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Markets4Development is pleased to inform you about the 3rd edition of the Women Working for Change Summit, the annual flagship event of the Women Working for Change initiative, which will be held online on Tuesday, 24 November 2020 from 8 am to 5 pm (GMT) and centred on the theme “Imagine tomorrow. Change today”.
The WFC Summit digital event will bring together 300 of Africa’s most influential women, including business leaders, members of boards of directors and executive committees, partners, and heads of financial institutions and government agencies.
Get a 20% discount on the registration fee while registering with Markets4Development.
We hope you will join this important digital event – we must come together to change the face of business in Africa.
The WFC Summit will be an excellent opportunity to:
Check who's attending
Highlights of the program
The pursuit of gender equality
The Gender Diversity Charter’s ambition is to encourage Africa’s leading companies to incorporate practices promoting gender equality in the workplace around four key principles.
The results of the gender barometer realized on the continent by Deloitte will be presented by Emna Kharouf, Managing Partner, Deloitte Consulting Africa. During this session, Ouided Bouchamaoui, Administrator of Hedi Bouchamaoui group and Gwendoline Abunaw, CEO, Ecobank Cameroon will share their best practices and advices for a better inclusion of women.
Conversations with...
Graça Machel, Founder, Graça Machel Trust, Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation of Egypt and James Mwangi, CEO, Equity Group Holdings will share their vision on female leadership, their personal experience, their initiatives towards a better representation of women, men's role...
Digital transformation: recruiting the talent you need
According to 81% of African leaders, digital transformation will be an essential component of their strategy in 2021. For their efforts to be successful, companies will need to recruit one or more additional employees in an extremely competitive environment. Agnès Gathaiya, Google and Yolanda Cuba, Chief Digital & Fintech Officer, MTN alongside other speakers, will share her experience.
Interactive thematic workshops include:
- Keys to intercultural communication
- Get African Women on Board
- Social networks: increasing your impact/controlling your image
- Cognitive bias: leadership’s worst enemy
- How to implement circular economy in your company
Get the full program and register with a 20% Markets4Development discount code here
Partners of the Summit
Contact the organizers for more information
info@wearewfc.com
The WFC Summit digital event will bring together 300 of Africa’s most influential women, including business leaders, members of boards of directors and executive committees, partners, and heads of financial institutions and government agencies.
Get a 20% discount on the registration fee while registering with Markets4Development.
We hope you will join this important digital event – we must come together to change the face of business in Africa.
The WFC Summit will be an excellent opportunity to:
- Get inspired by influential women on the continent and attend high-level panels
- Grow your network of women leaders just like you and discuss key topics with them
- Make a concrete contribution to women’s inclusion at all levels of leadership to propel Africa forward
Check who's attending
- Stephanie von Friedeburg, Interim Managing Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, IFC, USA
- Rania A. Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation, Arab Republic of Egypt
- Alexandra Palt, Executive Vice President, L'Oréal Foundation, France
- Graça Machel, Founder, Graça Machel Trust, South Africa
- James Mwangi, Group Managing Director and CEO, Equity Group Holdings, Kenya
- Ibukun Awosika, Chairwoman, First Bank Nigeria, Nigeria
- Daisy Wanjie, Group Chief Finance Officer, African Guarantee Fund, Kenya
- Yolanda Cuba, Chief digital and fintech officer, MTN, Nigeria
- Delphine Traoré, Chief Operations Officer, Allianz Africa, Ivory Coast
- Mary Wamae, Group Executive Director, Equity Group Holdings Plc, Kenya
- Ndidi Njoku, Chief Executive Officer, Markets4Development Ltd, United Kingdom
- Ariella Ji, CFO of Huawei Northern Africa, Huawei, Morocco
- Gwendoline Abunaw, Managing Director, Ecobank Group, Cameroon
- Myriam Brigui, Head of Operational Steering Network Department , PROPARCO, France
- Lamia Merzouki, Directeur Général Adjoint, Casablanca Finance City, Morocco
- Amy Jadesimi, Managing Director, LADOL, Nigeria
- Daphne Mashile-Nkosi, Executive Chairperson, Kalagadi Manganese, South Africa
- Cecilia Akintomide, Independent Director, FBN Holdings Plc, Nigeria
- Agnes Gathaiya, Country Director – East Africa, Google, Kenya
- Nana Araba Abban, Head, Group Consumer Bank, Ecobank Transnational Inc, Ghana
- Leila Bouamatou, Managing Director & Board Member, Générale de Banque de Mauritanie, Mauritania
- Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, Executive Director, Fidelity Bank Plc., Nigeria
- Fathia Bennis, CEO, Maroclear, Morocco
- Yvonne Ike, Managing Director, Head of Sub Saharan Africa (Ex-RSA), Bank of America Merrill Lynch, UK
- Patty Karuaihe-Martin, Managing director, NamibRe, Namibia
- Hadiza Ambursa, Executive director, Access Bank Plc, Nigeria
- Clem Ugorji, VP Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability, Coca-Cola West Africa, Nigeria
- Ngozi Edozien, Managing Director and Founder, InVivo Partners, Nigeria
- Frannie Léautier, Chief Executive Officer, Southbridge Investment, Rwanda
- Manon Karamoko, Managing Director and Chairman, Unilever CI, Ivory Coast
- Hanane Mourchid , Senior Vice-President Sustainability Platform, OCP, Morocco
- Boutheina Ben Yaghlane, Managing Director, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Tunisia
Highlights of the program
The pursuit of gender equality
The Gender Diversity Charter’s ambition is to encourage Africa’s leading companies to incorporate practices promoting gender equality in the workplace around four key principles.
The results of the gender barometer realized on the continent by Deloitte will be presented by Emna Kharouf, Managing Partner, Deloitte Consulting Africa. During this session, Ouided Bouchamaoui, Administrator of Hedi Bouchamaoui group and Gwendoline Abunaw, CEO, Ecobank Cameroon will share their best practices and advices for a better inclusion of women.
Conversations with...
Graça Machel, Founder, Graça Machel Trust, Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation of Egypt and James Mwangi, CEO, Equity Group Holdings will share their vision on female leadership, their personal experience, their initiatives towards a better representation of women, men's role...
Digital transformation: recruiting the talent you need
According to 81% of African leaders, digital transformation will be an essential component of their strategy in 2021. For their efforts to be successful, companies will need to recruit one or more additional employees in an extremely competitive environment. Agnès Gathaiya, Google and Yolanda Cuba, Chief Digital & Fintech Officer, MTN alongside other speakers, will share her experience.
Interactive thematic workshops include:
- Keys to intercultural communication
- Get African Women on Board
- Social networks: increasing your impact/controlling your image
- Cognitive bias: leadership’s worst enemy
- How to implement circular economy in your company
Get the full program and register with a 20% Markets4Development discount code here
Partners of the Summit
Contact the organizers for more information
info@wearewfc.com