2008 Business Diary Date Event Country Organization 04 - 07 Feb 2008 Mining Indaba Cape Town, South Africa International Investment Conferences 14 - 17 Feb 2008 Africa Business Conference Boston, MA, USA Africa Business Club at Harvard Business School 2007 Business Diary Date Event Country Organization 14 - 16 Jan 2007 Third Roundtable with the Government of Nigeria Abuja, Nigeria Economist Conferences 24 - 28 Jan 2007 World Economic Forum Davos, Switzerland World Economic Forum 30 - 31 Jan 2007 Clean Development Mechanism Africa 2007 Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa IQPC 01 - 02 Feb 2007 Africa Trade and Investment 2007 Sub Saharan Risks and Rewards Cape Town, South Africa Exporta Group 06 - 08 Feb 2007 Nigeria Oil and Gas Abuja, Nigeria CWC 06 - 08 Feb 2007 12th Annual Mining Indaba Cape Town, South Africa International Investment Conferences 16 - 18 Feb 2007 Africa Business Conference at Harvard Business School Boston, USA Harvard Business School, Africa Club 07 - 09 Mar 2007 LNG San Antonio 2007 San Antonio, USA 07 - 09 Mar 2007 3rd East African Petroleum Conference Arusha, Tanzania 08 - 09 Mar 2007 WAIPA Annual Conference Geneva, Switzerland World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) 07 - 11 Mar 2007 International Tourism Fair Berlin, Germany 13 - 14 Mar 2007 Second Annual Southern Sudan Investment and Development Conference Nairobi, Kenya 20 - 21 Mar 2007 4th Annual Mideast Upstream 2007 Dubai, UAE 25 - 28 Mar 2007 The Asian Banker Summit Jakarta Indonesia The Asian Banker 28 - 29 Mar 2007 4th Annual African Petroleum Forum 2007 London, UK 27 - 30 Mar 2007 2nd African Biofuels Vodaworld, Midrand, South Africa 16 - 17 Apr 2007 Global Refining Strategies 2007 Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I, Barcelona, Spain 07 - 09 May 2007 Forum International de la Finance Alger 2007 Hфtel El Aurassi, Algiers, Algeria 09 - 10 May 2007 5th Annual Maghreb & Mediterranean Oil & Gas 2007 Marrakech, Morocco 21 - 23 May 2007 Ghana Investment Forum La Palm Royal Beach Hotel, Accra Ghana Investment Promotion Centre 23 - 25 May 2007 Africa Oil & Gas, Trade & Finance Conference & Exhibition Nairobi, Kenya 26 May 2007 Africa Day 2007 London London Business School Africa Club 08 Jun 2007 Ai Index Awards London, UK 13 - 15 Jun 2007 World Economic Forum on Africa Cape Town, South Africa World Economic Forum 18 - 20 Jun 2007 CEER 2007: Renewable Energy Algiers, Algeria ITE 05 Jul 2007 Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards Royal College of Physicians, London Diageo Africa 17 Jul 2007 First Business Roundtable with the Government of Kenya Nairobi, Kenya Economist Conferences 17 - 20 Jul 2007 Private Equity World Sandton, Johannesburg Terrapinn 27 - 31 Aug 2007 African Banking Congress Sandton, Johannesburg Terrapinn 02 - 05 Oct 2007 Private Banking and Wealth Management Africa 2007 Johannesburg Terrapinn 05 - 06 Nov 2007 IPTV Middle East and Africa Show Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai 14 - 16 Nov 2007 US-Africa Summit Cape Town Corporate Council on Africa 10 - 12 Dec 2007 International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology for Developing Nations Accra, Ghana 2006 Business Diary Date Event Country Organization 29 - 31 Jan 2006 Second Business Roundtable with the Government of Nigeria Nicon Hilton, Abuja, Nigeria Economist Conferences 01 - 03 Feb 2006 Poor Common Wealth? Can the UN Millennium Development Goals still be achieved in the Commonwealth Cumberland Lodge, Berkshire, England Cumberland Lodge 17 - 19 Feb 2006 Harvard Business School Eighth Annual Business Conference Boston, MA, United States Harvard Business School 27 Feb - 03 Mar 2006 Financing Black Empowerment Partnerships Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa Terrapinn 08 - 09 Mar 2006 WAIPA World Investment Conference 2006 Geneva, Switzerland WAIPA 14 - 15 Mar 2006 Southern Sudan Investment and Development Conference Nairobi, Kenya CWC 14 - 18 Mar 2006 Global Summit On HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine & Indigenous Knowledge Accra, Ghana UNAIDS 21 - 24 Mar 2006 14th Annual International Payments 2006 - Bringing Banks and Corporates together The Brewery, London EC1Y 4SD, United Kingdom ICBI 29 - 30 Mar 2006 2nd Global Bankers Conference on the Nigeria Banking Reforms London, UK Business in Africa Events 03 - 05 Apr 2006 Nigeria Oil and Gas 2006 Abuja Nigeria CWC 04 May 2006 West African Trade & Transport: Today’s Reality, Tomorrow’s Potential Middle East Association, Bury House, St.James’s, London, UK African Business Events 04 - 06 May 2006 Housing Africa Cape Town OPIC 11 - 12 May 2006 South African Sport and Investment Promotion Conference Chelsea Football Club, London South African High commission 13 May 2006 Africa Day London Business School, London, UK London Business School Africa Club 16 - 17 May 2006 GSM East and Central Africa Nairobi, Kenya Informa 23 - 25 May 2006 Novatech 2006 Investment Conference on ICT West/Central Africa Sofitel Hotel, Bamako, Mali Novatech - ProЂInvest 22 - 26 May 2006 African Banking Congress Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa Terrapinn 31 May - 02 Jun 2006 World Economic Forum Africa Summit Cape Town, South Africa World Economic Forum 26 - 30 Jun 2006 Africa Rail Midrand, South Africa Terrapinn 28 - 30 Jun 2006 African Ports and Harbours Congress 2006 Midrand, South Africa Terrapinn 28 - 30 Jun 2006 African Energy Forum Lille, France EnergyNet Ltd 04 - 06 Jul 2006 Telecoms and Investments 2006 Abuja, Nigeria 10 - 12 Jul 2006 Gulf of Guinea and Beyond London, UK CWC 15 - 17 Aug 2006 East African Power Industry Convention (EAPIC) and East African Mining Industry Convention (EAMIC) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Spintelligent 04 - 06 Sep 2006 CTO Forum London, UK CTO 05 - 08 Sep 2006 Private Equity World Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa Terrapinn 12 - 14 Sep 2006 Technology of Oil & Gas, 3rd International Forum and Exhibition Tripoli, Libya 12 - 14 Sep 2006 Sudan Invest 2006 Khartoum, Sudan International Event Partners Ltd 10 - 15 Sep 2006 TourismAfrica 2006 Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland Stragetic Business Meetings 18 Sep 2006 Bending the Arc New York, USA africapractice 18 - 20 Sep 2006 Africa International Media Summit Accra, Ghana 19 - 21 Sep 2006 Fifth International Nigerian Telecommunications 2006 Abuja, Nigeria CWC 27 - 29 Sep 2006 US-Africa Infrastructure Conference Washington, USA Corporate Council on Africa 03 - 05 Oct 2006 Infrastructure Partnerships for African Development (iPAD) Central Africa Kinshasa, DRC Spintelligent 03 - 06 Oct 2006 Tourism 2006 Windhoek, Namibia 19 - 20 Oct 2006 GSM>3G Africa Cape Town, South Africa Informa 23 - 24 Oct 2006 Nigerian Finance and Banking Conference Zurich, Switzerland GBF 23 - 26 Oct 2006 Private Banking and Wealth Management Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa Terrapinn 07 Nov 2006 Fifth Business Roundtable with the Government of South Africa Johannesburg, South Africa Economist Conferences 08 Nov 2006 GSM>3G North Africa Tunis, Tunisia Informa 07 - 09 Nov 2006 West African Power Industry Convention (WAPIC) and West African Mining Industry Convention (WAMIC) Accra, Ghana Spintelligent 09 Nov 2006 Africa investor Awards Ceremony Nairobi, Kenya Africa investor 09 Nov 2006 Africa investor Projects Summit Nairobi, Kenya Africa investor 11 - 12 Nov 2006 Oil and Gas conference Washington, USA Corporate Council on Africa 16 - 17 Nov 2006 Triple Bottom Line Investing Conference Paris Brooklyn Bridge 19 - 21 Nov 2006 Northern Africa Power Industry Convention (NAPIC) Sharm el Sheik, Egypt Spintelligent 23 - 24 Nov 2006 Africa Diaspora Investment Forum 2006: Harnessing the Role of the Diaspora in the Agriculture Sector: An Investment or S London Africa Recruit 27 - 30 Nov 2006 African Banking Technology Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg Terrapinn 2005 Business Diary Date Event Country Organization 16 - 17 Jan 2005 First Business Roundtable with the Government of Nigeria Nicon Hilton, Abuja Economist Conferences 20 Jan 2005 Commission for Africa Uganda Consulation Workshop Kampala, Uganda Commission for Africa 20 Jan 2005 "Innovative financing of infrastructure: The role of Public-Private Partnerships" Luxembourg European Investment Bank 24 Jan 2005 Southern Africa Business and Investment Roundtable Radisson Edwardian Marlborough Hotel, London The Economist 26 - 28 Jan 2005 Biz 2005 Lusaka, Zambia TBC 04 Feb 2005 G7 Finance Ministers Meeting London, UK G7/G8 02 - 05 Feb 2005 World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) African Regional Conference Accra, Ghana WSIS 08 - 10 Feb 2005 10th Annual Investing in African Mining Conference Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa IIC 08 - 10 Feb 2005 Building Digital Opportunities Through Public-Private Partnerships: "The Liberalisation of African Telecoms" Arabella Sheraton Grand Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa The World Summit Organisation 11 - 13 Feb 2005 Africa Business Conference: Beyond Natural Resources: Developing Africa’s Competitive Advantage Boston Massachusetts Corporate Council on Africa 11 - 13 Feb 2005 7th Annual Africa Business Conference Boston, USA Africa Business Club, Harvard Business School 14 - 18 Feb 2005 African Petroleum Congress and Exhibition - Cape II Algiers, Algeria CWC 22 - 23 Feb 2005 Business/NGO Engagement: How to Create Win-Win Outcomes Regent's Park Marriott Hotel, London Ethical Corporation 23 - 24 Feb 2005 Third Roundtable with the Government of Egypt Semiramis Intercontinental, Cairo Economist Conferences 22 - 25 Feb 2005 Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, ninth session Geneva, Switzerland UNCTAD 01 Mar 2005 Financial Sector Reforms in Nigeria The Dorchester, London BusinessinAfrica Events 02 - 04 Mar 2005 The East African Petroleum Conference 2005 Imperial Resort Beach Hotel, Entebbe, Uganda 09 - 10 Mar 2005 WAIPA Annual Conference Geneva, Switzerland WAIPA 07 - 11 Mar 2005 Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, ninth session Geneva, Switzerland UNCTAD 16 - 18 Mar 2005 Water Africa 2005 Sub-Sahara Dar es Salaam, Tanzania TBC 18 - 19 Mar 2005 Euro-African Business and Investment Forum - "Renewable Energies and Investments" Holiday Inn Hotel, Cologne/Bonn Airport, Waldstrasse 255, 51147 Kцln, Germany JAAG Consultancy 23 Mar 2005 Southern Africa Business Forum Launch Botswana High Commission, London SABF 05 - 06 Apr 2005 GSM West Africa Dakar, Senegal Informa 06 - 09 Apr 2005 6th Annual International Academy of African Business and Development Conference Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 18 - 20 Apr 2005 Nigeria Oil & Gas 2005 Abuja, Nigeria CWC 22 Apr 2005 London Business School Africa Day 2005 London, UK London Business School 22 - 23 Apr 2005 First Annual British-African Women's International Network (BAWIN) London Conference London, UK BAWIN 11 - 13 May 2005 Carbon Expo Cologne, Germany Koelnmesse 11 - 15 May 2005 UNECA Meeting of Finance Ministers Abuja, Nigeria UNECA 17 - 19 May 2005 Export Africa 2005 Midrand, South Africa South African Department of Trade and Industry and Standard Bank 18 - 19 May 2005 African Development Bank Annual Meeting Abuja, Nigeria AfDB 19 - 21 May 2005 African Government Policies: Integration of the Diaspora Bonn, Germany African Youth Foundation 19 - 21 May 2005 Stakeholders Meeting on African Government Policies - Integration of the Diaspora Bonn, Germany African Youth Foundation 28 May 2005 ECOWAS 30th Anniversary Heads of State Summit Abuja, Nigeria ECOWAS 31 May - 03 Jun 2005 9th Oil & Gas, Trade & Finance Conference and Showcase Joaquim Chissano Conference Centre, Maputo, Mozambique ITE Exhibitions 01 - 03 Jun 2005 World Economic Forum Africa Economic Summit 2005 Cape Town, South Africa World Economic Forum 02 - 03 Jun 2005 GSM East and Central Africa Event Mombassa, Kenya Informa 20 - 22 Jun 2005 4th World Chambers Congress Durban, South Africa 20 - 22 Jun 2005 West Africa Oil and Gas 8 - Gulf of Guinea and Beyond London, UK The CWC Group 21 - 23 Jun 2005 Information Security World Africa Johannesburg South Africa Terrapinn 21 - 24 Jun 2005 2005 US-Africa Business Summit Baltimore, Maryland, USA CCA 23 - 25 Jun 2005 Crans Montana Forum Monaco Crans Montana Forum 28 - 29 Jun 2005 WABA hosts London seminar on ICT outsourcing opportunities in Ghana London, United Kingdom West Africa Business Association (WABA) 04 Jul 2005 Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards 2005 London, UK Diageo 04 Jul 2005 Bending the Arc: The Business of Attaining the Millenium Development Goals London, UK ABR, NEPAD, NEPAD Business Group, Corporation of London and africapractice 05 Jul 2005 Business in the Community Awards 2005 Royal Albert Hall, London Business in the Community 06 - 08 Jul 2005 G8 Summit Gleneagles, Perthshire, Scotland G8 20 Jul 2005 IR Magazine South Africa Conference and Awards 2005 Hilton Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa IR Magazine 21 - 22 Jul 2005 International Conference on Shared Growth in Africa Accra, Ghana Cornell University/ISSER/The World Bank 14 - 16 Sep 2005 UN Millennium Review Summit New York, USA UN 26 Sep 2005 18 World Petroleum Congress Sandton, South Africa 18wpc.com 26 - 27 Sep 2005 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund Washington DC, USA World Bank and IMF 18 - 19 Oct 2005 The New Role for Business in Developing Countries London Ethical Corporation 25 - 26 Oct 2005 UNEP FI Global Roundtable 2005 UN Headquarters, New York UNEP FI 06 - 10 Nov 2005 Fifth African Venture Capital Conference Mombassa African Venture Capital Association 16 - 18 Nov 2005 WSIS: The World Summit on the Information Society Tunis, Tunisia UN/ITU 19 Nov 2005 Wharton Africa Business Forum 2005 Wharton Business School, United States Wharton Africa Student's Association 21 Nov 2005 Fourth Business Roundtable with the Government of South Africa Johannesburg Economist Conferences 21 Nov 2005 Ai Investment Awards 2005 Johannesburg Africa investor 22 - 24 Nov 2005 African Infrastructure Congress Johannesburg Terrapinn 28 Nov - 02 Dec 2005 UNIDO General Conference tbc UNIDO 2004 Business Diary Date Event Country Organization 18 - 22 Jan 2004 Corporate Citizenship - The Challenge for Africa Nairobi British Council and CBC 05 Feb 2004 Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility and Sustainable Investment Conference Rome, Italy 13 Feb 2004 African Peer Review (APR) Forum Kigali, Rwanda NEPAD 14 Feb 2004 Heads of State and Government Implementations Committee Meeting (HSGIC) Kigali, Rwanda NEPAD 16 - 20 Feb 2004 WTO Workshop Barbados tbc 21 Feb 2004 Trans-Sahara Trade Fair Nigeria 26 Feb 2004 Debate among US Democratic Presidential Candidates US CNN and LA Times 15 - 27 Feb 2004 Kenya Investment Conference Nairobi, Kenya CBC (tbc) 01 Mar 2004 Oil Africa 2004 Cape Town, South Africa 01 Mar 2004 UN-ECA African Development Forum (ADF) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 01 Mar 2004 Africa Energy Conference Abuja, Nigeria 09 - 10 Mar 2004 WAIPA Annual Conference 2005 Geneva, Switzerland WAIPA 07 - 11 Mar 2004 UN-ECA African Development Forum (ADF) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) 09 - 11 Mar 2004 Oil Africa 2004 Cape Town, South Africa The Sub-Saharan OIL* GAS* PETROCHEM Exhibition and Conference 14 Mar 2004 Russia Presidential Elections Russia 17 Mar 2004 Abuja Offshore West Africa Abuja 22 - 24 Mar 2004 Africa Energy Congress & Exhibition Abuja, Nigeria 22 - 24 Mar 2004 Africa Investment Forum London TransAfrica21 17 - 21 Apr 2004 The Fourth Africa Venture Capital Conference Marrakech –Casablanca, Morocco African Venture Capital Association 26 - 29 Apr 2004 8 African Oil & Gas, Trade & Finance Conference Morocco 14 - 30 Apr 2004 12th Session of UN Commission on Sustainable Development New York . 14 - 30 Apr 2004 UN Commission in New York London . 03 - 08 May 2004 ITU Telecom Africa 2004 Cairo . 24 - 25 May 2004 Oil and Gas in Africa London Royal Institute of International Affairs 01 - 02 Jun 2004 Creating the Climate for Change - Sustainable Energy Finance Event Bonn, Germany 01 - 04 Jun 2004 International Conference for Renewable Energies Bonn, Germany 02 - 04 Jun 2004 World Economic Forum Africa Economic Summit Luanda , Angola WEF 13 - 18 Jun 2004 UNCTAD 11 Sao Paolo, Brazil . 04 - 12 Jul 2004 3rd AU Summit Addis Ababa, Ethiopia African Union - TBC 26 Jul - 03 Aug 2004 Building African entrepreneurship Trinidad and Tobago Emancipation Support Committee 26 - 27 Aug 2004 Meeting of the African Peer Review (APR) Panel Johannesburg, South Africa APRM 26 - 27 Aug 2004 The 5th International Sustainability Forum: Business Investment in Development Zurich, Switzerland The Sustainability Forum, Zurich/SOFI 03 - 04 Sep 2004 NEPAD Steering Committee Meeting and Workshop Johannesburg, South Africa NEPAD 05 Sep 2004 19th World Energy Conference Sydney, Australia 07 - 09 Sep 2004 ACT 2004: The Sixth Annual African Computing & Telecommunications Summit Mauritius Aitec 16 Sep 2004 Tremblant Forum 04:Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Westin Resort Tremblant Hotel, Mont Tremblant, Quebec TBC 14 - 17 Sep 2004 Libya Energy Week Tripoli, Libya ITE 15 - 17 Sep 2004 Bilateral US-Nigeria Investment Conference: Enhancing Nigerian-US Investment Partnerships The Nicon Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria CCA-NESG 21 - 22 Sep 2004 African Corporate Citizenship Convention 2004 FNB Training Centre , Johannesburg African Institute of Corporate Citizenship 23 Sep 2004 Swiss - South African Business Development and Investment Forum Zurich, Switzerland SOFI/SCSA 24 Sep 2004 Institutional Reform Roundtable: Tax Laws and the Growth of Business Cairo, Egypt CIPE and Egyptian Professional Tax Society 24 - 29 Sep 2004 1st Madagascar Expo TBC Innovation Exhibitions 29 - 30 Sep 2004 Increasing Capital Flows to Africa Johannesburg, South Africa Corporate Council on Africa and the U.S. Export Import Bank 04 - 05 Oct 2004 African Partnership Forum Washington DC, USA NEPAD/G8 05 - 08 Oct 2004 SAITEX 2004: The 12th South African International Trade Exhibition Gallagher Estate Exhibition Venue, Midrand, South Africa. TBC 07 - 08 Oct 2004 2nd meeting of the Commission for Africa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Commission for Africa