Nairobi to host the Future City of Africa Conference

We are delighted to introduce you to an exciting conference, The Future City of Africa, which will be held in Nairobi in June this year. An initiative that will bring together the brightest minds of the world with a vision of developing the future cities of Africa with the latest technologies, smart city innovations, urban planning and designs.

The conference will include:

§ Thought leaders within technology, smart cities and business models of the future

§ Groundbreaking designers, architects and urban planners

§ Entrepreneurs, developers and key decision makers

§ Investors from Silicon Valley, Europe and Africa

§ Mayors from the top 30 cities on the African continent

We invite you to participate as a sponsor / partner to this high-level event that will include prominent speakers from across the world. This will be a unique opportunity to showcase your organisation and connect with other high-profile players. Please see attachment for more details and packages.

The planning is moving forward at a rapid pace and the event is attracting great interest. Some confirmed speakers & participants are UNHabitat, Elon Musk (Tesla), Youssef Shatilla (Dean of Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi), Andrea Barrica (Silicon Valley), Dana Al-Salem (founder Yahoo Europe), Yevgeny Roizman (Mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia), just to mention a few.

Governor of Nairobi, Evans Kidero will be hosting the conference, and his team led by Cabinet Minister Dr Robert Ayisi are on board. Kenya Airways, Kenya’s national airline, are committed as our preferred airline partner.

Please visit our website www.fcafrica.org for further information and welcome to contact me with any queries.

Looking forward to hearing from you soonest regarding your participation and cooperation.

Ritva Jansson

The Future City of Africa

www.fcafrica.org

The Future City of Africa conference will bring together the brightest minds of Africa. Up and coming thought leaders that are already starting to shape the future. Visionary architects, brave entrepreneurs, mad innovators and critical authors. Mayors that care about the future of their city and the prosperity of their people. Investors and business people that are ready to think out of the box and seize the opportunity of building the businesses of tomorrow.

Join us in Nairobi 9-10 June 2016 to shape the future city.