First Day
07:00 – 08:00 am Registration
08 00 – 10:00 am Official Opening Ceremony
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
10:00 - 10:10 am Photo Session
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
10:10 - 10:30 Networking Break
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
10:30 - 11: 30 In The Spotlight
Hear moving stories from the champions of the African startup ecosystem
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
11:00 - 11: 30 am Get Funded
This session will focus on access to finance and how to structure a strong business proposition. It will also look at developing an attractive value proposition by creating a solution that can be quickly scaled-up young entrepreneurs. By bringing investors and those who have successfully attracted investors we will share success stories as well as offer advice and guidance for others to learn from.
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
11:30 - 12: 30 am Parallel Workshop
5 x workshops, each focusing on a specific area of interest to entrepreneurs and leaders of fast growing companies. These will be made up of presentations, discussions and workshops.
- Access to finance
- Scaling-up business
- Making internet (social media) work for business
- Starting a business (making market work for youth)
- The art of storytelling: Pitching your idea to potential investors
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
12:30 - 13:00 am The 4th Industrial Revolution: Generating Future Jobs
Africa has a youth bulge that presents an opportunity. However, a jobless generation will turn Africa rising into an African uprising. Where are the opportunities and how can one ensure these are fully realised? This session will contextualize the African opportunity within a global context as well as look at the challenges that it needs to overcome. The panel will amongst others look at where some of Africa's business leaders are investing; how policy changes can lead to significant investments; the rise of special economic zones; and the impact on technology in what is being dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Panel discussion
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
13:00 – 14:00 pm Networking Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 View from the Top
Inspiring the youth and disruptors of tomorrow
Special address by Honorable person
Keynote address by successful entrepreneurs
Top entrepreneurs, philanthropists, role models and change catalysts will share his insight on what it takes for genius startups to get their big break
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
14:30 - 15:10 pm Idea Pitching Competition: Need and Lead
Offers a chance for African startups to gain exposure and raise their profile by pitching their business ideas to delegation of executives representing capital prospects, business mentors, and advisors. 20 startups and entrepreneurs will be selected to make 'elevator pitches' – each 2 minutes in length maximum – where these young business leaders will have the stage to present their idea and opportunity, highlight their needs and generate new lead
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
14:30 - 15: 10 pm Agribusiness
With 65% of the world's uncultivated land, Africa will determine the future of food for the world. The African Development Bank values commercial agriculture at more than US$1 trillion business by 2030. However, lack of access to land, finance, markets and technologies are barriers that need to be overcome. This session proposes to find sustainable and market driven solutions for the Agriculture sector in Africa.
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
15:40 - 16:10 pm Special Economic Zones: Presentations
Continuing on the theme of industrialisation and promoting fast and diversified growth, this session will look at special economic zones, the opportunities that these present for both investors and also companies (young entrepreneurs) wanting to re-locate there.
Expert Briefing, Presentations and case studies
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
16:10 - 16: 40 pm Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
Entrepreneurship is flourishing in Africa, many incubators, accelerators, co-working spaces are being established every year in African countries. If Africa is to capitalize on new disruptive technologies and new business models, many successful African entrepreneurs will need to scale up their ventures beyond the limits of their small local markets and branch out into other African markets. Promoting cross-border entrepreneurship is an enormous task that no single organization can do alone. Stakeholders' cooperation is urgently needed. This session will discuss policies, programs, and initiatives needed to encourage and promote regional integration through cross border entrepreneurship.
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
16:40 - 17:00 pm Closing Dialogue: From One Generation to the Next
Two of the entrepreneurs will recount their experience, policy outcomes and any other thoughts and ideas that emerged from their discussions. Two generations coming together to discuss solutions for Africa
Expert Briefing:
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
Second Day
07:00 – 08:00 am Registration
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
08:00 – 08:30 am Tradeshow Opens
Whether you need help with marketing, social media, funding, financing, taxes, sales, hiring or anything else, we've got you covered. Visit our tradeshow and make contact with the experts you need to grow your business.
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
08:00 – 08:30 am How to Build Meaningful Brands
This fun and interactive event challenges aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners alike to come up with a killer business idea and pitch it to a panel of expert judges, in front of a live audience.
08:30 – 09:00 am Digital Marketing – The Right Channel for Your Brand
09:00 – 09:30 am From Concept to International Brand
09:30 – 10:00 am The Journey of a Serialpreneur (Breakout Session)
10:00 – 10:30 am Young Entrepreneurs: Their Journey to Startup Success
10:30 – 11:00 am Growing Your Business with Social Selling
11:00 – 11:30 am Common HR Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
11:30 – 12:00 am Funding, Financing, Grants and Loans
12:00 – 12:30 am Introduction to Tax Sense for your Business
12:30 – 13:00 am The Journey from Employee to Entrepreneur
13:00 – 14:00 Networking Launch
14:00 – 16:00 pm Young CEO/Entrepreneurs Roundtable Training
Young CEO/Entrepreneurs Roundtable workshop offers young entrepreneurs, young privately-owned companies and NGOs the opportunity to obtain advice and support from Entrepreneurs and Business owners
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
16:00 – 17:00 pm Business Mentor Hours
Mentor hours is a series of pre-scheduled 15 minutes one-on-one meetings between our high-level attendees and startups. Startups will have access to top speakers, leading investors’ influential media and global partners to get one-on-one advice on starting, growing and scaling a successful business.
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
07:00 – 08:00 am Registration
08 00 – 10:00 am Official Opening Ceremony
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
10:00 - 10:10 am Photo Session
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
10:10 - 10:30 Networking Break
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
10:30 - 11: 30 In The Spotlight
Hear moving stories from the champions of the African startup ecosystem
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
11:00 - 11: 30 am Get Funded
This session will focus on access to finance and how to structure a strong business proposition. It will also look at developing an attractive value proposition by creating a solution that can be quickly scaled-up young entrepreneurs. By bringing investors and those who have successfully attracted investors we will share success stories as well as offer advice and guidance for others to learn from.
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
11:30 - 12: 30 am Parallel Workshop
5 x workshops, each focusing on a specific area of interest to entrepreneurs and leaders of fast growing companies. These will be made up of presentations, discussions and workshops.
- Access to finance
- Scaling-up business
- Making internet (social media) work for business
- Starting a business (making market work for youth)
- The art of storytelling: Pitching your idea to potential investors
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
12:30 - 13:00 am The 4th Industrial Revolution: Generating Future Jobs
Africa has a youth bulge that presents an opportunity. However, a jobless generation will turn Africa rising into an African uprising. Where are the opportunities and how can one ensure these are fully realised? This session will contextualize the African opportunity within a global context as well as look at the challenges that it needs to overcome. The panel will amongst others look at where some of Africa's business leaders are investing; how policy changes can lead to significant investments; the rise of special economic zones; and the impact on technology in what is being dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Panel discussion
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
13:00 – 14:00 pm Networking Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 View from the Top
Inspiring the youth and disruptors of tomorrow
Special address by Honorable person
Keynote address by successful entrepreneurs
Top entrepreneurs, philanthropists, role models and change catalysts will share his insight on what it takes for genius startups to get their big break
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
14:30 - 15:10 pm Idea Pitching Competition: Need and Lead
Offers a chance for African startups to gain exposure and raise their profile by pitching their business ideas to delegation of executives representing capital prospects, business mentors, and advisors. 20 startups and entrepreneurs will be selected to make 'elevator pitches' – each 2 minutes in length maximum – where these young business leaders will have the stage to present their idea and opportunity, highlight their needs and generate new lead
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
14:30 - 15: 10 pm Agribusiness
With 65% of the world's uncultivated land, Africa will determine the future of food for the world. The African Development Bank values commercial agriculture at more than US$1 trillion business by 2030. However, lack of access to land, finance, markets and technologies are barriers that need to be overcome. This session proposes to find sustainable and market driven solutions for the Agriculture sector in Africa.
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
15:40 - 16:10 pm Special Economic Zones: Presentations
Continuing on the theme of industrialisation and promoting fast and diversified growth, this session will look at special economic zones, the opportunities that these present for both investors and also companies (young entrepreneurs) wanting to re-locate there.
Expert Briefing, Presentations and case studies
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
16:10 - 16: 40 pm Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
Entrepreneurship is flourishing in Africa, many incubators, accelerators, co-working spaces are being established every year in African countries. If Africa is to capitalize on new disruptive technologies and new business models, many successful African entrepreneurs will need to scale up their ventures beyond the limits of their small local markets and branch out into other African markets. Promoting cross-border entrepreneurship is an enormous task that no single organization can do alone. Stakeholders' cooperation is urgently needed. This session will discuss policies, programs, and initiatives needed to encourage and promote regional integration through cross border entrepreneurship.
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
16:40 - 17:00 pm Closing Dialogue: From One Generation to the Next
Two of the entrepreneurs will recount their experience, policy outcomes and any other thoughts and ideas that emerged from their discussions. Two generations coming together to discuss solutions for Africa
Expert Briefing:
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
Second Day
07:00 – 08:00 am Registration
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
08:00 – 08:30 am Tradeshow Opens
Whether you need help with marketing, social media, funding, financing, taxes, sales, hiring or anything else, we've got you covered. Visit our tradeshow and make contact with the experts you need to grow your business.
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
08:00 – 08:30 am How to Build Meaningful Brands
This fun and interactive event challenges aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners alike to come up with a killer business idea and pitch it to a panel of expert judges, in front of a live audience.
- Developing cohesive brands – from service, to product, to marketing material
- Identifying your target market and how to engage with them
- How digital media can better help you connect with customers and new audiences
- Best practices for launching a new product or service
- How do you figure out what to bring on next?
08:30 – 09:00 am Digital Marketing – The Right Channel for Your Brand
- How to decide which channel is suitable for your business
- How to connect with your audience
- The importance of content
09:00 – 09:30 am From Concept to International Brand
- Giving products personality
- Developing strong partner and supplier networks
- Operational scaling: what works and what doesn't
- Creating new product lines to increase profitability
09:30 – 10:00 am The Journey of a Serialpreneur (Breakout Session)
- The profile of a serialpreneur
- Identifying the right time to buy or sell a business according to its growth cycle
- Lessons learned when buying a business
- The cultural and managerial differences between France and Canada: How the country of origin of the entrepreneur influences the selection of the business
10:00 – 10:30 am Young Entrepreneurs: Their Journey to Startup Success
- Which startup tools and resources are the most useful when starting out
- Funding, financing, grants and loans. Your options
- Growing pains: Lessons learned in the first year of business
- The importance of developing goals and values
- Social Media Marketing: What works
- Aggressive Growth: How to achieve the next level of success.
- Giving products personality
- Developing strong partner and supplier networks
- Operational scaling: what works and what doesn't
- Creating new product lines to increase profitability
10:30 – 11:00 am Growing Your Business with Social Selling
- The 9 Immutable Rules of Engagement in social media and social selling
- The 5 Key Steps of the Social Sales Funnel
- How your social graph can help you close deals and generate leads
- The 3 step process to establishing yourself as an online Thought Leader
- Sales hacks for LinkedIn, and Facebook and Instagram that will fill your sales funnel
- Key social search and social sales and monitoring tools to find opportunities, gather business intelligence and keep your sales process organized
11:00 – 11:30 am Common HR Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- Understand your basic payroll requirements, including CPP, EI, stat holiday pay, overtime
- Learn about tax remittance frequencies and risks of late penalties
- Find out about payroll legislations and labour laws
- Find out how to save thousands of dollars with the right employee agreements, and more.
11:30 – 12:00 am Funding, Financing, Grants and Loans
- Finding capital for your small business
- What investors and financial institutions are looking for in your business
12:00 – 12:30 am Introduction to Tax Sense for your Business
- Allowable deductions every self-employed individual should know
- Tax tips to save your business money
- Tools needed to grow a financially stable company
12:30 – 13:00 am The Journey from Employee to Entrepreneur
- Lessons learned in 10 years of enterprise
- The importance of branding and advertising
- Engaging with Millennial
- Franchising: Assessing the benefits
- Achieving success: How to grow your business the right way
13:00 – 14:00 Networking Launch
14:00 – 16:00 pm Young CEO/Entrepreneurs Roundtable Training
Young CEO/Entrepreneurs Roundtable workshop offers young entrepreneurs, young privately-owned companies and NGOs the opportunity to obtain advice and support from Entrepreneurs and Business owners
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
16:00 – 17:00 pm Business Mentor Hours
Mentor hours is a series of pre-scheduled 15 minutes one-on-one meetings between our high-level attendees and startups. Startups will have access to top speakers, leading investors’ influential media and global partners to get one-on-one advice on starting, growing and scaling a successful business.
Location: Multi-purpose Facility
