Digital technologies is helping UAE become a knowledge-based economy that helps to encourage innovation, R&D making it world’s digital hub.

UAE, member of Gulf Cooperation Council, has its own economic strategies of UAE Vision 2021 and UAE Centennial. Enabling digital transformation and growing digital economy are major pillars of these strategies.

This was even before Covid-19 and social distancing suddenly became the norm globally. The former aims on transforming the UAE into a knowledge-based economy that encourages innovation, research and development (R&D), and adoption of cutting-edge technologies.

With a vision to engage, empower and support an advanced economy that is proactive, customized, collaborative and secure, the Digital Transformation Summit is uniting both public and private sectors to form alliances and facilitate co-operation opportunities towards enhancing the digital transformation ecosystem.

Under the theme “Decoding Barriers to Pave the Way for UAE's Digital Future”, Digital Transformation Summit UAE is bringing together UAE’s 200+ CTO's, CIOs, CISOs, heads of digital transformation, IT infrastructure, cyber security, information and communication technologies and other experts in the domain.