This plenary session will focus on the building experience of Africa’s most innovative solutions that seek to solve real-life challenges. The session is expected to merge the two worlds of founders and investors, matching the realities of building, disrupting, and investing. 

In a special style session with one of Africa’s most influential changemakers, this segment, titled "In Conversation with Africa’s Emerging Giant," is designed to allow our guest speaker to engage with the audience and share her bold and inspiring journey. 

This session will explore how global forces in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and tax technology are revolutionizing business operations across industries.

The session will provide attendees with practical strategies on how to structure optimal deals. The themes will include deal structuring, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, valuation, exits, and value creation. 

The session is expected to uncover how business families are redefining wealth by viewing strategic assets through a global lens—creating lasting value, fostering innovation, and shaping a legacy that thrives across generations.

The session will explore how digitalization is reshaping traditional business models, fostering innovation, and enabling seamless connectivity across markets while highlighting the interconnectivity in the scalability of creative industries, the impact of digitalization on market expansion, and opportunities for investment in technology, talent development, and intellectual property.  

The expected outcomes of this session will be the synergies driving Africa’s next decade of innovation, technology investment, and entrepreneurial growth.

The expected outcomes of this session will be for attendees to reimagine Africa's future in climate financing and gender lens investing.