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African Futures: Digitalization, Jobs and New Business Opportunities Conference

Date and time

Wednesday 8. June 2022 at 09:00 to 19:30

Registration Deadline

Wednesday 1. June 2022 at 12:00

Location

SC033, Dalgas Have 15, 2000 Frederiksberg SC033
Dalgas Have 15
2000 Frederiksberg

African Futures: Digitalization, Jobs and New Business Opportunities Conference

Conference Invitation



African Futures: Digitalization, Jobs and New Business Opportunities Conference

Date: Wednesday 8th June, 09:00-19:30
Location: Copenhagen Business School, Dalgas Have 15, 2000 Frederiksberg, Room SC033
Registration deadline: Wednesday May 25th, 12:00

Africa is rising, or so the saying goes. Following this imaginary, many aspirations have been formulated and countless changes have taken place on the African continent over the last 10 years. Jobs and employment have been at the center of many debates on African futurity with the potential of digitalization playing an ever more prominent role in recent times. But what is actually happening on the ground? How do African entrepreneurs use digital tools and create new business models? And what are the implications of digitalisation for workers’ livelihoods?

The CBS Africa Initiative — a cross-departmental network of researchers working on Africa — and the Inequality Platform would like to invite academics and practitioners interested in engaging with these questions to join us for the 1-day conference ‘African Futures: Digitalization, jobs and new business opportunities.’




Program

9.00

Registration

9.30

Opening talk & Welcome, by Søren Hvidkjær, Dean of Research & Søren Jeppesen, Coordinator of the CBS Africa Initiative

9.45

Bitange Ndemo (Univ. of Nairobi): Digitalization and Changing MSMEs Business Models: Disruption from emerging technologies

10.15

Laura Mann, (London School of Economics – with Rachel Alexander, CBS): Digitisation and the global knowledge economy: examining the careers of bio-informaticians in Kenya and the USA

10.45

Comments on presentations & discussion, moderated by Michael Mol, Strategy and Innovation, CBS

11.15

Coffee & Networking break

11.45

Robin Steedman, Management, Society and Communication, CBS: Imaginaries of platform entrepreneurship in the Ghanaian film industry

12.05

Lars Bo Jeppesen, Strategy and Innovation, CBS: Crowdfunding for Youth Entrepreneurship in Tanzania (C4YET)

12.25

Comments on presentations & discussion, moderated by Thilde Langevang, Management, Society and Communication, CBS

12.40

Lunch

13.15

CBS presentations – poster session & other forms of presentations (showing all major CBS research projects on Africa)

14.00

Coffee, tea & Networking break

14.30

Mohammad Amir Anwar (Univ. of Edinburgh): African Work Futures: Prospects and Challenges of Digital Work

15.00

Jesper Drescher (Investor & Author of ‘Digital Africa’): Getting Digital Business Going in Africa

15.30

Comments on presentations & discussions, moderated by Andreas Wieland, Operations Management, CBS

15.45

African Futures – Where to head now on research and practice? Panel discussion, with a mix of CBS and external persons, including keynotes

16.45

(Short) Coffee, tea & Networking break

17.00

Joint Inequality Platform & CBS Africa Initiative & Catalysing Green Industrialization in Africa public lecture by Hubert Danso, CEO of Africa Investor (https://www.africainvestor.com/): Investor Opportunities in Green Infrastructure in Africa

18.30

Extended reception, joint Inequality Platform & CBS Africa Initiative & Catalysing Green Industrialization in Africa



In case of any questions, please feel free to reach out to the organizing team via mail: Ben - bha.msc@cbs.dk Sarah - sn.msc@cbs.dk

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