Held from November 7 to 10 under the style “AI in Action”, the occasion unites local and worldwide delegations, federal government authorities, international innovation business and start-up creators.
Raafat Hendy, Minister of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), together with numerous cabinet ministers and market leaders, participated in the opening event.
Throughout his trip of the exhibit, Madbouly declared the federal government’s dedication to advancing the details and interactions innovation (ICT) sector to enhance administrative performance, broaden digital services and drive sustainable financial development.
Hendy described the sector’s roadmap towards Egypt Vision 2030, providing essential tactical targets focused on enhancing the nation’s position as a local digital center.
These targets consist of developing 200,000 brand-new expert chances, supporting 250 synthetic intelligence-driven start-ups and drawing in 5 to 7 specialised AI information centres.
Egypt likewise intends to make 30 million cellphones in your area and export 30% of that production, while increasing digital exports to $12bn by 2030.
The technique likewise targets broadening fibre-optic network protection to 55% across the country, presenting 5G services throughout all governorates, preserving yearly ICT sector development of in between 16% and 19%, and increasing the sector’s contribution to GDP to 8%.
Throughout a rundown at the MCIT structure, Mahmoud Badawi, Deputy Minister for Digital Transformation, highlighted the considerable growth of federal government digital services in 2026.
The Digital Egypt platform now provides 261 services throughout 29 plans, supported by 21 mobile applications. Its active user base increased by 32% to 13.7 million in 2026, compared to 10.4 million in 2025, while the variety of finished deals increased from 23.8 million to 36 million.
The platform likewise reached the last shortlist for the United Nations Public Service Awards in the digital federal government classification.
Secret enablers supporting this growth consist of biometric digital identity confirmation, electronic signatures and a safe and secure digital vault for file management.
Freshly presented services and functions consist of the remote issuance of basic powers of lawyer and digital work registration certificates.
The exhibit likewise highlighted Egypt’s National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (2025– 2030), which concentrates on governance, facilities, organization environments and the advancement of specialised skill.
Among the included accomplishments was Karnak, a big language design established by the Applied Innovation Centre, which ranked initially amongst Arabic-language AI designs and tape-recorded more than 300,000 downloads.
The ministry likewise revealed 3 brand-new specialised applications constructed on Karnak. These consist of Karnak Legal, established in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice to supply streamlined legal assistance; Seya, an interactive instructional assistant for high school trainees covering Arabic, history and physics; and Senna, an application created to support the early detection of cavities in kids under 6.
Cairo ICT 2026 functions specialised exhibit halls covering interactions facilities, mobile phone production and digital monetary options.
The primary exhibit is accompanied by numerous specialised occasions, consisting of the 3rd AIDC two cloud computing exhibit, the 13th PAFIX digital payments conference, sponsored by the Central Bank of Egypt; the 6th Connecta video gaming exposition; and the Innovation Arena, which showcases emerging start-ups.
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