AFRICA
SME
SUMMIT

Call for papers — submissions closed

Research that reaches the businesses it is about

Submissions closed 14 September. The committee is reading every one of them now — everyone who sent an abstract hears back by 21 September, accepted or not.

What’s next

Results land soon

Every submitter hears from the committee by 21 September — accepted or not. Accepted papers present live to the room on 15 October.

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How it works

01

Submissions closed

The window closed 14 September. Every abstract that came in is now with the committee.

02

Review

The committee reads every submission and replies within three weeks.

03

Present

Accepted papers are presented in their track on 15 October.

04

Publish

Selected papers go into the post-summit proceedings.

The six tracks submissions came in against

01

Finance, Capital & Investment

02

Market access & Cross-border trade

03

Talent & Human Resource acquisition with safeguarding

04

Adopting AI and Technology

05

Industry and Academia collaboration

06

Kenya Entrepreneurship Ecosystem strengthening