eBusiness Weekly
Oliver Kazunga
ORGANISERS of the CEO Africa Annual Roundtable that ended in Victoria Falls on Saturday, say the four-day business event was a “resounding” success as the objectives were achieved.
The 8th edition of the CEO Africa Annual Roundtable is organised by the CEO Africa Roundtable to discuss how business can promote linkages and move forward in the post-Covid era.
Speaking by telephone yesterday, CEO Africa Roundtable chief executive officer Kipson Gundani, said the intended objectives of the conference were resoundingly achieved in terms of the number of delegates and the deliberations that took centre stage at the conference.
“I would say the CEO Africa Annual Roundtable was a resounding success, we achieved the objective of the conference in terms of the debates and business-to-business meetings that were held. The debates were useful and informational to policymakers but we haven’t done an evaluation yet in terms of the impact of the conference. Generally, the conference was highly successful,” he said.
The event, which began on Wednesday was held under the theme, “Advancing systematic leadership and shaping a better future for all,” attracted 250 delegates drawn from Zimbabwe, Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Malawi.
The deliberations were on family business-governance and growth: leading with the best, cyber security-how to implement robust governance, boosting agribusiness through promoting the use of agro-technologies to improve production and productivity throughout the agriculture value chains.
While officially opening the conference, Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga, challenged business leaders from the private sector to collectively work together in transforming the economic model to secure Zimbabwe’s future and prosperity in sync with Vision 2030.
The Second Republic under the administration of President Mnangagwa, has set sights on transforming the country into an upper middle income economy by 2030.
Vision 2030 charts a new transformative and inclusive development agenda while simultaneously addressing the global aspirations of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Africa Agenda 2063.
In his keynote address at the CEO Africa Annual Roundtable Dr Chiwenga urged the captains of industry and commerce, private and public sector players to continue collaborating with the Government to drive economic development.
“This should be done in harmony with aspirations to achieve an empowered and prosperous upper middle income economy by 2030.
“The past decade has shown us just how quickly industry transformation can happen when you reimagine and re-engineer the business model.
“In order to secure our future and to prosper, we need to evolve our economic model. Therefore, to move forward, we need nothing short of a paradigm shift, one that inspires action at revolutionary levels and pace,” he said.
