Guidance

UK-Africa trade and investment events

Trade and investment events help you gather information, make contacts and expand your network, and promote your business.

Many trade and investment events provide virtual attendance options as well as attendance in person. Click through to individual events in the table for details.

The UK government does not endorse events listed on this page.

Upcoming events

Event Date Organiser
Africa Food Systems Forum (AGRF) 2 to 4 September 2024 AGRF – Africa Food Systems Forum
Africa Business Forum 2024 26 September 2024 AGRA, Government of Rwanda
AFSIC Investing in Africa 7 to 9 October 2024 Africa Events Ltd
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 21 to 26 October 2024 The Commonwealth Secretariat
FT Africa Summit 29 to 30 October 2024 FT Live
Africa Energy Week 4 to 8 November 2024 Africa Energy Chamber
Global Trade Review Africa 14 November 2024 Global Trade Review
COP29 11 to 22 November 2024 UN Climate Change
Africa Investment Forum 4 to 6 December 2024 African Development Bank

Past events

These events have already occurred, but their websites continue to provide resources, such as recordings of live meetings, forums, blogs and other useful information.

Event Date Organiser
Africa Energy Forum 25 to 28 June 2024 Energynet
Africa Tech Summit 7 June 2024 Apps Africa
The Africa Debate 4 to 6 June 2024 Invest Africa
Mining Indaba 5 to 8 February 2024 Hyve
Tanzania Energy Cooperation Summit 31 January to 1 February 2024 Energynet
UK-Rwanda Business Forum 29 to 31 January 2024 British High Commission Kigali

This guidance is provided as part of the UK government’s Growth Gateway service.

Updates to this page

Published 20 May 2022
Last updated 19 July 2024 + show all updates
  1. Updated with events for the period September to November 2024.

  2. Updated with 5 events coming up in March to November 2023

  3. First published.

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