OBIETTIVO 2021
“Building Back Better Together”
Innovation
digitization
sustainability
Communicating
Ecological transition
In 2020, digital events increased at global level. For the first time, Italia Africa Business Week (IABW) was held in a completely virtual and online mode. Three days of conferences and meetings with simultaneous interpretation created synergies between more than 1000 members from 45 countries. The title chosen for the fifth edition of IABW is “building back better together”. In this new edition we will try to discuss what should be a common approach to rebuild better together. During the past year, the coronavirus pandemic has devastated lives and livelihoods around the world, highlighting the urgent need to rebuild world social and economic systems more equitably.
The pandemic has created challenges, but also opportunities: the recovery effort can be an excellent opportunity to restore Italian-African economic, commercial and industrial cooperation, ensuring a more inclusive and sustainable development path. Digital is one of the essential means to ensure the continuity of a certain number of activities (professional or personal), or simply to preserve the social bond. What joint actions could be taken to cushion the shocks caused by the pandemic? What are the debt management scenarios? How to use digital to make it a development accelerator? What mechanisms and solutions are in place to support companies facing financial difficulties?
Despite the crisis, the indicators show that there will be future opportunities in the economy and a strong Italian-African partnership can make the difference.
Acivities
Our conferences will have as speakers international expert who will offer and share new, specific and innovative views.
An opportunity to deepen a specific theme in a more technical way and in a numerically narrower environment.
An innovative format: B2B and Deal Rooms
Work sessions very interactive, the B2B and Deal Rooms will bring together entrepreneurs, investors and lenders of the same activity sector. They will also be able to present their development projects and identify new partners.
In the B2B meeting it will be possible:
- to meet a qualified representation of African and Italian entrepreneurs;
- to acquire a list of potential Partners divided by sector;
The agenda of the B2B meetings will be organized by a system of MATCHING. By doing this we will take into consideration the preferences expressed by the participants who have previously received the list of businesses which will participate with their characteristics.
During IABW high-level training workshops will be held on specific topics with highly professional speakers-tutors.
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