Moderator: : Sir Hugo Swire KCMG, Deputy Chairman, Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council

Panel 1: Ecosystem Enablers

● George Odhiambo, Managing Director, BPR Rwanda Plc
● Andrew Clint, Managing Director of Authentication, De La Rue, United Kingdom
● Bhairav Trivedi, CEO, Crown Agents Bank, United Kingdom
● Dr. Diane Acha-Morfaw, Chair, Cameroon Promotion Investment Agency, Cameroon

Panel 2: Impact of COVID-19 on manufacturing: Managing future disruptions

● Dr. Darshan Chandaria, Group CEO, Chandaria Industries Ltd
● Dr. Asiwaju Michael Olawale-Cole, President, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nigeria
● Kampeta Sayinzoga, CEO, Development Bank of Rwanda, Rwanda

Session Description: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt for decades to come. Supply chain resilience being one of the hardest hit areas. The World Economic Forum states that innovating ecosystems is one of key drivers of competitiveness, and remains a cornerstone of a modern economy. This session will ask panelists to draw on their expertise from the financial sector, manufacturing sector, and chambers of commerce and industry to share insights into how policy-makers can better collaborate with the private sector to reaffirm global supply chains.

Location: Akagera Hall, KCEV

Video: “Agile technology and data governance to unlock socio-economic benefits of cross-border collaboration and trade”

Presentation: Israel Bimpe, Zipline, Director Africa Go-To-Market, Rwanda

Moderator: Alice Higiro, Project Director, Ministry of ICT and Innovation, Rwanda

Panelists:

● Victoria Brackett, Group Chief Commercial Officer, Irwin Mitchell, United Kingdom
● Hon. Soraya Hakuziyaremye, Deputy Governor, National Bank of Rwanda
● Ben Hedley, Leader, Commonwealth Standards Network (CSN) and Africa and Caribbean Engagement, United Kingdom
● Frank Hester, CEO, TPP, United Kingdom
● Dipo Faulkner, Vice President, Oracle Africa, Nigeria

Session Description: Technology continues to rapidly change the way we live and work, often for the better. A new era of disruptive technologies like big data, cloud technology, Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are driving productivity, GDP growth, and research & development opportunities. To maintain this growth, we must leverage digital innovation, sustainable digital infrastructure, and regulatory foresight. Delegates will learn about: governance use cases; sandbox strategy ideas; pathways to navigate conversations on behalf of innovators; and, how to identify governance gaps.

Location: Kigali Hall, KCEV

Welcome remarks: Silas Lwakabamba, Regional MD, Coventry University Africa Hub

Opening remarks: Prof John Latham, Vice- Chancellor & CEO, Coventry University Group

Moderator: Fiona Muthoni, Presenter and Producer, CNBC Africa

Panel Session: The role of Education in the African labour market: Skills and Innovation for Growth
• Dr. Valentine Uwamariya, Minister of Education, Rwanda
• Dr. Joanna Newman, Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities
• John Humphrey, Her Majestry’s Trade Commissioner of Africa (UK)
• Prof. John Latham, Vice- Chancellor and CEO, Coventry University Group

Signing of MoUs & Launch of MBA Programme

Remarks by Guest of Honor: TBC

Vote of Thanks: Prof. Silas Lwakabamba and invitation to the Coventry University Group Exhibition Booth

Location: Disrupt Hub, KCEV

Moderator: Victoria Chelangat Sabula, CEO, Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund, Kenya
Chair: Dr. Ernest Nsabimana, Minister of Infrastructure, Rwanda
Co-chair: Simbarashe Mhuriro, General Manager of RioEnergy,the energy division of RioZim Limited , Zimbabwe- TBC
Scene setter: Jumoke Jagun-Dokunmu, Regional Director for Eastern Africa, IFC, Nigeria

Thought Leaders:

• Teddy Mugabo, CEO, Rwanda Green Fund
• James Mwangi, Executive Director, Dalberg
• Paul Hinks, Founder and Chairman, Symbion Power, USA
• Mansoor Hamayun, Founder, BBOX
• Samuel Makome, CCO, KCB Group
• Prof. Irving Mintzer, Director, Initiative on Closing the Investment Gap in Sustainable Finance, University of Maryland
• Ayo Otuyalo, Group Managing Director, Prime Atlantic

Session Description: We are not on track to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. Nearly 760 million people across the world still lack access to electricity and 2.6 billion still rely on dirty fuels for cooking. This session will bring together representatives from business, governments, civil society, science and academia to participate in discussions and debates – with the objective of laying out concrete actions, commitments and partnerships that will be required by all actors to ensure the Commonwealth is on track to successfully make the transition towards clean energy.

Location: Urukari Hall, KCEV

Keynote Address

• The Hon. Chris Fearne, Deputy PM of Malta, Minister of Health and Pediatric Surgeon

Opening Remarks from TPP

• Frank Hester, CEO, TPP

Moderator: Georgie Ndirangu, Global Moderator & Consultant, Portland, Kenya

Panel: Bridging the Global Health Equity Gap

• Frank Hester OBE, CEO, TPP, United Kingdom
• Dr. Sangu Delle, CEO, Africa Health Holdings, Ghana
• Gregory Rockson, CEO, mPharma, Ghana
• Dr. Senait Fisseha, Director of international programs, Susan Buffett Foundation, Ethiopia

IDRC Presentation by: Kathryn Toure, Regional Director, Eastern and Southern Africa, IDRC, Canada

Fireside Chat: Innovating for Vaccine Equity

• Robert Nelsen, Chairman, Resilience Biotech, United States
• Holm Keller, Executive Chairman & CEO, kENUP, Germany
• Fergus Drake, CEO, Crown Agents, United Kingdom
• Noella Bigirimana, Deputy Director General, Rwanda Biomedical Center

Closing

Session Description: The pandemic pushed health systems around the world to their limits and exposed previously unknown fragilities. Technologies that emerged during the pandemic have the ability to increase equitability and access to quality healthcare. The focus must now shift on strengthening health care systems as we slowly emerge from crisis mode. This session will discuss the policies, practices and partnerships that need to be adapted and scaled to build resilient and sustainable global health systems that will withstand the next crisis and continue to provide uninterrupted care that is accessible to all. The session will also examine how we define and value global health in the wake of the pandemic. The session will run in two parts, the first part will be a panel conversation on addressing the global health equity gap and the second will be a fireside chat focused on innovating for vaccine equity.

Akagera Hall, KCEV

Lightning Talk: Iyinoluwa E Aboyeji, Founder and General Partner, Future Africa, Nigeria

Moderator: Rebecca Enonchong, CEO, APPS Tech, Cameroon

Panelists

• Mark Napier, CEO, FSD Africa, Kenya
• Nick O'Donohoe, CEO, British International Investment, United Kingdom
• Shola Akinlade, CEO and Co-Founder, Paystack, Nigeria
• Joe Moynihan, CEO, Jersey Finance, Jersey
• Dr. Diane Karusisi, CEO, Bank of Kigali, Rwanda
• Samuel Makome, CCO, KCB Group, Kenya
• Chantal Kagame, CEO, Mobile Money Rwanda Ltd, MTN Group, Rwanda

Session Description: Financing is an essential element of bringing nearly any good idea to life, whether for a household, a community, a country, or an entire region. Innovations in financing in recent years have opened a variety of new prospects to advance business and development priorities across the Commonwealth. This session will explore the challenges of traditional financing, opportunities with innovative financing models and how governments and businesses can make the most of them for the Commonwealth. It will also analyse the role of FinTech such as Crypto, AI and Blockchain in growing the economy, how governments can create the infrastructure to help it thrive and how government can de-risk private investment.

Kigali Hall, KCEV

Master of Ceremony: Fiona Muthoni, Presenter and Producer, CNBC Africa

Video Message

• Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO, Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL)

TED Talk series

• Green City Pilot and the Challenges of Financing Green Initiatives
• Teddy Mugabo, CEO, Rwanda Green Fund
• Innovative Conservation Finance: Natural Assets, Conservation Trust Funds, and Leveraging Carbon Finance
• Dr. Max Graham, Founder and CEO, Space for Giants
• Women and Climate Change: Achieving Gender Equity in this Space
• Sophie Odupoy, Group Head of Public Affairs at KOKO Networks, Kenya
• Closing the investment gap in sustainable finance: Challenges and what the Commonwealth can do to mitigate them
• Prof. Irving Mintzer, Director, Initiative on Closing the Investment Gap in Sustainable Finance, University of Maryland

Q&A- Audience Interaction

Guided Exhibition Tour, “Transformation Cluster,” and networking

Session Description: Never before has humanity faced such a pressing need for sustainable development and environmentally conscious innovation. With longstanding warnings about rising temperatures and sea levels, record glacial melt, increasingly dangerous weather patterns, and the rapid desertification of formerly plentiful arable land, the time to act is now. To tackle the myriad issues facing humanity, both co-ordination and localised solutions are needed. What unites us is the existential threat of ecological collapse, and the need to facilitate the changes necessary to protect us all and indeed our planet. By reducing consumption, changing behaviours, providing financial and governmental support to climate initiatives and innovative research, and encouraging global education on these matters; we can and will make a difference.

Location: Disrupt Hub, KCEV

Chair: Hon. Claudette Irere, Minister of State, MINEDUC

Co-chair: Fred Swaniker, Founder & CEO, African Leadership Group

Scene setter: Nathalie Munyampenda, CEO, Kepler, Rwanda

Thought leaders:

• Prof. John Latham, Vice-Chancellor, Coventry University, United Kingdom,
• Ify Umunna, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Nourishing Africa, Nigeria
• Tsitsi Masiyiwa, Executive Chair & Co-Founder, Higherlife Foundation
• Pascal Murasira, Managing Director, Norrsken East Africa
• Gbemi Disu, Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon University Africa
• Ayo Otuyalo, Group Managing Director, Prime Atlantic

Session Description: With 2.4 billion citizens spanning 5 continents, the Commonwealth's greatest strength lies in its people, 60% of whom are under the age of 30. Yet millions of these citizens remain unemployed and untapped in our national economies, while many of those that are working are not doing so as effectively as they could. Our collective challenge as a Commonwealth is to close the existing skills gap and catch up with the modern economy, even when the nature of work is rapidly changing in the context of globalisation and the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). This roundtable will focus on how the Commonwealth can re-skill and upskill our people to properly prepare them for the jobs of today and of the future.

Location: Disrupt Hub, Virunga Hall, KCEV

Keynote: Rt. Hon. Andrew Michael Holness, Prime Minister, Jamaica

Moderator: Tesi Rusagara, MD, Kigali Innovation City

Panelists:

• Hon. Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT and Innovation, Rwanda
• Hardy Pemhiwa, President and CEO, Cassava Technologies, South Africa
• Dr Valentine Obi, Chairman, eTranzact, Nigeria
• Yonas Maru, Founder, BCS Group, Mauritius
• Tomas Lamanauskas, Managing Partner, Envision Associates & Candidate for Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, Republic of Lithuania
• Ralph Mupita, President & CEO, MTN Group, South Africa
• Dr Amod Kumar, Deputy Director General, Unique Identification Authority of India

Session Description: The Digital Divide refers to a significant difference in accessibility, affordability, usability, and/or equity of technology experience based on categories such as income, race, gender, location, and education. The complex challenge occurs in finding practical and workable solutions that can bridge this divide and prevent new divides from opening in the next generations. Some efforts to close the digital divide include digital inclusion policies and tools, pooling of resources and understanding the realities of the grassroots. The goal is to achieve digital equity where all individuals and communities have the technology capacity needed for full participation in society, democracy and economy. The big question is, where do we begin?

Location: Akagera Hall, Virunga

Moderator: Tumi Dlamini, CEO, Organisation for Global Africa Cooperation South Africa

Scene setter: Batya Blankers, Co-Founder & CEO, Chancen International, Rwanda

Panelists:

• Dr. Andrew Forrest, Non-executive Chairman, Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) & Chairman and Co-Founder, Minderoo Foundation
• Itzhak Fisher, Chairman of the Board, Rwanda Development Board
• Mohamed Amersi, Founder, Inclusive Ventures Group
• Colin Buckley, Managing Director and General Council, British International Investment, United Kingdom
• Christelle Kwizera, Founder, Water Access Rwanda

Session Description: Impact investments are investments made with the intention to generate positive and measurable social and environmental impact, alongside a financial return. Philanthropists and impact investors are aligning their capital to the Sustainable Development Goals and weighing their financial return on investments alongside environmental and social impact. This session will share insights on: impact investments & how they work, as well as what impact investors look for, how they measure impact, and market opportunities.

Kigali Hall, KCEV

Chair: Nick Barigye, CEO, RFL, Rwanda

Co-Chair & Moderator: Bronek Masojada, Advisor, Lloyd’s of London

Thought leaders:

• Wole Oshin, Founder and MD, Custodian Group, Nigeria
• Dr. Diane Karusisi, CEO, Bank of Kigali, Rwanda
• Joe Moynihan, CEO, Jersey Finance, Jersey
• Alice Kilonzo-Zulu, MD, Ecobank Rwanda, Kenya
• Bhairav Trivedi, CEO, Crown Agents Bank, UK
• Dr. Valentine Obi, CEO, eTranzact, Nigeria
• Wilf Blackburn, Regional CEO, Prudential

Session Description: This session will cover three main topics: (1) Facilitating Global Trade, (2) Accessing financing for SMEs, and (3) Innovation and FinTech. The roundtable will seek to raise a shared understanding and draw out insights across members of government, private sector, and civil society who are playing lead roles in how these issues are unfolding across the Commonwealth and globally. Before closing the discussion, all participants will be asked to share 1-2 ideas as take-away points to work on during the upcoming 2 years under the leadership of the Chair, Nick Barigye, CEO of RFL.

Location: Urukari Hall, KCEV

Introduction by Moderator: Georgie Ndirangu

AWF Background

• Belise Kariza – Country Director- Rwanda, African Wildlife Foundation

AWF Vision Video

Keynote Address

• Kaddu Sebunya - Chief Executive Officer (CEO), African Wildlife Foundation

Panel Discussion: ‘Redefining the role of private finance in conservation’

• JULIET KABERA – Director General of the Rwanda Environment Management Authority
• EMERY RUBAGENGA -- CEO Ishango Investment Ltd.
• ROB BAAS – Managing Director of Wilderness Safaris Rwanda
• ANDREA ATHANAS – Senior Director Business Engagement & Europe- African Wildlife Foundation

Q&A session

Closing Remarks and Group Photo

Session Description:

Flourishing communities, resilient economies and thriving businesses rely on nature.
The African Wildlife Foundation has been committed to engaging the private sector at all implementation levels of conservation. We have identified several key stakeholders that have not been traditionally engaged at high-level conservation conferences. This event is aimed at bringing several key stakeholders together to change the narrative and their understanding of the benefits that could potentially come from natural resources beyond sourcing for raw materials for big consumer product companies.

Location: Departure from KCEV

• Tour
• Meet and greet
• Presentations

Transforming the Commonwealth
Location: Departure from KCEV

Video: Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary, UN Convention of Biological Diversity

Fireside chat

Moderator: Lord Marland, Chairman, Commonwealth Enterprise & Investment Council

• The Rt. Hon. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister, Antigua & Barbuda,
• The Rt. Hon. Philip Davis, Prime Minister, The Bahamas,

Panel

Moderator: JP Fabri, Director, Seed Consultancy

• Mansoor Hamayun, Founder, BBOX, United Kingdom
• John Bowers, Director of New Business, MDA Technologies
• Millie Ogden, Council Member, Vanuatu Chamber of Commerce and Industries
• Dr Nick Hardman-Mountford, Head of Oceans and Natural Resources, The Commonwealth
• Colin Buckley, Managing Director and General Council, British International Investment, United Kingdom

Session Description: The unique characteristics of small islands present both benefits and vulnerabilities. How can green financing solutions such as ‘The Commonwealth Green Finance Facility’ help islands use their size and agility to accelerate their uptake of Nature Based Solutions, and transform their reliance on tourism and shipping into blue-green growth? The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) describes the ocean as the next great economic frontier, as it holds potential for wealth and economic growth, employment and innovation. It is now more important than ever to achieve a cohesive partnership between governments, organisations, policy makers, and the private sector to ensure that there are no unnecessary barriers to achieving this potential.

Akagera Hall, Virunga

Video: Joss Kent, CEO, &Beyond

Moderator: David Rhoden Salmon, Journalist, Jamaica Gleaner

3-way Ministerial Chat: From Dialogue to Action- Policy Maker Perspective

• Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism, Jamaica
• Hon. Vijay Daryanani, Minister for Business, Tourism and the Port, Gibraltar
• Hon. Hamat Ngai Kumba Bah, Minister of Tourism and Culture, the Gambia

Panel: From Dialogue to Action-Private Sector Perspective

• Dr Max Graham, Founder and CEO, Space for Giants, United Kingdom
• Kaddu Sebunya, CEO, Africa Wildlife Foundation, Kenya
• Rudra Chatterjee, Vice Chairman, Luxmi Tea, India
• Yvonne Makolo, CEO, Rwandair, Rwanda
• John Holland-Kaye, CEO, Heathrow Airport-tbc

Session Description: Tourism is a ‘super growth industry’ and a vital pillar of many Commonwealth countries, contributing to economic wealth and development. COVID-19 has shed light on the need to future-proof travel, tourism, and conservation to withstand global shocks. In this session, Commonwealth industries leaders will share their strategies to revitalise tourism and revive ancillary sectors, such transport and hospitality. Discussions will also address transitioning tourism from a commercial business to an impact business. Lastly, this session will also explore ways to promote environmental sustainability within tourism activities.

Location: Kigali Hall, Virunga