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What's Your Big

DEA?. The MIT Sloan 2014 Africa Innovate Conference. What's Your Big. Pro- NICHE Network . 2013 - 2014. 3_85. Executive Summary:.

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What's Your Big

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  1. DEA? The MIT Sloan 2014 Africa Innovate Conference What's Your Big Pro-NICHE Network 2013 - 2014

  2. 3_85 Executive Summary: • The MIT Sloan Africa Business Club’s annual Africa Innovate conference is a platform for the world’s brightest minds to share ideas and debate issues that will shape Africa’s future • The 2014 MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Conference is themed “What’s Your Big Idea?” • The Africa Innovate Conference serves to promote: • Entrepreneurship and sustainable economic transformation in Africa • Past successes include game-changing enterprises Sanergy and Wecyclers • Visionary ideas and leadership with real world impact • Innovate Salone, birthed at Africa Innovate 2012, has become a celebrated platform for promoting young innovators in an emergent Sierra Leone • Sponsors partner on a fresh, student-led event with tangible benefits, including: • Exposure to a concentrated pool of high-potential recruits from the world’s leading universities • Opportunity to interface with ideas that are changing the world by supporting: • The Africa Innovate Business Plan Competition • The Vision Talks • Identification with MIT’s brand of innovation, principled leadership, and positive change • Other benefits include: • Access to VIP networking events • Guided tour of MIT’s cutting-edge Media Lab

  3. 3_85 Partners: • Pro-Niche network has been coordinating the MIT Africa Innovate Conference for the last two years. • Pro-Niche network is a group of companies based in various African nations whose mandate is to co-ordinate and ensure active participation of Africa at the MIT Africa Innovate Conference. • The purpose of the Pro-Niche Network is to: • Niche-Networking Africans interested in academic, commercial and technological partnerships • Information and Idea Exchange with professionals of like-minds • Empower upwardly-mobile young Africans for global impact • Create a culture of ‘trust’ between African Entrepreneurs and their Global Counterparts • Learn from opportunities of actual situations in other countries • International exposure for personal and professional growth • Go Gaga Experiential is one of the Pro-Niche Network coordinating the participation of Eastern Africa. • Go Gaga Experiential ensures: • Identification & recruitment of Keynote speakers for the conference • Sponsorship Management – Conference and Club sponsors • Identification of various individuals as panelists • Co-ordination of delegates to the conference

  4. 3_85 5_85 The MIT Sloan Africa Business Club: • The Africa Business Club is the student body club responsible for African interests at the Sloan School of Management • The club’s mission is to facilitate application of world class innovation to the continent’s biggest challenges • We serve as a platform to • Share ideas • Connect people • Promote Africa • We achieve this through a combination of complementary programs • Africa Innovate Conference & Business Plan Competition • Africa Investment Forum • Africa Study Tours & treks • Sloan Africa Speaker Series • Inter/Intra school networking events

  5. 3_85 MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Conference • “Africa Innovate” is the annual flagship event of the Africa Business Club, with over 350 participants at Innovate 2013 • Africa Innovate facilitates discussions on business issues relevant to Africa and her people • Participants include professionals, students, government dignitaries, academics, and investors • The Africa Innovate Business Plan Competition rewards promising commercial solutions to African problems • The Africa Investment Forum hosts the world’s most influential investors in Africa, and brings their ideas to roundtable • For more information visit MIT Africa

  6. 3_85 MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Conference 2014: • The 2014 MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Conference is themed “What’s Your Big Idea?” • The 2014 conference panels shall cover: • Health Care • Women in Africa • Energy • Innovation • Investment

  7. Past Conference Keynotes Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the current Finance Minister of Nigeria. Prior to assuming her position, she served for several years as one of the Managing Directors of the World Bank (Oct 2007–July 2011). In 2012, she was one of the three candidates in the race to become the President of the world bank. She was instrumental in negotiating a debt write off and paying off $12b of Nigeria’s external debt to its creditors. She holds a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from MIT. Rupiah Banda was the president of Zambia from 2008 - 2011. Prior to becoming president, he served as the vice-president starting in 2006 and assumed the presidential role when the president died in office. He held various political roles including, Zambia’s Ambassador to Egypt and United States, Zambia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Minister. Makhtar Diop, a former Senegalese Economy and Finance Minister, is the World Bank Vice President for the Africa Region. From 2009-2012, Mr. Diop was the Country Director for Brazil, managing the World Bank’s largest country program. Prior to this appointment, he served as Director for Strategy and Operations in the Latin American region; Director for Finance, Private Sector, and Infrastructure in the same region; and Country Director for Kenya, Eritrea, and Somalia.

  8. Past Conference Keynotes Named “African’s Most Successful Women” by Forbes Magazine, Njeri is the Founder/CEO of Ignite Consulting; the Founder/Chief Techpreneur at Insite Ltd; and Co-founder and CEO of Wananchi Online. In 2011, Njeri launched a business incubator to nurture and encourage entrepreneurship in Kenya known as the Business Lounge. This incubator offers workspace and networking opportunities to Nairobiʼs entrepreneurs and to corporations establishing a Kenyan footprint. In recent years, the conference has hosted H.E. Rupiah Banda (former President of Zambia), Ms. Cina Lawson (Minister of Posts and Telecommunications of the Republic of Togo) and Mr. Ben Murray Bruce (CEO of Silverbird Group). Other leaders who have previously spoken at MIT include Ms. NgoziOkonjo-Iweala, Honorable RailaOdinga former Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya, Ex-President John Kufuor and former UN Secretary General and MIT Sloan graduate Kofi Annan. Other Past Conference Keynote Speakers:

  9. Vision Talks: Innovate for Action The “Vision Talks” present a unique platform to create a bold vision and an action-oriented roadmap that serves to promote economic development in Africa. Past speakers include: Adetayo Akisanya is an MBA ‘14 student at MIT Sloan and a Legatum Fellow. He is a Director at “OurS by Juliada”, a producer and distributor of organic hair products for African women, and is building “The Cogent Essay,” a platform for helping aspiring African MBAs tell their personal stories in school application essays. See his Vision Talk. Magatte Wade, founder and CEO, is a serial-entrepreneur and formidable advocate of positive change in business, gender roles, and Africa. She was named “20 Youngest Power Women in Africa” by Forbes Magazines, a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum at Davos in 2011, and a TED Global Africa Fellow. See her Vision Talk.

  10. 3_84 Africa Innovate Business Plan Competition: The Africa Business Plan Competition catalyzes the entry of Africa focused entries into flagship MIT business plan competitions

  11. 8_85 10_84 12_85 Our Impact: • Past successful entries now operating in Africa include Sanergy (sanitation and energy in Nairobi), Wecyclers (urban waste management in Lagos) and EGG-Energy (distributed energy in Dar-es-Salam) • Past successful ideas have led to concrete actions such as Innovate Salone that led to the discovery of Kelvin Doe (“DJ Focus”) • Development of a successful mentorship program that has resulted in a 100% increase in the number of African students admitted to MIT Sloan

  12. 9_85 13_85 Africa Innovate Sponsorship Benefits: Engage the MIT Africa Community • Engage top students and faculty of the greater MIT Africa community • Gain insights into future trends that will impact the growth of Africa • Access resumes of club members and conference participants Promote Your Brand • Showcase your brand and offerings to MIT students, current and past participants of the conference • Interact with Africa’s top innovators during the exclusive VIP and Sponsor networking event • Network and locate new business partners

  13. Sponsorship Packages • Ongoing 2-3 year club partnership • Placement of corporate logo on ABC website and all marketing materials • Recognition and introductions of Sponsor personnel at conference • Exhibition booth and demo space at Business Plan Competition Symposium • Full page ad in 2014 conference program • 7-minute interview/podcast to be promoted on ABC website • Banner on stage at the conference // Panel sponsorship • Opportunity to provide five guest passes to clients or friends • Option to provide gifts in conference registration bags • Access to club member and participant resumes Platinum: $22,000

  14. Sponsorship Packages Gold: $16,500 • Placement of corporate logo on ABC website and all conference marketing materials • Recognition of Sponsor support at the conference • ½ page ad in 2014 conference program • 5-minute educational interview/podcast to be promoted on ABC website • Banner on stage at the conference • Opportunity to provide three guest passes to clients or friends of the firm • Option to provide gifts in conference registration bag • Access to club member and participant resumes Silver: $11,000 • Placement of corporate logo on all marketing materials • Placement of corporate logo on ABC website • 1/4 page ad in 2014 conference program Bronze: $5,500 • Placement of corporate logo on all marketing materials • 1/4 page ad in 2014 conference program

  15. Past Club & Conference Sponsors:

  16. Contact Us Name: Rita Gitobu Company: Go Gaga Experiential Email: rgitobu@go-gaga.com  Tel: +254-722-759354

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