The “We Speak Diamond” campaign refers to how, in Antwerp, more than 70 different nationalities and communities (Belgians, Chinese, Indians, Russians, Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Jews, etc.) shape the industry’s identity and how this great diversity of individuals speak the same language: diamond. The ‘Diamond Year’ will feature festivities, museum exhibitions and street art projects, but also a food festival, a photo competition, a diamond expedition for millennials, a summer academy on the diamond trade in collaboration with Antwerp University, an elementary school project and the “African Diamond Dialogue”, where several African mining ministers will travel to Antwerp to discuss the future of the trade in these diamond-producing countries.