Your Guide to FDI & FPI Sessions & Workshops at AIM 2022
The Annual Investment Meeting 2022 comprises a broad diversity of activities and features that work together to achieve the event’s objectives. Under the umbrella of AIM 2022’s FDI & FPI Pillars, the event includes the following sessions and workshops:
First: Pre-conference Sessions & Workshops
Workshop: World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum (WEIF 2022) & AIM Pre-Conference Workshops
Title: - Integrating Innovative Approaches in Investment Promotion
Date: 28th March 2022 - 10:00 to 13:00
Synopsis: The workshop aims to explore how investment promotion is evolving and what the future of investment promotion will look like.
Workshop: FDI Workshop 2 (WAVTEQ)
Title: Accelerating FDI in Uncertain Times
Date: 28th March 2022 - 14:00 to 17:00
Synopsis: In this interactive workshop, Wavteq’s leading global FDI experts will go beyond general investment promotion numbers to offer interpretations and share a new set of critical investment promotion tips, tools, and tactics for 2022 that will help drive more effective FDI attraction programs amidst continued uncertainty.
Second: Conference Sessions & Workshops
Session Title: Global Leaders Debate: Investments in Sustainable Innovation for a Thriving Future
Date: 29th March 2022
Synopsis: Given the massive transition being undergone by the global economy and looking at the prospect of re-engineering this international economy, the session will bring together leaders, investors, policymakers, international organizations, and academics to discuss the prospects of investments in sustainable innovation for a thriving future.
Session Title: Sustainable Investing – Discussing the Best Approach in Attracting Green FDI
Date: 29th March 2022
Synopsis: the panel will provide insights into how countries can make their green agenda clear to attract sustainable investments.
Session Title: FDI Attractiveness Proposition: Adapting to the Changing Times
Date: 29th March 2022
Session Title: ESG Investment Discussion - Entering the Impact Investment Space; Identifying the Right Mix of Impact and Return
Date: 29th March 2022
Synopsis: The panel of tested and proven ESG investors will discourse on Impact Investment and how companies can balance reputation with ROI.
Session Title: ESG Investment Discussion - Entering the Impact Investment Space; Identifying the Right Mix of Impact and Return
Date: 29th March 2022
Session Title: Attracting FDI to Sudan
Date: 29th March 2022
Session Title: How can IPAs Create a Successful and Sustainable Environment
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: The session will rethink FDI’s success factors, the easier-said-than-done-alignment with the current global paradigm, and how investors and IPAs of the host countries can raise the bar to harbor investments that are there to stay and flourish.
Session Title: Accommodating Virtual FDIs – No Longer a Far-Fetched Concept, but a Requisite
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: At the session, policymakers and industry leaders debate over forging resilient and digitally equipped economies.
Session Title: Digital Assets – Creating New Paradigm for Financial Markets
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: The session with its versatile participants will discuss and explore several key areas which will be significantly impacted by the Digital Assets and the underlying technology of Blockchain. The panelists will also provide insights into how Digital Assets will drive sustainable finance and help startups and SMEs to benefit from it.
Session Title: Digital Investing - How Digitalization is Transforming Capital Markets
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: The discussion will cover the best practices, lessons learned, and the way forward with digitized capital markets.
Session Title: Digital Investing - Global Value Chain Optimization
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: The panel will provide practical insights into how the realignment of Global Value Chains GVCs is affecting corporate investment and location decisions and what governments, investment promotion agencies, and special economic zones should do to be prepared for the changes ahead.
Session Title: Measuring the Impact and Improving the Performance of SEZs
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: The panel will introduce the concept of NxtZones as the new future resilient model for Economic Zones and will discuss recent developments in measuring the performance and impact of SEZs on national economies while also highlighting some of the most recent innovations in zone development and zone restructuring, especially green and smart design options and technology.
Session Title: Seizing the Opportunity to Attract & Retain the Talent Pool
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: The discussion will gather policymakers and employers to tackle a remotely functional and resilient workforce in today’s fragmented global economy, noting that even if another global challenge puts us behind closed doors again, fostering digital competency and remote working infrastructure will help cushion the adaptation to ensure it is ‘FDI as usual’.
Session Title: Latin America & the Caribbean - Foster Investments that Promote Innovation and Sustainability (Led by The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)
Date: 31st March 2022
Synopsis: The regional panel, comprising high-level representatives of the Latin America & the Caribbean region countries and the private sector of the region, will reflect together with ECLAC on the opportunities that the region offers for investments that foster development with equality and sustainability.
Session Title: Africa - Implications of the African Continental Free Trade Area for the Demand for Transport Infrastructure and Services
Date: 31st March 2022
Synopsis: The regional focus session sheds light upon the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, its potential results, particularly the demand for transport infrastructure and services, and highlights the need, across Africa, for huge investments not only in roads, railways, seaports, and airports but also in trucks, rail wagons, aircraft, and vessels.
