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TRADE SUMMIT
Theme: “Unlocking Uganda’s Trade, investment and Export Potential.”
The President of Uganda, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is invited as the Chief Guest and will lead a delegation from both the public and private sectors of Uganda, joined by prominent industry leaders, diplomates, investors, and ministers from the UK to forge new business deals, invest in bankable projects and reinforce economic relationships between the UK, Ugandan Indian, Diasporans and Uganda, including the wider East African Community.
With 600+ delegates anticipated to attend, the UK-Uganda Trade Summit is the most significant annual trade and investment summit to an East African market in the UK and is the ideal setting to discuss trade development and connect businesses to new markets.
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Date: Fri,day 8 Sep 2023 Time: 09:00 - 16:30 BST
Looking to invest in Uganda, but not sure where to start, or eager to discuss opportunities as well as the challenges you are facing with peers and experts in the field?
A business exploring opportunities and seeking partners and, interested in building partnerships on the ground to further your business?
Looking to meet with decision-makers to help move your business forward, or partner to get you started?
Looking to showcase your company and amplify your brand in Uganda and the East African business and investment marketplace?
Looking to invest in Uganda, but not sure where to start, or eager to discuss opportunities as well as the challenges you are facing with peers and experts in the field?
UCUK attracts a wide range of business executives, buyers and sellers, exporters, business owners, and dealmakers from Uganda, India, and the East African region who represent investor-ready projects, businesses, and investment funds seeking debt and/or equity.
The Buyer-Seller side hub facilitates direct contact between exhibitors, sponsors and delegates and buyers from Uganda, India and UK markets through prescheduled meetings. You can meet new companies and potential customers, which otherwise would have not been possible within a span of two days.
The board comprises experienced business leaders from across the global business and political community who offer their time and services to promote and guide the ethos of business and investment in Uganda. With their in-depth knowledge, they provide members invaluable insights into the business, political and economic landscape between the UK and Uganda.
The Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Uganda, DRC and Rwanda
Chief Executive of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Diplomatic Representative at Aga Khan Development Network
Past Chairman, London Chamber of Commerce and industry (UK)
Deputy Inspector General of Government
High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland
Country Director – Dep. for International Trade - Kampala
Country Director, Gridworks Partners.
Day 1: Pre-summit engagements with investors, stakeholders and buyers.
Day 2: Summit's day, featuring interactive panel-themed discussions, with B2B & B2G Networking and a BuyerSeller Match-Making meeting.
Day 3: The Department for International Trade (DIT), in partnership with UCUK Tour Programme to the Midlands Region, as part of the site visits and 1-2-1 engagement.
Focus on creating infrastructure for development of food processing industry
The Agri-leadership panel brings together experts, top minds and professionals of the agri-business to discuss opportunities in the Common Market for East and Central Africa (COMESA) and The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
Investment in Healthcare Infrastructure, Systems, Digital Health, Technologies, Patients care, Clinical Services, Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing and Supply Chains.
Health care in Sub-Saharan Africa remains the worst in the world, with few countries able to spend the $34 to $40 a year per person that the World Health Organization considers the minimum for basic health care.
Investors can discover new investment ideas by participating in sector-specific or country-specific presentations and discussion sessions, side pitch meetings, B2B meetings, and informal networking.
Opportunities to manufacture fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and packaging material. “The place to invest now is in manufacturing, especially medium-sized manufacturing plants"
The opportunity for Uganda is ripe.Opportunity to benefit from now expansive African market enabled by the African Continental Free Trade Area (Africa has 1.3 billion people and projected to have 2.5 billion people by 2050), access to quota free and duty free market in Europe under the Everything else But Arms (EBA) arrangement and over 6000 products listed under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) arrangement.
The annual Bilateral Trade Summit is the biggest East African-focused event in the UK for accessing Trade Opportunities in Uganda. Free breakfast, lunch and refreshments
For VISA required delegates | Non UK residents.
• No refund.
VIP tickets give you access to the Conference.
The Uganda-UK Trade and Investment Summit (UCUK), in collaboration with Lord Popat (UK Trade Envoy to Uganda, DRC and Rwanda), London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Department for International Trade (Kampala), the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), The Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development (PACEID) and many others.
UCUK attracts a wide range of business executives, buyers and sellers, exporters, business owners, and dealmakers from Uganda, India, and the East African region who represent investor-ready projects, businesses, and investment funds seeking debt and/or equity.
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Thank you so much to our partners and sponsors for making last year's #Uganda-UKTradeSummit possible! We could not have succeeded without your input and supporters like you!
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The aim of UCUK and its partners are to bring together delegates from the international investor community especially from the United Kingdom, and Commonwealth countries, to explore opportunities in East Africa, COMESA and SADC.
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Fri, 8 Sep 2023 09:00 - 16:30 BST
