Opening Day 2 of the Africa Pavilion, welcoming participants back and setting the stage for a full day of discussions on investment, tourism, healthcare, leadership, family offices and sustainable growth across Africa.

Art Wealth Management: An Imperative for Tomorrow's Africa - In today's economic landscape, art has moved beyond gallery walls to establish itself at the heart of wealth strategies. In Africa, we are witnessing a major paradigm shift: the artwork is no longer merely an object of aesthetics or prestige; it is becoming a tangible asset, a store of value, and a vector of identity. Art wealth management isn’t guesswork—it’s expertise. The discipline that structures, elevates, and protects your collection as a seamless whole.

This vision of art as a strategic asset resonates particularly at the Africa Pavilion at the AIM Congress (Annual Investment Meeting). The exhibition's theme, "Reinvented African Heritages: Arts that Revisit Traditional Legacies", is not merely an artistic choice.
# Transforming Cultural Capital into Economic Power.

Tourism is no longer a standalone industry - Across Africa and within the Africa–GCC economic corridor, tourism has evolved into one of the continent’s most powerful integrators of capital, culture, employment, infrastructure, and global perception. In an era defined by competition for investment, talent, and influence, tourism operates as far more than visitor flows or hospitality assets. Strategic objective The New African Grand Tour seeks to reposition tourism as a bankable, scalable, and influence-driven sector, capable of converting:

• Experience ->Equity
• Narrative -> Nation Branding
• Culture -> Capital Formation

The objective is to move tourism discussions beyond promotion and branding, toward investment logic, asset development, and global positioning, while ensuring authenticity, sustainability, and long-term value creation.

Core Thesis Tourism is Africa’s fastest pathway to investable real assets with global demand
# Where Authentic Soul Meets Uncompromising Excellence: Crafting the Future of Luxury Travel.

Nigeria: Building a Great Nation
Nigeria stands at a pivotal point in Africa's economic transformation. With its scale, strategic geographic position, abundant energy and natural resources, expanding infrastructure, entrepreneurial ecosystem and rapidly developing digital economy, Nigeria is positioned to play a defining role in accelerating Africa's next growth cycle. The GCC is a global center of capital, infrastructure capability, energy expertise, logistics, technology and strategic investment . The convergence of these strengths creates the foundation for a Nigeria-GCC Strategic Investment Corridor, connecting Gulf capital and strategic capabilities with Nigerian scale, resources, markets and entrepreneurial capacity, while creating pathways into the wider African economy.

Core Thesis
Nigeria is not simply an investment destination. It is a strategic platform at the intersection of African markets, energy, resources, infrastructure, technology and trade with the potential to connect GCC capital and capabilities to one of the continent's most significant growth opportunities.

Strategic Question
How can the Nigeria-GCC relationship become one of the defining economic corridors of Africa's next growth cycle, strategically combining capital, technology, resources, infrastructure and market access to power a new era of African growth?

# Where sustainable destinations attract global capital.

Opening the afternoon program of Day 2 and setting the stage for the next sessions on healthcare, royal leadership, family offices and sustainable investment opportunities across Africa.

Oludent Health International - Global gateway to Better Care - We revolutionize global healthcare and sustainable access, envisioning a world where comprehensive healthcare is a universal right, not a privilege.

At Oludent Health International, we envision a world where access to high-quality, comprehensive, and compassionate healthcare is a universal right, not a privilege. We are dedicated to transforming healthcare landscapes by delivering innovative, integrated, and sustainable solutions across the globe. Oludent Health International is a leading-edge global health company specializing in the end-to-end development and operation of world-class healthcare infrastructure. From the initial blueprint to daily operations, we are committed to constructing, equipping, and managing hospitals and clinics that set new benchmarks for patient care and operational efficiency.

# Health is the Unwritten Social Elevator: From Aid to Innovation, from Dependency to Global Leadership.

The Co-curatorial Mandate - The Africa Pavilion special Royal Session will be steered by a unique and impactful co-curatorship addressed by the Royal House Atuwatse III, of the Warri Kingdom. Across Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia, royal and traditional institutions remain influential custodians of heritage, stewards of land, conveners of communities, and increasingly, strategic partners in trade, investment diplomacy, and socioeconomic development.

This plenary explores how heritage-rooted leadership can bridge global capital with the real economy, unlocking inclusive growth, strengthening investor confidence, and fostering partnerships grounded in trust, legitimacy, and long-term value creation. The relevance of African Royal Families to sustainable growth is profound and multi-layered. By bridging the AIM Congress framework to these institutions, the thesis is strengthened:

• They are Direct Capital Allocators
• They are Strategic Partners for Structuring
• They are Engines of Local Economic Development
• They Provide a Collective, Pan-African Platform

# Royal Families as direct economic architects. A strategic bridge from private wealth to institutional stewardship.

Across the Africa–GCC corridor, a new investment paradigm is taking shape, one that moves beyond conversation and into concrete action. Family offices are increasingly recognizing the continent's untapped potential, yet the real challenge has never been about identifying opportunities. It has been about structuring scalable, impactful vehicles for deployment. The Africa–GCC Family Office Co-Investment Platform answers this call. It is not merely a session, it is a strategic instrument designed to convert dialogue into durable architecture, and ambition into measurable outcomes. This platform transforms the Family Office session into a capital formation engine. It marks a deliberate shift:

• From Discussion to Architecture — moving beyond talk to build lasting structures.
• From Narrative to Structure — grounding stories in actionable frameworks

# Patient Capital, Aligned Legacy: Investing with an Intergenerational Mindset for Africa’s Transformation.

Ivory Coast: Building A Great Nation
The Vision
To propel Ivory Coast into the ranks of upper-middle-income countries by 2030, building a prosperous, united, and resilient nation where growth improves every citizen's quality of life.

The Roadmap
The PND 2026-2030 is our national contract for inclusive and sustainable transformation. Adopted unanimously by Parliament, it is a bold, actionable strategy to accelerate structural change and position the private sector as the primary engine of growth.

A Call to All Partners
The international community has already shown its confidence. In July 2026, the Consultative Group in Abidjan secured $80 Billion USD in financing intentions—nearly four times our initial public funding request. Join us. Whether you are a citizen, an investor, or a development partner, the PND is your invitation to participate in one of Africa's most exciting transformation stories.

# Where sustainable destinations attract global capital.

Opening Day 3 of the Africa Pavilion, welcoming participants back and setting the stage for a full day of discussions on investment, tourism, healthcare, leadership, family offices and sustainable growth across Africa.

Africa stands at a defining crossroads, where centuries-old craftsmanship, local knowledge, and community- based production meet the transformative power of cutting-edge technology, digitalization, and sustainable practices. This session explores the continent's unique pathway to industrial renewal, moving beyond the extractive models of the past toward a future built on value addition, local manufacturing, and innovation- driven growth.

We will examine how African industries can harness their traditional strengths, such as artisanal skills, agricultural heritage, and rich natural resources and fuse them with modern tools like artificial intelligence, renewable energy, additive manufacturing, and e-commerce platforms. The discussion will spotlight successful case studies, policy frameworks, and investment strategies that are already reshaping sectors from textiles and agri-processing to pharmaceuticals and green energy.

Key questions to be addressed include: How can African nations leapfrog traditional industrial stages and embrace a tailor-made, inclusive industrial revolution? What role do regional integration, education, and youth entrepreneurship play in this transformation? And how can the balance be struck between preserving cultural identity and pursuing global competitiveness?

# From Informal to Integrated: Leveraging Technology and Innovation.

Where Innovation Meets Capital: Building Inclusive and Sustainable Economies Africa is at a pivotal moment. The era of simply "leapfrogging" legacy systems is over. The mobile money revolution was the first act; now, we are writing the second. We are transitioning from adopting foreign models to architecting our own.

This new African market is not a single entity but a vibrant, interconnected mosaic of digital communities, cross- border value chains, and agile entrepreneurs.

This requires more than just technology, it requires architecting entirely new financial ecosystems, from decentralized finance (DeFi) and asset tokenization to AI-driven credit scoring and seamless cross-border settlement under the AfCFTA.

This session and conference is not about predicting the future. It is about engineering it. We are convening the architects, the builders, policymakers, and investors, who are actively designing the frameworks, platforms, and partnerships that will unlock trillions in latent value and ensure economic sovereignty for Africa in the 21st century.

# Where Innovation Meets Capital: Building Inclusive and Sustainable Economies.

The AI era demands a fundamental shift, not merely adopting a new tool, but embracing a new adaptive mode of operating. This mode requires agility, systemic thinking, and continuous learning at the scale of economies and societies. For a continent of unparalleled diversity and complexity like Africa, this adaptive transition is the defining challenge and opportunity of the 21st century.

The Transformative Potential:

• A New Development Paradigm: Leveraging AI to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) more efficiently and at scale.
• Global Competitive Advantage: Positioning Africa as a testbed and exporter of context-specific, resilient AI solutions for the world.
• Inclusive Growth Engine: Using AI to formalize economies, improve service delivery, and empower marginalized communities.

This session moves beyond isolated initiatives to explore how Africa is holistically incorporating this adaptiveDNA across its technological, economic, social, and governance layers to navigate disruption and architect its own inclusive future. # Building Africa's Human Capital to Navigate Disruption, Drive Innovation, and Engineer Inclusive Growth.

Opening the afternoon program of Day 3 and setting the stage for the next sessions on healthcare, royal leadership, family offices and sustainable investment opportunities across Africa.

Africa's most significant under-utilized economic resource is not in its soil, but in the potential of its women. While women are the backbone of African societies, dominating agriculture, trade, and informal sectors, they remain systematically under-capitalized, under-represented in leadership, and constrained by structural barriers. This is not just a social justice issue, it is the continent's most critical economic bottleneck.

This topic reframes the narrative from "empowering women" to strategically unleashing the "She-Economy." It positions women as the most reliable and impactful investment for Africa's sustainable and equitable growth. When you invest in an African woman, you invest in a multiplier effect: she reinvests up to 90% of her income back into her family's education, health, and nutrition, creating a virtuous cycle of prosperity and stability. By deliberately de-risking capital for women entrepreneurs, through targeted loans, credit guarantees, and financial literacy, we are not just being equitable; we are making a shrewd economic calculation.

# Investing in Women Isn't a Niche. It's a National Growth Strategy. Mitigating Risk, Multiplying Returns.

A closing conversation with members of the Africa GCC Council team and partners reflecting on the first Africa Pavilion activities, the partnerships and opportunities emerging from AIM Congress, and the lessons learned from bringing African and GCC stakeholders together.

The Fireside Chat with the Founders, Co-Chairs and Strategic Partners of the Africa GCC Council will be a special, intimate and highly symbolic conversation celebrating the people who have given sense, substance and shape to what has become a true milestone in Africa–GCC relations.

More than a conventional panel, this conversation will provide an opportunity to look behind the institution: the vision, the journey, the challenges, the convictions and the strategic relationships that have contributed to building the Africa GCC Council as a trusted platform connecting two regions with extraordinary potential.

From its inception, the Africa GCC Council has been driven by a simple but ambitious belief: Africa and the GCC do not need another platform for dialogue. They need a platform capable of turning dialogue into trusted relationships, relationships into opportunities, and opportunities into long-term partnerships.