Business Engagement Summits - Looking Back on Previous Editions

7 December 2023

The Roads and Transport Authority and CCI FRANCE UAE created the initiative of collaboratively organizing a “Business Engagement Summit” in RTA headquarters in September 2017, February 2019 and March 2020 and at the France Pavilion in Expo 2020 in February 2022.

Those events were attended by 200C-suite level, Directors and Senior Managers from the Emirati and the French public and private sector.

Topics of the previous editions

2017 - Investment – PPP – Mobility - Innovation

MOU signed with city of Lyon
Panel discussion: new financing models in mobility
Exhibition area on the ground floor for the sponsors

5 workshops

Infrastructure transportation projects
First and last mile strategy
Operations and maintenance of transport networks
Passengers/customers experience
Transit oriented development

2019 - Future of Mobility – Innovation

Panel discussion: commercial transformation in the context of public transport services
Panel discussion: future of mobility, digitalization and autonomous vehicles
Keynote speech: autonomous vehicles, how France is shaping the future of mobility

3 workshops

Autonomous vehicles
Smart cities
Use of big data and digitalization

2020 - Sustainable and Futuristic Mobility Solutions

RTA’s top projects – presentation
Panel discussion: Sustainable mobility
Business Case: From internal data valorization to external data monetization: how to take advantage of all the public transport data?
Panel discussion: Innovative Solutions embedded within first and last mile
Keynote: Blockchain applications in transportation
Pitch sessions: Blockchain & Smart Mobility Solutions
Mobility Village

2022 - Innovative and Sustainable Solutions - Building the City of Tomorrow