Shaping Africa’s Future

Our 5th Africa Economic Forum 2011 (AEF-2011) in Cape Town at the BMW-Imax Theatre, with Africa Exhibition, over 7-9th March 2011, is a landmark Conference on Africa and significant business networking occasion for the top corporate players active in, across and involved with the development of the African continent – Cape-to-Cairo, with Governments and officials in key industries and state institutions.

AEF-2011 is preceded by our 2nd Sub-Saharan Africa Business Briefing 2011 on the Monday 7th March, with Presentations from Dr Duncan Clarke (Chairman & CEO, Global Pacific & Partners), a leading strategist on Africa, followed by our 36th PetroAfricanus Dinner in Africa the same evening, with Guest Speaker.

The AEF-2011 will enable the Africa’s leading entities, industries, companies and state players to interface with senior executives and African government officials, plus countries outside Africa, and so connect with the fast-growth core industries and corporates driving Africa’s economies forward.

The 5th Africa Economic Forum 2011 is structured with 10 high-level Plenaries with Speakers drawn from key countries, companies, institutions, state players, policy thinkers and core industries, and is designed for business and Governments treating with key industry issues, focused on the fundamentals shaping Africa’s economic future. The Program, with Exhibition, provides an intensive tour de l’Afrique, revealing insights on the issues confronting Africa’s future commercial, business and socio-economic trajectories.

The AEF-2011 Agenda is concentrated around critical investment and business concerns, the questions that really matter, leading-edge shifts in Africa’s evolving economic landscapes, and the Continent’s emerging role and strategic position within a highly-competitive and rapidly globalising world. 

Plenary Sessions

 The AEF-2011 Plenaries cover the following key themes:

• Africa’s Changing Economic World To 2020: Views From Leading Institutions On Africa

• South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Angola, Algeria, Morocco ++ The Giant Economies & Newly Emerging “Next Five”

• Southern, Eastern, Western, Maghreb Africa: Powerhouses, Fragile States, Emerging Island Economies,  Minerals, and Diversification Investments In Growing Markets

• Africa’s Oil, Gas-LNG & Energy Boom: Upstream, Midstream, Downstream: Resources & Development

• Mining, & Minerals & Metals In Africa: Producers, Explorers, Markets, Metals, Beneficiation, Exports

• Modernising African Industry, Banks-Finance, Infrastructure, Services, Manufacturing, Transportation, Projects, ICT Telecommunications: Terrestrial, Satellite, Mobile Telephony, Television, Sea Cables

• Africa’s Economic Drivers: Growth, Challenges, Future: Constraints, Building Bridges, Capturing Opportunities

• Agro-Allied Industries, Urbanisation, Land Issues, Food Security, Markets, New Consumers, Tourism, Service Industries, Domestic/Foreign Airlines, Hotels, Game Parks

• Shaping Africa’s Economic & Investment Future: Investors, State Players, Great Powers, Performance, Governance: Shifting Africa From Underdevelopment To Modernity

The Plenaries cover critical business issues impacting and shaping Africa’s economic future, illuminated by a top-line Program of knowledgeable speakers drawn from the continent and around the world in business, government and institutions – who are intimately involved in Africa.

Africa’s Content-Rich Meeting Place

This rich-content Conference, providing deep insight, makes the AEF-2011 unique, unrivalled and an unmatched corporate and business event never before witnessed within or on Africa.

Presentations are made available online post-Conference to all delegates on our e-Conference facility, for direct download.

AEF-2011 deals with fundamentals, hardball issues in economics shaping markets, the overt and hidden business trends, shifting political economy across the Continent’s evolving diversity, and the critical commercial dimensions defining Africa’s future.

Connect AEF-2011

 Come and connect with Africa’s leading decision-makers, interface with new ideas, companies, players and critical business thinking, discover the key emerging trends, and become part of the growing African business architecture and continent-wide deal flow.

 The AEF-2011 themes and foci are designed around hard-edged business questions, not the soft issues that litter other meetings and often lead to inconclusive insights and decisions on the core portfolio that Africa must depend upon for its survival and success.

Think Tanks, Economists, Authors

Global Pacific & Partners has invited a number of Africa’s Think Tanks, economists and policy experts, as well as selected authors to participate in AEF-2011, as a means to connect cutting-edge African thinking with the emerging business and investor paradigm.

 Global Broadcast Partner

 Our Global Broadcast Partner is CNBC-Africa which will cover the event, and take interviews as well as conduct live-crossings, to feed related worldwide TV networks on the AEF-2011 proceedings.

  World Press, Media, Broadcast

Leading Journals, Press and Media, online and radio, from around Africa and elsewhere will cover AEF-2011 and communicate its substance and speaker views, with interviews and coverage, into Africa and across the wider world.

 AEF-2011 Business Networking

The AEF-2011 Plenaries, designed as highly-intensive, showcase leading speakers with knowledgeable Discussants, while providing ample interfaces and opportunities in breakfasts, coffee breaks, luncheons, cocktail receptions and dinners, for intimate, high-level networking, negotiations, and deal-making.

 The AEF-2011 hosts a suite of social functions and networking opportunities for delegates, both within the world-class BMW-Imax Theatre and on the famous Cape Town Waterfront, and is open to Sponsor involvement. This includes the PetroAfricanus Dinner, Cocktail Receptions, Conference Dinner, and End of Conference Africa Braai-Barbeque on the Waterfront.

Global Pacific & Partners will showcase two films it has made on Africa at the AEF-2011 meeting: Born in Soweto (1994), an historic documentary portrayal of life and times in Soweto, and depicting the issues and poverty that then applied: and Africa: Crude Continent: Quest for Africa’s Oil Prize, made by CNBC-Africa, based on the widely-acclaimed book by Duncan Clarke, published by Profile Books (London) in 2010.