Tony Elumelu
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s foremost champion of entrepreneurship, will host its 5th Annual Forum — the largest annual gathering of African entrepreneurs from 26-27 July, 2019.
The two-day event will take place at the iconic Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.
The forum is the culmination of the annual Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme, which this year mentored, trained and seeded over 3,000 young Africans selected from over [216,000] applicants.
The event provides a unique opportunity for young women and men, from all 54 African countries to meet, learn and network with the broader African and global entrepreneurship ecosystem.
It’s also a critical opportunity for political leaders and policy makers to meet face-to-face a new generation of African business leaders, who are transforming Africa’s economic trajectory.
Keynote speakers at the highly anticipated forum include Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda and Macky Sall, President of Senegal, who will join Tony O. Elumelu, TEF Founder and Chairman of Heirs Holdings and the United Bank for Africa (UBA) in intimate open house discussions.
The Presidential Convening is a highlight of the forum, allowing the African entrepreneurs in attendance to closely engage with political leaders to give first-hand testimony of the important role government can play in catalysing growth and encouraging business ambition.
The forum agenda includes master-classes and panel discussions with leading speakers and sector experts from Africa and globally, who will engage attendees in specialised training sessions to share insights, deepen their knowledge and refine their skills.
For first time the forum will be hosted in Abuja, the federal capital of Nigeria and will bring together leading policymakers, business leaders, development agencies and the entire entrepreneurship ecosystem, including alumni of the Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Programme.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation’s determination to bring change in scale, across Africa and its relentless focus on entrepreneurship is rooted in the inclusive philosophy of Africapitalism created by its founder, which recognizes economically empowering Africa’s youth—the continent’s future wealth creators —thereby creating sustainable economic and social wealth, as one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century.
“The TEF Entrepreneurship Forum will not just convene the most important stakeholders in the African entrepreneurship ecosystem, it provides an opportunity for everyone to make a commitment to advance entrepreneurship and scale the impact of our entrepreneurs if we are to accelerate the development of the continent,” TEF CEO, Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu said.