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LEADERS' SUMMIT 2025 SAMENA TRENDS

LEADERS' SUMMIT 2025

SAMENA Council Leaders’ Summit 2025 Advances the Agenda for Building
Intelligent, Inclusive, and Sustainable Digital Economies

Held with the patronage of the UAE Telecommunications and Digital “The SA-ME-NA region must respond with
Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA), the SAMENA Council
Leaders’ Summit 2025 recently convened in Dubai, reaffirming agility and determination; strengthening
a shared commitment to advancing intelligent, inclusive, and local innovation ecosystems, building
sustainable digital transformation across the South Asia–Middle
East–North Africa region. resilient infrastructure, and forging
new partnerships that secure our
Hosted by the SAMENA Telecommunications Council at Madinat
Jumeirah, the Leaders’ Summit brought together a high-level place in the future digital order.”
assembly of global policymakers, regional regulators, technology H.E. Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al
leaders, and digital economy stakeholders to address the evolving
needs of next-generation communications networks and to build Nahyan
regional consensus on the future of digital growth. UAE Minister of Tolerance and

Organized under the umbrella theme “Intelligent & Sustainable Coexistence
Transformation of Digital Economies,” this year’s Leaders’ Summit
marked a turning point in the region’s collaborative efforts to scale
digital capabilities. As countries embrace advanced 5G networks,
AI-powered capabilities and services, and more responsive
infrastructure, the Summit provided a practical and forward-
looking agenda shaped around infrastructure modernization,
policy innovation, investment in resilient networks, and long-term
value-creation for digital societies.

The event opened with keynote messages from key international
and regional leaders including TDRA, Huawei, the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU), South Africa’s Department of
Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT), the Digital
Cooperation Organization (DCO), the World Broadband Association
(WBBA), and ZTE. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed
between the WBBA and the SAMENA Council to further cross-

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