Africa’s largest and most influential Africa-focused virtual B2B digital event the East Africa Buyer Seller Meet will take place between 10 – 12 November 2020 under the umbrella of Africa Business Pages, the largest B2B African portal since 1996. The digital East Africa Buyer Seller Meet will focus on five key business sectors:
The events will run simultaneously from 10-12 November, 2020. As one of the largest virtual B2B meeting between African buyers and global suppiers, the East Africa Buyer Seller Meet will provide an online platform for exhibitors from across the world to showcase their products to buyers from East Africa. The event is expected to attract over 15,000 participants from the East African markets – namely, Kenya, Uganda Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea, Mauritius, Sudan and South Sudan
Announcing the news, event director and the portfolio director of Africa Business Pages, N. Hasan, said: “After extensive research and consultations, we decided to organise fully virtual events to facilitate direct B2B contacts between African buyers and international suppliers,” he said. “Virtual B2B buyer-seller meets have now become the norm due to the spread of COVID-19 and the global economic lockdowns.
The East Africa Buyer Seller Meet will use advanced AI business matchmaking algorithm to connect the right buyers with the right sellers,” he said.
Using state-of-the-art technology, the East Africa Buyer Seller Meet will offer delegates, visitors and exhibitors a user-friendly and effective digital experience and an innovative platform to do direct one-on-one business online. The AI-powered matchmaking engine, smart networking through integrated chat facilities, virtual exhibition booths, interactive one-on-one interactions, smart lead capturing software and other business facilitating features make the East Africa Buyer Seller Meet the must-attend event of 2020.
Exhibitors can also look forward to groundbreaking new features such as LeadCapture Africa, a special feature that will deliver business leads generated during the Virtual Exhibition directly to the Exhibitors inbox – thereby ensuring that all business leads generated through the exhibition do not go unattended even if the exhibitors are offline.
African buyers have been quick to realise that the COVID-19 pandemic has opened up new opportunities to tackle their businesn requirements using online technologies. As such, Africa Business Pages has developed just the right technology through a powerful B2B engine to facilitate direct trade between African buyers and international suppliers with the aim of promoting trade to and from Africa.
“Under the current difficult circumstances there is an even greater need to convince Africa’s tech and business communities to use online technologies to keep the engines of business rolling,” commented N. Hasan, who has been advocating the importance of technology and telecommunications in meeting the business needs of the African importers community.
The new virtual B2B meet, the East Africa Buyer Seller Meet is the culmination of 24 years of connecting African businesses with their business counterparts across the world through the Africa Business Pages B2B portal. Africa’s business community response to the East Africa Buyer Seller Meet stand testimony to the huge success of the event – with as many as 5,000 businesses across East Africa having already registered for the event.
As internet penetrarion across Africa as good as it is, events like the East Africa Buyer Seller Meet will pay an important role in shaping Africa’s digital future and redefining how Africans do business. Looking forward, geographical and logistical constraints will soon become a thing of the past as online buyer seller meets become the norm.
East Africa Buyer Seller Meet will connect the dots between the digital online business landscape and open new avenues for digital B2B business for the African markets.
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