Africa Economic Forum 2011
The Continent's emerging role and strategic position within a highly competitive & rapidly globalising world
Shaping Africa's Future Our Africa Economic Forum 2011 scheduled in Cape Town at the BMW-Imax Theatre, with Africa Exhibition, over 7-10th March 2010, is a landmark Conference on Africa and significant business networking occasion for the top corporate players active in, across and involved with the development of the African continent - Cape-to-Cairo - as well as Governments and officials in key industries, parastatals and state institutions. AEF-2011 is combined with and preceded by our Scramble for Africa: Business Briefing on Tuesday 8th March and our 12th Southern Africa Oil, Gas & Energy Conference 2011 on the Monday 7th March 2011, which is followed by our 36th PetroAfricanus Dinner in Africa on the same evening, with Guest Speaker. The AEF-2011 will enable the Africa's leading industries and companies, and state players, to interface with senior executives and African government officials, plus those from countries outside Africa, and so connect with the fast-growth core industries and players driving Africa's economies forward. The Africa Economic Forum 2011 is structured with 14 high-level Plenary Sessions with Speakers drawn from key countries, companies, institutions and core industries, and is designed for business and Governments treating with basic industry issues, focused on the fundamentals shaping Africa's economic future. Africa's major companies and key executives, regional institutions, state players, parastatals, economists, and policy thinkers invited on this Program will take you on an intensive tour de l'Afrique, providing unrivalled insights on the shape and issues confronting Africa's future economic, business and socio-political trajectories. The Agenda is concentrated around critical investment and business concerns, the questions that really matter, leading-edge shifts in Africa's evolving economic landscapes, and the Continent's emerging role and strategic position within a highly-competitive and rapidly globalising world. Plenary Sessions The Plenary Sessions engage the essence of critical business issues impacting and shaping Africa's economic future, and will be illuminated by a top-line Program of knowledgeable speakers drawn from the continent and around the world - from business, government and institutions - who are intimately involved in Africa. AEF 2011: Regional Focus The Plenary Sessions on Southern, Eastern, Western, and North Africa canvass the key business, commercial, economic, strategic, and political economy conditions shaping the future of each region. Southern & Eastern Africa: Angola, Burundi, Botswana, Comoros, DRC, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mocambique, Namibia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe West Africa & North Africa: Algeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Sudan-South Sudan "Conversations on Africa" During the afternoons, while Plenary Sessions continue in the Imax Theatre, "Conversations on Africa" will take place in an adjoining Room, each one hour long, led by leading Think Tanks, econmists and analysts of Africa and its socioeconomic condition.
Connect AEF-2011 Come and connect with Africa's leading decision-makers, interface with new ideas, companies, players and critical business thinking, discover the key emerging trends, and become part of the growing African business architecture and continent-wide deal-flow. The AEF-2011 themes and foci are designed around hard-edged business questions, not the soft issues that litter other meetings and often lead to inconclusive insights and decisions on the core portfolio that Africa must depend upon for its survival and success |