Now in its sixth year, Gulf Educational Supplies & Solutions (GESS) together with Global Education Forum (GEF) is firmly established as the Middle East’s leading annual event for education professionals. The 2012 exhibition saw a dramatic increase in visitors and increased footfall; attendance was up 20 percent from the previous show with 6,000 education professionals from over 60 countries attending. GESS 2012 recorded its highest ever participation by exhibitors, with over 250 businesses and organisations from more than 30 countries. Attendees to GESS are key decision makers and ministerial delegations from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain. This includes a cross section of teachers, heads of department and heads of school as well as procurement managers, school owners and bursars. They came not only from the public and private sectors but also from the region’s colleges of higher education and universities.

GESS and GEF are organised under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and supported by His Excellency Humaid Moh’d Al Qutami, Minister of Education for the United Arab Emirates