Full Details on the Official Program Page
By the Numbers
We had 1507 unique registrants and 45.6% attendance rate for the conference. Due to the time of the event, many register in order to watch the conference proceedings at a later date.
In addition to our speakers and in-person delegates, we had 1507 virtual registrants. Speakers were as follows:
Speakers and/or in-person VIP delegates:
- Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada;
- Patricia Makhesha, Executive Vice President, Sustainability and Special Projects, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd;
- Goldy Hyder, President and Chief Executive Officer – Business Council;
- Sebastian Spio-Garbrah;
- V.I. Lakshmanan, (CEO, Process Research Ortech);
- Louis Watum, Managing Director, Ivanhoe Mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
- Ken Hoffman, Co-Head EV Battery Materials Research Group, McKinsey & Company;
- Cassandra Lee, Global Director of Pyrometallurgy, Hatch;
- Yosam Kiiza, Director of Operations, the Private Sector Federation, Rwanda;
- Thabo Kholoane, Advisor to Hon. Kgalema Motlanthe;
- Katya Blouin, Chief Business Officer, APO Group;
- Samson Arega, Ethiopian Airlines;
- Susan Namulindwa, VP, The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business;
- Pierre Boivin, Partner and National Leader of the Africa Group, McCarthy Tétrault LLC:
- Mustapha Bakkoury, CEO of MASEN (Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy); Kruskaia Sierra-Escalante, Manager, Blended Climate Finance Unit at the International Finance Corporation (IFC);
- Lade Araba, Managing Director for Africa, Convergence Blended Finance;
- Jacques NdoutouMvé, Founder, Africa Foresight Fund;
- Chris McLean, CEO, Stonechair Capital;
- Paula Caldwell St-Onge, Former Director General, Global Affairs Canada;
- Nikolay Hristov, PhD, Vice President, Sustainability, Dundee Precious Metals);
- Siri Genik, Principal and Founder, BRIDGRE© Consulting;
- Naseem Lahri, Managing Director, Lucara Botswana;
- Victoria Stephen, Chief Executive Officer, NFUSE: Bawn Holdings;
- Wayne Floreani, Vice President at MineAfrica Inc & Director, Canada- Africa Chamber of Business;
- Neil Reeder, VP (Government Relations) at B2Gold;
- E. Wamkele Mene, Secretary General, African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) Secretariat;
- Daniel Barankin, CEO (6ix);
- Andrew Branion, Fmr. Global Treasurer, ScotiaBank
- Solomon Adegbie-Quaynor, Vice President, African Development Bank;
- Deepak Dave, Chief Risk Officer, ATI;
- Tarik Khan, Director General for Africa at Global Affairs Canada;
- Akinyi J. Eurallyah, Post-Graduate Summer Fellow, The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business;
- Chris McLean, CEO, Stonechair Capital;
- Edith Gingras, Regional Director for Africa and MENA, Parliamentary Centre, Canada;
- Sosten Gwengwe, Minister of Trade, Republic of Malawi;
- Dave D’Oyen, National Lead, Black Exporters (EDC);
- Jean-Paul Muka, Account manager, Digital Transformation and International Business (EDC)
- Jean-Bernard Ruggieri, Chief Representative, Head of Middle East and Africa, Global Business Development (EDC);
- Mala Khanna, Assistant Deputy Minister for Sub-Saharan Africa, Government of Canada
Countries Represented
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Algeria Angola Botswana Canada Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi |
Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nigeria Rwanda Senegal South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Tunisia United States of America Zambia Zimbabwe
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For more information please contact:
Garreth Bloor
President
The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business
Tel: +1.647.667.1223
Email: garreth@canadaafrica.ca
Manulife Building RTO
55 Bloor Street West, PO Box 19553
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3T9