BRIDGE Summit convenes global finance, marketing giants

In a world where markets react in real time to headlines and social sentiment, the line between money, media, and marketing is disappearing.

- Staff Reporter, Gulf Today

BRIDGE Summit 2025 will gather some of the most influential figures in global finance, regulation, brand building, and early-stage investment to examine how value is created, priced, and protected in a media system driven by attention rather than airtime.

From Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, and Sir Oliver Dowden, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to Google MENA, Tata Consultancy Services, Caixin Global and leading VCs, the programme connects the people who move capital with the people who move culture.

Across a series of high-impact sessions in Abu Dhabi from 8-10 December, policy architects Peter Kerstens and Dr Michael Piwowar, media and marketing leaders Abhinav Kumar, Lara Dewar, Joe Marchese, Reda Raad and Liz Heller, and investors such as Ben Casnocha, David Giampaolo, Dillon Lawson-Johnston and Joseph Oughourlian will unpack how regulation, storytelling, technology and investment now interact. Together with founders, sales strategists and creator-economy builders including Anthony Nakache, Salah Abo Elmagd, Douglas Kendyson and Ossama Youssef, they will explore a central question: how do you design financial and marketing systems that can keep pace with the speed of today's media while still protecting trust, inclusion and long-term growth?

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