Main Conference Day 2
Which emerging market success stories offer the most valuable lessons for Africa today? How can the continent leverage intra-African trade to accelerate growth? Looking ahead, what gives Africa the strongest opportunity to strengthen its position in the global private capital landscape over the next decade?
Which parts of the food and agriculture value chain remain most overlooked from an investment perspective today? How can investors build resilient food and agriculture strategies against commodity shocks, geopolitical disruption and supply chain pressures while still generating attractive returns? How can the continent balance national food security priorities with the opportunity to build globally competitive export-led agricultural businesses?
A candid discussion exploring how diversity, inclusion and impact are evolving across African private markets, and whether the industry is rethinking the relationship between inclusion and investment performance.
As global narratives shift and parts of the market retreat from diversity commitments, what is changing in practice rather than policy?
Is the future evolutionary, embedding inclusion across investment processes and portfolio strategies, or does the industry still need more targeted approaches?
Discussion themes:
• Has diversity become disconnected from performance narratives?
• What actually moves outcomes rather than simply intentions?
• How should inclusion evolve within investment strategies, diligence and portfolio construction?
• Where are investors still overlooking talent, opportunity and underpriced value?
Encouraging honest discussion, practical lessons and perspectives from LPs, GPs, service providers and ecosystem participants navigating these shifts firsthand.
Run strictly under the Chatham House Rule. Encouraging participants to speak openly on the topics that really matter.
Open to LPs, GPs, Service Providers and Others.
Closed to press
For registrations, please contact Munazzah Siddique at munazzah.siddique@informa.com
- Steve Mwangangi - Pipeline Management Lead, Seven Capital Ventures
East Africa is increasingly attracting attention for momentum and emerging sectors including clean mobility, while West Africa offers scale and depth. Which model is proving more attractive to private capital today? As fintech, lending and financial inclusion evolve across both regions, where are both regions learning most from each other, and where are approaches diverging? Looking ahead, what could unlock stronger collaboration, capital flows and business expansion between East and West Africa?
Which factors are contributing most to South Africa’s growing investor momentum and improving market sentiment? What role have political and governance developments played in driving the country’s economic growth? How can the country strengthen its role as both a domestic growth market and a gateway to wider Sub-Saharan opportunity?
- Darshan Daya - Co-Founder & Partner, Capitalworks
In a more volatile global environment, how is Africa–Asia collaboration strengthening diversification, resilience and long-term investment growth across both continents? Which Asia–Africa investment and trade corridors are creating the most exciting private capital opportunities today? As Asian investors deepen engagement across Africa, which business models, technologies and operating approaches are proving most transferable, and which need to be fundamentally adapted for local markets?
For investors newer to Francophone Africa, what are the top three things they need to understand before entering these markets? Are firms systematically underpricing opportunity across smaller Francophone markets, and where are assumptions about risk and scale failing to reflect reality? In what ways has capital scarcity created more disciplined founders across Francophone countries?
- Alexandre Alfonsi - Managing Partner, Alternal
A closed-door discussion exploring how Africa and North America can strengthen private capital connectivity, deepen investment partnerships and better align capital with opportunity.
Discussion themes:
• How to attract more North American institutional capital into Africa.
• What partnership models could strengthen collaboration between North American managers and African private capital ecosystems?
• For those who have successfully built investment bridges between North America and Africa, what practical lessons, pitfalls and success factors can others learn from?
Open to pre-registered banks, corporate investors, development finance institutions, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, investment consultants, pension funds, RIAs, single family offices, sovereign wealth funds and wealth managers only, subject to qualification.
LPs, to register, please contact Maya Marek at maya.marek@informa.com
Spaces are limited.
Only open to those who have pre-registered.
To register, please contact Munazzah Siddique at munazzah.siddique@informa.com
What public initiatives, regulatory developments and ecosystem building efforts are having the greatest impact on accelerating Egypt’s private capital market? Egypt offers scale, demographics and a rapidly expanding consumer base, but what still needs to evolve to strengthen the environment for startups, fund managers and long-term capital formation? How can governments, LPs, GPs and development institutions work more effectively together to strengthen Egypt’s role as both a North African investment hub and a gateway into wider African opportunity?
An LP-only closed-door session designed to challenge assumptions, pressure-test long-held industry narratives and uncover where perceptions may no longer match facts.
Through a series of bold statements and live debate, LPs will separate fact from fiction on topics shaping African private markets today, from allocation barriers and risk perceptions to liquidity, scale, returns and capital deployment.
Which myths continue to hold the market back? Which investment assumptions deserve rethinking? And where could challenging conventional wisdom unlock stronger long-term opportunity?
Designed under Chatham House Rule to encourage candid discussion, honest experiences and practical insights from LPs looking at Africa.
Run strictly under the Chatham House Rule. Encouraging participants to speak openly on the topics that really matter.
Open to pre-registered banks, corporate investors, development finance institutions, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, investment consultants, pension funds, RIAs, single family offices, sovereign wealth funds and wealth managers only, subject to qualification.
LPs, to register, please contact Maya Marek at maya.marek@informa.com
Gulf investors continue to show strong interest in North Africa. What makes the region increasingly strategic within global and African private capital flows? How are investors thinking about North Africa’s less-discussed markets, including Algeria and Tunisia? Could Islamic finance become one of North Africa’s biggest untapped private capital opportunities? North Africa’s fintech ecosystem has matured significantly in recent years. What does the next phase of growth look like as founders and investors increasingly prioritise discipline, efficiency and sustainable scaling?