GESS Dubai 2026 is scheduled for 10–12 November at Dubai World Trade Centre, Sheikh Saeed Halls 1, 2 and 3. For school leaders, the useful question is which conversations could lead to better teaching, simpler operations or a more informed investment decision.
You do not need ten more generic demos. You need a few conversations that help with a decision your school is already facing: supporting teachers, spotting learning gaps, connecting systems or planning the next campus.
Use these ten companies and products as a starting point. The guide begins with teaching and learning, then moves to school operations and growth. Each entry explains why it deserves a closer look and what to ask when you explore it.
Where to spend your attention
| Company or product | Worth exploring if you want to… | What to look for |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Suraasa Sure | Make teacher development more specific to everyday lessons | A lesson insight report, the teacher's next suggested action and what school leaders can see |
| 2. Magma Maths | Understand where pupils' maths reasoning goes wrong | Worked solutions and how a teacher uses them to address a misconception |
| 3. Efekta | Give language learners more guided practice | A student practice session, the feedback it gives and the teacher's oversight |
| 4. PowerSchool | Connect student records with classroom workflows | How an enrolment change reaches the learning system without duplicate work |
| 5. Kidzink | Make learning spaces easier to adapt | A classroom layout that supports different activities, with storage and maintenance considered |
| 6. Adyen | Review how your school collects and reconciles payments | A proposed payment-to-finance workflow, including refunds and local payment options |
| 7. ISC Research | Ground expansion or benchmarking in market evidence | A relevant school comparison group and the freshness of its data |
| 8. EdV | Get help choosing and adopting education technology | A sample vendor evaluation and a practical implementation plan |
| 9. MindSpire Education | Explore school partnerships and regional growth | How a school network supports individual campuses and shares operating practices |
| 10. Edarabia | Understand how families find and compare schools | Your institution's profile, the correction process and how reviews are handled |
1. Suraasa Sure — teacher coaching from classroom recordings
Suraasa Sure describes a workflow that turns a teacher’s lesson recording into a Class Insight Report and personal AI-assisted coaching. Its stated design separates individual teacher feedback from aggregated school leadership insights. The website currently presents an early-access preview and waitlist.
Why watch: If teacher development depends on occasional observations and generic training sessions, this offers a different workflow to explore: coaching connected to an actual lesson. Look for feedback a teacher can use in the next class, alongside a clear explanation of who can see it.
Ask: Can you demonstrate the teacher and leadership views, explain recording consent and retention, and show how coaching quality is evaluated?
Suraasa Sure — official product page
2. Magma Maths — see the reasoning behind the answer
Magma Maths lets teachers inspect pupils’ working, identify learning gaps and build formative assessments. Its UK offering describes curriculum-aligned maths activities from Reception to GCSE, with problems at different difficulty levels.
Why watch: Seeing the steps behind a solution can make a classroom conversation more useful than a dashboard showing only right and wrong answers. British-curriculum schools have a clear reason to explore the fit.
Ask: Can you run a lesson using our year group’s topic and show how a teacher responds to a common misconception?
Magma Maths — official website
3. Efekta — AI support for language learning
Efekta describes a teaching and learning platform combining AI assistance for teachers with personalised practice, feedback and learning companions for students. Its public materials include English-language learning and progress visibility for school operators.
Why watch: Language departments need to assess both the quality of student practice and the teacher’s ability to supervise it. Efekta offers a concrete setting in which to test those two requirements together.
Ask: Which age groups and proficiency levels does the proposed package support, and how will a pilot measure language improvement independently of usage?
4. PowerSchool — connect student records and learning workflows
PowerSchool’s portfolio includes student information systems and Schoology Learning. Its documentation describes synchronising school, user, course and enrolment information between PowerSchool SIS and Schoology.
Why watch: The practical value for a school depends on how reliably those systems work together. A demonstration should follow the movement of a real record, including what happens when something changes or fails.
Ask: Can you demonstrate enrolment changes, grade synchronisation and permission controls using a setup comparable to ours?
PowerSchool — official website · Product integration documentation
5. Kidzink — learning spaces and school furniture
Kidzink combines education-space strategy, architecture, interior design, furniture and project delivery. Its furniture offering includes classroom, library and specialist learning-space products.
Why watch: A school buying furniture is also choosing how easily a room can support different activities. Evaluating layout, storage and durability together can expose costs that a product catalogue leaves unclear.
Ask: Can you show a comparable completed classroom, explain how it changes between teaching modes, and itemise maintenance and replacement costs?
6. Adyen — payments infrastructure for school operators
Adyen provides payment acceptance, payouts and related financial infrastructure across multiple channels. It is a general payments platform; this watchlist does not assume a ready-made school fee-management integration.
Why watch: For a school group reviewing collections, the useful conversation is how payments would connect to finance records and family-facing processes. Regional availability and the work required to connect existing systems matter.
Ask: Can you demonstrate the proposed fee-payment, refund and reconciliation workflow, including supported local methods and all processing costs?
7. ISC Research — evidence for international-school decisions
ISC Research supplies data and intelligence on English-medium international schools, including market reports and data portals. Its stated audiences include schools, school groups, education suppliers and investors.
Why watch: Expansion and benchmarking decisions need a defined comparison group. The value lies in understanding which schools the dataset covers, how information is verified and where gaps remain.
Ask: Can you build a peer group for our curriculum and geography, then show field-level freshness and missing data?
ISC Research — official website
8. EdV — help choosing and implementing education technology
EdV describes school-facing work in technology strategy, vendor evaluation, procurement and adoption. It also works with education businesses and investors.
Why watch: Schools with several competing products under consideration may need evaluation and implementation support as much as another tool. Its role makes procurement criteria and the terms of any vendor relationships useful discussion points.
Ask: What would an evaluation deliver, how are vendor relationships handled, and who stays accountable after the pilot ends?
9. MindSpire Education — operating schools across a regional network
MindSpire Education describes a MENA education network supporting schools and preschools, with work alongside school leadership on systems and educational standards. For school leaders considering partnerships or expansion, it offers a school-network model to explore.
Why watch: Operators considering growth or partnerships can explore how a group supports different campuses while preserving local educational requirements. Focus the conversation on the support an individual school would receive.
Ask: Which operating practices are shared across the network, which remain school-specific, and how is implementation assessed?
MindSpire Education — official website
10. Edarabia — how families discover education providers
Edarabia is an education guide covering institutions, reviews, education news, events and jobs. It helps parents, students and educators compare education options across multiple types of institution.
Why watch: School leaders can use this conversation to examine how their institution is represented during a family’s research. Profile accuracy and review handling deserve attention alongside visibility.
Ask: How are school details verified and corrected, how are reviews moderated, and how are paid placements distinguished from other listings?
Turn the watchlist into a useful meeting plan
Choose the two or three entries linked to a current school decision. Bring a real classroom or operational example, define what a successful pilot would change, and ask each provider to demonstrate that workflow. Leave each conversation with a clear next step: a relevant demonstration, a comparable school reference or a small pilot with an agreed measure of success.
About this list: A non-ranked selection based on school-leadership use cases and first-party company information, checked on 8 September 2026. The GESS sponsor and partner page informed discovery; inclusion is not a product rating. Suraasa Sure is an additional relevant product whose event participation is unconfirmed. Check meeting and demo availability before planning your visit.