Africa’s economic potential is significant. While this has been common knowledge for decades, it is only now that the continent seems to be ready to fulfil this potential: Vast natural resources, continuous economic growth, improving governance standards and dozens of unexploited potentially high profile tourism destinations are among the reasons why Africa should be a force to be reckoned with for the future.
BRICA Summit 2010
Ikapa Media is proposing a BRICA (Brazil Russia India China Africa) Summit with focus on trade, tourism and investment to cement and strengthen the commercial relationships between Africa, South America and Asia. Particular attention will be placed on the energy sector, including supply management and alternative energies, as well as the effects of global warming, regional integration, trade and intergovernmental relations.
This international summit is proposed to take place in February of 2011, with international high-profile speakers from the political, business and academic sectors elaborating on trade and investment opportunities in these regions, and would be fully supported by the Department of Trade and Industry.
Objectives
To facilitate trade, tourism and investment between Africa, Brazil, Russia, India and China, by providing a suitable platform to discuss business and investment opportunities in these regions, to present each other’s economic advantages and promote sustainable trading bonds.
Primary Objectives:
To support South Africa and the African continent by exploring solutions to manage African resources, the global financial crisis, the energy demand and the challenge of global warming and position the BRICA Summit to become the leading annual event of its kind in the Indian and Pacific Ocean region.
Target Market
The target audience will be the key stakeholders and decision-makers from various sectors of business, government, banking institutions, investment funders, corporate financial advisors, development agencies, customs unions, project managers and tourism operators, hoteliers, import and export traders, etc.
Event Structure
The core of the event will be a two-day summit with more than 1000 delegates including plenary sessions, face-to-face discussions and breakaway workshops on topics in the fields of trade, tourism and investment in the Indian and Pacific Ocean region.
About the event organisers
Ikapa Media is committed to creating platforms for Africa and worldwide institutions, experts, governments, African Heads of State, to engage each other on issues that bring economic prosperity to Africa and its people.
Our Pan African approach is rooted within the expected outcomes of the NEPAD framework and strategic document that supports the vision of the African Union, which is committed to the betterment of life for the African people. It is from this framework that Ikapa Media Events derives its mission, to position the company as the leading media institution on the African continent. In line with this aim, we adopt an innovative approach, focused on taking forward the African Union agenda on socio-economic development.