Draft program
ELI Morocco Forum 2026
Saturday, June 13
09:00 - 09:30
Participant welcome and registration
09:45 - 10:15
Session 1 - Opening plenary
- Opening remarks: Nabil Baraka, President of the MATA Festival and ELI Morocco Forum
- Strategic presentation: Morocco Vision 2030 and investment opportunities
- Institutional contributions with Ryad Mezzour, Leila Benali, Younes Sekkouri, Karim Zidane, Adib Benbrahim and Chakib Al Alj
10:15 - 10:45
Coffee break and networking
10:45 - 12:45
Session 2 - Parallel thematic roundtables
- Investment incentives and Morocco Vision 2030
- Logistics and transport
- Industry and free zones
- Tourism and residential development
- Energy and green transition
- International public financing and AI
- Port infrastructure and major structuring projects
12:45 - 14:15
Business lunch and B2B meetings
14:15 - 15:30
Special roundtable - 2030 World Cup Morocco - Spain - Portugal
- Moderator: Siro Lopez Fernandez
- Topics: investment, infrastructure and global sports visibility
- Live streamed broadcast
15:30 - 16:15
Smart international public financing with AI
- Speaker: Guillermo Taboada
- Institutions and funds: European Union, United Nations, World Bank
- AI applied to grant mechanisms and project-financing matching
16:15 - 16:45
Coffee break
16:45 - 17:30
Summary and commitments panel
- Presentation of agreements emerging from each roundtable
- Conclusions, commitments and implementation timelines
17:30 - 18:15
Building trust
- Roundtable 8 - Dialogue of Civilizations as a foundation for international commerce
- Trust, spirituality and values as levers for international economic cooperation
- Adoption of the ELI Forum ethical decalogue as a collective commitment
18:15 - 18:30
Official closing
20:00
Gala dinner
- Ceremony, distinctions and networking
Sunday, June 14
16:30 - 17:00
Welcome of national and international guests
17:00
Conference sessions - Sufism and dialogue of cultures
- Closing address
- MATA semi-final and final
- Presentation of certificates to participants and local-product cooperatives
- Awards ceremony for the winners
- Reading of the letter of allegiance addressed to His Majesty King Mohammed VI