July 22, 2025 | 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
KEYNOTES, PANELS & NETWORKING
📍Trademark Hotel - The Village Market
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration and Morning Coffee
📍Venue: Conference Center Lobby
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Reimagining Africa’s Growth Story
Presentation on demographics, sector trends, and regional growth dynamics.
🔹 Featuring a Plenary presentation by McKinsey
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM | Opportunities and Challenges
New trends highlighting high-growth sectors, revealing where diaspora capital can be positioned to ignite transformative returns.
🔹 Panel discussion featuring McKinsey
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Networking Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Spotlight: Investment-Ready Sectors
Showcase presentations from Africa’s most promising sectors:
🔸Mining: Africans for Africa
🔸Artificial Intelligence: Akki
🔸Energy: Synergized Solutions
🔸Sports: Twende Sports
🔹 Showcase presentations, Mr. Adeola Adediran
11:30 PM - 1:00 PM | Building Africa’s Talent for the Global Stage
Africa’s workforce is its secret weapon. How tech academies, AI training, and upskilling initiatives are creating a pipeline of the workforce that will bridge the global talent gap.
🔹 Featuring ADMI, Moringa, Robin, Xaba
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch & Learn Session
Network with executives, investors, and sector leaders at curated tables
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Investor Roundtable: Where Smart Money is Flowing
Investors and financiers share their playbooks for navigating Africa’s complex but lucrative markets.
🔹 Featuring Faida Oak Fund, TRIFIC, EAVCA, and Naiban
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Breaking Barriers: Real Stories from the Frontlines
A candid discussion on how diaspora investors are overcoming biases, structuring deals, and winning big even in “tough” markets.
🔹 Moderator: Wilmot Allen, Venture Lift, & Diaspora Angel Investment Network
4:30 PM | Evening Tea & Cigar Break (Guests leave at pleasure)
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, US Embassy, FCDO, AmCham, EAVCA, KEPSA, FSD, KCB, PPP Secretariat, etc.