World’s premier engineers and other stakeholders from across the global construction and infrastructure sector will gather at the annual Global Infrastructure Conference which opens in Geneva, Switzerland, today.

 

Organised as a face-to-face event by FIDIC (the International Federation of Consulting Engineers) for the first time in almost two years, the event has been backed by headline sponsors Bentley Systems, gold sponsors AON and Schneider Electric, silver sponsors BG Consulting Engineers and bronze sponsors WWF, B-ACT and Nippon Koei.

 

The conference’s forward-looking theme, Building a Better Tomorrow, by Investing Today: Sustainable Infrastructure Development to Improve Community Wellbeing, will focus on how the construction and infrastructure industry, and indeed society, engineers a sustainable future in a way that benefits communities worldwide.

 

FIDIC has assembled a high-profile line-up of leading speakers from a range of influential organisations to speak at the conference. These include the World Economic Forum, Greater London Assembly, World Trade Organisation, African Development Bank, AfDB, Aurecon, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Swiss Re, Stantec, Siemens Energy, Mott MacDonald, AECOM, Tata Consulting Engineers, Schroders, Rail Baltica, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, SYSTRA, SNC Lavalin, COWI, Geneva Airport and many more. 

 

The conference is set to bring together the world’s premier engineers and other stakeholders from across the global construction and infrastructure sector. Leading global speakers will address the key issues the industry faces and offer their insights to an international audience and the expectation is that this 2022 event will be one of the most important international gatherings for the industry held this year.

 

FIDIC CEO Dr Nelson Ogunshakin said: “This conference really is the world’s stand-out international event for the infrastructure and built environment industry and FIDIC is looking forward to welcoming the global industry to Geneva from 11-13 September 2022. We will be discussing some major issues affecting our world, especially the climate crisis and how our engineering, construction and infrastructure industry is crucial to addressing them. We are expecting some brilliant discussions over the next two days with some fantastic speakers due to address us and, I for one, cannot wait!” -TradeArabia News Service