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Registration & Breakfast
8:00 - 09:00 AM
Amb. Tunde Mustapha
Chargé d’affaires - Embassy of Nigeria, Paris
Short Plenary Sessions; Maximum of 3 Plenary Sessions.
● Opening remarks & 6 years of Spotlight Nigeria - Friends of Nigeria (FON)
● Goodwill Message - Mr. Tunde Mustapha (Chargé d’affaires, Embassy of Nigeria, Paris)
● Keynote Address - Mr Stéphane Tabarié (Head of Unit Sub-Saharan Africa, Monetary Cooperation and French Development Agency)
● Special Address - Honorable Abike Dabiri-Erewa ( Chair, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission)
● Friends of Nigeria snapshot
➔ Special Presentation and special keynote - Bpifrance (Arnaud FLORIS)
09:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Valor Iduh
Senior Trade Advisor - Business France, Nigeria
Opening Plenary - Business outlook France-Nigeria Nigeria/France
Etienne GIROS ( President - CIAN)
- Yves BATTESTI (Senior Advisor – West & Central Africa, Bpifrance)
- Valor IDUH - (Senior Trade Advisor, Business France, Nigeria)
- Mr Damien de la Rocque (Deputy Head of Unit Sub-Saharan Africa, Monetary Cooperation and
French Development Agency)
Moderator: Juliana Olayinka (Journalist and Broadcaster)
➔ Stand alone session: Navigating foreign exchange bottlenecks (Ebury)
09:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Plenary 1: Digital Innovation and Financial Services
- Oluwajoba Oloba (Co-Founder, The Nest Hub)
- Olanrewaju Ogundipe (CEO, Imperial Edtech)
- Dr. Steve Ogidan mni (CEO, Successory)
- A French tech startup or digital company (TBD)
Moderator: The Africa Report
09:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Toyosi Ayodele
CEO, Agrorite
Plenary 2: Bridging the consumer-demand gap (Agriculture, Distribution)
- Adebowale Adeyeye (CEO, Creativo El Matador)
- Toyosi Ayodele (CEO, Agrorite)
- French Agricultural company (TBD)
Moderator: TBD (Africa News)
09:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Networking, B2B and Lunch
12:30 - 03:30 PM