TEHRAN – The Organization for the Development of International Cooperation in Science and Technology will maintain the ninth version of the Connect Forum specialised assembly on the Iran House of Innovation and Technology (iHiT) in Tehran on Wednesday.
The assembly will be held concurrently with the primary worldwide synthetic intelligence (AI) exhibition, often known as AIX Expo.
Connect Forum consists of two most important components: lectures and specialised panels. The occasion serves as a terrific platform for exchanging experience and data, sharing challenges and the methods to tackle them, in addition to networking and selling collaborative efforts amongst trade house owners, researchers, and consultants in expertise and AI. Showcasing the most recent technological achievements of Iranian consultants in iHiT, and AIX Expo are amongst different components of the specialised assembly.
Over 50 high knowledge-based firms working within the AI and expertise sectors will take part within the AI exhibition, with the assist of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), IRNA reported.
According to the Vice Presidency for Science, Technology, and Knowledge-Based Economy, the exhibition goals to enhance interactions amongst innovation ecosystems, knowledge-based corporations, the monetary trade, and main industries in AI.
The occasion will showcase the most recent improvements and achievements in AI at nationwide and international ranges.
The exhibition will set up specialised panels on AI purposes in numerous industries, comparable to healthcare, power, city improvement, finance, and manufacturing.
Conducting hands-on academic workshops, the exhibition will function a terrific alternative to share experience, promote enterprise cooperation, and maintain B2B and B2G networking in several sectors
With the fast progress in AI startups and tech-enabled industries within the nation, AIX Expo 2026 is anticipated to stimulate large-scale funding and lay the bottom for the export of indigenous AI applied sciences.
Iran ranks 72 in expertise and innovation
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Technology and Innovation Report 2025, Iran is ranked amongst higher middle-income nations, rating 72nd amongst 166 nations.
The nation’s rating has improved by one place in contrast to 2022.
UNCTAD has categorized 17 sorts of applied sciences as frontier applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence, Internet of Things, massive information, 5G, 3D printing, robotics, drone expertise, photo voltaic photovoltaic, concentrated solar energy, biofuels, biogas and biomass, wind power, inexperienced hydrogen, electrical autos, nanotechnology, and gene enhancing.
The Technology and Innovation Report 2025: Inclusive Artificial Intelligence for Development surveys the advanced synthetic intelligence panorama, aiming to assist decision-makers design science, expertise, and innovation insurance policies that foster inclusive technological progress.
The Report 2025 requires AI that places folks first and is formed by means of international cooperation wherein all nations have a say. The Report identifies three key leverage factors – infrastructure, information, and expertise – providing a broad socioeconomic perspective on AI whereas analyzing necessities and insurance policies to promote sustainable industrialization and innovation.
The sub-indices of readiness for frontier applied sciences in 2025 present that Iran’s finest rating is within the analysis and improvement sub-index (thirty fifth on the earth).
In the finance sub-index, the nation’s rating has improved from 62 in 2022 to 56 in 2025. In different sub-indexes like expertise and the institution of knowledge and communication expertise, its rating has lowered from 74 and 78 in 2022 to 82 and 94 in 2025, respectively.
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