Theme: Africa is Creating, Trading and Innovating: Is Africa Owning the Value?
Africa Creates. Africa Trades. Africa Must Own.
📅 Date: Thursday, 30 July 2026
🕑 Time: 2:00 PM WAT | 3:00 PM CAT | 4:00 PM EAT | 1:00 PM GMT | 3:00 PM CEST
📍 Venue: Microsoft Teams (Virtual)
Africa is creating world-class innovations, brands, technologies, creative works, traditional knowledge, and industrial solutions. The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is opening new opportunities for these ideas and products to reach larger markets. Yet, despite this progress, many African innovators, businesses, creators, researchers, and entrepreneurs still struggle to protect, commercialise, and benefit fully from the value they create.
This high-level webinar, co-convened by the All Africa Intellectual Property Summit (AAIPS) and the AfCFTA Secretariat, will bring together policymakers, intellectual property experts, business leaders, investors, innovators, researchers, legal practitioners, development partners, and the creative industry to discuss how intellectual property can drive trade, industrialisation, investment, innovation, and inclusive economic growth across Africa.
Key Discussion Areas
- Is Africa retaining the value it creates through innovation, trade, and creativity?
- How can intellectual property become a practical tool for trade, industrialisation, and enterprise growth?
- What opportunities does the AfCFTA Protocol on Intellectual Property Rights provide?
- How can African businesses, creators, startups, universities, and SMEs better protect and commercialise their intellectual assets?
- What reforms are needed to strengthen Africa’s intellectual property ecosystem?
The webinar also serves as a mobilisation platform for the 7th All Africa Intellectual Property Summit, taking place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 11–13 November 2026, under the theme:
“Mainstreaming Intellectual Property for Africa’s Trade, Industrial and Creative Economy Transformation.”
Register Today!
Be part of this important continental conversation and join policymakers, innovators, businesses, investors, researchers, creators, and development partners as we shape Africa’s intellectual property future.
Register now to secure your place and begin your journey towards the 7th All Africa Intellectual Property Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.