ABU DHABI, tenth October, 2026 (WAM) — The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) has concluded a working go to to Japan aimed toward strengthening cooperation in business, expertise and synthetic intelligence, with conferences held in Tokyo and Kyoto.
The go to centered on figuring out alternatives to show innovation and scientific advances into sensible options that improve industrial competitiveness.
The MoIAT delegation was led by Hasan Jasem Al Nowais, Undersecretary of the Ministry. During the go to, he took half within the UAE-Japan Technology and Artificial Intelligence Roundtable in Tokyo and the twenty third Science and Technology in Society Forum Ministerial Roundtable in Kyoto, alongside officers and public- and private-sector representatives from each international locations.
Discussions in Tokyo centered on strengthening industrial partnerships and accelerating the adoption of superior expertise and cooperation in synthetic intelligence, robotics, automation, digital manufacturing and precision manufacturing to spice up productiveness, high quality and sustainability.
In Kyoto, discussions centred on strengthening ties between educational analysis and business to create alternatives to use analysis and scientific advances in real-world manufacturing environments. The goal is to show concepts into sensible options that deal with manufacturing facility necessities and manufacturing challenges.
The UAE’s aggressive industrial ecosystem gives a platform to pilot, deploy and scale options pushed by expertise and scientific analysis. Factory Forward UAE connects expertise suppliers with the economic sector, creating alternatives to check and undertake promising options. The UAE’s worldwide partnerships and Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements additionally present alternatives for producers to increase into international markets.
Al Nowais stated the UAE-Japan financial relationship is a long-standing partnership constructed on broad cooperation throughout many sectors. This partnership provides vital alternatives to deepen industrial and technological collaboration, change experience, foster innovation and improve industrial competitiveness.
He harassed the significance of building direct partnerships between expertise suppliers and UAE producers to develop pilot tasks utilizing superior industrial options, together with AI-powered high quality inspection and predictive upkeep, alongside talent growth and efforts to speed up superior expertise adoption throughout business.
Al Nowais famous that the Factory Forward UAE initiative gives a unified platform to show these partnerships into tangible outcomes.
The go to concluded with an invite to Japanese corporations, traders and industrial leaders to participate in Make it within the Emirates, scheduled to happen in Abu Dhabi from third to sixth May 2027.