Scheduled B2G Meetings
Connect and engage with African ministers and government officials through dedicated one-to-one meetings.
SCHEDULED MEETINGS BETWEEN INDUSTRY PARTNERS & SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
The unique proposition of Innovation Africa, since being established in 2010, has been the dedicated pre-scheduled meetings between industry solution providers and government ministers and officials for education, higher education, ICT and skills. Join us in Harare for the highest-ever anticipated turnout of African leaders and officials.
FORMAT AND OPPORTUNITY
Quite simply Innovation Africa is a meetings-based summit between business and government. Half of the event program is devoted to one-to-one meetings. All participating African ministries have their own dedicated meeting area for hosting meetings throughout the afternoons of day one and day two, and the morning of day three of the summit.
The direct interaction of face-to-face meetings is extremely advantageous in building relationships and demonstrating a commitment to working in the education, skills and ICT sectors in Africa. Partners will often have more than twenty scheduled government meetings embedded within their forum agenda. This is alongside the numerous networking and on-site engagements that Innovation Africa is designed to encourage.
B2G meetings are scheduled in advance, allowing the strictly limited number of event partners to connect, collaborate, generate ideas, deepen existing relationships and communicate clear opportunities by having over forty African governments all under one roof at the same time.
GENUINE OUTCOMES
At Innovation Africa, nobody is an attendee, everyone is a participant – taking part in scheduled meetings to develop relationships and drive partnerships between government and the private sector. Over 1,000 meetings will be scheduled during the three days of the summit. Since 2010, this format has resulted in genuine outcomes, project implementation and memorandums of understanding that have made a measurable difference across the education, skills and edtech landscape in Africa.
The 2027-28 Procurement Super Cycle in Africa we are witnessing the major trend of Education–Technology–Employment Convergence with an increasing specification for curriculum and assessment reform, edtech and digital learning, AI enabled education, skills development, STEM and TVET.
PRE-SCHEDULED MEETINGS
The key to a successful meetings-based summit is our proprietary scheduling software. Accredited partners are given access to the online scheduling system prior to the start of the forum. You choose with whom you want to meet and select the time slot (25 minute windows), thus creating your own meetings agenda for the duration of the summit.
Innovation Africa 2027 will have over 60 dedicated ministerial meeting areas representing African education, innovation, digital transformation, skills and ICTs. This unique system allows us to organise over one thousand meetings over the three days. Furthermore, our on-site meeting manager allows companies to organise additional ad hoc meetings at the event to maximise engagement time.
INNOVATION IN EDUCATION SYSTEMS: THE NEW POLICY DIRECTION
Innovation policy increasingly begins inside the education system. The AU's Decade of Accelerated Action for Education and Skills explicitly seeks movement from diplomas towards skills and from institutional isolation towards innovation, while expanding STEM, TVET, digital technology and AI-enabled education.
For Africa’s Innovation–Education–Economy, the emerging architecture is:
Curriculum Reform → Teacher Capability → STEM / Digital Learning → Applied Skills → Research & Innovation → Entrepreneurship → Industry → Employment.
“We have moved money from wastage and moved it into education. We have defied all odds because we believe education is the best investment. It is critical we develop our human resources.”
H.E. Hakainde Hichilema - President, Republic of Zambia