EU-African SME Summit 2021. 21-22 October 2021

Economy–Sustainability–Humanity – Roadmap to Shared Success!

Draft version

Venue: National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome (Italy)

Thursday 21st, October 2021

h 11:00 CEST / h 09:00 GMT / h 12:00 EAT

h 11:00 Chair: Mr. Giampiero Massolo, President of ISPI, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (Italy)

Welcoming by Mr. Maurizio Casasco, President of European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME and President of CONFAPI (I) and Mr. Youssouf Moussa Dawaleh, President of the Pan-African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PACCI) and President of the CCI Djibouti.

h 11:20 Opening Addresses

Opening Impulses:

h 11:20 Mr. Macky Sall, President of Senegal

h 11:30 Mr. Dario Franceschini, Italian Minister for Culture

h 11:45 Mrs. Amira El Fadil, African Union Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development

h 11:55 Mrs. Jutta Urpilainen, European Union Commissioner for International Partnerships

h 12:00 Mrs. Anna Cavazzini, Chairwoman of IMCO-Committee, European Parliament

h 12:10 Mr. Charles Chiumya, Acting Director of the Director General for Economic Development, Trade, Industry and Mining, African Union Commission

h 12:20 Mr. Robert Dussey, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation & African Integration of Togo

h 12:30 Session 1 – Which Future for Africa and Europe after COVID?

h 12:30 Opened by: Mr. David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament

h 12:35 Mr. Mmusi Kgafela, Botswana Minister for Investment, Trade and Industry

Mr. Dimitris Avramopoulos – Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece and European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship

Mrs. Tiekie Barnard, Founder & CEO of Shared Value Africa Initiative SVAI

Mr. Günter Nooke, Personal Representative of the German Chancellor for Africa

Mr. Kebour Ghenna Desta, Executive Director of Pan-African Chamber of Commerce and Industry PACCI

Mr. Francesco Rocca, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Mr. Sergio Arzeni, President of the International Network for SMEs INSME

Moderator: Mrs. Esther Awoniyi, CNBC Africa

h 13:50  Session 2 – New entrepreneurs for Africa: imagine, create and thrive to success

h 13:50 Opened by: Mr. Mert Dorman, Senior Vice-President of Turkish Airlines

h 13:55 Introducing: Mrs. Caroline Hauptmann, Konrad-Adenauer Foundation Dakar.

h 14:00 Mr. Luc Bonte, President of Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs OVO (Belgium), and Mrs. Wincate Muthini, Programme Manager of PACCI (Kenya), discussing with 7 Entrepreneurs from Europe and Africa with successful business projects in Africa

h 15:00 Session 3 – Launch of the Italian-African SME Alliance

Opened by: Mr. Giancarlo Giorgetti, Italian Minister for Economic Development

h 15:15  Signature of the Memorandum of Understanding between CONFAPI (M. Casasco), COLDIRETTI (E. Prandini), PACCI (Y.M. Dawaleh) and the CNP (B. Ange)

Mr. Baïdy Agne, President of CNP Senegal

Mr. Ettore Prandini – President of Coldiretti, Italian National Confederation of Farmers

h 15:30 Session 4 – Work-based professional training makes competitive & resilient SMEs

h 15:30 Opened by: Mr. Yacine El Mahdi Oualid, Algerian Minister for Knowledge Economy and Start-ups

h 15:40 Mrs. Raffaella Sadun, Harvard Business School

Mrs. Linda Onyango, CEO of SME Support Center Kenya

Mr. Stephan Kunz, Programme Manager of GIZ “Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation – Invest for Jobs”

Mrs. Blessing Ebere Achu, Director & Founder, 360 Creative Innovation Hub

Mr. David McKenzie, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

Moderator: Mr. Stefan Moritz, Managing Director European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME

H 16:30 Official Launch of the Africa IP SME helpdesk, organised by EU-Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the Directorate General International Partnerships (DG INTPA) of the European Commission and the EU-Africa Business Forum (EABF)

Mrs. Sandra Kramer, Director Africa at DG INTPA, European Commission

Mr. Andrea Di Carlo, Deputy Executive Director of European Union Intellectual Property Office EUIPO

Mr. Sandris Laganovskis, Director of the Institutional and Cooperation Department (EUIPO)

European SME owner bringing testimony of experience with IP helpdesk

Mr. Kamil Kiljanski, Acting Director for Investment and Chief Economist of the Directorate General for Single Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs of the European Commission (DG GROW)

Moderator: Mrs. Esther Awoniyi, CNBC Africa (Nigeria)

h 17:00 Session 5 – New financial tools for sustainable SME growth in Africa

Opened by: Mr. Stefano Barrese, Chief of Retail & SME Banking Division, Intesa Sanpaolo.

h 17:10 Mrs. Maria Shaw-Barragan, Director of Lending in Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, Asia and Latin America at European Investment Bank – Focused on development impact

Mrs. Sandra Kramer, Director Africa at DG INTPA, European Commission

Mr. Jean-Claude Tchatchouang, Former Executive Director of the World Bank, responsible for 23 African countries

Mr. Chris De Noose, Secretary General of World Savings and Retail Banking Institute

Mr. Emmanuel Agha, Managing Director & CEO | Innovectives Group

Mr. Brian Mangeni, CEO Einstein Rising & OVO Portfolio Manager East Africa Office

Moderator: tbd