Canada Africa Innovation Summit

What Canada Africa Innovation Summit does

Canada Africa Innovation Summit, operating under the legal name Canada Africa Inventions & Innotech Ltd, is a private event and conference organization founded in 2024 and headquartered at the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada. The company organizes summits that connect Canadian and African stakeholders across trade, innovation, technology, skilled trades, and agriculture. Its two flagship events are the Inventors Skilled Trade & Innovation Technology Summit '24, held November 21-23, 2024, and the Africa Agricultural, Trade & Investment Summit CANADA 2025, scheduled for December 18-19, 2025. The company claims a programming footprint of 180 skilled speakers, 30-day content cycles, and 20X networking intensity relative to standard events.

The business generates revenue primarily through event ticket sales distributed via the third-party Universe.com ticketing platform, with sponsorship opportunities offered to organizations seeking visibility in the Canada-Africa corridor. Target customer segments include governments pursuing bilateral engagement, corporations expanding into African markets, investors seeking deal flow in agriculture and technology, and STEAM-focused innovators and entrepreneurs. There is no proprietary technology platform or AI capability; the offering is a conventional conference product. The organization is led by three co-founders — Oswald Anonadaga (CEO of FloodGates International Corp), Moniruz Zaman (President of Bullion Mart), and Prof. Masud A. Khan (Founder of BBF Global) — and is independently held with no disclosed external funding, parent company, or institutional investors.

Name

Canada Africa Innovation Summit

Legal name

Canada Africa Inventions & Innotech Ltd

Website

https://canadaafricainnovation.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Canada Africa Innovation Summit is a privately held Canadian event organization that hosts conferences and summits connecting Canadian and African stakeholders in trade, agriculture, innovation, and skilled trades, with events held at the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation in Etobicoke, Ontario.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Conference and Event Services

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTHAHABAE

Technology & Innovation Expos Organizers

Travel & Hospitality/MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions)/Exhibition & Trade Show Organizers

SECONDARYMPAGAGAE

Technology & Developer Conferences

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Live Entertainment & Events (Concerts, Theater, Festivals)/Conventions & Conferences (Business Events)

SECONDARYMPAGAGAK

Executive Summits & Invitation-Only Forums

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Live Entertainment & Events (Concerts, Theater, Festivals)/Conventions & Conferences (Business Events)

SECONDARYTHAHAMAC

Partner, Channel & Alliance Summits

Travel & Hospitality/MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions)/Corporate Meetings & Summits

Keywords

• Trade conferences
• Innovation summits
• Bilateral business events
• Africa Canada partnerships
• STEAM entrepreneurship

Headquarters

HQ city

Etobicoke

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Marketing or Sales, Operations, Personnel, Others

Revenue model

1. Event Registration and Ticket Sales: The company generates revenue through ticket sales for its conferences and summits. Attendees purchase tickets through the Universe.com platform to access events such as the Africa Agriculture Investment & Trade Summit. Pricing appears to be tiered based on ticket types available through the registration system.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Canada Africa Innovation Summit (legally Canada Africa Inventions & Innotech Ltd) organizes and hosts conferences and summits that bring together Canadian and African stakeholders to discuss trade, innovation, and technology. Its core events include the Inventors Skilled Trade & Innovation Technology Summit (held November 2024) and the Africa Agriculture Investment & Trade Summit (scheduled December 2025), featuring up to 180 skilled speakers and producing structured networking and knowledge-exchange opportunities.

Product overview

Canada Africa Innovation Summit operates as an events and conference organization, not a software product company. The company organizes and hosts conferences and summits that bring together stakeholders from Africa and Canada to discuss trade, innovation, and technology. The main products are the Africa Agricultural, Trade & Investment Summit and the Inventors Skilled Trade & Innovation Technology Summit, which serve as platforms for networking, knowledge sharing, and fostering Canada-Africa partnerships in various sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Africa Agriculture Investment & Trade Summit: A pivotal event bringing together key stakeholders from Africa, Canada, and beyond to foster collaborations that drive economic growth, innovation, and sustainable development.

Products and services

• Africa Agricultural, Trade & Investment Summit CANADA 2025 A two-day conference held December 18-19, 2025 at the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation in Toronto, bringing together key stakeholders from Africa, Canada, and beyond to foster collaborations that drive economic growth, innovation, and sustainable development in agriculture, technology, and trade.
• Inventors Skilled Trade & Innovation Technology Summit '24 A three-day conference held November 21-23, 2024 in Etobicoke, Ontario, focused on skilled trade and innovation technology, bringing together experts and entrepreneurs under the theme "Embracing the Future: Elevating Standards in Skilled Trade and Innovation Technology."

Quantifiable outcome

• 180 skilled speakers brought together for knowledge exchange
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Africa Investment Forum: African Development Bank-organized platform for deal origination and investment matchmaking across African markets. Comparable in serving investors and corporations seeking Africa exposure and deal flow, though institution-led rather than independently organized.
• Africa Fintech Summit: Sector-specific conference focusing on financial technology and innovation across African markets. Comparable in format (multi-day summit, speaker-led, investor-focused) and audience overlap, with a narrower fintech vertical scope.

Direct peers

• Africa Tech Festival: Annual technology event in Cape Town covering telecoms, connectivity, and digital innovation across Africa. Comparable as a multi-day African tech conference serving operators, governments, and innovators with similar networking and exhibition formats.
• GITEX Africa: Large-scale technology and innovation expo in Morocco organized under the GITEX brand. Comparable as a major technology and innovation trade show organizer targeting similar enterprise, government, and startup audiences across Africa.
• Africa Tech Summit: Organizes tech and investment conferences across Africa (Nairobi, Cape Town, London) connecting African startups, corporates, and investors. Directly comparable as an Africa-focused technology and innovation conference organizer serving similar investor and innovator segments.
• AfroTech: Major conference convening Black tech professionals, founders, and investors with significant corporate sponsorship and exhibition programming. Comparable as a community-rooted tech/innovation conference with high speaker counts and corporate-attendee focus.

Others

• AfriLabs: Pan-African network of innovation hubs supporting tech entrepreneurs across the continent. Comparable as an ecosystem intermediary connecting African innovators with international partners, though its primary role is ecosystem support rather than event production.

Broad incumbents

• Web Summit: One of the world's largest technology conferences operating globally (Lisbon, Rio, Qatar, Toronto). Comparable as a large-scale tech and innovation conference organizer with similar sponsorship, ticket sales, and speaker-driven value proposition, though with vastly greater scale.
• Collision Conference: Web Summit's North American technology conference held in Toronto, directly competing for the same Toronto-based audience and corporate sponsors that Canada Africa Innovation Summit targets. Highly comparable as a Toronto-located innovation conference.

Regional players

• Canadian Council on Africa: Canadian membership-based organization promoting trade and investment between Canada and African countries. Comparable as a Canada-Africa corridor intermediary serving governments and corporations seeking bilateral engagement, though more policy and advocacy-oriented than event-driven.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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