ALN2015 Brochure - African Leadership Network

ALN 2015:
ANNUAL GATHERING
Marrakech, Morocco
November 3-7, 2015
BOUNDARIES
Define - Defend - Defy
Exploring the Boundaries of Possibility in Africa
In partnership with:
Where
leaders
from around
the world
convene in
Africa.
An eclectic, inspiring and fast-paced gathering
of over 400 of the world’s most influential
leaders – crafting the future for Africa
The cream of African
potential, hope,
and change-making
strength.
The Huffington Post
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Showcase your idea
at Needs & Leads:
In under 5 minutes, share your
new idea or fledgling project with
decision makers and influencers
from around the world. Each
year, the Needs & Leads session
generates millions in investment
opportunities and triggers
collaboration between members.
The ideas first presented here
have gone on to alter the course
of projects, companies and
movements.
What makes
the ALN Annual
Gathering different?
Relationships
Make meaningful connections with other attendees through
interactive sessions and unstructured free time.
Inspiration
Be a part of insightful conversations with Africa’s new thinkers,
disruptors, and changemakers and develop the new ideas that will
move the continent forward.
Entrepreneurship
Celebrate Africa’s leading enterprises at the Africa Awards for
Entrepreneurship gala dinner, and meet its most promising earlystage entrepreneurs at the ALN Ventures Dragon’s Den event.
Action
Experience the continent’s rich cultural heritage in the form of music,
dance, poetry, and art.
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Why should
you attend?
Who attends?
Entrepreneurs - Executives – Investors
Academics – Experts
Public Sector Leaders – Nonprofit Leaders
Artists – Authors – Designers
Efficient way to
do business
“The Gathering is the most efficient way to have
meaningful conversations with hundreds of leaders
focused on Africa.
Instead of criss-crossing the globe, conduct a year’s
worth of high-impact meetings in the time and expense
of just a single 3-day event.”
Acha Leke, ALN co-founder
Top industries
Technology & Innovation
Finance
Media & PR
Public Sector
Consulting / Accounting / Legal
NGO
Entertainment / Arts / Sports
Be part of conversations
that shape Africa
Energy & Resources
Private Equity
CEO/MD/
Founder
Senior
Executive
Participate in conversations about Africa’s future as they happen &
be the first to know about the “critical trends shaping the continent”
Develop your
relationship capital
Cultivate genuine relationships with high-caliber attendees,
develop trust & and build your reputation on the continent.
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400+
Individuals from 40+ countries
[80% in Africa – 20% outside Africa]
Who attends:
Public
Sector
Leaders
Africans need to know
Africa. Africans need
to trade with Africans.
Louise Mushikiwabo, Minister
of Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation, Rwanda
Past attendees
H.E. Paul
Kagame
Hailemariam
Desalegn
Xavier
Luc-Duval
Hanna
Tetteh
January
Makamba
Louise
Mushikiwabo
Kgosi Leruo
Molotlegi
Donald
Gips
Paulo
Gomes
President of
Rwanda
Prime Minister of
Ethiopia
Vice Prime
Minister of
Mauritius
Minister of
Foreign Affairs
and Regional
Integration, Ghana
Tanzanian
presidential
candidate
Minister of
Foreign Affairs
and Cooperation,
Rwanda
King, Royal
Bafokeng Nation
Former U.S.
Ambassador to
South Africa
Presidential
candidate,
Guinea-Bissau
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Who attends:
Top business
leaders
Success story:
AGCO, South Africa
At ALN2012 in Accra, Nuradin
Osman, AGCO’s CEO for Middle
East and Africa, spoke about AGCO
and its work as the third largest
manufacturer of agricultural
machinery in the world.
In the audience was the 2012
AAE Lifetime Achievement Award
winner, South African entrepreneur
Dr. Richard Maponya. Dr. Maponya
immediately approached Mr.
Osman and shared his vision to
make local poultry available to
low-income African families.
AGCO proposed an $87 million
business plan to Dr. Maponya,
which included the construction
of a poultry farm in South Africa
with the capacity to raise 600,000
chickens.
The ALN Gathering helps me think bigger about
my work and involvement with the continent. I am
proud to be connected to such an amazing group
of visionaries, practitioners, and connectors.
Initial conversations between
AGCO and Dr. Maponya were
fruitful, and the project is
underway.
ALN Member
Past attendees
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Gervais
Djondo
Kofo
Akinkugbe
Manu
Chandaria
Hakeem
Belo-Osagie
Richard
Maponya
Tunde
Folawiyo
Mimi
Alemayehou
Marlon
Chigwende
Marang
Denalane
Co-Founder
of Ecobank, a
pan-African bank
operating in 36
countries
Founder of
SecureID,
leader in digital
security in over
16 countries
Chairman & CEO
of Comcraft,
a multibillion
dollar industrial
conglomerate
based in Kenya
Chairman of
Etisalat Nigeria
and founder of
Nigeria’s leading
money markets
trading firm
CEO of South
Africa’s most
prominent
property
development firm
and founder of
African Chamber
of Commerce
MD of Yinka
Folawiyo Group,
a diversified
conglomerate
and board
member of MTN
Nigeria and
Access Bank
MD at Black
Rhino Group
and Chair at
Blackstone
Africa, one of the
world’s largest
investment firms
Managing
Director at The
Carlyle Group,
a private equity
firm that raised
$700M for its
Africa fund
Director at Sphere
Holdings, a
high-performing
investment and
holding company
in South Africa
with broad
interests
Who attends:
Artists,
Academics,
and Authors
Past attendees
Shingai
Shoniwa
Lira
Basketmouth
Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie
Chiwetel
Ejiofor
Catherine
Duggan
Paul
Romer
Moreira
Chonguica
Naima
Mclean
Singer & Member
of the Noisettes
Multi-Platinum
Selling Singer
Comedian &
Actor
Award-Winning
Author
Oscar-Nominated
Actor
Business Professor,
Harvard & Oxford
NYU Economist,
Entrepreneur &
Activist
Saxophonist &
Composer
Singer & Actress
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Organizations
represented
Companies and organizations
represented by attendees include:
Past and current partners
and sponsors include:
TRANSPORTEUR AÉRIEN OFFICIEL
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TRANSPORTEUR AÉRIEN OFFICIEL
Headline
Partner for
ALN 2015
What do people say
about the Gathering?
A vibrant membership community of
Africa’s most dynamic and influential
new-generation leaders.
One of Africa’s biggest leadership
meetings and growing in
prominence each year.
Forbes
How We Made It in Africa
ALN and its founders
have been featured in:
Cross-border partnerships grow
businesses and build relationships
that achieve positive policy
development. That is the motive
behind African Leadership Network.
CNBC Africa
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Typical agenda
Day:
Wed
Intimate sessions for
ALN members
Day:
Official opening
cocktail
Thur
Thematic sessions
& workshops;
unstructured free time
Day:
Evening:
Evening:
Africa Awards for
Entrepreneurship
gala dinner
Fri
Thematic sessions & workshops;
Needs & Leads; ALN Ventures
Dragon’s Den event;
unstructured free time
Evening:
Closing party
Africa’s economic resurgence will only be achieved
through pan-African collaboration.
We at ALN believe that only those leaders
equipped with pan-African relationships will be
able to drive the integration of our economies,
the aggregation of our population, and build panAfrican businesses of scale.
That is what ALN aims to do—facilitate these panAfrican relationships.
Fred Swaniker, ALN co-founder
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About ALN
The voice of Africa’s leaders.
1,500 members and alumni from over 40 countries
who represent top leadership in the private sector,
government, civil society, and academia.
ALN promotes prosperity in Africa, builds
relationships among Africa’s leaders, and
drives entrepreneurship and enterprises
in through 3 year-round initiatives:
Investing in and supporting Celebrating Africa’s most
Africa’s most promising
innovative & impactful
early-stage entrepreneurs companies and business
leaders
Matching American
business professionals
with placements at
African-led businesses
The Africa Business Fellowship is an innovative
approach to brokering links between emerging
leaders in the US private sector and some of Africa’s
most dynamic companies.
Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations
ALN was co-founded in 2010 by
Acha Leke (Senior Partner, McKinsey
& Company) and Fred Swaniker
(Founder, African Leadership Group),
who were inspired after attending
global conferences and seeing Africa
on the periphery at these events.
They identified a need to create a
pan-African network that would
place Africa’s emerging leaders front
and center—and ALN was born.
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African Leadership Network
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