World Investment Forum 2026 Doha — UNCTAD's 9th forum, hosted by Qatar with QIA as co-organizer, 25-27 October
25-27 October 2026 · Sheraton Convention Center, Al Corniche Street, West Bay, Doha, Qatar · 9th World Investment Forum, organized by UNCTAD and hosted by the State of Qatar, co-organized with the Qatar Investment Authority and the Islamic Development Bank · 113 sessions, 407 speakers, 8 thematic tracks · theme “Investing in the future” · QAR local-first, USD / GCC corridor, x402
📍 Doha, Qatar · 📅 25-27 October 2026 · Sheraton Convention Center, Al Corniche Street, West Bay, Doha, Qatar (Qatar)
The 9th World Investment Forum ran in Doha from 25 to 27 October 2026 under the theme “Investing in the future”, organized by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), hosted by the State of Qatar and held under the patronage of the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E.
📡 $UM-Radar GIS OSINT Map
Real public venue coordinate · Sheraton Convention Center, Al Corniche Street, West Bay, Doha, Qatar · 25.319206, 51.5365072 — MapLibre GL JS v4 · OpenFreeMap liberty · real OpenStreetMap tiles (no AI / diffusion imagery).
📷 Organizer Stage Photos — Photo-QAA PASS
World Investment Forum 2026, Sheraton Convention Center, Doha, 25 October 2026 — the organizer's own group photograph of the opening ceremony, with the forum's bilingual Arabic-English “Investing in the future” backdrop in frame. Published on the day by UNCTAD, the forum's organizing entity (x.com/UNCTAD/status/2114402769364820388, 2026-10-25T17:04Z). Caption is session-level: the roughly thirty people standing are NOT named, because the organizer published no key to this photograph and no face is matched to a roster row. PHOTO-QAA PASS. Watermarked UnicornsMap.com $UM-Radar.World Investment Forum 2026, Doha, 25 October 2026 — the plenary hall during the opening ceremony, photographed from the rear of the room by the organizer and published in the same UNCTAD post as frame 01. The frame records scale, not individuals: no face is legible at this distance and none is named. PHOTO-QAA PASS. Watermarked UnicornsMap.com $UM-Radar.World Investment Forum 2026, Doha, 25 October 2026 — the Ministerial Roundtable, which UNCTAD's own post describes as uniting 27 ministers and leaders from the African Continental Free Trade Area, ASEAN, the Eurasian Economic Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council, opened by Pedro Manuel Moreno, H.E. Ahmad Al Sayed and WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The printed place cards visible in frame are country delegations, not a published delegate list, so no individual is named from them. PHOTO-QAA PASS. Watermarked UnicornsMap.com $UM-Radar.World Investment Forum 2026, Doha, 25 October 2026 — a second, DISTINCT frame of the same Ministerial Roundtable session, showing the U-shaped table and the room rather than the tight table line of frame 03. Different payload and framing from frame 03, so the two together are two captures and not one image re-served. Session-level caption only; no per-face identity and no delegation attributed to a country from the frame. PHOTO-QAA PASS. Watermarked UnicornsMap.com $UM-Radar.World Investment Forum 2026, Doha, 26 October 2026 — the “Build It. Pitch It. Scale It.” track, co-organized with @founding, in which UNCTAD's own post says nine founders met four investors face to face with Qatar's ecosystem; the session screen in frame carries the running order (eight investors, six investor-stage slots, three minutes to make the case). The seated speaker is not named here, because the organizer's post names none. PHOTO-QAA PASS. Watermarked UnicornsMap.com $UM-Radar.
🧑 Public Agenda Speakers (OSINT-verified, confidence HIGH)
Rebeca GrynspanSecretary-General of UNCTAD (on leave) — opened the forum's opening ceremony and delivered the keynote line quoted by the organizerUN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Pedro Manuel MorenoDeputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD — opened the opening ceremony and opened the Ministerial RoundtableUN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Ahmad Al SayedMinister of State for Foreign Trade Affairs, Qatar — opened the forum on behalf of the host state; opened the Ministerial RoundtableGovernment of Qatar
Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaDirector-General of the WTO — opened the Ministerial Roundtable alongside UNCTAD and QatarWorld Trade Organization (WTO)
António GuterresUN Secretary-General — sent a message to the opening ceremony (a message, not attendance)United Nations
