https://eventsindex.org The editorial index of professional events in EMEA en Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eventsindex.org/events/delphi-economic-forum.html https://eventsindex.org/events/delphi-economic-forum.html Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Delphi · 2026-04-22 · Held annually at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi since 2016, this Greek non-profit forum convenes heads of state, EU officials and business leaders in a format that positions Delphi as South-East Europe's primary venue for high-level geopolitical and economic debate. https://eventsindex.org/events/st-gallen-symposium.html https://eventsindex.org/events/st-gallen-symposium.html Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 St. Gallen · 2026-05-06 · The St. Gallen Symposium occupies a singular position in the EMEA conference circuit as one of the few major international forums entirely student-organised, structuring its programme around direct dialogue between top-tier senior leaders and pre-selected young talents rather than a standard speaker-audience format. https://eventsindex.org/events/brussels-economic-forum.html https://eventsindex.org/events/brussels-economic-forum.html Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Brussels · 2026-05-07 · The Brussels Economic Forum is the European Commission's own annual economic policy stage: a free, hybrid, one-day event where EU commissioners, finance ministers, and international economists set the intellectual agenda for EU economic governance, with no commercial sponsorship and no ticket price. https://eventsindex.org/events/africa-ceo-forum.html https://eventsindex.org/events/africa-ceo-forum.html Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Kigali · 2026-05-14 · The Africa CEO Forum is the continent's foremost annual private-sector summit, unique in convening African heads of state alongside global CEOs and development-finance leaders in a bilingual format that drives real investment dialogue at continental scale. https://eventsindex.org/events/off-rencontres-economiques-aix.html https://eventsindex.org/events/off-rencontres-economiques-aix.html Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Aix-en-Provence · 2026-06-27 · The OFF positions itself as the democratic counterweight to one of France's most prestigious closed economic forums: a free, city-wide programme that brings the same annual debate theme into public squares, schools, and cinemas across Aix-en-Provence for eight days. https://eventsindex.org/events/ecb-forum-on-central-banking-sintra.html https://eventsindex.org/events/ecb-forum-on-central-banking-sintra.html Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Sintra · 2026-06-29 · The one fixture on the European economic calendar where sitting central bank governors, not their deputies, share a stage with academics; Sintra sets the monetary-policy tone for the second half of the year. https://eventsindex.org/events/rencontres-economiques-aix-en-provence.html https://eventsindex.org/events/rencontres-economiques-aix-en-provence.html Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Aix-en-Provence · 2026-07-02 · The civic counterpart to the closed-door circuit: France's economics establishment debating in public, on stage and on air, in front of 8,000 people and a national television audience. https://eventsindex.org/events/la-ref-rencontre-des-entrepreneurs-de-france.html https://eventsindex.org/events/la-ref-rencontre-des-entrepreneurs-de-france.html Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-08-26 · La REF is the annual assembly of French organised business, run by MEDEF: the moment when company chiefs and the government speak to each other directly, in front of the cameras. Its political weight is real: the announcements made there often shape the direction of France's economic policy at the autumn rentrée. For corporate decision-makers, it is a barometer of the state of relations between business and political power. https://eventsindex.org/events/ambrosetti-forum.html https://eventsindex.org/events/ambrosetti-forum.html Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Cernobbio · 2026-09-04 · Italy's most influential closed-door summit: each September Villa d'Este hosts roughly 250 heads of state, ministers and global CEOs under Chatham House Rule, making Cernobbio a rare political-business dialogue point with no public registration pathway. https://eventsindex.org/events/economic-forum-karpacz.html https://eventsindex.org/events/economic-forum-karpacz.html Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Karpacz · 2026-09-08 · The only CEE conference that reliably seats heads of government alongside corporate boardrooms and think-tank researchers in a single mountain resort, the Karpacz Economic Forum is the region's clearest bellwether for political risk and investment appetite in the post-Soviet neighbourhood. https://eventsindex.org/events/forum-economique-breton.html https://eventsindex.org/events/forum-economique-breton.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Saint-Malo · 2026-09-09 · The Forum Économique Breton is the most visible annual forum for Brittany's economic and civic leadership: a two-day, multi-track congress in Saint-Malo that combines hard business programming with genuine regional identity stakes, drawing 6,150 participants in 2025 according to the organiser. https://eventsindex.org/events/unctad-world-investment-forum.html https://eventsindex.org/events/unctad-world-investment-forum.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Doha · 2026-10-25 · The only UN-mandated global investment forum, WIF 2026 in Doha brings together sovereign, institutional and private capital alongside government ministers to set the terms of cross-border investment for the coming cycle, with no commercial admission fee and no equivalent at this altitude of state-level participation. https://eventsindex.org/events/future-investment-initiative-fii.html https://eventsindex.org/events/future-investment-initiative-fii.html Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Riyadh · 2026-10-26 · FII is where sovereign capital meets geopolitical ambition: the single forum where PIF-scale investors, sitting heads of state and technology founders converge to move money and set agendas in a format that no Western conference yet replicates. https://eventsindex.org/events/journees-de-leconomie-jeco.html https://eventsindex.org/events/journees-de-leconomie-jeco.html Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lyon · 2026-11-03 · The Jéco stands apart in the European economics calendar as a fully free, city-wide festival drawing 40,000 people annually in Lyon, giving it a civic reach and public legitimacy that closed professional conferences cannot match. https://eventsindex.org/events/milken-institute-middle-east-africa-summit.html https://eventsindex.org/events/milken-institute-middle-east-africa-summit.html Thu, 03 Dec 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Abu Dhabi · 2026-12-03 · The only Milken Institute summit dedicated to the MEA arc, this Abu Dhabi gathering places sovereign wealth capital, African development finance and Gulf policy in the same room under a US think tank brand that carries consistent convening weight at the global level. https://eventsindex.org/events/wef-davos.html https://eventsindex.org/events/wef-davos.html Mon, 18 Jan 2027 00:00:00 +0000 Davos · 2027-01-18 · The WEF Annual Meeting is the single convening point where sitting heads of government and global corporate leaders negotiate shared agendas off the record, making it unlike any sector-specific forum in the EMEA circuit in terms of political reach and bilateral meeting density. https://eventsindex.org/events/conference-of-paris-iefa.html https://eventsindex.org/events/conference-of-paris-iefa.html Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · The Conference of Paris is the IEFA's European anchor: the only recurring high-level forum explicitly built around Europe-Americas economic dialogue, drawing cabinet-level government officials and major corporate CEOs to Paris each December for two days of structured exchange on global governance. https://eventsindex.org/events/qatar-economic-forum.html https://eventsindex.org/events/qatar-economic-forum.html Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Doha · The Qatar Economic Forum is the Gulf's highest-profile annual investment summit, where Bloomberg editorial curation and Qatari state backing combine to draw top-tier principals from global private equity, sovereign wealth and government circles into direct dialogue on capital flows and energy geopolitics. https://eventsindex.org/events/vienna-economic-forum.html https://eventsindex.org/events/vienna-economic-forum.html Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Vienna · The Vienna Economic Forum occupies a singular institutional niche as the standing annual high-level dialogue between Western Balkan and South-East European governments and their European partners, convened by an NGO with UN consultative status rather than by a commercial conference producer.