GCC: Europe Expo - Wednesday 12 & Thursday 13 November 2008

Opportunities, trade and friendship...

Olympia Two Exhibition Hall, London
12-13 November 2008

The thriving economies of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi) provide outstanding business opportunities. The economic development of the Gulf region has created many exciting opportunities and advantages for traders, all of which will be showcased through free-to-attend exhibition and speaker programme – GCC Europe Expo. 

GCC Europe Expo aims to facilitate bilateral trade and investment, and to help forge thousands of new commercial relationships between EU and GCC businesses. While providing a showcase for goods and services from the GCC, Europe and the UK, the Expo will also deliver a wide range of back-to-back seminars to inform, educate and promote bilateral trade.

The Expo will include over 150 companies from the Gulf region, a full two-day seminar programme and cultural entertainment. Also featured will be specific European and GCC Country Regional Zones over both floors of the exhibition halls.

This is the first major event of its kind since The GCC and Britain exhibition in 1994, which also took place at Olympia and was attended by the Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher.

HRH The Duke of Gloucester will open GCC EUROPE EXPO. The opening ceremony will be attended by more than 200 invited VIPs including all the Arab ambassadors to Britain.

Speakers at the opening ceremony include: HE Abdul Rahman Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Secretary General of GCC Chambers; Dr Essam Fakru, President of GCC Chambers; Pierre Simon, Head of EuroChambres; Dr Afnan Al-Shuaiby, Secretary General and Chief Executive, Arab-British Chamber of Commerce; and Abdul Rahim Hassan Naqi, Secretary General, Federation of GCC Chambers. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has recorded a personalised video message to be screened at the ceremony.

Free entry to the specific themes over the two-days include Banking and Islamic Finance, Oil and Gas, New Industries and Technologies, Trade Procedures, Insurance and Reinsurance, Women in Business, Food and Agriculture, Investment and Real Estate, Road Rail and Transport, Environmental Sustainability, Business Law, Information technology, Education Training and Research as well as Gulf country-specific sessions.

Guests at GCC Europe Expo will have the exclusive opportunity to hear key industry representatives speak, all under one roof, over the course of the two days. Click here for the full free-to-attend seminar programme.

Also taking place on the evening of 12 November 2008 at The Dorchester Hotel is the Gala Dinner, which will be attended by dignitaries from the GCC region, Europe and the UK. The keynote speaker for the evening is Rt Hon Lord Peter Mandelson, Secretary of State for Business. Click here for a booking form.

For further information or to pre-register for free entry, please go to www.gcceuroexpo.com.