Exhibition «GITEX AI Vietnam 2026»

   Hanoi hosts the Vietnamese edition of GITEX for the first time — the exhibition series that has gathered the tech industry in Dubai for 44 years. For two days the capital becomes one long negotiating table: artificial intelligence, data centres, cybersecurity, fintech and semiconductors under a single roof, with investors in the room.

   The organisers, Dubai World Trade Centre and KAOUN International, expect the debut edition to draw 20,000+ tech executives, 850+ enterprises and startups, 200+ speakers and 150+ active investors from 75+ countries. The conference programme is announced at 60+ hours across five stages, plus workshops and training sessions.

   The show is assembled from several self-contained platforms, each with its own agenda:

• — AI Everything Vietnam — applied artificial intelligence for manufacturing, finance and healthcare;
• — Startups North Star Vietnam — founders meet funds, with the Supernova pitch competition offering a SGD 60,000 prize pool and ten semi-finalists;
• — GITEX Cybersecurity Vietnam — data protection, a lounge for security chiefs and a national cyber defence challenge;
• — DCII Vietnam — data centres: power, cooling and hyperscale design;
• — FDX Vietnam — fintech, digital assets and regulation;
• — Global DevSlam: Vietnam Codeverse — open source, live dev battles and hiring.

   Come if you are hunting for clients and partners: IT companies and integrators, startup founders, investment funds, data centre engineers, information security specialists and officials running digital transformation. Two days on this floor can replace months of cold email for you.

   The exhibition is endorsed by Vietnam's Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Science and Technology, and co-organised with the National Innovation Center (Trung tâm Đổi mới sáng tạo Quốc gia, NIC). The organisers explain their choice of country with numbers: 11,000+ startups, an 18 billion dollar semiconductor market and 70% of the population under 35, while they put the digital economy's potential at 200 billion dollars.

   Among the first announced speakers are Cathy Foley, former Chief Scientist of Australia, and Céline Le Cotonnec, Chief Data Innovation Officer at Bank of Singapore.

   The host venue is the Vietnam Exposition Center, Southeast Asia's largest exhibition complex, opened in August 2025: more than 304,000 m² of indoor halls plus another 200,000 m² outdoors. It stands in Đông Anh, north of the Red River and well away from the familiar downtown, so allow extra travel time.

   One restriction is worth knowing in advance: admission is for trade and business professionals only, and strictly for over-18s — the organiser states this plainly. Visits run on pre-registration and the form asks for a work email. Pass prices and hall opening hours have not been announced yet; registration questions go to [email protected].

   If you work in technology and have been waiting for the global industry to come to Vietnam itself, keep this November clear.