AWIEF virtual conference, awards to hold December

The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum is an award-winning pan-African women’s economic empowerment organisation working to promote and support women entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa, through a portfolio of high impact development programmes and initiatives.

AWIEF is hosting the sixth edition of the Annual Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum as a virtual conference on 2 and 3 December, 2020, under the theme, ‘Reimagining business and rebuilding better.’

According to the organisation’s statement on the event, the theme calls for a reflection on the structures that underpin our African economies and society as “we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and explore ways to recover from its aftereffects.”

It added, that stakeholders would reflect on the role of entrepreneurship, leadership, technology and innovation, agriculture, intra-Africa trade, impact investing, women, and youth in a post-crisis world; and to reimagine the business, economy, leadership, and policies we need to rebuild and recover going into the future.

Since 2015 the annual AWIEF conference has provided a platform where more than 1,300 participants and stakeholders from across African countries and the globe connect and build new business relationships whilst engaging in thought-provoking conference sessions on issues that relate to innovation, entrepreneurship, women’s economic empowerment, trade and investing in Africa.

The AWIEF Awards, which celebrates excellence in women entrepreneurship and innovation on the continent, will take place on 3 December. The second edition of the media award that recognises the support of female journalists for women entrepreneurship in Africa will also be hosted during the AWIEF Awards.

AWIEF 2020 speaker line-up include Lana Marks, United States’ Ambassador to South Africa; Wamkele Mene, Secretary General, Africa Continental Free Trade Area; Vera Kamtukule, Deputy Minister, Labour, Skills and Innovation, Malawi; Véronique Haller, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Switzerland to South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mauritius and Namibia, among others.

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