The second Dubai Diamond Conference will take place on the 21st and 22nd of April.
The main topic of the conference will be an expansion into Asian, Middle-Eastern, African market and overall “eastern” shift of the growing diamond market called collectively “The New Silk Road”. The important topics for discussion will include current diamond retail problems, synthetic diamond dilemma, and African region participation in diamond industry.

The primary guests of the conference will include executive officers of world’s biggest diamond corporations: Andrey Polyakoy, the Vice President of Alrosa, Paul Rowley, Executive Vice President of DeBeers and Carlos Sumbula, President of Endiama. These three companies compose the two thirds of the rough diamond market and have a huge impact on how and where the diamond industry is moving. As for other participants, the conference is bringing together over 500 diamond industry participants starting from direct jewellery traders to public workers and ministers.

Dubai is the perfect venue for the conference as the city represents an important and established part of the diamond market and community. “The city has brought new energy to the industry and much-needed gateway to Middle Eastern retail market. I am looking forward to having open discussion about the challenges of the diamond industry,” says President of World Diamond Council Edward Asscher.

The conference will give a starting point and new vector of diamond industry that will switch its focus towards the market and wealth emerging and growing in A10 countries.