Our expertise
Afritech Business Summit is built by a team that has worked on both sides of the bridge it is building: the institutional investment world of New York and the innovation ecosystems of Sub-Saharan Africa. The organizing team is bilingual in French and English and brings recognized professional experience from the United States, Europe, and several African countries. That combination is the foundation of five areas of expertise.
1. Convening across sectors and borders
Bringing together six audiences that rarely sit in the same room is a discipline in itself. Investors and venture capital firms, startups and entrepreneurs, governments and embassies, media and journalists, incubators and universities, and corporations and business leaders each arrive with different objectives, and the summit is designed so that each finds a reason to stay. Programming spans four days and is delivered through exhibitions, pitch sessions, panel discussions, keynote speeches, and workshops and demos, alongside structured networking that gives each audience a distinct point of entry.
2. Sector depth across ten priority sectors
The summit works across three tiers of technology rather than a single vertical. Foundational technologies, cloud, AI, and cybersecurity, are the core enablers powering all digital innovation. Economic impact sectors, fintech, insurtech, and e-commerce, drive growth, inclusion, and market expansion. Societal and public impact sectors, edtech, medtech, agritech, and govtech, transform lives, communities, and public services. Understanding how these tiers depend on one another is what allows the programming to connect an infrastructure conversation to a financial inclusion outcome.
3. Market intelligence on Sub-Saharan francophone Africa
The team reads these markets through the frameworks that actually govern them: the legal framework of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) in force across seventeen African states, the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) and its shared currency zone, the African Continental Free Trade Area, and national strategies such as Côte d’Ivoire’s Plan National de Développement 2026–2030 and Senegal’s New Deal Technologique. This is why Abidjan was selected as the host city, on the basis of macroeconomic stability, legal certainty, and demonstrated political will, rather than convenience.
4. Editorial production and international media reach
Afritech Conversations, the summit’s editorial series, is produced to journalistic standards and distributed across YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Deezer, LinkedIn, and partner media outlets. A written summary of each episode is published in an online news media outlet, at the local or international level and in French or English, to increase awareness of the discussion and highlight its key themes for audiences beyond the podcast platforms. The series is recorded on location in Dakar, Abidjan, and Kinshasa with local production teams, and it concludes in an analytical publication, the Ecosystem Insights Report, designed as a decision-making tool for public institutions, international organizations, investors, and companies entering these markets. The same capability supports the summit’s bilingual communication campaign, press relations, and promotional materials.
5. International event production and delivery
A trade show at this scale is an operations discipline. The 2027 edition calls for four days of programming for 2,500 expected participants from four continents, an exhibition floor of 120 qualified exhibitors, and five program formats delivered in parallel: exhibitions, pitch sessions, panel discussions, keynote speeches, and workshops and demos. The team manages the full delivery chain, from venue and exhibition floor management at the Sofitel Hôtel Ivoire to registration and participant services, bilingual staffing, and on-site logistics. Because invited speakers include heads of state, ministers, and ambassadors, delivery also covers official protocol, security coordination with national authorities, and visa facilitation for international participants: the details that determine whether an international summit runs at institutional standard. Every edition closes with structured monitoring and evaluation, including analysis of media coverage, participant feedback, assessment of partnerships and investment opportunities generated, and a post-event report that feeds the next edition.