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Africa Works! 2020

Innovation for Growth!
June 9 & 10
Fokker Terminal, The Hague

Africa Works! 2020

Africa Works! 2020 “Innovation for Growth”

By 2030, one in five people will be African. Innovation will play a vital role in catering for the continent’s soaring population needs and can solve the numerous challenges Africa faces. Innovation will not only change the nature of doing business in Africa but will play an important role within the development of the private sector and in turning Africa into this century’s economic growth powerhouse.

The theme of the fifth edition of Africa Works! – the largest Africa-focused Business Conference in the Benelux- is “’Innovation for Growth” and will be held on 9th and 10th  June, 2020 at the Fokker Terminal in the Hague.

Info Sheet AfricaWorks! 2020

Theme of Africa Works! 2020

 

On Day 1 of Africa Works! 2020 innovative solutions in the areas of Digitalisation, Food of the Future, Circular Economy, Jobs of the 21st Century and Fintech will be presented during inspiring keynote speeches and further explored in workshops and high-level Innovation Round Tables. 

Day 2 of Africa Works! 2020 will feature in-depth country sessions with pre-selected stakeholders focusing on doing business, forming partnerships and connecting African challenges to innovative solutions.

To maximise the potential partnerships and collaborations between African and European companies and organisations, the 2020 edition of Africa Works! will once again welcome strong African delegations with concrete investment opportunities and projects for partnerships and cooperation. 

Africa Works! 2020 aims to:

  • Make visible the investment and trade opportunities in different African countries
  • Connect Dutch/European companies with competent authorities and businesses from Africa
  • Accelerate strategic partnerships between businesses
  • Facilitate Public-Private-Partnerships
  • Connect (international) investors with top scalable and profitable opportunities across Africa 
  • Enable SMEs and start-ups to find an alternative financing solution that local banks do not offer, and much more…

Smart Facts

By 2030 one in five people will be African
By 2050 Africa's population will reach 2.5 billion
Food import in Africa will rise to $110 billion by 2025
The continent's GDP is set to grow to $1.7 trillion by 2030
Private consumption in Africa will grow to $2.1 trillion in 2025
It is expected that seventeen cities in Africa will inhabite over 5 million people by 2030
In Africa, innovation means the chance to beat everyday challenges and to ensure basic conditions for the life of large populations

Highlights of Africa Works! 2019

What participants think of us...

"I was truly honoured and pleased to attend Africa Works! 2019, and be part of the panel discussion. The conference was a fantastic networking event and I learned a great deal from interactions with many attendees. Congratulations to the whole NABC team for putting together such a well organised event! I look forward to continuing working together with NABC."
Arthur Minsat
Arthur MinsatOECD Development Centre Unit for Africa, Europe and Middle East
"Africa Works! 2019 was an abundance of ideas, networks and colour, all in a quaint old warehouse embracing the new amidst all the old. The camaraderie was great and the speakers credible and inspiring and conversation flowed, interspersed with moments when we all felt ‘with so much going for us let’s all get going now‘. The lasting message was: ‘’let’s change the narrative, there is more good in Africa than people hear and there’s not enough bad for people to talk only about the bad."
Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev GuptaAfrica Finance Corporation
"Africa Works! Conference is the only one of its kind in the Netherlands where a true picture is obtained of the economic potential of the continent of Africa and where the African vision is told, to which European parties can connect. We need more of these kind of occasions in the Netherlands in order foster the current economic relationship that really meets the demand of African markets.”
Sam Stevens
Sam StevensRotterdam Partners
"Africa Works! provided a platform for participants seeking solutions to identified City growth challenges to interact with others who have previously experienced or have expertise in addressing such challenges from both the public and private sector. It is a platform that could serve as a major resource hub for City solutions in the future."
Dr. Fola Dania
Dr. Fola Dania Lagos State Resilience Office
"The Africa Works Congress is the only one of its kind in the Netherlands where a true picture is obtained of the economic potential of the continent of Africa and where the African vision is told, to which European parties can connect”. We need more of these kind of occasions in the Netherlands in order foster the current economic relationship that really meets the demand of African markets”.
Sam Stevens
Sam StevensBusiness Manager Trade Development Rotterdam Partners
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"Africa Works! provides a unique platform for engagement with policymakers, business leaders and knowledge institutions on topical issues of the day. It should not be missed by anyone seriously operating in the Dutch-African ecosystem."
Tommy Davies
Tommy DaviesPresident ABAN Angels
The Africa Works Conference provided a very effective platform on which public sector, private sector, civil society and knowledge institutions from the Netherlands and Africa could meet and interact. The Dutch Diamond in practice! The Call for Proposals that was made public by the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), an initiative sponsored by the Dutch government, lead to real credit for real investments. Those are the tangible results that made the Africa Works! Conference stand out.
Marcel Beukeboom
Marcel BeukeboomMinistry of Economic Affairs
Africa Works was a great opportunity to explore ICT in Africa with representatives from business, academia and the non-profit sector. At Africa Works, we were able to go well beyond the repetitive numbers on connectivity, mobile phone penetration and the next exciting application. There is much we can learn from each other and Africa Works offered a common forum to all of us.
Jasper Grosskurt
Jasper GrosskurtResearch Solutions Africa
The Africa Works! conference in 2012 brought together a varied group of professionals from the private sector, NGOs, knowledge institutes and the Dutch government interested in doing business in Africa; a great opportunity to expand my professional network within the Netherlands. I look forward to meeting you on 16 and 17 October during the 2014 edition in Leiden.
Bas de Vaal
Bas de VaalPortside International
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