Official Press release
Her Excellency Jutta Urpillainen (Commissioner for intl partnership European Commission), Balbina Malheiros Dias da Silva, (S.E. Ambassador of Angola to the Federal Republic of Germany), Diamantino Pedro Azevedo (Minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Angola) and Krzysztof Drynda (President of the Board Polish Investment and Trade Agency, PAIH), among others to attend the 2023 Africa Global business summit AGBS Berlin.
The Africa Global Business Summit Berlin (AGBS) 2023 themed "Advancing Africa's Global Private Sector Partnerships: Prospect and Challenges, will be hosted at the 5-star prestigious Hotel Waldorf Astoria in Berlin on the 23rd and 24th of March 2023.
The AGBS Berlin 2023 is one of the most influential in-person business conferences on the ease of doing business and investing in Africa focusing more on the private and public sectors while Analysing Growth Drivers and Business Risk in Africa.
The summit is expected to be graced by Heads of State, Ministers of Economies, Governors, Prime Ministers, and most importantly top business leaders from Africa and from around the globe.
Keynote Speakers such as Her Excellency Chief Dr. Jewel Howard-Taylor (Vice President of the Republic of Liberia), Diombass Diaw (Head of the Economic Office at the Embassy of Senegal in Warsaw, Poland), Krzysztof Drynda (President of the Board Polish Investment and Trade Agency, PAIH), Jutta Urpilainen (European Union Commissioner for International Partnerships in the European Commission), Diamantino Pedro Azevedo (Minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Angola) and other notable speakers will be present for the event.
The summit will explore a renewed commitment by both public and private sector stakeholders with their government and policymakers counterparts to building stronger business collaborations and strategic trade relations with Global Investors and the African Market. It is also an opportunity for global financial actors, investors, development partners, entrepreneurs, diplomats, and technocrats to build strategic networks, identifying growth drivers and business risks as they plan out modalities for the post-Covid economy.
Africa has been considered one of the fastest-growing consumer markets, a major source of raw materials, and probably the world's future factory after China and India due to demographic factors. The current population of Africa is 1,414,512,604 as of Saturday, October 22, 2022, based on the latest United Nations estimates. The population density in Africa is 45 per Km2 (117 people per mi2). The total land area is 29,648,481 Km2 (11,447,338 sq. miles) 43.8 % of the population is urban (587,737,793 people in 2019), The median age in Africa is 19.7 years.
The above statistics based on People Analytics placed the region as one of the most sought-after by almost all the major global players.