Program
A high-level agenda built with ministers, zone authorities and industrial investors — candid, senior and outcome-oriented. 14–16 September 2027, Dhahran Expo.
The summit's flagship conversation. Ministers and deputy ministers from trade, industry, investment and economy portfolios debate how economic zones drive diversification, competitiveness and cross-border growth corridors — and what the next decade of zone policy looks like.
What separates the zones investors fight to enter from the ones they overlook? Leaders of the world's most successful industrial cities share the hard lessons — infrastructure sequencing, governance models, investor aftercare and the regulatory clarity that turns interest into factories.
A dedicated showcase of the host country's industrial transformation: giga-projects such as NEOM and Red Sea Global; the integrated industrial cities of Jubail, Yanbu and Ras Al-Khair; King Salman Energy Park (SPARK); and the new special economic zones. Presented with the summit's animated industrial map.
Zones are only as strong as the supply chains inside them. This pillar examines how industrial cities anchor local manufacturing depth, grow supplier ecosystems and keep production running through geopolitical and logistics disruption — with direct relevance to the pumps, valves, pipes and compressors industries exhibiting next door at PVPC Global.
The next generation of industrial cities will be judged on efficiency as well as output. Sessions cover process innovation, industrial cooling and energy systems — connecting directly to the technologies on show at the co-located Refrigeration Expo — and how zones can lead on sustainable industrialization.
Zones compete on talent as much as on tax. This pillar addresses workforce development for advanced manufacturing, the integration of automation and AI into industrial operations, and the digital infrastructure — including data and cloud capacity — that modern zones must provide.
A closed-door, off-the-record format where ministers, zone chief executives and industrial investors align on live project pipelines. Candid conversations — no stage, no audience — turn the summit agenda into deal flow, supported by structured 1-on-1 matchmaking between zones and the manufacturers exhibiting at the co-located expos.
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