Tuesday, July 19, 2022

U.S.-Africa Business Summit Golf Tournament 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Al Maaden Golf Resort

Registration

11:00 AM - 7:30 PM, REGISTRATION TENT

Welcome Reception

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, MANSOR RESTAURANT

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Welcome Coffee and Tea
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM, Room

Exhibits
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, MENARA HALL

Registration
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, REGISTRATION TENT

Plenary: Opening Ceremony
9:00 AM – 9:50 AM, SALLE DES MINISTRES

Mistress of Ceremonies: Florizelle Liser, President and CEO, Corporate Council on Africa

Speakers:

• H.E. Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates, Kingdom of Morocco
• Hon. Alice Albright, CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation introduces video from
• Hon. Kamala Harris, Vice President, The White House - Video
• Chakib Alj, President, The General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises
• Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, President, African Development Bank

Scene Setter Plenary: Building Forward Together
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, SALLE DES MINISTRES

This plenary will provide a platform for senior U.S. and African private sector executives and leaders of key organizations with continent-wide perspective to discuss how the United States and African nations can build forward together around strategic sectors such as health, financing, manufacturing, energy, and agribusiness.

• Introductory Remarks: Alain Ebobissé, CEO, Africa50
• Moderator: Jennifer Zabasajja, Reporter, Bloomberg 

Speakers:

• Iliass Elfali, Managing Director, Corporate Strategy and Sustainability, OCP
• Kevin Francis, Cluster Lead, sub-Saharan Africa and Country Manager, South Africa, Pfizer
• Salvador Perez-Galindo, Senior Vice president, Head of Government Engagement, CEMEA, VISA

Coffee Break
11:15 AM – 11:30 PM, ROYAL BALLROOM & HALLWAYS AT EACH FLOOR

High-Level Dialogue: Building a Sustainable Food Ecosystem
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, KARAM 1

By 2030, agribusiness will be worth more than $1 trillion in Africa. With the world’s largest untapped arable land, water reserves and abundant human resources as assets, a closer alignment between the public and private sectors will contribute to the creation of a sustainable agribusiness ecosystem at the regional and continental level which integrates into the international supply chain to achieve economic diversification, job creation, food security and transform rural areas into centers of growth. This session will highlight policies empowering the private sector to contribute to the creation of a sustainable agribusiness ecosystem.

Moderated Dialogue:

• Moderator: Dr. Mima Nedelcovych, Chairman, AfricaGlobal Schaffer
• H.E. Silvino Moreno, Minister of Industry and Trade, Mozambique
• Nada El Majdoub, Executive Vice President, Performance Management, OCP
• Clay Hamilton, Associate Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Aisha Hadejia, Manager, Sahel Consulting
• Fatai Yusufu, President and CEO, Fayus Inc

High-Level Dialogue: Building Africa’s Capacity for Local Production of Medical Products
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, KARAM 2

With the COVID-19 pandemic insight, African leaders are increasingly aware of the importance of health security as a critical tool for securing the continent's development and calling for investments into vaccine manufacturing. There is now a consensus and a singular collective resolve among African governments, regional organizations, the private sector, and the international community to expand the production of medicines and vaccines for Africans in Africa based on health security and regional supply chain resilience.

Subsequently, Africa CDC launched the Partnerships for African Vaccine Manufacturing in April 2021, which has a long-term vision of building up the vaccine manufacturing capacity across the continent so that by 2040, 60% of all vaccines used on the continent are produced within African nations — with interim goals of 10% by 2025, and 30% by 2030.

Topics to be covered in the discussion among participants include what it takes to get the demand dynamics of the market right, the importance of access to finance and the right regulatory environment, including setting up Good Manufacturing Principles, and what kind of skills transfer, and capacity building must be built in. Moderated Dialogue:

• Moderator: Azuka Okeke, CEO, Africa Resource Center for Excellence in Supply Chain Management
• Serge Ekué, President, West African Development Bank (BOAD)
• Kwabena Ayirebi, Director Banking Operations, Afreximbank
• Nafisa Jiwani, Managing Director, Health Initiatives, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
• Ayman Cheikh-Lahlou, CEO, Cooper Pharma
• Dr. Amina Rafiki, General Manager, North-West-Central Africa, Global Patient Solutions, Gilead Sciences (confirmed)

High-Level Dialogue: Narrowing Africa’s Digital Divide in a Post-COVID World
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, KARAM 3

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted just how critical access to digital services and infrastructure has become to Africa’s economy, and not just in a time of crisis. Pre-COVID-19, there were significant concerns that Africa was on the wrong side of a global digital divide, whereby Africans had significantly less access to both the internet and broadband. While the pandemic induced more innovation in the ICT sector in Africa than any other region, bringing tens of millions of new customers online, the pandemic also impacted government budgets, and will make it harder to find the $10 billion or more a year needed to expand broadband and mobile networks to provide universal access. African governments have an opportunity to put

in place the right conditions to ensure that ICT can help accelerate the post-COVID 19 economic recovery, while also creating the infrastructure necessary to take full advantage of the more integrated market under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). Seizing that opportunity will involve putting in place the right investment, services taxation and IPR legislation, data privacy and protection provisions, and getting the balance right on cross- border data flows, while also working with companies to attract additional investment to expand Africa’s international cable access and broadband network and educating users to broaden the development of applications and the commercial market. U.S. companies have been at the forefront of several of these efforts, including through investments in cloud computing centers, towers, broadband, network equipment and a broad range of data processing and services software. This session will identify the most important areas of focus to support Africa’s broader post-pandemic economic recovery, including policies and regulations, while building on innovations in health, energy, and consumer goods, among other sectors. It will also highlight the kinds of partnerships between the public and private sector that can narrow Africa’s digital divide and increase Africa’s productivity. Moderated Dialogue:

• Moderator: Dr. Witney Schneidman, Africa Practice Lead, Covington

Speakers:

• H.E. Mokgweetsi Masisi, President, Botswana
• Ousmane Diagana, Regional Vice President, Western and Central Africa, World Bank Group
• Hon. Enoh Ebong, Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency
• Aida Diarra, Senior Vice President, and Group Country Manager for Visa SSA, Visa
• John Olajide, Founder and CEO, Axxess Annick Sakho, Regional Director, Oracle Mehdi Tazi, General Vice President, CGEM

High-Level Dialogue: Building Infrastructure: Highway to Growth
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, KARAM 4

Despite the large investment into African infrastructure over the past two decades, the continent still suffers from poor quality and expensive infrastructure services compared to other parts of the world. It is estimated that this constrains productivity by up to 40 percent and reduces the continent’s GDP by about 2 percent per year. With the imminent enforcement of the African Continental Free Trade Area - which will be the largest single market in the world for goods and services, as well as the free movement of investments and people—the urgency to increase infrastructure development on the continent is even more compelling. This session will focus on the public private partnership to better connect countries, regions and the continent and take full advantage of the economies of scale.

Moderated Dialogue:

• Moderator: Kalidou Gadio, Partner, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP

Speakers:
Heads of State:

• Hon. Alice Albright, CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation
• Tshepidi Moremong, COO, Africa50
• Albert Momo, Vice President and Executive Director of Emerging Markets and Funded Projects, Trimble (confirmed)
• Paul Sullivan, President, International Business, Acrow Bridge
• Mohamad Darwish, CEO, IHS Nigeria
• Mehdi Tazi Riffi, CEO, Tanger Med Special Authority

High-Level Dialogue: Building a Just Transition to Net Zero in Africa
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Karam 5

As some of the countries that will be most affected by climate change, African nations support international efforts to limit the rise of global temperatures and get to a ‘net zero’ emissions world. As much as they would like to rely solely on renewable power, countries in Africa do not have the installed infrastructure to do so, while also needing to provide electricity for the 600 million Africans that sill lack reliable access to national grids. Several African countries have also recently found rich deposits of natural gas that they would like to develop to support industrialization as well as electricity generation. Geopolitical conflicts have also provided a stark reminder of the importance of countries’ putting in place solid energy security plans.

Particularly as the world prepares for the next COP this year in Cairo, it is important to think through commercially sustainable approaches that both help Africa provide the development its citizens need and lay the groundwork for the energy industries of the net zero future. This builds on a commitment from parties at last year’s COP in Glasgow to come up with a just transition, beginning with a pilot project in South Africa, that transitions away from coal and fossil fuels to a sustainable economy that leaves no one behind. This high-level dialogue will hear from Heads of State and senior company officials how they are thinking through these challenging issues, including adopting technologies and putting in place the right investment regimes to attract the billions in investment needed and doing so in a way that better integrates African countries into regional and global energy markets.

Moderated Dialogue:

• Moderator: Adam Kendall, Partner, Mckinsey

Speakers:

• Mamadou Beye, General Manager Corporate Affairs, Middle East, Africa and South America, Chevron
• Said Elhadi, CEO, Nareva Holding
• Akol E. Ayii, Founder and Group Chairman, Trinity Holdings Group of Companies
• Chinonso T. Emehelu, Senior Director, International Financial Institutions and Africa International Government Relations, ExxonMobil
• Abderrahim El Hafidi, CEO, ONEE
• Patricia Obozuwa, Vice President, Government Affairs, Communications and Sustainability Africa, Coca-Cola Company

Networking Lunch
1:10 PM – 2:40 PM, ROYAL BALLROOM

Plenary: Financing Forward
2:50 PM - 3:50 PM, SALLE DES MINISTRES

According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, foreign direct investment into Africa grew by 147 percent to an estimated $97 billion in 2021 compared with

$39 billion in 2020. In addition, in August 2021, the International Monetary Fund allocated $33 billion in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to the continent as part of a $650 billion disbursement. Despite the tightening of public purses, disruption of supply chains, commodities volatilities and environmental pressures, African nations were resilient and better positioned to renew with their growth trajectory. However, there is a strong correlation between the availability, diversity, and sustainability of financing and economic relaunch on the continent. This plenary will highlight financial tools and structures that will impact the real economy by tackling challenges such as agribusiness, energy, health, infrastructure, trade facilitation, women, and youth entrepreneurship with the objective of generating shared growth.

• Moderator: Nneka Chime, Principal, CrossBoundary

Speakers:

• Admassu Tadesse, President Emeritus and Group MD/CEO, Trade and Development Bank
• Andrew Herscowitz, CDO, U.S. Development Finance Corporation
• Youssef Rouissi, General Manager, Attijariwafa Bank Akin Dawodu, CEO and Head of Sub-Saharan Africa, Citi Obaid Amrane, CEO, Ithmar Capital

Break
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM, ROYAL BALLROOM

Panel: Innovation for Agriculture Transformation
4:10 PM - 5:10 PM, KARAM 1

According to the World Economic Forum, by 2050, Africa’s population would reach nearly 2.5 billion with its urban population tripling to reach 1.34 billion. This population growth alone will put unprecedented pressure on farmers, the land, and resources. Facilitating the adoption of agricultural innovations such as water management systems, drone and geospatial mapping technologies, smart equipment and on-demand services will empower farmers and enable them to tackle these challenges and increase their productivity while being better integrated to the global supply chain.

Moderator:

• Vanessa Adams, VP, Strategic Partnerships & Chief of Party, AGRA

Speakers:

• Hon. Dr. Gerardine Mukeshimana, Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Rwanda
• Redouane Arrach, Secretary General, Ministry of Agriculture, Morocco
• Albert Momo, Vice President and Executive Director of Emerging Markets and Funded Projects, Trimble
• Kevin Roepke, Regional Director, South Asia & Sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Soybean Export Council
• Martha Haile, Vice President, Business Development, Wefarm

Panel: Public Private Partnerships for Strengthening Health Systems and Accelerating Universal Health Coverage
4:10 PM – 5:10 PM, KARAM 2

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven transformational collaboration between the public and private sectors in Africa. The development of the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust as a centralized purchasing agent on behalf of the African Union member states and the Africa Medical Supplies Platform are continental firsts. They show what is possible through strong trusted partnerships. These innovative collaborations can be applied to other challenges related to accelerating universal health coverage. For the longer term, there is opportunity for governments to form stronger partnerships with the private sector to address more systemic needs in strengthening health systems. As countries continue to address COVID-19 challenges and plan for universal health coverage, there is increasing awareness that health systems are national assets that work best when not limited to government action, but rather conceived as involving coordinated efforts of all public and private actors who have skills and resources to contribute to improved health for all.

This session will spotlight innovative strategic partnerships and PPPs that contribute to UHC targets such as primary health care, increased government resources and financing models for

affordable access, value-based care and workforce development. Speakers will highlight opportunities for private sector engagement and PPP’s focused on UHC.

Moderator:

• Jirair Ratevosian, Acting Chief of Staff, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State

Speakers:

• Hon. Prof. Khalid Ait Taleb, Minister of Health, Morocco
• Hon. Dr. Edwin G. Dikoloti, Minister of Health and Wellness, Republic of Botswana
• Dr. Mohamed El Sahili, CEO, Medland Health Services
• Staph Leavenworth-Bakali, President and CEO, George Health
• Ali Besri, North Africa Cluster Lead and Country Manager Morocco, Pfizer
• Emily Gibbons, Director, Infectious Diseases, Global Public Policy, MSD

Panel: Leveraging Financing Options to Accelerate SDG Progress
4:10 PM - 5:10 PM, KARAM 3

Despite the overwhelming consensus and commitment to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, resource mobilization from both public and private sectors has been a challenge. According to the Brookings Institution sub-Saharan Africa will need $574 billion per year until 2030 to finance the SDGs with a financing gap totaling $256 billion per year. Additionally, and importantly, companies have set SDG goals for themselves and are being measured by the market and customers by their ability to meet these goals.

In the meantime, Official Development Assistance which has been a key source of much public sector funding has been flat or reducing. This session will focus on innovative financial tools public and private sectors can leverage to reach the SDGs by 2030 including blended finance, bonds, debt, and innovative financing facilities available from public and private sources, as well as multilateral and bilateral sources. Moderator: Kurtis Lockhart, Executive Director & Director of Research, Charter Cities Institute Speakers:

• Peter Sullivan, Head of Public Sector Group for Africa and Managing Director, Citi
• Emilio Bunge, Managing Director, Development Finance International
• Robin Wheeler, Chief of Party, West Africa Trade Hub
• Benjamin Asare, Senior Director, Global Commercial Access Partnerships, Global Private Sector Financing Lead, Pfizer

Roundtable: From the Made in Africa to the Made with Africa - CGEM
4:10 PM – 5:40 PM, KARAM 4

This Roundtable aims to be a high-level dialogue between representatives of the private sectors and key stakeholders in the U.S.-Africa partnership. It will shed light on: the value chains’ complementarities between African countries, as well as between the United States and Africa, considering the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area, which will provide access to a market of 1.2 billion consumers; the convergence between free trade agreements, mainly Morocco-U.S. and AGOA-US; the actions to be implemented for co-construction and

win-win co-investments in the U.S. and in Africa. The objective is to reflect on ways to strengthen the integration rate according to priority sectors, to promote the “Made in Africa” and to boost the “Made with Africa”. This event takes place in a context of post-Covid recovery and pressure on supplies, which requires extensive bilateral and multilateral cooperation, promoting a reorganization of global logistics chains. Africa must highlight its competitive advantages allowing it to play a key role, by rethinking some strategic industrial value chains with the United States

Speakers:

• Agostinho Vuma, Chairman, Confederation of Mozambican Business Association (CTA)
• Xavier Reille, Country Manager North Africa, International Finance Corporation
• Ali Zerouali, Vice-President, Africa Committee, CGEM
• Samba Bathily, President, Africa Development Solutions

Roundtable: Mobilizing Institutional Investor Capital for Infrastructure – Closed Door

4:10 PM – 5:40 PM, FES 2-B

This closed-door session will discuss the policies and tools that need to be deployed to increase institutional investment financing in the infrastructure space in Africa.

Thursday, July 21, 2022

Networking Coffee/Tea
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM, ROYAL BALLROOM

Registration
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, REGISTRATION TENT

Exhibits
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, MENARA HALL

Invest in Botswana Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:20 AM, KARAM 2

Roundtable on Power Transmission Lines – Closed Door
8:00 AM - 9:20 AM, FES-2 B

Invest in Mozambique Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:20 AM, KARAM 1

Money Circle: Institutional Investors Closed Door Pitch Sessions
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, REDA 4

Roundtable: Private Engagement with Trade and Development Bank – Closed Door
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, KARAM 5

Plenary: Integrating Payment Systems: Growth Accelerator
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, SALLE DES MINISTRES

Over the last decade, Africa’s payment system market has experienced an unprecedented growth and created an ecosystem with over 200 mobile money wallets, 100 banks and more than a dozen telecom companies across the continent are thriving though with limited growth prospect due to the lack of interoperability within and outside of their markets.

This challenge which is due to policies and lack of adequate technologies are stifling trade within and across borders, SMEs growth, technology development and ultimately more than

$290 billion in revenue from stronger trade facilitation according to the World Bank Group. This session will discuss how to over this challenge by better integrating Africa’s payment systems without cutting it from the rest of the world.

Moderator:

• Tania Habimana, Anchor, CNBC Africa

Speakers:

• Brahim Benjelloun-Touimi, Group Executive Managing Director, Bank of Africa
• Omosalewa Adeyemi, Head of global partnerships & Expansio, Flutterwave
• Zbir Adil, Head, Payment Oversight, Central Bank of Morocco

Panel: SMEs: Fueling the Recovery and Economic Growth
10:40 AM - 11:40 AM, KARAM 1

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the bedrocks of economies, contribute innovation, job creation and global economic growth. According to the World Bank, SMEs represent about 90% of businesses and more than 50% of employment worldwide. They are also very sensitive to shocks and have suffered the most during the pandemic. As economies around the globe and especially in Africa are relaunching, it is paramount to pay a particular attention to this important but often neglected actor of the economy. This session will discuss policies, capacity

building, market access, technologies and financial tools being deployed by governments, institutions, and private sector entities to empower African SME to thrive and fuel the economic recovery.

Moderator:

• Nadia Hasham, Trade Policy Expert, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Speakers:

• Carole Kariuki, CEO, Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA)
• Travis Adkins, President and CEO, U.S. African Development Foundation
• Samir Lebbar, Senior Vice President, North Africa, Procter and Gamble
• Hicham Zanati Serghini, CEO, TAMWILCOM
• Fatima-Zohra Hakam, Founder, Zora Chocolate
• Ejike Egbuagu, CEO, Moneda

Panel: Leveraging African Regulatory System Innovations to Strengthen the Health Sector
10:40 AM - 11:40 AM, KARAM 2

The complex web of regulatory processes that have been across the African continent is gradually being converged by multiple efforts, including harmonizing regulatory processes regionally and continentally. With the recent pandemic, we have seen some innovations leading to the expedited approval of health products for use, leading to increased access to needed health products. The African Medicines Agency (AMA) promises greater harmonization of markets in the continent. Together with AMA, there is still room to collaborate more with the private sector in innovations, including those that drive efficient utilization of resources by avoiding duplication of work and providing opportunities to strengthen the regulatory efforts in the continent. This session will explore topics including private sector engagement in, strengthening regulatory continental initiatives, regulatory harmonization and collaboration, regulatory capabilities and capacity building and shaping the regulatory environment for modernization (digitization etc.)

Moderator:

• Dr. Sibusiso Hlatjwako Director of External Affairs, Africa Region, PATH

Special Remarks:

• Hon. Dr. Michel Sidibé, Special Envoy for The African Medicines Agency, African Union

Speakers:

• Dr. Lawrence Evans, Senior Director, Global Health Technical Programs, United States Pharmacopeia
• Angelika Joos, Executive Director Global Regulatory Policy, MSD
• Selma Eddaoudi, Regulatory Affairs Head Near East Maghreb and Africa, Johnson & Johnson,
• Shireen Haroon, Director, Quality Regulatory Affairs, Abbott Diagnostics

Panel: Accelerating Technology Adoption: Closing the Infrastructure Gap
10:40 AM - 11:40 AM, KARAM 3

According to the World Economic Forum, the Fourth Industrial Revolution refers to a set of highly disruptive technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, blockchain and 3D printing, that are transforming social, economic, and political systems. This session will focus on how technology can fast-track infrastructure development in Africa and help reduce the African Development Bank estimated $100 billion a year gap.

Moderator:

• Mosa Mkhize, Policy Advisor, Covington

Speakers:

• Mohamed Benyahia, Secretary General, Ministry of Energy Transition
• Nono Malefane, Senior Director, Government Engagement, Sub-Saharan Africa, VISA
• Gerald B. Sherman, CEO and President, Hammer Technology Holdings Inc.
• Hamza Kabbaj, CEO, SGTM
• Ismail Azelmat, Director, Digital Economy Department, Ministry of Digital Transition, Morocco

Panel: Key Challenges & Opportunities for Emerging Startups in Africa
10:40 AM - 11:40 AM, KARAM 4

The entrepreneurial ecosystem in Africa is growing exponentially. Many markets in the continent are already adopting innovative technologies such as mobile payments, EdTech and Sharing Economy.

For Africa to be able to fulfill its huge promise, there is a need to identify the key challenges and priorities that need to be addressed. The panel aims to discuss the different growth options offered to African startups in different submarkets. It will also be an opportunity to present examples of successful investments made in various verticals. Panelists will also provide insights on best practices and what may be needed in terms of tools and resources to develop the continent's key sectors and make use of the great momentum realized in venture capital during the last few years.

Moderator:

• Yassine Laghzioui, Director of Entrepreneurship & Venturing UM6P

Speakers

• Amar Singh, CEO, Bidra Innovation Ventures
• Ali Kettani, Managing Partner and Founder, ALK Finance
• Kenza Lahlou, GP and Founder, Outierz
• Ismael Belkhayat, Foudner and CEO, Chari
• Mehdi Filali, Director, OCP Africa
• Robert Marcus, Founder and CEO, ALPHA10X

Break
11:40 AM - 11:55 AM, ROYAL BALLROOM

Panel: Streaming: New Frontiers in Bringing African Stories to the World
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, KARAM 1

For the first time, the growth of international streaming services in Africa is bringing African stories to a global audience. This panel of industry insiders will explore new opportunities in investment, co-production, partnership, and distribution of content from across

Africa. Panelists will offer insights into how groundbreaking partnerships and investments between Africa and the U.S are transforming the film and content landscape throughout the continent and beyond.

Moderator:

• Ojoma Ochai, Managing Partner, The Creative Economy Practice, CC Hub

Speakers:

• Ayanna Lonian, Director of Content Acquisition and Head, Worldwide Major Studio Licensing Strategy, Amazon Prime Video
• Khadija Alami, Oasis Studios
• Jackie Motsepo, Kwa Zulu Natal Film Commission
• Naz Onuzo, Director, InkBlot Productions

Panel: From Mining to Manufacturing: Africa in the Driver’s Seat
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, KARAM 2

As the demand for wind and solar energy and for electric vehicles has skyrocketed, supplies have been constrained by a concentration of processing facilities in China. COVID-19 related disruptions to global shipping and extended delays have underscored the importance of both more critical minerals supply coming to world markets and the need for more processing facilities. African countries are interested in leveraging their mineral resources to support post- COVID economic recovery, as well as to lay the groundwork for joining emerging global renewable energy supply chains, including increasing processing and consumption in Africa.

Several countries in Africa have introduced important changes to their mining charters and other regulations designed to attract much needed private sector investment. This session will hear from government and industry leaders what the shape of the African mining sector will look like in the coming years, and how companies and countries can collaborate to make Africa a meaningful part of the emerging net zero economy global energy supply chain.

Moderator:

• Mary “Mimi” Stith, President, The Pula Group

Speakers:

• Hon. Timothy Musa Kabba, Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Sierra Leone
• Jean-Raymond Boulle, Chairman, Jean Boulle Group
• Imad Toumi, Chairman and CEO, Managem
• Lynette Elizabeth Armstrong, Senior Mining Executive, Debswana
• Craig Dean, Chairman and CEO, The Gerald Group

Panel: Prosper Africa: Investing in Africa's Future
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, KARAM 3

The Prosper Africa initiative was launched at the US-Africa Business Summit in June 2019. Since then, the U.S. Government has helped close 800 trade and investment deals across 45 African countries for an estimated total value of $50 billion. As the world has grappled with the global COVID-29 pandemic, the U.S. Government has adapted and expanded its trade and investment tools, launching Prosper Africa 2.0 at the CCA summit in 2021. This session will bring together high-level officials from across the U.S. Government to showcase the new tools in the Prosper Africa toolkit and share information about new U.S. Government priorities and programs, including new programs to promote investments in the health and ICT sectors. It affords companies a unique opportunity to not just hear the latest on trade and investment promotion from senior U.S. Government officials, but also convey suggestions and get questions answered. It will also preview some of the initiatives on the trade and investment front that the U.S. will seek to highlight in the African Leaders Summit, which will be held later in the year.

Speakers:

• Moderator: Leslie Marbury, Acting COO, Prosper Africa
• Andrew Herscowitz, Chief Development Officer, DFC
• Aysha House, VP, Congressional and Public Affairs, MCC
• Rick Angiuoni, Regional Director for Africa, US EXIM
• Heather Lanigan, Regional Director for Sub Saharan Africa, USTDA
• Akunna Cook, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of African Affairs, Department of State
• Camille Richardson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Middle East, and Africa Global Markets, Department of Commerce

Panel: Beyond the (fill/) finish line: Leveraging Investments for Production of Childhood Vaccines
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, KARAM 4

The COVID-19 pandemic spurred unprecedented interest and investment in increasing vaccine manufacturing capacity on the African continent, with initiatives underway in several countries. To date, much of the focus has been on expanding capacity for COVID-19 vaccine

manufacturing; however, building flexible and enduring vaccine manufacturing capacity for a portfolio of vaccines, including legacy childhood vaccines, will be critical in strengthening Africa’s health security. Significant barriers to progress including uncertain demand and challenges related to technical capacity, regulatory maturity, and access to financing will need to be addressed in a coordinated fashion to foster long-term, sustainable manufacturing and distribution capacity. Join USP and USTDA along with an esteemed panel to examine where opportunity exists, what challenges must be addressed, and what policy, infrastructure, and financial reforms are needed to create an enabling environment for vaccine manufacturing and delivery. Moderator: Azuka Okeke, CEO, Africa Resource Center for Excellence in Supply Chain Management

Speakers:

• Danielle Agress, Country Manager, Southern Africa, US Trade and Development Agency
• Perrer Tosso, Pharmaceutical Product Supply Lead, Global Health Technical Programs, USP
• Nafisa Jiwani, Managing Director, Health Initiatives, US International Development Finance Corporation (confirmed)
• Simon Agwale, Board Member, African Vaccines Manufacturing Initiative
• Dr. Nicaise Ndembi, Head, Science Office, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Networking Luncheon
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM, ROYAL BALLROOM

Invest in Morocco Lunch: Morocco: A platform of Opportunity and a Hub for Africa
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM, KARAM 3

Speakers:

• Ali Seddiki, Director General, AMDIE

Session 1 :

• Moderator: Faïçal Tadlaoui, Independent Radio and Television Producer/Host
• Lamia Merzouki, Deputy CEO, Casablanca Finance City
• Fatmi Squalli, Director, Group Project Financing, Attijari Wafa Bank
• Mehdi Jalil Drafate, Deputy CEO, Project Platform and Investment Financing, Bank of Africa
• Abdou Souleye Diop, Chair, Africa Commission, CGEM

Session 2 :

• Moderator: Faïçal Tadlaoui, Independent Radio and Television Producer/Host
• Reda Hamdoun, Executive Director in charge of Strategy and International Affairs, Nareva
• Mohammed Bachiri, CEO, Renault Group Maroc
• Abdeslam Alaoui Smaili, CEO and Co-Founder, HPS Testimonials:
• Joseph Mandoor, CEO, FAR Group
• Travis Langham, Procurement Agent, BOEING
• Houda Farrahe, Associate Director, EngiMa

Invest in Cameroon Lunch
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM, FES 2-B

Women As Investment Champions: Delivering African Infrastructure Solutions– Closed Door
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Roundtable: Millennium Challenge Corporation and Moroccan Ministry of Trade and Industry
– Closed Door Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Panel: Investing in Women and Youth: Sustainable Growth
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM, KARAM 1

Over the next three decades, African countries will account for two-thirds of the world’s population increase. While this significant population growth offers tremendous opportunities, it also presents significant potential to exacerbate a broad range of existing challenges. To confront these challenges, Africa’s government and business leaders must innovate to create many new jobs, include more people in the formal economy, and boost economic growth across various sectors and regions. Research has shown that one of the most effective means to accomplish this is empowering women and youth to become more economically active. Over the last few years, public sentiment has changed from viewing women and youth as a niche section of the workforce that should be protected, to understanding women and youth are in fact engines of economic growth. Loan repayment rates by women-owned businesses exceed 90 percent, while the loan repayment rate by men-owned businesses hover around 30 percent. Women are also generally more active in sectors with the greatest potential to increase productivity through capturing greater value-added services and products. This panel will outline current challenges women and youth face in a variety of sectors and explore innovative, replicable programs.

• Moderator: Naana Frimpong, Partner, DLA Piper

Speakers:

• Amb. Mohammed Methqal, Director General, Morocco Agency for International Cooperation
• Michael Finley, Basketball Business Development, NBA Africa
• Chinelo Anohu, Senior Director, Africa Investment Forum
• Patricia Obozuwa, Vice President, Government Affairs, Communications and Sustainability Africa, Coca-Cola Company
• Lamia Merzouki, DGA, Casablanca Finance City Authority
• Gretchen Krantz Evans, Country Manager Middle East and North Africa, U.S. Trade and Development Agency

Panel: Scaling ICT Innovation to Accelerate African Growth
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, KARAM 2

The challenges of coping with the COVID-19 pandemic have spurred a broad range of innovations across sectors to make better use of existing ICT tools to fill in critical gaps. Millions of African consumers shopped for essentials on-line for the first time, while hundreds of thousands of companies set up their first web presence. Financial companies significantly expanded their payment services, while education and health care services found new ways to serve clients online. The net impact has been to significantly expand the scope of e-commerce in Africa in ways that will reshape the development of commercial markets. It has also created the potential to deliver better quality products and services, often at lower costs, while also accelerating payments and increasing transparency. The challenge now is how to build on these successes, and help companies scale up their solutions. As they do, inevitably, the question of how to harmonize standards and regulations will also need to be considered. This panel will bring together some of the most innovative companies from several sectors to discuss the innovations they have brought to market and suggest ways these can be scaled up to accelerate growth and job creation.

 

Moderator:

• Ridwaan Boda, Executive for Technology, Media and Telecommunications, ENS Africa

Speakers:

• Kris Senanu, Chairman, Blackrock Capital LTD
• Bramuel Mwalo, Managing Director, Xetova
• Chris LeGrand, CEO, Broadreach
• Dele Odufuye, Country Director for Nigeria, Cavista

Panel: Cybersecurity: Securing Africa’s Economic Relaunch
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, KARAM 3

The pandemic forced both African public and private sectors operate more in the digital world which opened them to new and different challenges and opportunities. It became clear that cybersecurity will have a strong impact on digital transformation in Africa like in the rest of the world. Studies estimate that cybercrime is already costing African economies over $3 billion each year. For example, the South African Banking Risk Information Center (SABIC) estimated that South Africa loses $157 million annually to cyberattacks. This panel will explore the nature

of the risk, how it's being tackled, business opportunities and best practices to address this global challenge in the African context.

Moderator:

• Danyetta Fleming Magana, CEO, Covenant Security Solutions Intl.

Speakers:

• Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Nigeria
• Dr. Albert Antwi-Boasiako, Ag. Director-General, Cyber Security Authority, Republic of Ghana
• Dr. Thierry Wandji, Co-Founder & CEO, Cybastion
• Lotfi Sekkat, CEO, CIH Bank

Panel: Building Sustainable Manufacturing Ecosystems
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, KARAM 4

In accordance with the African Union's vision 2063 and drawing from lessons learned from the pandemic, African governments are retooling their industrialization strategies to meet the basic needs of growing populations, create jobs and wealth. The launch of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) will boost African manufacturing and facilitate the development of sustainable manufacturing ecosystems.

Panelists will share best practices from within and outside the continent, as well as fundamental shifts policymakers and investors need to make to develop inclusive and sustainable manufacturing in Africa.

Moderator:

• Cassady Walters, Senior Vice President, Dentons Global Advisors ASG

Speakers:

• Hon. Mmusi Kgafela, Minister of Trade and Industry, Republic of Botswana
• H.E. Adeniyi Adebayo, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
• Cen Williams, VP and Hub Leader, PVH Africa
• Vilo Trska, Senior Vice President, Sub Sahara Africa, Procter and Gamble
• Karim Amor, CEO, Jet Group Africa

Roundtable: Gas Project Financing – Closed Door
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM, KARAM 5

Roundtable: UNECA SME Session
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | MARCELONA LOCATED AT MOVENPICK HOTEL

In Africa, SMEs represent 90 per cent of all private businesses and account for more than 60 per cent of employment in most African countries. In this regard, promoting SMEs by creating an enabling environment for learning and networking, exploring wider regional and international markets, and developing regional and global value chains is critical for inclusive and sustainable development.

This session, organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and co- hosted by the Corporate Council for Africa (CCA), will discuss opportunities for African SMEs to access the U.S. market for export, particularly through value-added products and services as a result of strengthened value chains under the implementation of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCfTA) Agreement. It will also be a chance to facilitate business linkages and experience sharing between Africa and U.S. SMEs to address the main constraints SMEs face in accessing international markets and illustrate investment opportunities for African SMEs and investors.

Moderator:

• Nadia Hasham, Trade Policy Expert, African Trade Policy Centre, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Speakers:

• Mahlet Girma, Trade Analyst, ATPC, ECA
• Fatimatou Kouboura Bara, General Manager, Target Afrik Negoce
• Blen Abebe, Africa Investment Advisor, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation

Ministerial Roundtable on Improving Health Outcomes in Africa through Innovative Solutions
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Closed-door

Africa’s healthcare industry is projected to be worth $259 billion by the year 2030, with the potential to create 16 million jobs. With the right enabling environment created by African governments and institutions, and collaboration with bilateral partners, the private sector can help strengthen African health systems and capabilities through investments in healthcare facilities, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, skills development, research, capacity-building, and digital innovations. Building on the lessons learned from COVID-19, Africa has put in place a number of important initiatives to strengthen its overall health security, with the aim of producing 60% of the medical products that Africa consumes on the continent by 2040.

Setting up the African Medicines Supply Platform (AMSP) and the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) and its follow-on Partnership for African Vaccine Manufacturing (PAVM) have laid out a robust set of targets for governments to work closely with the private sector. The ratification of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) and plans under PAVM to strengthen National Regulatory Agencies are also critical pieces of the broader strategy. At the same time, a number of African countries are also piloting ways to better use Information Communication Technology to target healthcare delivery and planning and improve supply chains, including making health care systems more patient-centric and making procurement systems more agile.

This by-invitation only roundtable will explore the innovative steps taken by African governments and the U.S. and African private sector to strengthen health systems on the continent. The roundtable will bring together a select group of African Ministers of Health, U.S. Government health initiative leaders, and private sector decision makers to explore partnership opportunities and discuss strategies for improving Africa’s health outcomes through collaborative and innovative solutions.

Future of U.S.-Africa Trade and Investment Relations
4:10 PM – 5:10 PM – SALLE DES MINISTRES

Africa is becoming an increasingly important trade and investment partner as its young population is set to double by 2050 to 2.5 billion people. Africa has improved its competitiveness and integration into global supply chains through improving national-level trade and investment climates. African countries are also negotiating the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), which will put in place the largest free trade area since the formation of the World Trade Organization and better enable Africa to leverage the power of its growing market. All these welcome developments raise the question what policies the United States should pursue to promote greater trade and investment ties with Africa. Since 2000, America’s primary economic policy tool has been the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which offers qualified African countries duty-free access to the U.S. market for many goods. As AGOA approaches its current expiry date of 2025, this is an important moment to ask what policies the U.S. should adopt, particularly as the U.S. looks to support Africa’s efforts to recover the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. has opened Free Trade Negotiations with Kenya, while supporting the broader AfCFTA effort.

This session will offer important perspectives on the future direction of U.S. trade and investment relations with Africa, as well as on what Africa is looking for from the U.S. Companies and governments will offer their perspectives on what policies and approaches would have the greatest impact in sustainably deepening trade and investment ties.

Moderator:

• Florizelle Liser, CEO, Corporate Council on Africa

Speakers:

• H.E. Ryad Mezzour, Minister of Trade and Industry, Morocco
• H.E. Wamkele Mene, Secretary General, AfCFTA Secretariat
• Abdou Diop, Partner, Mazars and Chair, Africa Committee, Confédération Générale des Entreprises du Maroc
• Dr. Witney Schneidman, Africa Practice Lead, Covington
• Arun Venkataraman, Assistant Secretary for Global Markets, U.S. Department of Commerce

Friday, July 22, 2022

Networking Coffee/Tea
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM, ROYAL BALLROOM

Registration
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM, REGISTRATION TENT

 

Women Empowered Leave Legacies Through Trade & Investment
8:00 AM - 9:20 AM, FES 2-B

The increased inclusion of women in all aspects of international trade is good for business everywhere. Women are on the frontlines of every aspect of life. One of the most effective means to achieve sustainable economic growth is by empowering women to become more active in business domestically and international trade. Recently, the focus on the contributions of women in business has become more vivid. Women are increasing active in a wide range of sectors, their demonstrated ability to prosper with the right opportunity is shining a light on the value of investing in women in trade. The global pandemic encouraged innovations in many sectors to pivot to technology to address critical gaps in a range of sectors. Many companies established their first online presence and channels of communications with their customers.

Africa is an increasingly important trade partner as its young population is set to nearly double by 2050 to 2.5 billion people.

 

Roundtable: A Connected Atlantic Coastline for a Better African Economic Integration in Global Values Chains – Closed Door – Ithmar Capital
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM, KARAM 3

The African Atlantic coastline is characterized by the presence of some of the strongest economies on the continent. Their potentialities would need to be unlocked to allow a better integration in global value chains. Examples of questions that the panel will address: - What are the prospects in the region for a better maritime connectivity, but also an air, digital and financial ones? - How can Africa and particularly its Atlantic coastline take advantage of its ports and shipping sector to drive growth of regional economies? - What role can different stakeholders play, including local and international sovereign investors, in the development of the sector across the coastline?

Speakers:

• Obaid Amrane, CEO, Ithmar Capital
• Tarik El Farouki, MEA Director, Project Development, DP World
• Opuiyo Oforiokuma, Senior Partner, Africa50 Infrastructure Acceleration Fund
• Aboubacar Beye, CEO, Port Autonome de Dakar (invited) Senior representative, TMSA (Invited)

Plenary: Health Supply Chains in Africa
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, SALLE DES MINISTRES

Over the last three years, Africa has faced a series of issues in getting access to sufficient quantities of the equipment, medicines and vaccines it needed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Particularly at the start of the pandemic, African countries were often told that the problem came from disruption in global supply chains. Companies and governments around the world have come a long way since the start of the pandemic, and there is broad consensus that getting supply chains right is critical to the current stage of the fight against COVID-19, as well as to strengthening health systems in general. In the short-term through 2022 and into 2023, this will focus on the needs of COVID-19 vaccines (e.g. refrigeration), while also ensuring pre-existing distribution networks remain effective. This is an opportunity for African countries to re-imagine how supply chains work, getting to a more patient-centric approach that works across the health sector. There is also an opportunity to build greater trust between governments and the private sector that would allow them to better understand each other’s needs, and to leverage their strengths to produce a more efficient, effective health system.

Africa got a number of things right in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including establishing platforms (the African Medicines Supply Platform and the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team) that leveraged the buying power of the continent’s 1.3 billion people and made it easier for companies to collaborate with governments by sharing information in real time and resolving specific issues quickly. It makes sense to facilitate similar private sector collaboration on supply chains, while also highlighting issues both sides can address to help Africa be more self-sufficient in vaccine, medicine, and equipment manufacturing. This session will bring together key players from the African Union, regulators, national level governments and private sector experts to talk through not just the current state of supply chain issues, but also suggest ways to make Africa’s health systems more self-sufficient and resilient.

Speakers:

• Moderator: Prashant Yadav, Academic Director, INSEAD Africa Center
• Bronwyn Timm, Strategy and Partnerships Lead, Africa Resource Centre
• Kwabena Ayirebi, Director Banking Operations, Afreximbank
• Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director, Africa CDC
• Christina Struller, Vice President, Public Affairs, Indian Subcontinent, Middle East and Africa, UPS
• Jo Tierens, Senior Director, Global Health Supply Chains, Johnson & Johnson

Break
10:35 AM - 10:55 AM, ROYAL BALLROOM

Panel: Greater Integration in the African Automotive Industry
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, KARAM 1

African automotive production represents less than 1% of global vehicle output. Production is minimal outside South Africa and Morocco with most African countries dependent on imports of manly used cars from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. There is increasing interest in several African countries to develop their automotive sectors including electric vehicles for local, regional consumption and export outside the continent. This session will discuss how the automotive sector can be better integrated regionally and at a continental level for African economies to be connected to the value chains, transfer skills, generate increase revenues and create jobs.

Moderator:

• Rabia El Alama, Managing Director, Amcham Morocco

Speakers:

• Hon. Alan Kyerematen, Minister of Trade and Industry, Ghana
• Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Senior Purchasing Manager Spain & Emerging Markets Sourcing, Ford Motor Company
• Mohamed Bachiri, CEO, Renault Maroc

Panel: Institutional Investors: Strategic Partnership to Advance Prosper Africa
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, KARAM 2

U.S. institutional investors navigated the Covid pandemic with a double-digit growth in assets under management (AuM) to end 2020 with $45 trillion. US investors account for 90% of North America and 44% of global AuM. To date, African countries and Multilateral Development Banks have struggled to mobilize US capital. This panel, hosted by Prosper Africa, will convene

U.S. and African institutional investors, fund managers and stakeholders to discuss investment challenges and opportunities in Africa. Panelists will discuss if current global health and geopolitical events present new opportunities for US institutional investors to reevaluate emerging market allocations. Our panelists will explore investable opportunities, vehicles, and partnerships necessary to increase US investment allocations in Africa. The session will also focus on strategies for establishing relationships between U.S. investors, assets managers, and stakeholders to develop innovative capital market solutions. Lastly, our panelists will discuss new technologies that facilitates the aggregation of assets in Africa which leads to African institutional investor AuM growth.

Moderator:

• Cameron Khosrowshahi, Senior Investment Advisor, Prosper Africa

Speakers:

• Joseph Boateng, Chief Investment Officer, Casey Family Programs
• Henry Jones, Board President (retired), California Public Employees’ Retirement System Valerie Mosely, Board member, New York State’s Common Retirement Pension Fund Investment Advisory Committee and the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits
• Obaid Amrane, CEO, Ithmar Capital
• Daniel Miller, Deputy Executive Director, NYC Board of Education Retirement System
• Vincent Le Guennou, CEO, Africa50 Infrastructure Acceleration Fund

Closing Plenary: Building Forward Together – The Future
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM, SALLE DES MINISTRES

Transparent, mutually reinforcing, and informed efforts by governments, multilateral financial institutions, development finance institutions, sovereign wealth funds, and private sector investors are crucial to accelerating economic development and prosperity. The launch of the Partnership for Global Infrastructure Investment at the G7 Summit June 26-27 offers an opportunity to re-focus the world’s attention on the global benefits of coordinated investment in economic development. This session will focus on the future – a future that is being shaped now, to which the concerted efforts of partners at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit can contribute.

Moderator:

• Abdou Diop, Partner, Mazars and Chair, Africa Committee, Confédération Générale des Entreprises du Maroc

Speakers:

• Hon. Ryad Mezzour, Minister of Trade and Industry, Morocco
• Hon. Alan Kyerematen, Minister of Trade and Industry, Ghana
• Hon. Dana Banks, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor for the U.S.- Africa Leaders Summit, The White House
• Hon. Nardos Bekele-Thomas, CEO, AUDA-NEPAD
• Temitope Iluyemi, Senior Director, Global Government Relations, Africa Region, P&G
• Farouk Gumel, Group Executive Director, Tropical General Investments Group

Vote of Thanks:
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM, SALLE DES MINISTRES
Florizelle Liser, President & CEO, Corporate Council on Africa
William “Kip” Ward (General, ret.), Vice Chairman of the Board – Corporate Council on Africa and Inaugural Commander of U.S. Africa Command
Hon. Ryad Mezzour, Minister of Trade and Industry, Morocco

Closing Lunch:
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, ROYAL BALLROOM