To deepen Bangladesh’s collaboration with investors from six continents, a weeklong virtual investment summit is going to be organised by the DCCI or the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, next month.
Media reports maintained this while adding the ‘Bangladesh Trade and Investment Summit’, scheduled to be held between 26 October and 1 November, and expected to be attended by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as chief guest at the inaugural ceremony on 26 October, aims to promote Bangladesh as an attractive destination of trading and foreign director investment (FDI).
Further, the objective of the event is to secure investments in diverse and emerging industries, focussing on nine sectors that demand massive investments, which include Leather Goods and Jute and Textiles, apart from Infrastructure, IT/ITES and FINTECH, Pharmaceuticals, Automotive and Light Engineering, Plastic Products, Agro and Food Processing, etc.
The sessions at the business summit will, reportedly, cover business-to-business matchmaking and investment matchmaking even as around 25 businesses are expected to participate in the same with their Bangladeshi counterparts and in all, 160 B2B representatives from 50 countries of six regions are expected to join the summit.