The 18th of May 2016 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of International Cooperation organised in Rome the “First Ministerial Conference Italy-Africa” stressing the need to create a stable link between the two shores of the Mediterranean, between two worlds as close as they are distant.

The Italy-Africa Conference was a spark and it is precisely to give continuity to this new process that Italia Africa Business Week (IABW) was born, a practical and high-level economic and commercial forum.

In these years, IABW has concretely succeeded in facilitating the knowledge between the African economic, commercial and financial world and the Italian one, it has created synergies and developed partnerships in various sectors: textiles and fashion, commercial, agribusiness, construction. In order to improve these relationships, to favor the creation of networks and to achieve a shared growth of both sides in win-win mode, the third edition of Italia Africa Business Week will focus on building the 4.0 business.