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The Future City of Africa

Unique opportunitiesUNHabitat predicts that

“700 million people will be moving to the cities of Africa until 2050. That means an entire New York City needs to be built every 6 months for the next 35 years!”

That is a huge challenge, but also an unique opportunity. An opportunity to redesign the African city of the future, based on the latest mobile technologies, smart city innovations and African reality.

Africa has already taken the lead in innovative solutions within mobile banking and mobile health. The lack of systems and infrastructure means there is a need for different solutions, and the implementation of them can happen much faster than in the cities of Europe and America that are tied down by old structures and old systems.

This is Africa’s opportunity to leapfrog over the cities of the 20th century and create something new and fantastic - to be the leading designer of the future city.

This is where you´ll find the people that are going to shape the growth of Africa in the next 20 years.

The brightest minds

thought leaders within technology, smart cities and business models of the future

groundbreaking designers, architects and urban planners

entrepreneurs, developers and key decision makers

investors from Silicon Valley, Europe and Africa

the mayors of the top 30-40 cities of the African continent

The brightest minds of Africa will be brought together at the Future City of Africa conference in Nairobi in June 2016.

Expect to meet:

How can we better use the latest technology to optimize the flow of water, energy, waste as well as people and citizen services such as health care?

The four main themesAlongside the main conference we are setting up:

a mayors summit focusing on a common challenge across the African cities,

a hackathon where we develop a solution to a common problem,

a startup competition where we hope to inspire the brightest to take action and develop new solutions with great examples of innovation and entrepreneurship

and The Future City EXPO to showcase the most innovative companies and their products.

1. Smart cities and innovation

3. Urban planning and architecture

2. Infrastructure and business models of the future

4. Communities and citizen engagement

How can we rethink energy production, waste management and transportation in the city of the future?

What are the upcoming trends and experiments being tried out in Africa today? How do we design for the community of tomorrow?

How do we activate the population as a resource and driving force in the development of the cities, instead of seeing them as a burden or an obstacle to development?

LocationNairobi, Kenya

As one of the leading cities in Africa when it comes to business, technology and development, Nairobi is a natural choice. The city is in fast development and a hub for international business.

Date

For increased publicity for the conference and our partners we are teaming up with the leading voices in African Media, like Quartz Africa.

The Future City of Africa conference is a great opportunity for the leading developers and tech companies in Africa to showcase themselves and connect with thought leaders, decision makers and entrepreneurs from across the continent - and beyond.

9.-11. June 2016

Partners

Media partners

AGENDA

Thursday 9.6. Friday 10.6.

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Saturday 11.6.

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Image of AfricaPanel Discussion

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Marketing of the conferenceDIRECT MARKETING The key target audiences will be approached directly via phone and mail.

SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook and twitter will play a key role in the marketing of the conference on the African continent. This will be divided into the following:

a) Articles on the website shared on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. b) Facebook memes that visualize the potential of Africac) Weekly twitter chats for 8 weeks where the topics of the conference will be discussedd) Highly targeted promoted content on both Facebook and twitter

PR AND MEDIA COVERAGEThrough targeted PR and storytelling around the potential of the African cities we will creata a buzz in newspapers, TV and radio across Acrica. We will also run advertising in Forbes Africa with 2 full page ads and a TV spot running on CNBC Africa for 2 months. CNBC Africa will also create a 1hr long TV show about the conference which will be recorded during the conference in Nairobi and aired in 47 African countries later this year.

OTHER PROMOTIONSThis is in particular a video competition where young people from the big cities of Africa will be encouraged to create a video about their vision of the future city. The finalists will be flown in to attend the conference and show their videos, which the audiences can then vote on.

EXPO PACKAGES

- a stand and 2-day tickets to the conference - any equipment inside the stand or decoration

10 m26 m2

30 m2

3 tickets 4 tickets 6 tickets

STAND

TICKETS

PRICE $ 5000 $ 8000 $ 13 000

SMALL MEDIUM LARGE

SINGLE TICKET FOR THE CONFERENCE (2 DAYS): $890

All packages contain: The prices don´t cover:

Start-up expo package

$ 1900a small stand (1m2)

2-day tickets to the conference for 2 people

The price doesn´t cover:

- any equipment inside the stand or decoration

* The Startup Expo is an invite only deal, available to only 50 startups from the entire continent.

Organised by:

International Conference Services is one of the leading Congress Organizers and Destination Man-agement Companies in Scandinavia at it has man-aged innumerable events ranging from 20 to 20.000 participants over the past 25 years.

ICS has run a number of international conferences all over the world and will make sure no details are missed in the planning and execution of this event.

Phønix, the international place branding panel, is in charge of the content of the conference, includ-ing panelists, speakers and workshops.

The panel consists of six internationally acclaimed experts with broad experience from city development and city branding. The Phønix members have been involved in urban planning, city branding and various events, including both the Olympic games and the World Cup in Football.

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Join us in shaping the future c i ty of Afr ica!

Please do not hesitate to contact:

Jens KjærgaardFuture City of Africa Ambassadorjens@caregore.dkwww.fcafrica.org