In its first edition, Innovators 20 aims to spread the culture of innovation, encourage creativity, and create opportunities for youth and startups to showcase their innovative projects and ideas.
In addition, the exhibition is held for stimulating innovators and startups in Egypt and all over the world and linking them with investment parties, financing houses, and major stakeholders, besides displaying and marketing their inventions.
The two-day exhibition includes sessions, workshops, and inspirational stories for emerging talents. It is also designed to create a market for innovators on an annual basis, where innovators and technology transfer centers, technology companies, financing houses, and investors meet.

Egypt is the land of civilization and the bastion of human history. It is one of the greatest Arab countries and is the gateway to the wealth of Africa. Egypt is characterized by a distinguished geographical location as a meeting point between Asia and Africa; it is connected to many regions by direct flights on a daily basis and has a time range close to the countries of Central Europe. 18 Internet paths link Egypt with more than 60 countries passing through its land, and the infrastructure is being expanded to remain at the forefront of the requirements of the IT services market. Egypt has succeeded in attracting many investment projects, international conferences, and exhibitions in the previous years, thus gaining an international testimony of its success in improving the quality of infrastructure and providing all the needs of investors and businessmen. On the investment front in information technology, the Egyptian government launched several initiatives for developing the information technology field among young people in particular and society in general, establishing many innovation centers in various cities, participating in many cooperation programs with a large number of training centers to fully meet the needs of society, running training courses on software and game and application development, supporting human cadres and developing their competitive advantages and skills through an ongoing process of education to keep pace with technological development not only in Egypt, but in the whole continent of Africa.