With just under two months to go before the 15th UK–Africa Business, Trade & Investment Summit, we’re thrilled to announce the latest additions to our already high-impact speaker line-up.
If you needed another reason to secure your place, this is it. The calibre of leadership joining us in London this year reflects the scale of investment opportunities emerging across the continent.
🗓️ 12 September 2025
📍 The Royal Horseguards Hotel & One Whitehall Place, London
🎟️ Register now: ukafricasummit2025.eventbrite.co.uk
👤 View full speaker list: ukafricabusinesssummit.uk/speakers
🗣️ Meet Our Latest Confirmed Speakers:
- Hon. Matia Kasaija – Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Uganda
- Lord Rami Ranger – Host of the Grand Silver Service Gala Lunch at UK Parliament
- Prof. Luis Franceschi – Assistant Secretary General, The Commonwealth
- Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia – Chairman, Ruparelia Group
- Hon. Ruth Nankabirwa – Minister of Energy and Mineral Development
- Lord Dolar Popat – Businessman and Conservative Life Peer
- Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga – 1st Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for East African Community
- Hon. Francis Ecweru – Minister of State for Works and Transport
- Hon. Amos Lugoloobi – State Minister for Finance, Uganda
- Prof. Augustus Nuwagaba – Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda
- Dr. Monica Musenero – Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation
- Dr. Alfred Okot Okidi – Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Water and Environment
- Hon. Francis Mwebesa – Minister of Trade, Industry & Cooperatives, Uganda
- General David Muhoozi – Minister of State for Internal Affairs
- Dr. Ramathan Ggoobi – Permanent Secretary & Secretary to Treasury, Ministry of Finance
🔍 Explore High-Impact Investment Opportunities In:
- ⛽ Oil & Gas
- 🪨 Minerals & Mining
- 🌾 Agriculture & Agri-Tech
- 🏗️ Infrastructure Development
- 🏭 Manufacturing & Industrialisation
- 🌞 Renewable Energy & Climate Solutions
- 🌍 Tourism & Hospitality
- 💻 ICT, Fintech & Digital Transformation
- 💳 Banking & Financial Services
🌟 Why Attend?
Whether you’re a UK-based investor, policymaker, entrepreneur, or African business leader, this summit offers a powerful platform to:
✅ Access capital and bankable, finance-ready projects
✅ Forge public–private and cross-border B2B partnerships
✅ Gain actionable market insights from East, West, and Southern Africa
✅ Engage with over 500 senior leaders and decision-makers
🎟️ Reserve your place today: ukafricasummit2025.eventbrite.co.uk
📘 Download the brochure: www.ukafricasummit.uk/2025brochure.pdf
LISTEN TO THE Speakers
Britain’s £300 Billion Multicultural Economy: What Zimfest Live 2026 Reveals
Britain’s Black African, Caribbean, Asian and wider multicultural communities represent a documented commercial opportunity in excess of £300 billion. Most UK marketing plans still treat them as a secondary audience. Inside Zimfest Live 2026, the partnership that helped build a unicorn, and the case for a new multicultural marketing standard.
The Multi-Generational Dividend: Transforming Diaspora Footprints into Emotional Moats
The traditional multicultural marketing playbook is obsolete. Brands can no longer rely on transactional offers, such as competitive remittance rates, reliable telecom minutes, or direct flights, aimed at first-generation migrants who are ageing or returning home. To secure future growth in fintech, telecoms, and travel, companies must move beyond short-term digital ad arbitrage and invest in cultural equity with next-generation diaspora consumers, including Gen Z and Millennials. As Zepz (WorldRemit) showed at a Zimbabwean diaspora event in Birmingham, which drew over 3,000 attendees, loyalty is earned through consistent, hyper-local community investment, not bought overnight through programmatic social media. The brands that lead the next decade will be those that reject monolithic views of ethnic markets, move beyond transactional conversion, and work with specialist multicultural strategy agencies to embed themselves in the community’s multi-generational story.
The Remittance Industry Is Running Out of Time
The future of remittances was not going to be built around shopfronts, agent counters and cash collection points alone. Migrant senders did not love queues. They loved trust. They loved certainty. They loved knowing what arrived back home. They wanted speed, safety, price clarity and convenience — without building their weekend around a high-street agent.
