Afric’Up – Startup Africa Summit 2020

The aim of Afric’Up 2020 will be to create an entrepreneurial dynamic, to encourage collaborations, exchanges in order to enhance skills, to bring out the new champions of African digital technology, to highlight the role women, to foster the development of the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation across the continent, while connecting States, international institutions, investors, companies, and startups.

Join to celebrate Africa around the theme « From smart cities to industry 4.0, what strategies for states, investors, and multinationals in Africa? » Through conferences, workshops, debates, networking, it will try to answer a set of questions on African digital news :

• What strategies must the African States adopt to succeed together in the digital transformation of the continent?
• What action plans should be put in place?
• What type of Governance should be adopted to carry out this action plan?
• What are the key factors for successful digital transformation?
• How to create “Africa-World digital bridges” for the transfer of know-how?
• What disruptive technologies for the Africa of tomorrow?
• How to accelerate the growth of African startups internationally?
• How can startups take advantage of the Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
• How does AI, blockchain, IoT structure the future of Africa?
• How to industrialize your innovation?
• Is Africa ready for Industry 4.0?
• The empowerment of women, an essential driver of the transformation of Africa?
• Africa’s new oil data? Threats, challenges or opportunities?
• How to preserve digital sovereignty in the face of the growth of cybercrime?
• Protection of personal data, digital sovereignty, which strategies to adopt in the face of GAFAM
• State of supply and demand for digital products in Africa
• The importance of producing digital content in Africa
• What content of exportable African Smart Cities in the fields of e-health, e-education, e-agriculture, e-commerce
• What type of funding for the realization of these projects?

Eligibility

• Investors
• Sponsors
• Speakers
• Startups
• Partners

Benefits

• Acquire knowledge, skills – Conferences with African & global experts
• Networking opportunities, more than 5000 people expected, + 35 African countries present
• Meet international investors
• Gain visibility – several African & international media
• Be an integral part of the Afric’Up project, its content, its vision
• Highlight your brand, your positioning on the continent

Application Process

• Click here to apply