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Next November 9thth will open the “doors” of fourth edition of Italia Africa Business Week IABW (www.IABW.eu). Starting at 10:00, hundreds of entrepreneurs, professionals, opinion leaders but also ministers and diplomats will gather online IABW 2020, the first and most important Italian-African entrepreneurial forum, now in its fourth edition.
Milan was the seat of the third edition of the Italy Africa Business Week Forum – IABW, promoted by the Le Réseau Association. The Forum, which took place on November 26thth, 27th 2019, confirmed the common interest of companies and institutions to improve, stimulate and strengthen exchanges between Italy and the African continent.
This renewed interest is evidenced by the numbers, of absolute importance, of the first Milanese edition of IABW Forum: over 650 participants from 40 countries of the world, 3 African and Italian ministers, 5 African delegations, over 50 “formal” meetings (planned by the organization with the various partners of the project) B2B and B3B, 31 exhibition stands, 5 of which managed by African diplomatic representations.
Figures that show not only how IABW it is the most important and main economic and commercial forum between Italy and Africa, but also as it has acquired an international dimension, embracing the cosmopolitan spirit of Milan, the economic capital of Italy.
On the virtual stage of the opening conference which will take place on November 9thth 2020 from 10:00 to 12:00 and will be open by Cleophas Adrien Dioma, President of the Le Réseau Association that organizes Italy Africa Business Week, institutional greetings will be alternated with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Emanuela del Re, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Madagascar Tehindrazanarivelo Djacoba AS Oliva and the Ambassador of Mali in Italy, His Excellency Ali Coulibaly, godfather of 4th edition of Italia Africa Business Week.
Speakers at the opening conference and participants in the three days IABW The forum will be Walid Loukil, Deputy Director of the Loukil Group, Giorgio Marrapodi, Director-General for Development Cooperation, Giuseppe Mistretta, Central Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gianpiero Succi, BonelliErede Partner, Luca Maestripieri, General Manager of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), Antonella Baldino, Chief International Development Finance Officer Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), Michele Ziosi, Vice President of Institutional Relations at CNH Industrial and Yamume Tshomba, Surgeon and Professor, Associate of the Catholic University of Rome. They will discuss it in the institutional panel “Rebranding Italy in Africa: Relaunch of Italy’s Business and International Cooperation model in Africa“.
The network will feature hundreds of companies, professionals and experts from various Italian and African business sectors, as well as a broad representation of the African diplomatic corps (over 25 African embassies in Italy represented in IABW by ambassadors, consuls and diplomatic advisers) to participate in the 4th edition of IABW: green economy, circular economy, infrastructure, renewable energy, agriculture, agri-food, start-ups and new technologies, biomedical, waste management, these are the sectors on which the 2020 edition of IABW will focus.
Several prominent personalities have already confirmed their presence: Manlio Di Stefano, Undersecretary with responsibility for Internationalization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, of the Director BonelliErede, Roberto Vigotti, General Secretary of Res4Africa, Roberto Ridolfi, Senior Strategic Investment Advisor, Roberta Datteri, Vice-President of the National Confederation of Craftsmen, Jean Gustave Sanon, former Minister of Finance of Burkina Faso, Valeria Emmi, CESVI Advocacy Coordinator, Alessandra Piermattei, Director of AICS Dakar headquarters, Giulio Dal Magro, Head of Development Financing (CDP), Olivier Kaba, Head of the Migration Project (AFD), Caterina Avanza, Head of International Cooperation (PD) and then Daffe Saidou Oumar, Head of the Anti-racism Office of Lega Serie A, which he will present together with the Africa project Michele Ciccarese is Niccolò Tomio, both from the marketing department of Lega Serie A.
The high-level conferences will be organized with the aim of analyzing strategic investment sectors through the professional eyes of the main players and the most experienced analysts.
IABW it will not only be an opportunity for in-depth study and networking to explore new business opportunities for Italian companies in Africa, but it will also be an opportunity for high-level bilateral institutional meetings, B2B and B3B meetings between companies, Italian and African professionals and institutions, national presentations and high-level conferences such as the national presentation “Doing business in Ethiopia – New opportunities for Italian entrepreneurs“And the workshop”Bonellierede: A preferred partner of African governments for capacity building and developmentOrganized with our strategic partner and sponsor BonelliErede.
Finally, since access to finance is one of the essential factors of African growth, but also one of the current obstacles to the continent’s economic development, especially in this period of global crisis due to the Coronavirus pandemic, we have decided to propose a conference with the theme: “Financial instruments for the relaunch of African economies in the post-covid era19 “.
In Africa there is a great desire for Italy, quality and know-how typical of SMEsS: IABW it is therefore a platform for comparison and networking as well as a real economic and knowledge bridge between two realities that are increasingly close and curious about each other.
The goal is to overcome barriers and skepticism through business partnerships that are beneficial for all, sharing know-how and good business practices, building personal relationships even before business relationships.
The main objective of the Forum is to photograph the state of the art of relations between Africa and Italy but above all to analyze possible developments in the key sectors of the project, to encourage the development of synergies and partnerships between all the players in the ecosystem, to generate new ideas through the cross-pollination of sectors.
We attach below the complete program of the Italy Africa Business Week IABW 2020.
For journalists wishing to attend the opening conference and corporate forum, please register by sending an email to [email protected].
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Italia Africa Business Week (IABW).
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Piervincenzo Canale
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