Registration for the 2025 congress of the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO) is now open. Delegates and other participants may register for the congress via a dedicated congress website located at: www.cibjo.org/congress-2025/. The three-day event will take place from Monday, October 27, through Wednesday, October 29, 2025.

The 2025 CIBJO Congress will mark the start of the World Jewellery Confederation’s Centenary Year, and it fittingly will take place in Paris, the very city where the organisation was founded as a pan-European association in 1926.

The host of this year’s congress is the Union Française de la Bijouterie, Joaillerie, Orfèvrerie, des Pierres & des Perles (UFBJOP, which brings together all the parties involved in the French jewellery, goldsmith, precious stone and pearl industry.

The dedicated website includes the tentative congress programme, important travel information, background information about Paris and the congress venues, news and media.

An online registration form for the congress is available, and, delegates will also be able to locate hotel rooms at special congress rates using links provided on the dedicated website.

CIBJO Congresses serve as the gathering place for the World Jewellery Confederation’s Assembly of Delegates, and also are the venue for the annual meetings of CIBJO’s sectoral commissions, where amendments can be introduced to the organisation’s definitive directories of international industry standards for diamonds, coloured stones, pearls, gem labs, precious metals, coral and responsible sourcing, known as the Blue Books.

The CIBJO Congress is also where are reported upon the programmes of World Jewellery Confederation Education Foundation (WJCEF), as well as activities related to CIBJO’s ongoing cooperation with the United Nations and its development programme.