African Global Chamber of Commerce (AGCC) is an international organization that links a combination of African entrepreneurs in the diaspora, their businesses, and business partners to the African continent to help channel resources in the diaspora to African countries for development. Our work mostly involves exposing African creativity and entrepreneurship to business partners and investors in the diaspora. For more information on AGCC, click here.
United States – African Youth Entrepreneurship Summit (USAYES) is AGCC’s way of exposing the African Youth Creativity and Imagination to the American business fraternity to enable and facilitate partnerships between Young African entrepreneurs and investors in the United States of America. The event hosts at least 20 million young people from all over Africa and a host of business and government leaders from both Africa and the United States.
USAYES is a 21st Century high-level entrepreneurship and innovation conference and exhibition annual prestigious business networking platform designed to promote and facilitate connections between US and African Youth through trade and investment mainly in the areas of technology, agribusiness, and tourism. This Summit provides a platform for Youth Entrepreneurs both in the US and Africa to share their respective entrepreneurship and innovative experiences thus allowing them to access new US and African markets of products and services.
The 2023 event will take place on November 3-4, 2023 virtually, with focus and coordination in Chicago, Illinois under the theme “Empowering Youth, Promoting Investment in Technology, Agribusiness, and Tourism” and “The Future of US and African Economic Sustainable Development”. USAYES provides a platform for US and African Youth Entrepreneurs to access respective US and African markets through a one-stop center, connect US Investors to African Young Entrepreneurs, US Export to African Markets, African Export to US Markets, Access to capital, Access to US Technologies, Access to various African products, etc. This Summit covers US – African 10 key strategic economic sectors that includes Technology, Agribusiness, and Tourism. The summit will have the participation of over 50 speakers, over 100 exhibitors, and over 100 US Investors.
Other Partners working with AGCC but are not limited to New York Business Consultants Academy, Rainbow Push Coalition, Habona Ltd, South Africa Ministry of Tourism, National Youth Development Agency of South Africa, South Africa General Consulate of Chicago, Embassy of the Republic of Niger, Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo to US, Embassy of Cote d’Ivoire to US, Egypt General Consulate of the Republic of Egypt, ACCION Chicago, 1877 Hub for Technology and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Northwestern University, DePaul University, University of Chicago, Google, Microsoft, Apple, MallforAfrica, The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Hub, Global Solutions Outreach, Incorporated (GSOI), Loop Capital, Ariel Investment, Africa Trade & Investment Global Summit (ATIGS), US Small Business Administration, State of Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Greater Southwest Development Corporation, Habona, Ltd, Globrock Financial Group, Cemeko Group, African Infrastructure Development Partnership (AFIDEP), Asoko Insight, Tropic Business Summit, and more.
USAYES is conducted by Mandela Washington Fellows of various cohorts from across Africa, under the guidance of Olivier Kamanzi, the Chairman of AGCC. Find more information about the mandela washington fellowship here.