
Conference 'Islamic Finance & Tourism: New Scenarios, New Business'
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April 4 in Madrid: IE Business School
Over the last two decades, Islamic life style market has been growing as Sharia’h compliant products and services (e.g. halal food, Islamic tourism and Islamic finance) have become an important component of the global economy. With an increasing awareness and expanding numbers of Muslim tourists, many tourism industry players have started to offer special products and services, developed and designed in accordance with the Islamic principles, to cater to the needs and demands of these tourists.
Islamic finance also offers great opportunities for growth not only in markets where the majority of the population is Muslim, but also among Muslim communities within countries where Muslims are a minority. Since the global financial crisis in 2008, increasing voices in the strongholds of traditional banking (USA and Europe) have argued that traditional banking holds the seeds of cyclical crisis due to its speculative and debt structure.
Join us in discussing the new Global Islamic Economy Era.
PROGRAM
09:00 Welcoming
Carlos Mas, Executive Vice President, IE FOUNDATION
Gonzalo Rodríguez, General Coordinator, SCIEF
Pedro Martínez-Avial, Director General, Casa Árabe
Saeed Mubarak Kharbash Al Marri, Deputy CEO – Strategy & Planning, DIEDC
09:15 Opening speech
María Peña, CEO, Spanish Institute of Foreign Trade (ICEX)
09.30 Islamic Economy Strategy & the Future of Halal Trade
Mohammad Ali Al Kamali, Deputy CEO, Dubai Exports
10:00 Panel discussion 1: Islamic digital economy & Tourism
Chair: Olivia Orozco, Coordinator of Education and Economics, Casa Árabe
Umar Munshi, CEO EthisCrowd.com
Enver Cebi, COO & Co-founder HalalBooking.com
Emilio Escartín, Islamic Finance Professor, IE Business School
Jesús Florido-Banqueri, Advisor at Bahrain Tourism & Exhibition Authority
Ahmed Haikal, Head of Sharia Audit, Dubai Islamic Bank
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Panel discussion 2: Halal Food & Beverage Trade Aspects: Dubai as a Global Halal Trade
Hub, an opportunity for the Spanish F&B companies
Chair: Saeed Kharbash, Deputy CEO – Strategy & Planning, DIEDC
Tomás Guerrero, Manager, Halal Trade and Marketing Centre
Mohammad Ali Al Kamali, Deputy CEO, Dubai Exports
Nicolás Martínez, Head of the Business Development Division, Port of Algeciras
CEO, Halal F&B*
13:30 Closing Remarks
Antonio López de Ávila, Director of Corporate Relations EMEA and Director of the Travel & Tourism Innovation Initiative, IE University
14:30 Lunch
Where
MARIA DE MOLINA, 11
Aula Magna
Calle de María de Molina, 11, 28006 Madrid, Spain