Africa Day 2017 Digital disruption is unlocking Africa’s economic potential, creating new opportunities and steering a silent revolution from over-dependency on natural resources towards a technology driven economy. With Africa’s demographic advantage, how can stakeholders capitalize on the new wave of digital innovation to transform the continent? Can Africa take the lead in the digital space? These and more far-reaching […]
Africa Together Conference 2017 The African Society of Cambridge University (ASCU) is proud to announce the fourth annual ‘Africa Together’ conference to be held on Saturday, 10th June 2017. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘Africa and a World in Transition’, and will be held at the Cambridge Union Building, University of Cambridge. What is it? ‘Africa Together’ is […]
Upon hearing about Made in Africa, the LBS Africa Business Summit 2017, I knew this would be a great opportunity as a newbie entrepreneur of a new fashion and tech start-up to learn, network and get exposure to great and like-minded people, so I was not disappointed. Africa, or as I like to refer to it “The Sleeping Giant”, is waking […]
With a theme of ‘Ideas to Impact’ you would be forgiven for assuming that MIT Sloan’s Africa Innovate Conference, held on 7-8th April, 2017, was simply another opportunity for smart people to talk Africa and do little. Far from it. In true MIT fashion, this conference provided not only insights and inspiration with key notes from the likes of Her […]
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PL3wVstrIXeqbyFZUerX9OrZ9MXRYfBgWf&v=wkFYrRa02dM[/embedyt]There are very few things I would wake up on a Saturday morning for, but when COO of Movemeback Oyin Solebo told me about this year’s theme at the LSE Africa Summit 2017 – ‘Built for Africa: African Solutions to African Issues’, and asked me to help out as a Movemeback Ambassador, I knew I had to attend. Themes of the Day Corruption, […]
Oxford’s annual Business Forum Africa (Oxford BFA) applied Africa’s own wisdom to the development and growth being experienced today. Through the use of proverbs with which many of us (African and not) have grown up, Oxford BFA reframed the conversations we have about the Continent. Oxford BFA featured keynote insights from the likes of Dr Mo Ibrahim, Khanyi Dhlomo (Ndalo Media), James Mwangi (Dalberg), […]
Singularity University (SU), a global community using exponential technologies to tackle the world’s biggest challenges and build an abundant future for all, has announced a new partnership with Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) to launch a SingularityU Global Impact Challenge in West Africa. The purpose of the SingularityU West Africa Global Impact Challenge is to foster moonshot innovations and […]
It’s nearly that time again, and we can hardly wait! The 16th annual Africa Business Summit is scheduled to be held on Saturday 22nd April 2017 and in keeping with the London Business School’s tradition of substantive thought leadership, this year’s summit theme ‘Made in Africa’ will explore the new realities of doing business in Africa. Early bird tickets are […]
How can innovative and promising ideas take root and transform into sustainable and impactful businesses in Africa? This is the central question of the 2017 Africa Innovate Conference held by MIT Sloan Africa Business Club on April 8th 2017. This year’s panels will follow the African entrepreneurship process: starting with an exploration of the origins of sound business ideas to […]
The Oxford Africa Conference 2017 is inviting talented entrepreneurs from across the globe, whose work focuses on Africa, to participate in their annual Innovation Fair. Are you an entrepreneur working on Africa-focused social impact projects? Do you have an innovative solution that addresses a pressing problem in Africa? If selected, entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to network with other founders, explore […]