Start your business year where Africa starts its most important conversations.
Over 6,000 attended APD 2026. APD 2027 has only 1,000 places at a time. Secure your place early.
One market, 1.5 billion Strong
But still on paper.
AFRICA HAS THE MARKET.
THE CHALLENGE IS THE FRICTION BETWEEN IT.
The borders were drawn. The market was agreed. Yet practical barriers; to movement, to payment, to commerce, continue to keep African people and African businesses apart. A fashion house cannot reliably reach a customer three borders away. A builder cannot pay a supplier across a corridor without costly detours. The single market exists on paper; APD 2027 exists to make it work in practice.
Where Africa turns
ambition into action.
APD is the place where the people capable of influencing and implementing Africa's integration agenda come together, not to talk, but to commit.
The venue · AccraGovernment & Policy
- Heads of State
- Ministers
- Policymakers
- Central Bank Governors
- Regulators
Capital & Investment
- Investors
- Banks
- Development Finance Institutions
- Private Equity
Industry & Enterprise
- CEOs
- SMEs
- Women Entrepreneurs
- Youth Innovators
- Global African Business Leaders
Infrastructure & Tech
- Fintechs
- Telecoms
- Technology Companies
- Logistics Companies
Move. Pay.
Trade.
Three reforms, one ambition. When people and money can move more freely, African businesses can reach more customers, build regional supply chains, and trade more effectively. These are not three separate pillars, they are one connected system.
Move Freely
Visa-Free Africa
- Visa openness
- E-visas
- Residence & establishment
- Skills mobility
- Border management
- Open skies
Pay Seamlessly
One African Digital Payments Network
- Mobile money interoperability
- Cross-border payments
- Local currencies
- Digital identity
- Settlement
- Banking · fintech · telecom
Trade More
A Functioning African Single Market
- Regional supply chains
- Cross-border commerce
- Investment flows
- SME reach
- Market expansion
- Shared prosperity
APD 2026 made the
challenge clear.
APD 2027 moves to action.
In 2026, the dialogue established the diagnostic: a continent with the market, the people, and the technology held back by friction. In 2027, we move from analysis to the Borderless Africa Agenda 2030.
APD 2026 · AccraAPD 2026 by the numbers
APD 2027 will go further. Three days. Two reforms. One continental compact.
Participate
your way.
Six pathways into the APD 2027 experience. Choose the one that matches your role.
