The most anticipated business festival —the Citi Business Festival will be launched today on Citi FM.
The festival will include a series of on-air and outdoor events on different areas of the economy.
Partnership programmes
The festival will kick off this morning with the African Sovereign Wealth Funds Summit which will be held at Marriot Hotel, Airport City at 9:00am.
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will be the Guest of Honour and Keynote Speaker.
Other speakers include Paulo Gomes, Chairman of Africa Sovereign Wealth Advisory Group, Michael Kottoh, co-author and Managing Partner at Konfidants, Mr. Solomon Asamoah, CEO Ghana Infrastructure Fund, Mr. Mamadou Mbaye Executive Director, FONSIS, Mr. Serge Thierry Mickoto, Managing Director FGIS, from Gabon.
The rest are Mr. Carlos Lopes, CEO, Fundo Soberano de Angola, Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, CEO of NEPAD Agency.
The African Sovereign Wealth Funds Summit, which is the maiden will highlight challenges faced by African governments in leveraging financial resources needed to transform their economies.
The theme of the summit is “Financing Africa’s Transformation: the Role of Sovereign Wealth Funds”.
The event is a Citi FM and Citi TV event in partnership with the Afrochampions Initiatives.
The next event on the calendar will be the Ghana Women Entrepreneurship Summit scheduled to take off from June 4th to 5th.
The programme, which is in partnership with the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) will be held at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel at 10:30 am.
The next event on the calender is the Ghana International Petroleum Conference (GhIPCON) which will be held at the Kempinski Hotel on 6th to 8th June. This programme will focus on the petroleum down stream sector.
Citi TV, Citi FM Outdoor events
The main Citi FM/TV programmes will start with the Finance and Technology Summit slated for the 14th of June at the Swiss Spirit Alisa Hotel at 10:00am.
This programme will focus on stakeholders in the financial and banking sector.
After this, the festival will hold an event at the newly built BoG Auditorium at University of Ghana dubbed “The Outlook”.
This event will be held on the 28th June at 10:00am.
Speakers at this programme will include Head of Economics Department at the University of Ghana, Prof. Peter Quartey, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, Secretary General of the TUC, Dr. Yaw Baah, and the President of the Private Enterprise federation, Nana Osei Bonsu.
Training Programmes
Sales Revolution
Like previous editions, this year’s Citi Business Festival will feature training programmes.
The first of the kind is the Sales Revolution which will start from the 14th to 15th June.
The event will be held at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel at 8:00am each day.
The facilitators include Maxwell Dodd who will be speaking on topics like “Beating the Competition: Achieving Sales Success”, as well as the “The Salesman’s Survival Kit”.
Mawuli Ocloo will speak on “Growing Your Business with Sales Prospecting System: Tips, Techniques and Tools to succeed” as well as “accelerating Your Sales Revenue Growth: The four Keys to success”.
This event costs GHS600
Management Boot Camp
The Management Boot Camp, which is part of the month-long Citi Business Festival, is scheduled for 24th to 30th June at the International Student Guest Center (ISGC), Abokobi.
The Boot Camp is an executive week long advanced management training programme, designed for Senior Management in various industries, including the private and public sector workers.
The programme is aimed at exploring opportunities of latest academic thinking and practical insights by renowned facilitators.
Topics that will be taught include, “Leadership Essentials”, “Managing People—It’s Harder than you think” Leap Frogging the Competition”, “Creating a Leadership Brand”, “Getting the Best out of your staff” as well as “Who Moved my Cheese”.
The facilitators include: Capt. Budu Koomson, Beryl Hammond Appiah, Maxwell Dodd, Prof. Robert Ebo Hinson, Kofi Bentsil and Martyn Mensah.
The week long residential executive education programme is targeted at senior managers and businessmen.
The carefully selected faculty of facilitators with a blend of rich academic and practical expertise will take participants through a wide range of contemporary management and strategic issues.
This event is a paid for programme.
On-air series
On the on-air series, week one, which starts from June 4th to 8th will focus on Marketing and Brand Management.
Speakers include Prof. Robert Ebo Hinson, Stephen Naasei Boadi, and Andrews Akolaa.
Week two which will focus on “Managing People and Organizations” will have speakers: Taaka Awori, Lawrence Akosen, Dr. Cyamintah Baezie, and Prof. Pikay Richardson.
The third week will look at Technology and Innovation with speakers: Prof. Atuahene-Gyimah, Maxwell Dodd, Kofi Dadzie, and Franklin Asare.
The final week will look at Leadership and Strategy with speakers, Hene Aku Kwapong, Cecilia Dei-Anang, Moses Baiden and Dr. Pikay Richardson.
For further information please call 0550900006
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By: Lawrence Segbefia/citibusinessnews.com/Ghana