The Italy–Azerbaijan Business Forum, entitled “Building Strategic Partnerships for a Shared Future”, will be held in Baku on November 23, the Embassy of Italy in Azerbaijan has announced.
The forum will bring together representatives of government institutions and business communities from both countries. Its programme will include a plenary session, thematic sessions and business-to-business (B2B) meetings.
The event aims to explore opportunities to expand economic and industrial cooperation in the following areas:
• Energy: the oil and gas sector and renewable energy sources;
• Infrastructure, logistics and construction;
• Advanced industry, artificial intelligence and new technologies: the application of artificial intelligence in the real economy, including data centres, high-performance computing systems and AI infrastructure; technology transfer; and the application of these technologies in manufacturing, logistics, agriculture and the agro-industrial sector. Other areas include tourism, export-oriented services, pharmaceuticals and metallurgy (steel and aluminium);
• Critical raw materials.