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Ministerial Dialogue — The Future of Economic Zones
Ministers and deputy ministers debate how economic zones drive diversification, competitiveness and cross-border growth corridors.
Read more →Where industrial policy meets industrial investment — ministers pitch the zones in the summit, manufacturers walk the expo floor next door.
The summit
Economic zones have become the operating system of global industry — and the leaders who run them are meeting in Saudi Arabia to decide what comes next.
GEZS is a ministerial-level summit convening the people who shape industrial geography: ministers and deputy ministers of trade, industry and investment, zone authority chief executives, industrial city developers, and the manufacturers investing inside them.
The KSA edition is deliberately co-located with PVPC Global and Refrigeration Expo at Dhahran Expo. Policy is debated in the summit halls in the morning; deals are walked on the expo floor in the afternoon. That is the policy-to-pipeline promise — and it only works when both rooms are full.
Program
A high-level agenda built with ministers, zone authorities and industrial investors — candid, senior and outcome-oriented.
Ministers and deputy ministers debate how economic zones drive diversification, competitiveness and cross-border growth corridors.
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What separates the zones investors fight to enter from the ones they overlook — infrastructure, governance and investor aftercare.
Read more →A dedicated showcase of the host country's industrial transformation: giga-projects, integrated industrial cities, energy parks and new special economic zones — mapped live below.
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How industrial cities anchor manufacturing depth, grow supplier ecosystems and keep production running through disruption.
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The next generation of industrial cities will be judged on efficiency as well as output — process innovation and sustainable zones.
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Talent, automation and AI, and the digital infrastructure — data and cloud capacity — that modern zones must provide.
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A closed-door, off-the-record format where ministers, zone chief executives and industrial investors align on live project pipelines — candid conversations that turn the summit agenda into deal flow, with structured 1-on-1 matchmaking.
Read more →Host-country showcase
The KSA edition opens with a factual showcase of the host country's industrial build-out — the giga-projects, industrial cities, energy parks and economic zones reshaping the region's industrial map.
NEOM in the northwest and Red Sea Global on the western coast — large-scale developments anchoring new industrial and logistics ecosystems.
Jubail and Yanbu — among the world's largest industrial cities — alongside the Ras Al-Khair minerals and manufacturing hub on the Gulf coast.
King Salman Energy Park (SPARK) in the Eastern Province — an integrated energy-industry-logistics ecosystem serving regional demand.
Four new SEZs — King Abdullah Economic City, Jazan, Ras Al-Khair and a dedicated Cloud Computing zone — plus the Regional Headquarters program drawing multinationals to the Kingdom.
Policy to pipeline
Ministers pitch the zones in the summit — manufacturers walk the expo floor next door. Same dates, same venue, one industrial week.
The 5th international exhibition for pumps, valves, pipes and compressors — the industrial flow-equipment marketplace, running alongside the summit.
The process cooling and cold-chain exhibition — industrial refrigeration, cooling systems and temperature-controlled logistics, co-located with the summit.
Venue
The Eastern Province is the Kingdom's industrial heartland — home to its largest industrial cities, energy parks and ports. Hosting GEZS at Dhahran Expo puts the summit inside the industrial geography it discusses.
Ministerial delegations, zone authorities, industrial cities and investors — register your interest for the KSA edition.
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