Academics and managing directors gather this week in FeZ for the first international conference on management, innovation and finance (MIF 2025), a new initiative to combine the points between research and economic changes in the real world.
The two -day event, which takes place from April 23 to April 24th, is Co-organized from the private university of Fez and Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University. It brings financial professors, digital experts and young researchers together to discuss topics from fintech to climate change and finance.
Safae Ismaili, lecturer and researchers who specialize in finance, frames the conference in response to the developing economic landscape in Morocco. “MIF 2025 is a platform for dialogue, critical thinking and collective constructions in relation to the most important economic challenges of our time,” she told Morocco World News (MWN).
She emphasized the need to bridge and explain theory and practice: “The ambition behind this conference is quite clear: creating a real connection between academic research and real application, between universities and companies, between ideas and concrete action.
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Pascal Nguyen, professor of finances at the University of Montpellier and one of the main speakers of the event, repeated this feeling. “I am really impressed by the quality of the organization and the caliber of the speakers that I heard this morning. There is a wealth of highly qualified young people … I have the feeling that Morocco has a very brilliant future,” he told MWN.
Nguyen, who also leads a program for green finance, spoke about the dangers of the myopia of companies. “The question is: Why do companies often make the wrong decisions? Why are they pursuing investments and decisions that are not sustainable and trigger crises – whether socially, financially or economical?”
The event aimed at this Tackle Such questions arise from frontal, with Panels examining everything from digital transformation to the low -carbon directive.
While Morocco is pushing to bring its economy up to date and attract environmentally friendly investments, MIF 2025 can show a timely meeting of the heads. “Morocco is in motion,” said Dr. Ismaili.
