The annual “Canada-Africa Foreign Direct Investment Forum (CA-FDIF)” is a maiden bilateral trade and investment interface between a selected provinces in Canada and their counterparts in Africa, with the aim of deepening investment-drive ties with Africa. This year’s investment focus on cross-national economic alignments, and it is specialized programming is centered on Nigeria-Canada Governors and Premiers Investment Roundtable.
CA-FDI-Forum as a strategic engagement will inspire stakeholder participation on the socio-economic and transformative roles Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays in sub-national development programming. The forum will accelerate deeper implementation mechanism in jobs creation, technology, innovation, foster economic growth and prioritize investment in critical projects to propel prosperity
Ultimately, FDI is pivotal to the growth of states and this should form the infrastructure hub for in partnership of relevant stakeholders in achieving national and bilateral goals. The CA-FDI-Forum will be delivered in-person with an opening gala dinner on 20th June, 2026 at the Ottawa Conference and Event Centre, Westin Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario – Canada while the closed-door sessions will take place from 22nd – 27th June, 2026. All sessions of the investment deal-rooms are closed.
The Canada-Africa Foreign Direct Investment Forum will leverage on exceptional expertise to provide coordination for investments opportunities on matters relating to the CA-ECS and the AfCFTA, supporting businesses access Canada and Africa market, value added products and services. This program on the sideline of the Canada-Africa Inter-Parliamentary Roundtable, Investment Tours and Legislative Retreat, holding in Ottawa, Ontario – Canada from 18th – 26th June, 2026
Driven by the yearnings for an impact-facilitated economic and business partnership between Canada and Africa created to formalize and strengthen industrial, governance and cooperate synergies. This year’s annual CA-FDIF seeks to bring together Canada and African thought-leaders to share economic and bilateral opportunities, close deals and forged strategic partnerships along multiple-sector investment portfolios.
As an industry sector consortium, the AI-Group Inc. Holdings firmly believe that the gradual growth of local businesses – powered by the crucial investment in infrastructure and project financing will facilitation the crucial commodity exchange protocols on made in Africa and Canada goods and services; a vital instrument for long-term progress and prosperity. Motivated by untapped potentials domiciled in Africa and its under-served communities, we have remained committed to building a forum that will open access to opportunities in areas of industry-synergies, and open doors for business expansion.
It is our resolve, that unlike any generation until, we are resolute in birthing a new approach in Foreign Direct Investment conversations, and the economic impacts for structural transformation and economic advancement of the continent.
Our investors/investment and portfolio design team will build a comprehensive corporate portfolio, partnering with participating governors and MDA Heads from national and sub-national government on their investment needs.
During the preparation, our select number of our seasoned team will run project readiness outlines that aligns with potential funders and funding opportunities across simulated “deal-rooms” and ‘deal-sealing’ marathons.
The specialized Premiers, Governors and investors/investment segment will include strategic investment tours – specially planned to ensure the attendance of respective attending Ministers of MDAs and Governors of African sub-national entities memorable.
We will arrange mock meetings between provincial premiers, governors, and African sub-national governments and relevant project financiers, investors and ensure both meet the forum’s coordinated settings, while making valuable connections and networking.
The Project/Infrastructure Finance Pre-Screening Marathon is specifically set up to get all investment pitches of relevant state governments ready for investors, helping them to see their high or low yield investment portfolio from the dimension of someone else’s perspective.
As professionals, the AI-Group Inc. Holdings investment unit will assign participating sub-national (states) government from Nigeria for the pilot phase of this year’s CA-FDI-Forum in order to understand how to deal with public-private and multilateral investors; empowering them on project-finance pitching, stock-portfolios and recurrent screened project viability to leverage corporate financial network from the shared experience during the 6 days of crucial investment missions, including the 22nd – 27th June, 2026 Meet and Greet corporate networking and dinner at the Ottawa Conference and Event Center, Ottawa, Ontario – Canada.
As delegates, state government and their representatives will get viable feedback on what their beneficiary states need to do or not to do, in order to get their projects or infrastructure to the next level.
Firstly, the pre-screening session will have a pass/access cost implication $10,000 only and it is compulsory.
Consequently, beneficiary states and corporate firms will be required to write a basic pitch deck using our preferred template that we will make available and best fitted for multi-sector and multi-industry usage.
Canadian Investors: Several Canadian Investors will be invited to participate in a few coordinated series of investment roundtables with participating Governors. Screened investors will cut across multi-sector and industry platforms, with potentials to invest in crucial agro-tech and critical infrastructure with defined, well designated and pre-screened investment and finance portfolio in these sectors:
Specially Invited Private and Government Sector Institutions: Companies and government MDAs attending the deal-room will have the opportunity to pitch their project finance, refinancing and investment needs along our outlined framework and priorities.
The June 2025 Canada-Africa Premiers and Governors Investment Roundtable is a platform that seeks to empower mutual bilateral, trade homogeneity, intra-governmental framework and stock-taking on investment portfolios.
The investment roundtable will climax as a 6-days of real-time government-to-government, government-to-business and business-to-business bilateral, trade and investment tours, deal-making forum and business portfolio for Canada and Africa market access potentials.
Series of simulations will hold alongside a “delegation-driven” closed investment meetings with relevant stakeholders within the program schedules: 22 – 27 June, 2026.
– A FORCE FOR MULTI-SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
ur mandate is to spur innovative synergies around strategic investment as a panacea to national and multi-sector development, and the focus here is national and sub-nation government and private sectors in Nigeria.
The emphasis of this FDI-caravan, bilateral and trade missions to prioritize crucial infrastructure investment and viable project financial availability between Canada and Nigeria while outsourcing sustained project-finance impact in jobs creation, driving innovation, food security, economic growth and the deliberate investment in critical infrastructure to propel economic prosperity.
No doubt, Foreign Direct Investment is pivotal to benchmark sustainable partnership with governments and relevant stakeholders towards achieving bilateral goals.
In mid-December 2021, the Mr. Justin Trudeau – the prime of Canada commissioned the Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development to devise a strategy to stimulate economic cooperation across African countries, which would support the growth of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), promote infrastructure investment, and expand collaborations in research and innovation between Canada and African countries.
This mandate was expected to form part of a broader mandate for the Minister and his Ministry to strengthen and secure critical supply chains and advance Canada’s export diversification strategy, which so have aligned with the African Union Commodity Strategy and Action Plans. In implementing this mandate, the Minister created a Canada-Africa Economic Cooperation Strategy (CA-ECS) to amplify and diversify trade and investment relations with African partners.
In addition, the CA-ECS endeavours to strengthen the rules-based international trading system and make substantive contributions to the economic, social and environmental imperatives of both Canada and African countries.
This initiative has since entered different phases of conversations, with particular emphasis to the advancement critical Canada foreign policy and at a time when many countries around the world are re-evaluating their ties with trading partners, and in some cases, strengthen existing relationships.
Since 2021, there have been several consultative forums staged, and a few crucial Canada-Africa multilateral sessions to advance the CA-ECS. Interestingly, on May 23, 2023, the coordinating Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development welcomed the Commissioner; H.E. Albert Muchanga, African Union Commissions Department of Economic Development, Tourism, Trade, Industry and Minerals, to the inaugural “Canada-African Union Commission Trade Policy Dialogue” with the Minister. During this forum, the Minister announced the launch of public consultations on the CA-ECS.
So far, African countries have advanced Agenda 2063, a blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future. It is the continent’s strategic framework that aims to deliver inclusive and sustainable development. As a pragmatic step taken by the Africa to accelerate inclusive development, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement forms part of the overall strategy of Agenda 2063, which also aims to see Africa emerge as a major social, political and economic force in the world. In light of Agenda 2063, there is a reimagined approach by many African countries who view trade as a tool that should be mutually beneficial between trading partners.
On this note, the “Canada-Africa Foreign Direct Investment Forum” is a platform that is seeking to empower critical stakeholders with economic intelligent proposals for increased trade between African countries and Canada. A re-imagining discourse is expected to evolve from commodities and raw materials export to now include value-added goods and services. The human capital nexus between Canada and Africa (at national and sub-national government levels), and its relevant MDAs has significant potential for the advancement of trade in the areas of agriculture, renewable energy, technology amongst others, spearheaded by stakeholders who have an interest in both ecosystems.
Infrastructure investment and project finance mainstreaming will form part of the activities during the Canada-Africa Foreign Direct Investment Forum, where the integral part of the schedule will focus on investment and bilateral missions to relevant and specialized provinces in Canada. This mission will leverage on partnership, finance resource mobilization, governance and investment opportunities.
As part of Government efforts for government-to-government, government-to-business and business-to-business, the trade and investment mission will host public sector managers, top-government functionaries, business moguls, infrastructure and project investment tycoons. The strategic in-house investors-project simulation studio sessions will interface top-level decision makers from government institutions and private sector establishments in Africa and Canada
1 Night of Award Nights to celebrate 20 Canada-Africa investment champions, Development and Multi-Sector Influencers
2 Days of Investment Tours and Networking
1 Day of Interview Studio Session
2 Nights of Entertainment and tourism: Live Karaoke, Fun Nights, etc.
The program will adopt English as a primary and secondary language for delivering, curating, moderating and facilitating.
A series of consolidated program will be coordinated by professional dealmaking and consultants on project finance, trade and investment facilitation around crucial import-export, valued added products, commodity and service market, infrastructure finance, project security, trade technology and trade logistics governance.
Unlike the focus for a critical project on deeper Canada-Africa Trade and Investment synergies, key engagements during the CA-FDIF will cover the following issues:
• Inter-Trade & Investment Tours & Bilateral Missions to selected Provinces
• Leverage sustainable Canada-Africa linkages on market pathways provided by the “African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)” and the “Canada-Africa Economic Cooperation Strategy” nexus
• Inter-country stakeholder involving relevant MDAs on product market access for both countries
• Export-Import Consolidation Roundtable
• Prioritize Dealroom: commodity and value-added infrastructure investment
Delegates to the CA-FDIF series is high-level coordinated and limited to the following prospective invitees:
