WASHINGTON DC, USA,13 June 2022, /African Media Agency/-The Corporate Council on Africa has officially launched the 2022 U.S. – Africa Business Summit website which is now open for registration. The Summit, themed ‘Building Forward Together,’ will be held in Marrakech, Morocco on July 19 – 22, 2022 in partnership with the Kingdom of Morocco and…
The U.S.-Africa Business Summit is the first major in-person U.S.-Africa conference that meets the pent-up demand for countries and companies to re-engage and collaborate since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. CCA has an exciting line-up of high level and panel discussions, networking opportunities, and activities that will allow attendees to meet face-to face to engage on key U.S.
During the Summit, Africa50 will organize in partnership with the Corporate Council on Africa, a series of discussions dedicated to infrastructure investing in Africa. The sessions will include a presidential dialogue; a roundtable discussion on ways to mobilize institutional investors’ capital to fund infrastructure projects; a session on opportunities to increase Public-Private Partnerships in the power transmission sector; and a panel on tech-enabled infrastructure.
CCA’s co-host, The Kingdom of Morocco, will be facilitating site visits and tours of Marrakech and other Moroccan cities for special Summit guests. As the only African nation with a Free Trade Agreement with the United States, a major investor in sub-Saharan Africa and successes to showcase in penetrating key global manufacturing ecosystems , Morocco has much to showcase around the areas of increased intra-African trade as well as enhancing the U.S.