The 11th session of the Carthage Investment Forum

The Carthage Investment Forum
To register : http://www.carthageforum.tn/

The Carthage Investment Forum is a yearly event organized by FIPA-Tunisia under the auspices of the Ministry of Development and International Cooperation. The Forum is expecting you this year on the 24th and 25th of June, 2009 at “Le ROYAL Hammamet” Hotel in the magnificent tourist area of "Yasmine Hammamet" in Tunisia.

This 11th edition emphasizes the maturity of this event, which has become a key event on the southern bank of the Mediterranean in the field of international investment.

The Carthage Investment Forum is taking place this year in a particular context mainly characterized by a world crisis, the impacts of which are unprecedented in contemporary world history. The financial crisis announces a significant contraction of the world economic activity and a greater concern among the major operators as for the choice of the destination for their international expansion.

Against this background, the Carthage Investment Forum will highlight the assets of Tunisia as an investment site, where the crisis, far from representing a threat, is an opportunity to emphasize the competitive assets of the country, which are regularly noted by specialized international institutions and to demonstrate the benefits of a the Tunisian destination as a resilient location.

This 11th edition will hence highlight the great responsiveness of the Tunisian authorities as well as the supporting measures which were implemented in favour of foreign companies’ activities operating in Tunisia. A panel will be dedicated to this theme to deal with the resilience factors of Tunisian economy and the Tunisian authority’s intention to ensure the best conditions for business development and namely that of foreign companies which chose Tunisia for their expansion projects.

Besides, this 11th edition will focus on new sectors considered as catalysts for Tunisia’s attractiveness by the year 2016. The present economic backdrop cannot affect the legitimate ambition of the Tunisian site to assert its position as a growth innovation pole in the Euro – Mediterranean zone.

The 1st sectorial panel will be dedicated to the dynamics of mechanical electric and electronic industry. This sector has proved to be performing in exports and showed a large capacity to grow at an international level in a very competitive field of activity. It will also highlight the development of a sector which significantly reinforced its attractiveness, namely that of aeronautical parts manufacturers. To this end, the activities of GITAS, an association which gathers among others, companies in the aerospace sector operating in Tunisia, will be a case study during this panel.

As for the 2nd sectorial panel, it will focus on Tunisia’s offshoring activities and will namely highlight how the Tunisian site was able to build a consistent network of shared services centres, Research and Development Units and other production structures, the basic capital of which is human intelligence. Therefore, it will pay particular attention to the significant and constant progress of the infrastructure devoted to these fields of activity as well as to the quality of human resources available in Tunisia, hence showing the capacity of the country to assert itself as a regional hub for services related to ICT.

The last sectorial panel will focus on the reinforcement of Tunisian attractiveness in the field of health–related services and well-being tourism activities. The objective of Tunisia is to become a major regional destination in the future. To this end, Tunisia, which is a pioneer in this sector at the regional level, is elaborating an ambitious action plan in order to become a pole for the export of health services by the year 2016.

Besides, considering the sharpness of the problems resulting from the food crisis in the world and Tunisia’s concern to play a paramount and durable role in the activities related to this issue, the Carthage Investment Forum will devote a particular attention to innovating factors in agriculture and agribusiness industry in a parallel event.

Along with the parallel event, Partnership meetings will be organized in collaboration with the Agricultural Investment Promotion Agency (APIA) and Agribusiness General Department of the Industry Ministry.

You are therefore invited to discover the components of these sectors’ attractiveness and to come and share their performance in terms of competitiveness and productivity together with experts as well as investors operating in these fields.

To register : http://www.carthageforum.tn/