Business
First annual African Business Leaders Forum conference to be held in Johannesburg, Dec. 9-12
The first annual African Business Leaders Forum conference will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from December 9-12 at the Sandton Convention Center.
The conference has attracted some of Africa’s most influential business leaders and entrepreneurs including Dangote Group founder, Aliko Dangote; CEO and founder of the Center for Values in Leadership, Pat Utomi; investment banker, CEO and founder of Freetel Capital Pty., Enos Banda; Nick Binedell, the founding director of the Gordon Institute of Business Science; South Africa’s Patrice Motsepe; Ethiopia’s Mohammed Al Amoudi‚ Kenyan businessman Chris Kirubi; and Folorunsho Alakija – who is now listed as the richest black woman.
Participants at the conference will address key issues and explore opportunities for growth in various sectors including mining‚ infrastructure‚ agriculture and technology.
The African Business Leaders Forum conference will follow hot on the heels of a summit for Africa’s heads of state and the leadership of China‚ which will be held at the same venue.
The summit agenda is expected to include Africa’s trade relationships with China at political level.
The forum event‚ on the other hand‚ will seek to debate business-related challenges in order to reach resolution to influence policies on intra-African trade.
The head of the African Business Leaders Forum initiative and entrepreneur‚ Ezra Ndwandwe‚ considers the forum a prime opportunity to discuss how African entrepreneurs can engage in constructive debates with tangible outcomes around the advancement of intra-continental trade between African countries.
“Africa is host to the majority of the world’s 10 fastest growing economies‚ with more than US$1.671-trillion of potential wealth that remains untapped‚” he said.
The last 2 days of the event will be dedicated to the youth chapter.
Ndwandwe believes that young entrepreneurs will seek to hold elders accountable for economic development. For the first time‚ African youth will determine their own business path for intra-African trade.
