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Building Bridges returns to Geneva for its seventh edition, aligning finance with sustainability. Organised by the Building Bridges Foundation on behalf of its Founding Partners — a unique alliance spanning the financial sector, public authorities, and Geneva-based international organisations — our annual flagship event is a launchpad for investment-ready ideas, strategic alliances, and high-impact partnerships.

Under the theme “Investable Solutions to Global Challenges,” we will build on the outcomes of our 6th, where the link between sustainability, resilience, and security emerged strongly, supported by a focus on innovative solutions and investment opportunities. Trust became one of the defining themes, surfacing that without trust, even the strongest de-risking efforts cannot unlock the investment needed, and these needs vary widely across the globe. Asset Owners stood out as pivotal actors and, across the programme, the boundaries between climate, nature, and social dimensions of the transition continued to dissolve.

VIV Africa is the leading international trade show for the poultry, dairy and agriculture industries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Bringing together the complete feed to food value chain, this event is where professionals discover the latest innovations, meet international suppliers, and build valuable business partnerships.

THE COMPLETE FEED TO FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN
VIV Africa brings together regional and international suppliers from across the animal protein value chain, covering feed ingredients, animal health, breeding and hatching, farm production, processing, food engineering and more.

With a strong focus on poultry and a growing dairy sector, the trade show connects professionals from across Sub-Saharan Africa with the technologies, expertise and business partners needed to improve production and support future growth. From practical solutions for today’s challenges to the innovations shaping tomorrow’s industry, VIV Africa brings the complete feed to food community together in Kigali.

Organizations collect enormous amounts of data, through surveys, applications, programs, interviews, reports, and feedback. Much of that knowledge remains trapped in silos. The result is fragmented information when organizations need connected insight.

This 30-minute webinar explores how to build context into your data so information collected by one team can become useful intelligence for others, with the right permissions and governance. We’ll look at how connecting data and definitions transforms isolated data points into organizational knowledge that teams—and AI—can actually use.

30-Minute Webinar Flow

1. The problem: How valuable organizational knowledge gets fragmented across teams, systems, spreadsheets, and reports.

2. Context is what turns data into intelligence. What “context” means: who, what, when, where, why, program, outcome, relationship, and definition.

3. How to build the context layer. A practical approach to connecting data across programs while maintaining ownership, permissions, definitions, and governance.

4. From “my team’s data” to “our organizational intelligence”. How shared context enables people to discover insights they could not see and creates a stronger foundation for AI.

5. Q&A

Time: 12:00

African Energy Week (AEW) is the continent’s leading international energy conference, uniting energy leaders, global investors, and policymakers from across the public and private sectors. Each edition reinforces its role in shaping Africa’s energy future, advancing investment and partnerships with the ultimate goal of ending energy poverty.

AEW 2026 builds on this momentum, placing Africa at the center of the global energy conversation. By uniting stakeholders across upstream, midstream, downstream, renewables, and services, it remains the continent’s only conference representing the entire energy sector on the international stage.

As the continent’s largest gathering of international energy stakeholders, AEW brings together over 9,000 industry leaders, government officials, investors, and energy executives from more than 100 countries. Whether you’re looking to expand your business, gain critical industry insights, or connect with key stakeholders, attending AEW will give you the access, knowledge, and opportunities you need to stay ahead in Africa’s evolving energy landscape.

SOCAP26 Tickets Are On Sale!

Don’t miss one of the world’s largest convenings of the impact ecosystem!

This annual event brings together a global audience of funders and founders, plus people from philanthropy, government, education, media, finance, science, faith-based organizations, NGOs, creatives, nonprofits, community leaders, and others to drive meaningful impact.

What Sets SOCAP Apart