Forum Program
Building Bridges for Shared Prosperity
DAY 1 - JUNE 19, 2025
08:30-09:00 | WELCOME & REGISTRATION
Participants reception, badge distribution and documentation
09:00-09:20 | OPENING REMARKS
🎯 Objectifs :- Official welcome of delegations
- Presentation of the forum's challenges
- Strategic positioning of the event
09:20-10:20 | INAUGURAL SESSION: VALUE CHAINS, LOGISTICS & INDUSTRY
Enhancing African industrial competitiveness and logistics integration.
🎯 Objectifs :- Optimize African value chains for economic growth
- Strengthen industrial capacity and competitiveness
- Accelerate logistics and transport connectivity
- How can innovation boost industrial competitiveness?
- What are the barriers to logistics integration?
- How to promote “Made in Africa” globally?
- What synergies between logistics, industry, and trade?
10:20-11:20 | PLENARY 1
Welcome of delegations, forum issues, and strategic positioning.
11:20-11:50 | NETWORKING BREAK
11:50-12:50 | EXECUTIVE PANEL 1: Removing Barriers – Innovative Financing & PPPs
Exploring innovative financing models and public-private partnerships as development levers in Africa.
🎯 Objectifs :- Identify barriers to African development financing
- Present innovative financial instruments
- Promote effective public-private partnerships
- What are the main barriers to PPP effectiveness in Africa?
- How to mobilize green bonds and participatory financing?
- What public policies favor private investment?
- How to ensure equitable risk sharing in PPPs?
12:50-14:20 | NETWORKING LUNCH + COUNTRY SHOWCASE
Country presentations in 15-minute rotations.
14:20-15:20 | PLENARY 2: Mobilizing the Continental Business Network
Unlocking private capital through business networks and innovative financing for Africa’s transformation.
🎯 Objectifs :- Map influential African business networks
- Present innovative financing mechanisms
- Facilitate investor-project connections
- Promote intra-African investment
- What financial instruments can unlock private capital?
- How to structure sustainable African-international investor partnerships?
- What priority opportunities in energy, transport and telecoms?
- How to measure the impact of private infrastructure investments?
15:20-16:20 | EXECUTIVE PANEL 2: Cybersecurity and Digital Sovereignty in Africa
Towards a resilient African digital ecosystem.
🎯 Objectifs :- Strengthen continental cybersecurity
- Promote African digital sovereignty
- Develop a resilient digital ecosystem
- How can Africa develop its digital sovereignty?
- What strategies to secure critical infrastructure?
- How to train cybersecurity talents?
- What regulatory framework for data protection?
16:20-16:50 | NETWORKING BREAK
16:50-17:50 | EXECUTIVE PANEL 3: Building the Energy Future
Strategies for a sustainable energy transition in Africa.
🎯 Objectifs :- Accelerate transition to renewable energies
- Develop resilient energy systems
- Attract investments in sustainable energy
- What challenges to build a sustainable energy future in Africa?
- How do technologies transform rural energy access?
- What policies encourage renewable investments?
- How to use PPPs to finance clean energy?
17:50-18:50 | CLOSING
Wrap-up of the day’s sessions.
🌟 DAY 2 - JUNE 20, 2025
09:00-10:30 | Brunch Networking
Networking session in a friendly and exclusive setting, allowing participants to build lasting connections and explore new collaboration opportunities.
10:30-12:00 | Bilateral Meetings
Structured B2B working sessions enabling in-depth discussions and the establishment of strategic partnerships between participants.
12:00-12:30 | CLOSING CEREMONY
Presentation of final communiqué, agreement signings, and announcement of the 2026 edition.
Throughout the forum | B2B MATCHMAKING & COUNTRY SHOWCASE
Scheduled investor-entrepreneur meetings, sectoral networking sessions, and rotating country presentations with sectoral investment opportunities.