WTO Public Forum 2025: Digital tech and sectoral agreements reorganising global trade
The National Board of Trade Sweden will take part in the World Trade Organization's Public Forum 2025. Our senior trade adviser Felinda Wennerberg will speak about trade-related agreements, including their challenges and benefits.
The seminar explores how artificial intelligence (AI), digital services, and trade facilitation tools are transforming trade participation and production networks. Drawing on the forthcoming Global Value Chain Development Report 2025, it examines the implications for inclusion, industrial policy, and governance – especially for developing economies.
As new industrial strategies, investment flows, and digital trade arrangements shape the future, the seminar will ask: Can trade rules keep up - and who gets to shape them?
Practical information
Date: 18 September
Time: 9.00-10.15
Place: Room F, Centre William Rappard, Rue de Lausanne 154, Geneva
More about the seminar
Public Forum is the World Trade Organization's largest outreach event. It offers a unique platform for stakeholders from around the world to discuss recent developments in global trade and suggest ways to strengthen the multilateral trading system. Each year, more than 2,000 participants attend the event, including representatives from civil society, academia, business, government, international organisations and the media.
Public Forum 2025 will take place in Geneva on 17–18 September. This years's theme is "Enhance, create, and preserve", with a focus on how digital trade can transform economies.
More about Public Forum.