Connecting North America Innovation Ecosystems with Africa
Where Start-ups meet VCs
Where VCs meet Funds of Funds
MARCH 18th - 20th, 2024
at Stanford University
Schedule
Monday, March 18th, 2024 at Stanford
ME2WE GENERAL EVENTS
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 at Stanford - 9:30 - 10:30am
PANEL DISCUSSION
Africa business opportunities & challenges
How can YOU get involved
Introduction: Christelle (Mombo-Lutete) Mombo-Zigah
Moderator: Sally Nnamani
Panelists:
Sharat Raghavan
Okey Ukaga
Laurent Kaczmarek
Hoss Zaouali
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 at Stanford - 10:30 - 11:00am
AI and its impacts on the Labor Market
Sharat Raghavan
Head of Economic Graph, Data Science at LinkedIn
Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 at Stanford - 11:00 - 12:00pm
Google and YouTube in Africa
Okey Ukaga
Operations Manager, TV & Partner Engineering, YouTube
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 at Stanford - 12:00 - 1:00pm
Lunch at Stanford
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 at Stanford - 1:30 - 2:30pm
Outsourcing in Africa is (and will be) an opportunity for your company
Laurent Kaczmarek, Director of Innovation at JFN University in Cameroun
Hoss Zaouali, Consultant at the African Development
Registration
StanfordLEAD
participants
LEAD participants, please register to Me2We to participate in this edition of VC-BootCamp.
Africa Edition
Reveal & Accelerate Innovation in Africa’s Ecosystem.
In this edition, we aim to reveal the true potential of African Innovation Ecosystems and introduce esteemed speakers to highlight Africa’s dynamic growth and guide the discovery of untapped entrepreneurial ventures across the continent.
$2.6 Billion in projected consumer and business spending by 2026
The True Size of Africa
‣ Africa is the world leader in Mobile Money.
‣ Manufacturing output will double by 2025.
‣ 122 million users of mobile financial services.
‣ Unmet demand creates huge opportunity to innovate and scale.
‣ 54 countries expected to create the world’s largest free trade area.
‣ Extraordinary Growth and Profitability, if you have the right strategy.
credit: Kai Krause
What is VC-BootCamp?
VC-BootCamp (VC-BC) is a well-established symposium in Silicon Valley hosted in March of each year. This innovationcentric event is hosted at Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley, and Skydeck.
VC-BC’s mission is to build bridges between various innovation ecosystems around the world and connect VC-firms, funds of funds and entrepreneurs from over 60 countries. In partnership with Stanford Me2We 2024, VC-BC supports governments, development banks, investment funds, incubators, and accelerators as they help entrepreneurs turn good ideas into great businesses.
Our goal is to shape a global innovation ecosystem that will:
- Boost scale-ups from different parts of the world.
- Give access to impact-driven investments to the most promising business regions around the world.
Special Guest
25+ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
who have addressed the opportunities emerging from building bridges between global innovation ecosystems
RECEPTIONS
where corporate executives, leaders, and investors can exchange on strategy, investments and talent attraction
PITCH
COMPETITIONS
for Start-Ups and Scale-Ups
VISITS
to SKYDECK (Plug & Play Incubator),
Stanford University, and UC Berkeley
AUDIENCES
of over 300 executives from over 60 countries
Networking
Make valuable connections and meet peers and thought leaders
in your industry and in all others touched by tech. Sergio Letelier,
VP M&A at HP Enterprise said it best,
“VC-BootCamp does a superb job of building community through networking.”
Attracting Scale-ups
Meet Scale-up companies interested in expanding to Africa and looking for partners and investors.
Forbes said,
“This event allows you to fully express your potential by gathering provocative LEADers, brilliance, and investment dollars.”
Learning
We live in uncertain times for tech and business. We're welcoming the people who are tackling the big challenges facing the industry today. Our executive experts from Stanford University and UC Berkeley will cover topics ranging from the MetaVerse to Smart Cities and Environmental Sustainability.
We will also focus on how to create and attract a scale-up ecosystem (as opposed to just start-ups)
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