Speakers confirmed for Dubai-Hamburg Business Forum 2008

Forming part of the overall 50-member expected delegation led by HE Hisham Abdullah Al Shirawi, 2nd Vice Chairman along with a number of Board Members and the Director General of Dubai Chamber, the Forum will see the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Dubai and Hamburg chambers on the occasion.

Based on the success of the first round of the business forum held in Dubai last October where businessmen from both Dubai and Hamburg worked on ways to enhance mutual cooperation and to explore more business opportunities and activities, the forthcoming December 18-19 Forum is seen as an extended opportunity to review and understand the thriving business cultures and the endless scope of establishing newer partnerships between the two cities and their respective countries.

Speakers at the Forum including Khaled Al Kamda, CEO of Dubai Islamic Bank who will be talking about the Financial sector while Ahmad Bin Shafar, CEO, Empower, Ali Bin Towaih, Director of Sustainable Energy and Environment Division (SEED) - TECOM Investments and Saeed Khoory, Group Chief Executive, ENOC, will be talking about the Energy sector. The Healthcare sector will be represented by Haidar Al Yousuf, Transition Director, Dubai Health Authority and Abdullatif Al Sayegh, CEO, Arab Media

Group and Omar Hijazi, CEO, Tejari on the Media/IT sector while Abdullah Al Qurashi, CEO, Dubai Aviation City & Dubai Logistics City, Amer Ali, CEO, Dubai Maritime City, and Ibrahim Al Janahi, Senior Vice-President, Commercial Sales, Jafza, will give their presentations on Logistics & Foreign Trade scenario in Dubai.
HE Eng Hamad Buamim sai:

"Dubai's business community is behind the success of the first Dubai Hamburg Business Forum where they have pledged to work together in the future and now is the time for them to come forward and contribute in the success of the forthcoming event. Judging from the early response a number of delegates have come forward to register and more are expected to join soon and I urge them to take advantage of this important event and register soon as only a few limited seats are available."

Buamim also pointed out that the Forum is bound to be yet another success story and looking at its objectives of matching of major players and identifying specific sectors of common interest from both sides, one of the Forum's basic objectives is the transfer of German knowledge and technology to the country and to offer Dubai's services of a re-export destination to the hosts.

Emirates airline is offering attractive travel packages for businessmen and investors and those wanting to participate can register online at Dubai-Hamburg website.

Germany is the third largest economy in the world and the biggest in Europe. This European industrial giant is the biggest strategic partner to the UAE as there are five German trading representative centers operating in the UAE, as well as the German Business Council which is one of the most active business councils which operates under the umbrella of Dubai Chamber. There are 511 German companies operating in Dubai as Dubai's non-oil trade with Germany reached Dhs28bn in 2007.