Global Investment Chamber
Where skills become bankable.
The investor counterpart of the Human Capital Chamber. Day Two moves from public programmes in the morning to private ventures in the afternoon; Day Three turns what investors saw into named pledges in the Africa Future Skills Investment Compact.
- Room
- Breakout Room 4 (Days Two and Three); Session 2 in the Auditorium
- Chair
- Multilateral & Development Partner
- Access
- Closed session, Chatham House Rule, no recording
- Who it is for
- Investor Pass holders, Executive Pass holders, DFIs, venture capital, impact funds, family offices, corporate venture arms and invited ministries. Includes pre-booked 1-on-1 matchmaking and an Investment Lounge.
- Hands over to
- Network Working Group 4 (Global Skills Investment), with the Compact
Day Two · 09:30 to 13:00
Session 1: Designing the Africa Future Skills Investment Landscape
Breakout Room 4. Output: A shortlist of public programmes for co-investment
WelcomeThe Chatham House Rule, the day's outputs, and how investors log interest in the app. · MC
A. Keynote: Designing the Africa Future Skills Investment LandscapeAfrica's youth bulge as an investment window, skills as long-term infrastructure for the green and digital transition, where multilateral money sits in the funding stack, results-based models, alignment with UN Agenda 2030, AU Agenda 2063, the AfCFTA and JET investment plans, and what makes a skills programme bankable. · Chamber chair
B. Evidence Fireside: data briefingThree charts from the Africa Future Skills Audit. · Data & Research Partner
B. Evidence Fireside: fireside chatWhere skills money flows and where it misses, the widest occupational gaps, placement and wage evidence, what data investors need to price skills risk, and which gaps the Audit will close in 12 months. · Data & Research Partner with an investor or DFI voice; moderator
Q&AQuestions from the room. · Moderator
Tea breakIn the room.
C. National Skills Pathways Showcase: framingThe common pitch template and the investor scorecard. · Chamber chair
C. Pathways 1 to 4Four pathways, each an 11-minute pitch followed by 7 minutes of investor questions (10:55, 11:13, 11:31, 11:49). · Ministry or SETA delegations
C. ScorecardsInvestors score each pathway in the app on five criteria. The top two pathways earn their ministries seats on the Day Three Summit panel. · All investors
D. Capital Pathways: De-risking Skills Investment: framingTop-scored pathways on screen. · Moderator (multilateral and development finance expert)
D. Capital Pathways panelFirst-loss and guarantee facilities, outcome bonds, income-share and skills-loan models and levy-matching funds; what makes skills deals risky and how each instrument reduces it, with one example from each of Forums 1 to 5. · A DFI, a commercial or development bank, an impact or venture investor, a government or SETA funder
D. The Instrument RoundEach panellist names one instrument they would offer a named pathway, two minutes each. · Panellists
Shortlist and closeThe chair confirms the public-programme shortlist and the lunch-hour meetings. · Chamber chair
Day Two · 14:00 to 16:00
Session 2: AFSI Pathfinders Windows of Opportunity Showcase
Auditorium (open to all delegates). Output: Investor shortlists of ventures and eight Commitment Reception invitations
AFSI's entrepreneurship launchpad for African innovations in emergent green and digital fields that can scale, solve a real problem and create skills and jobs as they grow. Twelve ventures across six tracks pitch for 5 minutes each, followed by 3 minutes of investor questions.
E. OpeningWhy Pathfinders, how the awards work, how to vote. · Title sponsor and Chamber chair
E. Green blockSix ventures from the Clean Energy & Power, Green Industry & Circular Economy, and Climate Finance & Fintech tracks. · Pathfinders; investors in reserved front rows
ChangeoverStage reset.
E. Digital blockSix ventures from the Digital, AI & Deep Tech, Creative & Digital Content Economy, and Future of Learning & Work tracks. · Pathfinders; investors in reserved front rows
E. CloseInvestors log follow-up requests and the delegate vote opens (until 20:00). · MC
Day Two · 16:30 to 18:00
Session 3: Pathfinders Deal Room
Breakout Room 4. Output: Investor scorecards; eight investors invited to the Commitment Reception
F. BriefingMeeting rules and feedback forms. · Chamber chair
F. Round 120-minute investor and venture meetings at numbered tables, matched in advance by mandate. · Investors, Pathfinders, interested employers
F. Round 2As above, after a 5-minute changeover. · As above
F. Round 3As above. · As above
F. Feedback and closeInvestors complete scorecards and the chair names the eight investors invited to the Commitment Reception. · Chamber chair
Day Three · 12:30 to 13:30
Session 4: Sealing the Africa Future Skills Investment Compact
Breakout Room 4. Output: Africa Future Skills Investment Compact (named pledges); Communiqué text
Deal trackerWhat moved since Day Two: meetings held, follow-ups requested, intentions logged at breakfast. · Chamber chair
Deal structuring clinicsThree tables each work one of the most advanced deals (the top-ranked National Skills Pathway, one Pathfinder, one consortium) to term-sheet principles. · Investors, ministries, Pathfinders, Multilateral & Development Partner
Compact signing roundEach investor states a named pledge (capital, matching grant, guarantee or technical assistance), entered live in the Compact. · Investors and DFIs
Communiqué contribution and handoverThe Chamber agrees its Communiqué text and hands its investment work to Network Working Group 4 (Skills Investment). · Chamber chair, APEA rapporteur
CloseChair and founding partners move to the Auditorium.
Investor-Ranked Pathways
What the two top-scored pathways receive.
- Summary
- The two ministry seats on the Summit panel 'Sovereign Plans, Global Capital' go to the two National Skills Pathways that investors score highest in the Investment Chamber on Day Two. Results stay sealed until the Summit, where they are announced at 11:20.
- Scoring criteria
- A clear and credible funding ask
- Government co-funding already committed
- Evidence of outcomes
- Delivery capacity
- Fit with green and digital labour demand
- Benefits
- A seat on the live-streamed Summit panel and the 'AFSI 2027 Investor-Ranked Pathway' designation
- The head deal tables at the Leaders' Co-Investment Compact Breakfast
- A reserved deal-structuring clinic table in the Investment Chamber's closing session
- Pledges entered first in the Compact and named in the Indaba Scoreboard
- Meetings with at least three investors or DFIs within 60 days
- A technical assistance package within 90 days to produce an investment memorandum
- A profile in the AFSI Investor Guide and the Audit, and a report-back slot at the next Indaba
Free, by application