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Dubai hosts the Artificial Intelligence Electronic Game Developers Competition on January 23

Dubai, January 11 / WAM / On January 23, the Dubai Future Foundation will host a global competition for electronic game developers using artificial intelligence, organized in partnership between the Dubai Electronic Games Program and Nvidia, whose market value exceeds $3.3 trillion.

Dubai’s selection to host the “RTX AI Game Craft” global competition for the first time in the region confirms its leadership in adopting future technologies and stimulating innovation, and strengthening its position as a regional and global center for gaming, e-sports, and developing artificial intelligence applications.

The competition will be held under the slogan “Dubai between the past and the future,” with the participation of amateurs and game design and development professionals from around the world. The challenge will focus on employing artificial intelligence to design games that celebrate the rich heritage of the city of Dubai and its future vision. The participants will be evaluated by a special committee of experts to choose the winners and the talented. .

Faisal Kazim, Director of the Dubai Electronic Games Program, which is supervised by Dubai Future, said that the integration between artificial intelligence and human creativity contributes to creating a qualitative shift in the gaming sector in the world, and that the program aims, through cooperation with the global “NVIDIA”, to To provide developers, creators and entrepreneurs from around the world with distinguished opportunities to design unique digital experiences, explaining that the Dubai Electronic Games Program 2033 aims to make Dubai a major global center for the electronic games sector.

Chantel Taved, Marketing Director at NVIDIA in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, said that the company aims, through its partnership with the Dubai Future Foundation in organizing this global competition, to highlight the most prominent creative talents specialized in employing the transformative potential and broad applications of artificial intelligence tools. In the electronic games sector, and developing the best future digital experiences based on creativity and innovation.

It is worth noting that His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation, launched the “Dubai Electronic Games Program 2033” in November 2023, with the aim of consolidating Dubai’s position among the top 10. Cities in the global gaming industry, which is worth $200 billion, in addition to supporting the creation of 30,000 new jobs.

The program, supervised by the Dubai Future Foundation, aims to enhance the sector’s contribution to the growth of Dubai’s digital economy, and increase the gross domestic product by about one billion dollars by 2033, in line with the Dubai Economic Agenda (D33).

Those interested and wishing to participate in NVIDIA’s competition for electronic game developers using artificial intelligence can register via the link: “

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