Education, HR & Training

GESS to feature over 50 product launches

The Global Educational Supplies and Solutions (GESS), the world’s leading education show, will feature more than 50 product launches when it opens this week in Dubai, UAE, said event organisers.

The launches will cover a broad spectrum of products and solutions - from gadgets and devices to learning solutions, as well as traditional school, lab equipment and learning gears that are all designed to make teaching and learning more effective.

There will also be a proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augment Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) products that highlight the most recent developments in these exciting fields that are geared toward education.

“GESS is a UAE-home grown brand that has become so successful we’ve expanded it to key education markets around the world,” said Matt Thompson, project director, Tarsus, organisers of the event, scheduled on February 25-27 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

“This region has remained attractive for education-focused companies,” added Thompson.

The Dubai show is part of GESS’ global portfolio of education conferences and exhibitions that includes Indonesia and Turkey as well as summits in Africa.

The show is being held in partnership with the UAE’s Ministry of Education. It is also supported by the Ministry of Education Bahrain, Ministry of Education Saudi Arabia, Arab Bureau of Education for Gulf States (ABEGS), British Schools in the Middle East (BSME) and Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) as Knowledge Partner.

GESS Dubai has become the premier platform for doing business in the education sector in the Middle East, enabling companies and brand to showcase their products and solutions to key decision makers from schools through to colleges and universities.

In addition to its exhibition component, GESS Dubai will be featuring over 300 free of charge and CPD-certified workshops and presentations from world leading experts in education, technology, leadership and training, neuroscience and others.

Hussain Ibrahim Al Hammadi, the UAE Minister of Education, will be delivering the welcome remarks to kick off the conference, headlined by an impressive line-up of keynote speakers, this year’s edition of GESS Dubai will be highlighted by game-changers who are looking to transform the teaching and learning experiences in schools throughout the region.

Expo 2020 Dubai will also be on the spotlight as Marjan Faraidooni, chief pavilions and exhibitions officer, presents the immersive journeys that students can visit at the site in what she says will be the school trip of a lifetime. – TradeArabia News Service