About this event
With Dubai being a hub for local and international companies in the region operating in Iraq, the conference attracts suppliers, investors, producers and buyers from Iraq, the UK and the wider international business community. It also facilitates discussions with influential decision makers across all major market sectors. As well as providing many networking opportunities.
This years agenda will focus on the key issues of how Iraq can rebuild its towns and cities and develop its economy and evolving infrastructure and utilities with an emphasis on water, expanding oil & gas production, improving the Regulatory Framework and financial systems and exploring the role of logistics in moving people and materials into and around the country.
The conference will also feature highly successful Roundtable Discussions in the second part of the day, where delegates can engage in dynamic and concentrated debates with high-level governmental figures on the country specific issues that matter most.
Conference sessions will focus on:Infrastructure - Rebuilding & Utilities Supply
Oil & Gas - Increasing Production
Regulatory & Financial Framework - Encouraging International Investment
Logistics - Imports/Exports, People & Goods
AGENDA
08:00 - Registration and Coffee
09:10 - Welcome Addresses
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne - President IBBC
UAE Minister
Iraqi Minister
John Wilks CMG - Her Majesty's Ambasssador to Iraq
Michael Townshend - Regional President Middle East, BP
10:40 - Tea & Coffee
11:25 - Session 1 - Logistics Imports/Exports, People & Goods
12:25 Logistics Roundtable Discussion12:25 Session 2 - Regulatory & Financial Framework - Encouraging International
Investment
13:25 Lunch
14:30 Session 3 - Oil & Gas - Increasing Production
15:50 Oil & Gas Roundtable Discussion15:30 Tea & Coffee
15:50 Session 4 - Infrastructure - Rebuilding & Utilities Supply
17:00 Infrastructure - Rebuilding & Utilities Supply Roundtable Discussion18:00 Conference Ends
EIC Members are offered the reduced ticket price of £500. Registration for the event can be via the link below please use code:
IBBCPARTNER https://www.iraqbritainbusiness.org/event/autumn-conference-dubai-uae