BitcoinWorld Global startups shape new AI, quantum and sustainable tech frontiers at GITEX AI ASIA Singapore, 10 April 2026: Day two of GITEX AI ASIA 2026 turned the spotlight on the global startups, scientists, investors, and frontier technologies riding Southeast Asia’s next big inflection point. The region is moving beyond a foundational digital economy into a more intelligent AI future, with AI investment in Southeast Asia projected to grow at a compound annual rate of 25% and surpass US$ 110 billion by 2028. Amid the AI surge, global tech firms, venture capitalists, and startup ecosystems are rallying towards expanding in the region. This momentum was evident at GITEX AI ASIA and its startup showcase, North Star Asia, presented by GITEX, the world’s largest tech and AI startup events network. More than 300 startups from over 50 countries met investors managing upwards of US$350 billion in assets, creating one of the region’s more concentrated areas this year for startup discovery, deep-tech matchmaking and commercial scrutiny. Across the show floor and the conference programme, the conversations sharpened around the technologies and business models best placed to scale in an AI economy shaped by regulation, industrial urgency, critical energy, and the race to turn research into revenue. Alongside tech pavilions from Hong Kong, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Pakistan, and South Korea, new first-time country pavilions from Belgium and the Philippines reflected not only broader participation, but also the increasingly cross-border scale of the innovation economy converging at North Star Asia. Hub.Brussels brought companies operating at the intersection of AI, enterprise software and regulated industries. Among them, Artech focused on digital product passports, AI-based compliance, secure data exchange and regulatory knowledge modelling aligned with European frameworks – precisely the kind of infrastructure likely to shape new frontiers of collaboration and transparency. Another Belgian company,