Over 1,200 delegates including government leaders, policymakers, academics, and industry representatives from across the globe will be in Abu Dhabi, UAE, for the debut Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS).

The GMIS will take place at the Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi from March 27 to 30. It is being co-hosted by the UAE Ministry of Economy, Department of Economic Development – Abu Dhabi (ADDED) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, in collaboration with the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Manufacturing of the World Economic Forum.

The summit aims to provide the UAE with a political platform to build global alliances to achieve strategic goals in the industrial sector, stated Ali Majid Al Mansouri, the chairman of the ADDED.

"With its global partnerships with the world's leading industrial organisations, the summit will give the UAE a unique opportunity to benefit from this network in its internal and external industrial investments while also providing a platform for the UAE to consolidate its global role in leading the 4IR (fourth industrial revolution) applications and exporting them worldwide," he said.

The GMIS, he noted, is also a real opportunity to brief world industry leaders on the trends and policies followed by the government of Abu Dhabi towards a globally competitive industrial economy in the emirate.

According to him, the global summit will also provide the UAE with an opportunity to achieve the highest level of connectivity and co-ordination with world countries and global firms in terms of industrial activities, so that each emirate can benefit from the capabilities and competencies of other emirates in a well-aligned effort to achieve economic integration.

"GMIS aims to achieve the objectives of sustainable industrial development, especially in terms of comprehensive and sustainable industrialisation. To this end, the event will formulate a future vision for the industrial sector," stated Al Mansouri.

Six teams and eight industry groups were formed to categorise the summit outputs in a way that will help Abu Dhabi’s transformation to the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), he noted.

Khalifa Al Mansouri, the acting undersecretary at ADDED, will deliver a key note speech, outlining the policies and directives of the government of Abu Dhabi to achieve sustainable economic development by focusing on the development of the industrial sector as a key enabler of other non-oil sectors in the emirate.-TradeArabia News Service