From Afro-centric streaming giants to billion-dollar licensing deals, the media and film industry is no longer about representation, it’s about ownership.
This stage brings together female CXOs, cultural gatekeepers, media-tech disruptors, and content queens rewriting the rules not just on-screen, but in the boardroom, in distribution chains, and across transmedia ecosystems.
As global demand for authentic African voices explodes, this is where the continent’s creative economy is not just showcased it’s weaponised.
For equity. For scale. For global domination.

From AI and blockchain to fintech and the future of work, power now lives in code, platforms, and data ecosystems and those who own them shape the world. But while the infrastructure of tomorrow is being built, women especially in Africa are being locked out of the control rooms. This stage is a direct challenge to that status quo. It convenes the women rewriting the algorithm CXOs, tech founders, investors, and innovators flipping the script on exclusion. Here, we decode how to lead in an AI-powered era, scale inclusive tech ventures, close the digital gender divide, and move smart capital into the hands of women ready to dominate the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This isn’t about catching up. It’s about taking over.
The future is being coded and it’s time women own the system.

With over $3 trillion in global infrastructure and mobility investments projected by 2030, Africa’s competitive edge lies not in catching up but in leading with intention, innovation, and inclusion. This stage is the engine room for women who are not just in the room they’re designing the blueprint.
From green logistics and AI-driven supply chains to next-gen transport corridors and gender-responsive cities, this is where Africa’s physical systems collide with fierce, female-led strategy. We’re not debating women’s place in infrastructure anymore. We’re fast-tracking their dominance across it. One corridor. One city. One economy at a time.

We spotlight the women disrupting supply chains, leading ESG innovation, and localising production at scale not as vendors, but as vanguards of transformation. From the factory floor to executive strategy, from sourcing to scaling this is where systems are rewritten, and power is redistributed. This isn’t a conversation. It’s a call to reorder the economy with women as the architects, owners, and capital catalysts at every level.

Yet less than 2% of global VC flows to women-led ventures, and capital continues to overlook the very leaders driving innovation and inclusive growth.
This stage is a capital war room where powerful women fund managers, high-growth founders, and institutional investors converge to flip the system. From private equity and blended finance to agri-fintech, sovereign funds, and ESG-aligned vehicles, we unpack how to raise, structure, and deploy capital at scale with women at the helm. And in a room full of investors, DFIs, policymakers, and ecosystem architects, your voice won’t just be heard it will move mountains and markets. This isn’t about visibility.
It’s about ownership, authority, and capital control.
The future of funding is being rewritten by women who aren’t waiting to be included, but building empires, funds, and financial systems from the ground up.

On the African continent, representation on listed company boards across major stock exchanges remains disproportionately low, despite mounting pressure from investors, regulators, and ESG frameworks. Yet the data is undeniable: companies with women in executive leadership consistently outperform on profitability, innovation, and long-term value creation. This stage is built for CXO women ready to shift from operational excellence to governance influence, reimagining leadership across public institutions, SOEs, JSE-listed boards, and private capital structures. We unpack the capital, networks, and policy frameworks needed to ascend, influence, and drive systemic reform. From closing the executive pay gap to building succession pipelines and rewriting governance codes, this is where women stop waiting for power and start wielding it. Leadership is no longer a title it’s a transformation strategy.

This stage is where culture meets commerce. From billion-rand brand campaigns to viral movements that shape the zeitgeist, we convene Africa’s most powerful CMOs, brand architects, creatives, and marketing entrepreneurs. Here, we decode the future of storytelling powered by AI, data, cultural capital, and purpose-driven branding. Women are not just trend-followers they are trendsetters, architects of influence, and economic drivers.
On a continent where women direct over 70% of consumer purchasing, it’s time they also lead the strategy, spend, and storytelling behind the brands that shape Africa’s narrative. This isn’t just advertising. This is authority. And women must own every frame, feed, format and the funding behind it.

Yet women the very drivers of urban growth still own a fraction of the land they fund, develop, or inhabit. That ends here.
This stage is a high-stakes platform for female CXOs, developers, investors, and disruptors ready to dominate the built environment.
We unpack transformative models from smart cities and inclusive housing to REITs, land equity, and asset-backed power plays all led through a woman-first lens. This isn’t about inclusion. It’s about dominion.
It’s not about fitting women into plans. It’s about making them the blueprint. Because the future belongs to those who own the land it stands on. And this time, that means women.