Vision Golfe 2025 to boost France-GCC ties
DUBAI, 4 days ago
Vision Golfe 2025 a flagship event involving government representatives, business leaders, and decision-makers to explore investment, economic exchange, innovation, and sustainable development opportunities in ten strategic areas of France-GCC collaboration, including energy transition.
The event aims to catalyze resilient economic cooperation, unlock joint investment potential, and foster strategic projects that lay the foundations for a forward-looking, sustainable, and innovation-driven future.
The forum will cover ten strategic areas of France-GCC collaboration, reflecting the breadth of opportunities across sectors: Energy Transition, AI and innovation, healthcare, education and talent, agri-food and food security, smart infrastructure and construction, luxury and retail, sports and tourism, mobility and transport, and investment climate & access.
High-level sessions such as "Blueprints for 2030," a ministerial panel charting long-term strategies, and "Innovating for Sustainability" will address opportunities and challenges in Franco-Gulf cooperation, encouraging pragmatic solutions and new partnerships for concrete impact.
Vision Golfe 2024 saw record attendance, with over 1,200 participants, including more than 500 from GCC countries.
The event delivered tangible outcomes, including significant agreements between the Saudi Ports Authority (MAWANI) and France's Grand Port of Marseille Fos, strengthening maritime trade links, and between Export Bahrain and the French Chamber of Commerce to boost Bahraini-French business relations.
Another key highlight was the announcement of a new "France Lab" at Abu Dhabi's Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), underscoring France's commitment to joint innovation initiatives in the Gulf.
Building on this momentum, Vision Golfe 2025 will be inaugurated by senior ministers from France and the GCC, underlining the high-level support behind the forum.
It will welcome leading voices in government and business, making their perspectives especially valuable for attendees.
Beyond being the premier France-GCC business forum, Vision Golfe is also positioned as a strategic gateway for Gulf investors to access the broader European market.
France's position as Europe's leading destination for foreign investment was underscored at Vision Golfe 2024, highlighting the country's attractiveness as an entry point to Europe.
By convening investors, sovereign fund executives, and innovators, the forum will spotlight opportunities for GCC capital to engage with French and European ventures.
Gulf investors will find in Vision Golfe a unique platform to explore Europe-bound strategies, leverage France's robust economy as a springboard, and forge connections that extend well beyond France into continental markets.-TradeArabia News Service
