Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Alef Education, a leading global education technology provider that empowers 21-st century learning, today announced its participation at the Middle East's premier education event, GESS Dubai 2021, which is taking place November 14-16 at Dubai World Trade Centre. The pandemic underscored the importance of embracing innovative education technologies as the widespread school closures across the globe impacted 1.5 billion students, according to UNESCO. In line with the renewed demand for digital learning, the global education technology market is projected to reach $285.2 billion by 2027, according to business consulting firm Grand View Research. Furthermore, the UAE's education market is expected to touch $7.1 billion by 2023, according to a 2018 report released by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Under the theme "Power of AI and Data in transforming education," Alef Education will demonstrate its suite of digital education products.

United Arab Emirates-based global EdTech Alef Education is on a mission to digitally transform the education sector to support its most valuable resource: teachers. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics estimates that the world needs almost 69 million new teachers by 2030 to meet the deadline of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal for quality education. But according to latest projections, the world will fail its education commitments without addressing the teacher shortage. Overwhelming teacher workload is a major contributor to teacher scarcity and the urgency to tackle this imbalance is a key driver for United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based global education technology Alef Education. The forward-thinking organization is shrinking teacher workloads and helping them better manage classrooms through its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform built on Amazon Web Services (AWS).