Wadhwani Africa Virtual Youth Entrepreneurship Summit

Overview

Wadhwani Africa Virtual Youth Entrepreneurship Summit is a forum to bring together leading entrepreneurial voices and strengthen the capacities of emerging entrepreneurs through shared experiences of successful and leading African start-up voices, Masterclasses delivered by experts and an opportunity to gain 1:1 feedback by great mentors.

Keeping the context of COVID-19 in mind – WAYES-’20 has been designed to envisage a post-pandemic way forward.

The objective of WAYES, 2020 is to:

Guide entrepreneurs through personalized experiences of successful entrepreneurs.
Help entrepreneurs imagine upcoming scenarios post-COVID-19 and how could they be dealing with it with required preparedness and alacrity!
Inspire entrepreneurs to build the resilience gene and imbue a growth-mindset from failures and
Help them visualize a road-map full of possibilities in an uncertain and undefined world.
Equip them with key tools, skills and strategies to navigate way forward.

Why Attend?

If you’re an entrepreneur, aspiring entrepreneur (student, young/mid-career professional). Join us for the first day-long virtual Wadhwani Africa Youth Entrepreneurship Summit, 2020.

You will be able to gain insights, learn new skills and tools, and have an opportunity to be mentored by the best. The summit brings together key successful and influential youth entrepreneurs, senior policymakers, investors, mentors and domain experts. You will be able to create opportunities and navigate key challenges in a post-pandemic world.

Agenda

Opening Session

10.00 - 11.30 (EAT) / 9.00 - 10.30 (SAST) - Opening Plenary

Post Pandemic: How can African Entrepreneurs emerge stronger from the current situation.

Speakers: Ian Lorenzen, Mark Frankel, York Zucchi, Mathbisi Bokete

Parallel Tracks

Focuses on experiences of founders from Kenya, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda and Rwanda. Drawing from their experiences of having faced uncertainties, founders offer practical tools, strategies and mindsets to overcome these challenges.

11.30 - 12.15 (EAT) / 10.30 to 11.15 (SAST): Emerging Stronger after Pivot

Speaker: Rick Ed

12.25 - 13.15 (EAT) / 11.25 - 12.15 (SAST): Pivoting as a constant in Entreprenurial Journey

Speaker: Vivian Opondoh

14.00 - 14.45 (EAT) / 13.00 - 13.45 (SAST): Customer, my best friend - why?

Speaker: Sam Njela

14.45 - 15.30 (EAT) / 13.45 - 14:30 (SAST): Building Authetic Customer Relationships

Speaker: Soud Hyder

15.30 - 16.15 (EAT) / 14.30 - 15.15 (SAST): Building an Online Business

Speaker: Jean Claude Ukuri

16.15 - 17.00 (EAT) / 15.15 - 16:00 (SAST): Building a Manufacturing Business

Speaker: Emanuel Tuyisenge

Delivered by domain experts, and academicians. Themes for these sessions will focus on lessons on design thinking, developing a strong business pitch and marketing.

11.30 - 13.15 (EAT) / 10.30 to 12.15 (SAST): Design Thinking - Building Winning Business Solutions

Speaker: Kaustubh Dhargalkar

14.00 - 14.45 (EAT) / 13.00 - 13.45 (SAST): Developing a strong Business Pitch

Speaker: Greg Mason

14.45 - 15.30 (EAT) / 13.45 - 14:30 (SAST): Market your Business with a great video pitch

Speaker: Anelisa Tuswa

15.30 - 17.00 (EAT) / 14.30 - 16.00 (SAST): Lean Canvas - a life line for today's entrepreneur (Usage and Effect)

Speaker: Raj Bhat

Designed to provide 1:1 feedback to fast track ventures on an early path to growth. Participants obtain crucial feedback and mentorship by expert panels. Envisaged as an opportunity to both learn and showcase the exemplar start-ups in African eco-system and how their trajectories could be supported through mentorship. Each session will focus on four venture presentation, providing presenters with a unique opportunity to get 1:1 feedback.

(Founder)

York Zucchi

(Plenary Panelist)