnership over competition, explained the role of government vision for attracting world-class talent, and was candid about what European founders get wrong about the Gulf.
The CEE-born company is becoming the definitive bridge between high-growth regional tech ecosystems. C-level of The Recursive will lay the groundwork in 2026 through onsite presence across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Vienna, Munich, and Berlin.
