On September 29 – 30, 2010, the US-Algeria Business Council will host the US – Maghreb Entrepreneurship Conference in Algiers, Algeria. The US – Maghreb Entrepreneurship Conference is a follow-on conference to the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship held in Washington, D.C., in April 2010 and demonstrates the continuing work of non-governmental organizations to create regional partnerships that promote entrepreneurship.
This conference will bring together business leaders and entrepreneurs, and aspiring youth entrepreneurs from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania. The conference will also feature business leaders of the North African Diaspora, along with U.S. business leaders and entrepreneurs. The conference will include moderated discussions on key issues and challenges for advancing entrepreneurship, including: lessons learned from the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship , improving access to capital, enabling small and medium sized business, catalyzing youth entrepreneurship, perspectives from U.S. and Maghreb business leaders, promoting cross-border business partnership initiatives, transatlantic business networking, incubating innovation and technology, and exploring business opportunities in the creative industries. The conference will also provide capacity building for entrepreneurs through a number of skills training workshops and networking opportunities.
The United States will send a senior-level delegation to participate in the conference. The State Department is supporting the organizers of this event by identifying key speakers, participants, and U.S. entrepreneurs that can help advance our shared goals of economic partnerships for entrepreneurship, innovation, and job creation in the Maghreb.
For more information about this conference or to register, please contact Dr. Ismael Chikhoune, the President & CEO of the US-Algeria Business Council by e-mail at chikhoune@us-algeria.org
