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AI that cuts software incident resolution by more than 90 per cent, monitors industrial safety through more than 400 deployments, and reads customer sentiment in 17 Arabic dialects will be among the transformative startup technologies on show at the world’s largest AI-first Expo and Summit this week in Abu Dhabi.

Taking place from 6 to 7 October at the ADNEC Centre, Ai Everything Abu Dhabi will bring together more than 400 global tech companies and award-winning startups. The two-day event’s startup showcase, Ai StartX Everything, will feature more than 150 startups, connecting founders with 200+ investors representing US$100 billion in assets under management from 30 countries. Below are some of the standout global startups to look out for on the show floor.

Portugal: VisionHammer maps, diagnoses and resolves the risk hidden in enterprise software

VisionHammer, a Portuguese AI-native software assurance company, presents a platform that maps, diagnoses and resolves the risk hidden in companies' software systems, with human control over every change. When an incident occurs, VisionHammer reads the error, identifies its root cause, writes and tests the fix, and delivers a pull request for approval by one of the client's engineers.

In one production deployment, incident resolution time went from around five hours to an average of four minutes, allowing the engineering team to shift its focus from maintenance to product development. Resolution runs inside the client's own infrastructure, and code analysis can run in VisionHammer's EU cloud or on the client's premises, making it suitable for regulated sectors. 

"The biggest demand isn't for more AI features," said Tiago Silva, co-founder and COO of VisionHammer. "It's for AI you can trust on the systems that matter, with human control and full auditability."

At Ai Everything Abu Dhabi, VisionHammer presents CodeScan, a security analysis of code on every release, and Assessment, a complete mapping and diagnosis of a company's systems, and highlights its expansion into the Gulf. 

Singapore: AI that monitors industrial safety across 400+ deployments

Singapore-headquartered Ailytics, which develops AI-powered video analytics for industrial safety and operations, will showcase AilyssaX, its vision language model-powered platform that transforms existing CCTV infrastructure into real-time safety and operational intelligence for heavy industries. The technology detects safety hazards, verifies compliance with work procedures and uses advanced visual reasoning to reduce false alarms. It works with existing cameras and can be deployed in days without additional hardware.

Ailytics has completed over 400 deployments across more than 15 countries, with customers including Changi Airport Group, DHL, Laing O’Rourke and Obayashi. Following its recent Series A funding round, the company is expanding in the Middle East, including new deployments with regional energy and infrastructure players. 

“The problem we solve is simple: industrial sites already have thousands of cameras, but nobody can watch them all,” said Tan Wei Zhuang, CEO of Ailytics. “Our AI does, detecting safety hazards, verifying compliance with work procedures, and reducing false alarms through advanced visual reasoning.”

Saudi Arabia: Agentic CX that resolves customer issues in 17 Arabic dialects

Saudi-based Lucidya, the Agentic CX Platform that enables organisations to autonomously turn customer and market intelligence into real-time resolution and measurable business outcomes, will showcase its AI Agent.

The platform supports 17 Arabic dialects with +92 per cent accuracy and draws on billions of data points to understand customer and market signals. Visitors will get an early look at its Agentic Workflows, designed to orchestrate end-to-end customer journeys across enterprise systems. Lucidya is ISO/IEC 42001 certified and compliant with PDPL, GDPR and SOC 2, supporting adoption among regulated industries and government customers.

"What we're demonstrating is how organisations can move from simply understanding customer signals to autonomously resolving issues through a governed, enterprise-ready system," said Yara Milbes, SVP Marketing & Growth at Lucidya.

UAE: Sovereign AI built in the Gulf, running inside the enterprise

Dubai-registered MetisJean, an AI research and development company focused on sovereign enterprise intelligence, will launch Jean 1001, its sovereign operating system for AI, with a live demonstration showing how the platform connects to existing enterprise systems and makes its reasoning traceable to the source. Jean operates inside a customer’s own infrastructure, with every action recorded on an immutable, audit-ready ledger, while reducing token consumption by up to 90% in some use cases.

“Our ambition is not simply to sell into the Gulf, but to build sovereign enterprise AI here, with Gulf customers as the reference, and take it outward,” said Alexander Haywood, Founder and CEO of MetisJean. “Stop renting intelligence. Start owning it.”

US: Screen-aware, proactive floating AI agent that eliminates the user prompt barrier and AI-related context switching

US-based Newrunio, an agentic AI research lab focused on redesigning Human-AI interaction paradigm, will introduce Personal Super-Intelligence (PAI) 1.2 to the global market for the first time. It will showcase an always-on screen-aware floating AI agent designed to work seamlessly within a user’s digital environment rather than requiring them to switch between applications and AI tools.

PAI understands what is happening on a user’s screen in real-time and proactively provides contextual suggestions and can execute tasks with a single click, while orchestrating multiple agentic workflows in parallel. PAI eliminates AI-related context switching by removing tab switching while keeping users in their existing work environment.

“PAI is designed not simply to answer questions, but to understand the user’s contexts, proactively anticipate needs, and take meaningful action within the workflow securely,” said Eon Yulheon Seung, Co-Founder and CEO of Newrunio.

Connecting entrepreneurs with US$100 billion in investor assets

Ai StartX Everything will also connect founders with investors, sovereign funds, technology companies and enterprise buyers through its Investor Programme. The programme will feature the Supernova AI Global Pitch Competition, where five finalists will compete for equity-free prizes, pitching their ventures directly to investors and industry leaders.

Organised by inD, with Abu Dhabi’s Department of Government Enablement as Host Partner and Solutions+, a Mubadala company, as Global Partner, Ai Everything Abu Dhabi brings together leading Abu Dhabi institutions including ATRC, First Abu Dhabi Bank and Hub71, alongside global technology leaders AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft, Mistral AI and ASUS, among others.