Bangladesh Trade and Investment Summit to be held on Oct 26-Nov 1  

Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) will host a weeklong international investment summit virtually next month to deepen Bangladesh’s collaboration with investors from six continents.

Scheduled to be held between October 26 and November 1, the “Bangladesh Trade and Investment Summit” is expected to promote the country as an attractive destination of trading and foreign director investment (FDI).

The DCCI, the most vibrant chamber in Bangladesh, is going to organise the event, in collaboration with the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce and Bangladesh Investment Development Agency (BIDA).

It holds the summit commemorating the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and 50 years of independence and orienting the knowledge economy backed by digitisation.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to attend as chief guest at the inaugural ceremony of the summit on October 26 (Tuesday).

The leading trade body has undertaken this initiative to rejuvenate the global trade and investment fraternity and also highlight the global integration of trade and investment in a new reality.

With the objective to secure investments in diverse and emerging industries, the summit will focus on nine sectors that demand massive investments.

The sectors include Infrastructure (physical, logistics and energy), IT/ITES and FINTECH, Leather goods, Pharmaceuticals, Automotive and Light Engineering, Plastic products, Agro and Food processing, Jute and Textiles, FMCG & Retail Business.

The sessions of the summit will cover business-to-business matchmaking and investment matchmaking.

Some 25 businesses may participate with their Bangladeshi counterparts and in all, 160 B2B representatives from 50 countries of six regions are expected to join the summit.