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AIS 2025 Agenda

Africa Impact Summit 2025: Online Learning Series

Catch up on our insightful pre-Summit webinars designed to deepen your understanding of impact investing in Africa.

AIS 2025 Online Webinars
  • 8:30 am -
  • 9:10 am

Opening Ceremony, Welcome Remarks & Key Notes

  • 9:10 am -
  • 9:20 am

Mainstage Session. Setting the stage: Fundamentals of impact & conference rules

  • 10:00 am -
  • 10:10 am

Mainstage Session. Deal Source Africa presentation & impact investing in action pitch

  • 10:10 am -
  • 11:00 am

Mainstage Panel. Policy action to create an enabling environment for investing in SMEs and impact across Africa

  • 11:00 am -
  • 11:20 am

BREAK

  • 11:20 am -
  • 12:00 pm

Mainstage Panel: How to unlock local funding at scale for profit and impact

  • 12:00 pm -
  • 12:40 pm

Mainstage Panel. Building an investment-ready pipeline

Entreprenure session
  • 12:40 pm -
  • 1:30 pm

Mainstage Session: Risk Reduction and Social Impact Fund (RRSIF) presentation

  • 1:00 pm -
  • 2:00 pm

LUNCH

  • 2:00 pm -
  • 2:45 pm

Breakout/Parallel Session

Breakout/Parallel Sessions

Policy roundtable (Invitation only session)

Climate finance that works for Africa, mobilising private sector financing funding for resilience, adaptation and mitigation for prosperity in Africa

Breakout/Parallel Session.

Breakout/Parallel Sessions

Entreprenure session

Investor Connect

Sector Spotlight

Investing to transform lives - opportunities and learnings from education and health

  • 2:45 pm -
  • 3:25 pm

Mainstage Panel. Catalytic capital: Mobilising more risk capital to fill the SME financing gap

  • 3:25 pm -
  • 3:40 pm

Mainstage Session. GSG Presentation

  • 3:40 pm -
  • 4:20 pm

Mainstage Panel. Impact Measurement and Management that works in the African context

Entreprenure session
  • 4:20 pm -
  • 4:40 pm

BREAK

  • 4:40 pm -
  • 5:20 pm

Mainstage Panel. Fund-of-Funds an effective tool to mobilise funding at scale? Lessons from the field

  • 5:20 pm -
  • 5:40 pm

Closing Plenary

  • 5:40 pm -
  • 5:45 pm

Announcements

  • 5:45 pm -
  • 6:45 pm

Official Networking Cocktail

  • 6:45 pm -
  • 8:45 pm

AIIG & GSG community dinner | AIIG & GSG community only.

  • 7:30 am -
  • 9:00 am

Catalytic Capital Breakfast: Moving millions into impact investment in Africa. What does it take?

  • 9:00 am -
  • 9:10 am

Arrival to Ballroom

  • 9:10 am -
  • 9:30 am

Day 1 Brief recap and welcome

  • 9:30 am -
  • 10:10 am

Mainstage Panel. Exploring innovative financing mechanisms that have worked

  • 10:10 am -
  • 10:20 am

Mainstage Session. Two impact investing in action pitches

  • 10:20 am -
  • 11:00 am

Mainstage Panel. Collaborating across regions to build stronger impact investing ecosystems

  • 11:00 am -
  • 11:40 am

Mainstage Session. Investing as a tool to shift power for gender equality and combating gender based violence

  • 11:40 am -
  • 11:55 am

Mainstage Session. Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund presentation of findings and launch of the full Domiciliation Study on Africa as a Jurisdiction for Domiciliation Investment Vehicles

  • 11:55 am -
  • 12:15 am

BREAK

  • 12:15 pm -
  • 1:15 pm

Breakout/Parallel Session.

Breakout/Parallel Sessions

Entreprenure session

Time with Mrs. Ibukum Awosika

From research to real-world impact: Commercialising innovation through industry-academia synergy

Breakout/Parallel Session.

Breakout/Parallel Sessions

Inside the Deal - AIS Edition

Systemic Design for Impact Measurement: A Made in Africa Case Study

  • 1:15 pm -
  • 2:15 pm

LUNCH

  • 2:15 pm -
  • 3:00 pm

Breakout/Parallel Session.

Breakout/Parallel Sessions

Entreprenure session

How to raise money from us.

How to avoid the crash: investing for systemic impact

Breakout/Parallel Session.

Breakout/Parallel Sessions

Investing to transform lives - opportunities and learnings from Agriculture and food security

Sector Spotlight

Using Fintech and AI to drive impact in Africa

  • 3:00 pm -
  • 3:20 pm

Mainstage Session. Transforming Capital Systems: Why Africa Must Develop and Retain Family Offices

  • 3:20 pm -
  • 4:00 pm

Mainstage Panel. Unlocking Inclusive Innovation Across Africa

  • 4:00 pm -
  • 4:10 pm

Mainstage Session. Two impact investing in action pitches

  • 4:10 pm -
  • 4:40 pm

Mainstage Session | Debate – The reduction in aid funding: A catalyst for self-reliance

  • 4:40 pm -
  • 5:10 pm

Closing Plenary

  • 5:10 pm -
  • 6:00 pm

Networking in lobby

  • 7:00 am -
  • 8:30 am

AIIG & GSG CEOs and Board only. (Invitation only)

  • 8:30 am -
  • 9:00 am

Convene

  • 9:00 am -
  • 12:00 pm

Company visit

  • 12:00 pm -
  • 1:30 pm

LUNCH

  • 12:30 pm -
  • 2:30 pm

Accra City Tour

  • 2:30 pm -
  • 4:30 pm

Shopping

Hotel drop off