Network with conference delegates over welcome drinks. 

This welcome cocktail reception is open to all participants - Registration is required. 

Ticket price: Included.
 

Session to include: How infrastructure is transforming lives and nations’ prospects. Examples of megaprojects that have made a difference. What does ‘good’ infrastructure investment look like? The role of engineers in building a better world.

Speakers will outline how infrastructure development is being used by countries to revitalise their economies and ‘build back better’ in the face of economic challenges. The session will look at sustainable infrastructure for the long term, the role of large-scale significant infrastructure projects and highlight the key role of engineers in ensuring that investment in infrastructure makes a positive difference.
 

Session to include: What steps can be taken by financiers, funders and clients to de-risk investments to make major and strategically significant infrastructure projects more attractive and bankable for those organisations looking to invest in them. What can the IFIs do practically to de-risk and leverage in investment? The role of clients in funding projects. Managing risk and dealing with uncertainty. Bridging the world’s multi-trillion-dollar investment gap in order to achieve net zero by 2050.

How can the key issues of lack of funding, climate change and technology challenges be addressed and overcome to encourage investment in the major infrastructure the world badly needs?

Speakers to be drawn from financiers and funders, the MDBs and IFIs, consultancy firms working in the field and also politicians and/or government officials.
 

Session to include: The different routes to delivery in a diverse word. The importance of capacity building. Knowledge sharing and skills transfer. The role of the MDBs and IFIs. Working with inexperienced stakeholders, including clients and governments.

Speakers to be drawn from MDB/IFIs, consultancy firms operating in the developing world, regional governments and officials, the development community and clients.
 

Potential forum to discuss key and emerging issues in the contract management and project delivery arena.

Forum to discuss key and emerging issues in the digital and technology sphere.
 

Forum for FIDIC adjudicators and other practitioners to discuss key issues in the dispute avoidance and adjudication arena.
 

This is an additional event open to all registrations - Registration required.

Ticket price: CHF 190 (excluding VAT)
Ticket price includes transfer, dinner, drinks and entertainment.

Dress code: smart casual

More information will be shared soon.

The industry and the world has to decarbonise to hit net zero targets by 2050? We are losing this battle as we increasingly aim for 2.2 to 3 degree rise in global temperatures.
 

Session to include: Dealing with the political process to ensure stability and get things done, Using social value and the ESG agenda to advocate for good infrastructure development, Focusing on whole-life costs and the real price of delivery, Best practice in project advocacy, Working together and collaboration.

Speakers to include politicians, ESG experts, funders making a difference, advisors to clients, public affairs and lobbying professionals.
 

Session to include: A showcase of world-class groundbreaking construction and infrastructure projects from around the globe that highlight how through their ingenuity engineers are making a difference and helping to build a better world. Projects featured will be drawn from all of FIDIC’s global regions.

Like last year’s session in Singapore, this session will highlight key, world-leading projects that have made or are making a positive difference. Speakers will be those involved in the projects and those who benefit from them.
 

Session to include: The final session of the conference will look at the key issue of ‘futureproofing the industry’ – how best do we attract, retain and develop people and skills to enable companies to flourish? How can the engineering, construction and infrastructure industry make itself more attractive to win the war for talent? Creating companies that reflect the society we seek to serve? The role of digital in building companies that are fit for the future. Forging future leaders and creating opportunities for talent to flourish.

Speakers to include industry leaders, young professionals, maybe branding specialists from sectors that are successfully attracting people to their industry, digital advocates, experts in people development, exemplars from countries ‘getting it right’ when it comes to recruitment and retention.
 

Session to include: this session will finish the main conference sessions with an industry leaders panel that reflect and provide their expertise and views on the lessons of the past two days, the challenges we now face and how we need to move forward.   

Forum for FIDIC adjudicators and other practitioners to discuss key issues in the dispute avoidance and adjudication arena.

Forum to discuss key and emerging issues facing CFOs and similar.

Forum to discuss key and emerging issues facing professionals involved in people management and related matters.

FIDIC Global Infrastructure Awards Gala Dinner is open to all participants - Registration is required. 

Ticket price: Included (with some exceptions).

Dress code: Black Tie or national/traditional dress