Résumé des sessions

• Published on 02 Jun. 2014 • Category : NYFA 2014Taskforce 4: Media and Entertainment Panelists: Yves Bigot, managing director, TV5 monde (France) Salim Cheick, Managing Director, 2M (Morocco) Francois Deplanck, SVP channel and content, canal+ Overseas (France) Dominique Flaux, Director, Ecofin Agency (Switzerland) Jean-Noel Tronc, CEO, Sacem (Fance) Nadia Salah, Editorial director, l’Economiste Moderator: Jon Foster-Pedley, Dean & Director of Henley Business School Africa (South Africa) Key questions · How to create sustainable cultural industries? · How to make artist(...)

• Published on 02 Jun. 2014 • Category : NYFA 2014Taskforce 3: Entrepreneurship Panelists: Madeline Berre, Managing Partner, Deloitte (Gabon) Tara Fela-Dorotoye, Founder, House of Tara (Nigeria) Jon Gosier, Founder, D8A Group and Appfrica (United States) Dan Shine, Curator, The Innovation Hangar (United States) Moderator: Dr Martyn Davies, Chief Executive Officer, Frontier Advisory (South Africa) Key questions · What are the ways for African countries to spark or continue to encourage their entrepreneurs? · What are possible solutions to the obstacles new or potential entrepreneurs and even medium(...)

• Published on 02 Jun. 2014 • Category : NYFA 2014Taskforce 2: Water Panelists: Kala Fleming, Water Research Scientist, IBM Research-Africa Lab (Kenya) Grant Gibbs, Executive Director, Hippo Water Roller Project (South Africa) Olivier Mukoko, Director General, Department of water Resources (Gabonese Republic) Paul Wood, Managing Director Africa and Arabian, Waterfund (UAE) Moderator: Mel Brooks, Senior Finance Lecturer, Henley Business School (South Africa) Key questions · Are there ways to jumpstart water infrastructure? · How can the public and private sector work together to solv(...)

• Published on 02 Jun. 2014 • Category : NYFA 2014Taskforce 1: Agriculture Panelists: Frank Braeken, Chief Investment Officer, Amatheon Agri Holding (Germany) Moussa Seck, Chairman, Pan-African Agribusiness and Agro-Industry Consortium (Kenya) Amine Tazi-Riffi, Director, McKinsey and Company (Morocco) Massard Kabinda, Secretary General, Government of the Republic of Gabon Fabrice Obingue, Falcon Ltd Moderator: Hannah Edinger, Director, Frontier Advisory (South Africa) Key questions · How can African countries develop methods of agriculture that ensure the most economically and sus(...)

• Published on 26 May 2014 • Category : NYFA 2014

FLASH: Une PME du Kenya a obtenu un investisseur live sur scèneAu cours du tout premier "Money Talks" au New York Forum AFRICA, une PME du Kenya a obtenu un investisseur live sur scène. M. Yariv Elbaz, fondateur de YCAP, a déclaré en direct "J’investis"lorsqu’il a entendu l’explication d’un concept de chargeur pour téléphone portable qui tient dans une chaussure, présenté par le fondateur d’Am-utua, M. Anthony Mutua, et sa collègue, M. Neema Wawuda. M. Elbaz a également confirmé qu’il aiderait à trouver des investisseurs pour les deux autres inventeurs qui ont présenté leur produit live sur la scène, M. Khaled Saleh de la socié(...)