The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) will host its fifth annual U.S-Africa Business Summit from June 21-24, 2005 at the Baltimore Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

 

Expected to be the largest event of its kind within the United States, the Summit strives to increase American investment throughout the African continent by increasing U.S. private sector awareness of the many commercial opportunities in Africa. It will also address specific policy issues that confront the U.S. private sector in the African marketplace and to develop partnerships among African and American businesses.

 

It is our aim that the U.S.-Africa Business Summit will help advance, in tangible terms, our common ambition of strengthening trade and investment ties between the United States and Africa. We do so through an agenda that includes plenary sessions and workshops. Topics to be discussed include:

 

* Agriculture

* Arts & entertainment

* Education

* Energy & power

* Finance

* Healthcare

* Housing

* Regional groups

* Small business opportunities

* Telecommunications

* Tourism

* Transportation & infrastructure