(MENAFN– Edelman) Abu Dhabi, UAE– twenty fifth November 2024: The Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) is readied to arrange its biggest-ever MEIRA Annual conference & &Awards, occurring for the very first time in Abu Dhabi on the Conrad Etihad Towers Hotel on December 11-12, 2024. This extraordinarily ready for event, held in cooperation with Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), ensures to be one of the crucial impactful model but, uniting over 600 individuals, 100+ regional and worldwide buy-side, 50+ audio audio system, and an elevated program of better than 10 periods.
This 12 months’s seminar is headlined by ADNOC Group because the Main enroller, Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) and Smart Media because the Strategic enrollers, with additional sponsorship from HSBC, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, ADCB, Al Ramz, International Securities, Emirates NBD, Goldman Sachs, Presight, Agthia, Riyad Bank, Aldar Properties, Almarai, Nasdaq, ADVERTISEMENT Ports Group, London Stock Exchange (LSE), and numerous different top-tier enterprise and specialists from the native and worldwide markets. The revered schedule of enrollers seals the event’s on-line status as essentially the most important occasion for the realm’s sources market specialists, regulatory authorities, inventory market brokers, and numerous different stakeholders.
Khaled Al Zaabi, Group Chief Financial Officer at ADNOC, commented: “ADNOC Group, along with our six listed operating companies, is proud to participate in the upcoming MEIRA conference, reaffirming our commitment to transparency, investor engagement, and the highest standards of corporate governance. This event serves as an invaluable platform to showcase our strategic achievements, elaborate on our growth opportunities, demonstrate the value on offer across our ecosystem, as we continue to drive sustainable value for our investors.”
Centered across the motif ‘Bridging Opportunities: Accelerating IR in the Middle Eastern Capital Markets,’ the sixteenth MEIRA Annual Conference intends to focus on the essential operate Investor Relations play in attaching native sources markets. This 12 months’s model will definitely embrace over 8 keynotes and panels on cross-exchange buying and selling, worldwide market traits, ESG, Islamic cash, and native growth. Attendees will definitely likewise entry to 18 workshops protecting motifs corresponding to AI-driven stakeholder interplay, included protection, searching regulative conformity and digital makeover in IR to call just a few.
This 12 months, the event expands its emphasis, proactively involving each buy-side and sell-side specialists, broadening previous typical IR policemans. A significant emphasize of the 2024 model is the intro of customized enterprise accessibility, offering MEIRA individuals straight hyperlinks with worldwide and regional buy-side with pre-scheduled conferences, assisted in by FAB, JP Morgan, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, ADCB, Al Ramz andInternational Securities Over 100 institutional financiers are readied to hitch the event, consisting of BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Lazard, Abu Dhabi Pension Fund, ADQ, Public Investment Fund (PIF), Mubadala, Oman Investment Authority and way more. This change exhibits MEIRA’s dedication to boosting the event’s attain and affect as IR stays to drive native monetary growth.
Abdulla Salem Al Nuaimi, Group CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) claimed, ” ADX appears ahead to internet hosting the 2024 MEIRA Conference in Abu Dhabi, performs our half in supporting the development of the UAE, and wider Middle East Capital Markets ecosystem. As a world itemizing platform, connecting listed corporations with worldwide and native buy-side buyers is one in all our ongoing efforts in fostering nearer market engagement and bolstering the event of those corporations. We will proceed to collaborate with our Exchanges and trade companions unlock extra funding alternatives and progressive companies to allow issuers and buyers in reaching their development ambitions and funding wants.”
The convention will even function a distinguished lineup of C-suite audio system, together with Abdulrahman Abdulla Al Seiari and Youssef Salem, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, respectively, of ADNOC Drilling. The opening session of the Conference will embrace the CEOs of main regional exchanges ADX, BHB, DFM, MSX and Tadawul. Among the important thing audio system, Manuel Isaza, Deputy Head for the BlackRock Investment Stewardship will sit on a fireplace chat with MEIRA’s CEO, Paolo Casamassima, answering questions from the C-Suite and IROs round Best Practices in Investor Engagement, Sustainability and Governance.
As the regional capital markets entice extra world consideration, Paolo Casamassima, Chief Executive Officer of MEIRA, highlighted: “The MEIRA Annual Conference & Awards plays a crucial role in the development of IR in the region, and this year’s edition is poised to deliver greater impact, being held in one of the world’s most dynamic and rapidly growing financial hubs. The conference has been designed to provide a comprehensive exploration of the challenges and opportunities facing IR professionals in the Middle East. The event will bring together a unique mix of regional and international experts, offering unparalleled insights and compelling opportunities for all participants.”
As a part of the occasion, an Exclusive Awards Dinner by invitation solely, can be held on the Emirates Palace the night of the twelfth of December, to have fun and acknowledge leaders within the IR group. This 12 months, over 22 awards can be introduced, honouring excellence and acknowledging the numerous contributions made by professionals within the area’s capital markets.
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