AFIF 2017

Registration to the AFIF Training

AFIF Pre-forum Training for Entrepreneurs - Part 1 (ENG & FR) (with ESPartners)

“Scaling your Entrepreneurial Venture”

• Success and Significance: Building profitable and impactful businesses
• Pitching 101: Presenting a compelling business plan

Eric Kacou

Co-founder and CEO, ESPartners - Ivory Coast

Teddy Roux

Manager of West Africa Operations - ESPartners - Ivory Coast

Yvette Ingabire

Manager East & Southern Africa, ESPartners - Ivory Coast

Registration to the AFIF Conference throughout the day (9h00/16h00)

AFIF Pre-forum Training for Entrepreneurs - Part 2 (ENG & FR)

• Presenting a business plan to potential investors & partners
• Sources of funding for projects in Africa

Eric Kacou

Co-founder and CEO, ESPartners - Ivory Coast

Yvette Ingabire

Manager East & Southern Africa, ESPartners - Ivory Coast

Teddy Roux

Manager of West Africa Operations - ESPartners - Ivory Coast

Presentation by JICA:

• Kiyonori Matsushima - Project Formulation Advisor, JICA
• Musa Okwemba Amayuma - Lecturer, Kenya Institute of Business Training (KIBT)
• Gideon Njogu - Lecturer, Kenya Institute of Business Training (KIBT)

Presentation by GROFIN & EIB:

Rishi Khubchandani

Investment Executive, Grofin - Kenya

Nicholas Nzioka

Senior Project Officer - European Investment Bank – Kenya

Welcome Cocktail offered by the Kenya Tourism Board

Jimi Kariuki

Chairman - Kenya Tourism Board - Kenya

Betty Addero Radier

CEO - Kenya Tourism Board - Kenya

 

Registration AFIF 2017

AFIF Official Opening

Amina Mohamed (TBC)

Cabinet Secretary, Foreign Affairs - Kenya

Luis Franceschi

Dean, Starthmore University Law - Kenya

Moses Muriira Ikiara

Managing Director - Kenya Investment Authority - Kenya

Idit Miller

VP & Managing Director, EMRC - Belgium

Plenary Session I – Improving Access to Finance in Africa

Part 1 – Promoting Entrepreneurship & Strengthening the capacities of financial institutions and businesses

• Improving the Environment for Private Investment
• The role of Development/ International Financial Institutions
• Experiences IFIs in assisting local entrepreneurs
• Providing services and technical support to entrepreneurs and financial institutions

Arthur Levi

Executive Committee, EMRC - Belgium

Mehnaz Safavian

Lead Financial Sector Specialist - World Bank - Kenya

Kenichi Ohashi

Adviser - JICA - Japan

Nicholas Nzioka

Senior Project Officer - European Investment Bank – Kenya

Paul Malherbe

CEO & Managing Director - Amsco - South Africa

Eric Kacou

Co-founder and CEO, ESPartners - Ivory Coast

Kanini Mutooni

Director for Investment - The East Africa Trade and Investment Hub - Kenya

Coffee Break

Plenary Session I – Improving Access to Finance in Africa

Part 2 – Innovative trends on Access to Finance in Africa

• Trends in providing capital to SMEs
• Company successes in attracting private capital

Arthur Levi

Executive Committee, EMRC - Belgium

Speakers:

• Afreximbank, Egypt

Felix Bikpo

CEO, African Garantuee Fund - Kenya

Paul Maasdorp

Managing Director - Emerging Capital Partners - Kenya

Guido Boysen

CEO - Grofin - South Africa

Jamal Isa

Investment Officer,Private Equity Funds - International Finance Corporation (IFC) – Kenya

Lunch

Rabobank – EMRC Entrepreneurship Award 2017 (EMRC & Rabobank)

Pierre Van Hedel

Managing Director, Rabobank Foundation - The Netherlands

Idit Miller

VP & Managing Director, EMRC - Belgium

Melesse Temesgen

General Manager - Aybar Engineering - Ethiopia

Dorothy Akinyi Onyango

Managing Director, R n G Company limited - Kenya

Lydia Wambui

Managing Director, EuroFresh Exotics - Kenya

Ndubuisi Ekekwe

CEO, First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics - Nigeria

Anna Jailos

Project Accountant, Kimolo Super rice - Tanzania

Christian Mwijage

Managing Director, Eco Act - Tanzania

B2B – Pre-arranged Business Meetings between Investors & Entrepreneurs

AFIF 2017 Networking dinner

Presentation of the AFIF Entrepreneurship Award 2017 winner, in presence of government officials, ambassadors, media & the business community.

Plenary Session II: Financing Agriculture & Agribusiness

• Available sources of funding for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Agricultur
• Providing technical support to achieve sustainable access to finance in agriculture and agribusiness

Idit Miller

VP & Managing Director, EMRC - Belgium

Speakers:

John Kabutha

Programme Coordinator - PROFIT - Kenya

Wachira Kariuki

Wachira Kariuki - Classic Foods - Kenya

Mohamed Sidibe

National Coordinateur - Cadre Intégré Renforcé - Mali

Francois Ameguide

Partner Head of Africa Office, GreenTec - South Africa

Plenary Session III : Financing infrastructure, energy & water projects

• Available sources of funding for Innovation and Entrepreneurship promotion
• Experiences by project developers & investors

Moderator:

Arthur Levi

Executive Committee, EMRC - Belgium

Speakers: 

Tali Miller Levin

Impact Projects Developer, Integral Group - Tanzania

• Bamboo Capital Partners (name tbc)
• Lake Turkana Wind Project - Kenya (name tbc)
• Sanergy, Kenya (name tbc)

Coffee-Break

Plenary Session IV : Financing investments in healthcare in Africa

• Available sources of funding for healthcare projects
• Experiences with financing health SMEs
• Innovative approaches to healthcare financing

Jacqueline Kitulu

National Chair - Kenya Medical Association (KMA) - Kenya

Alex Hakuzimana

Senior Consulting Partner, BlueCloud Healthcare – Rwanda

Biju Mohandas

Head - Health and Education IFC, Sub Saharan Africa - Kenya

Evelyn Gitonga

Director Medical Credit Fund East Africa - Medical Credit Fund - Kenya

Titus Karanja

CEO and Managing Director - Sidian Bank - Kenya

Lunch

Presentation: Entrepreneurship & Innovation for Growth

Joseph Sevilla

Director - iLabAfrica - Kenya

Official Closure Africa Finance & Investment Forum 2017

B2B – Pre-arranged Business Meetings between Investors & Entrepreneurs

Optional: One day Tour “Nairobi & Nairobi National Park”