Technology is revolutionizing global commerce and investment, and digitalizing the trade ecosystem holds the potential to increase trade by nearly $9 trillion by 2026 within the G7 alone.
On the eve of the World Trade Organisation's 13th Ministerial Conference, MC13 (26-29 February, 2024) in Abu Dhabi, we speak to the event's host, UAE Minister of State for Trade Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi about MC13 and the TradeTech initiative that the UAE is pursuing with the World Economic Forum.
We also hear from WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her hopes for MC13, and from Vincent Clerc, Chief Executive Officer, A.P. Møller-Maersk, with his views on trade tech.
Read more about the TradeTech initiative: https://www.tradetechglobal.org/home
and the TradeTech Forum, 27 February, 2024: https://www.tradetechglobal.org/tradetechforum24
Read Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi's Agenda blog: TradeTech could be the future of international trade – here’s why
The WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference, 26-29 February, 2024: MC13
Watch this session from Davos 2024: TradeTech's Trillion-Dollar Promise
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