Italy hosts global fruits and vegs industry from May 3-5

Ghanaian Participants at last year’s event

ers or need to send bulk payments, MFS Africa strives to continuously connect senders, recipients, and service providers across the continent.

The organization’s full-service digital payments network connects

1000 exhibitors, comprising 20% foreigners, these exhibitors will showcase goods and services from di erent sectors including: production and marketing of fruit and vegetable products, sorting and packaging machinery and technology, packaging materials, logistics and services, machinery and systems for fruit and vegetable growing, plant nurseries and seeds and biosolutions.

Participants and exhibitors will get to share and transfer knowledge, make business partners, and to buy or sell agricultural equipment whilst tapping Italy’s expertise as the world leader in agricultural production and the manufacturAdditionally, there will also be technical visits to company sites lets, over 200 million bank accounts across Africa, and over 200,000 agents in Nigeria, to enable cross-platform and cross-border payments for remittance companies, mobile network operators, banks, non-bank nancial institutions and global merchants. for a learning experience in terms of know-how and cutting-edge machinery and technology with extensive media awareness.

The Italian Trade Agency in Ghana in collaboration with the Federation of Association of Ghanaian Exporters (FAGE), wishes to extend an invitation to government representatives and policy makers, and to agribusiness professionals within the fruits and vegetables value chain to join this event.

Ghanaian exporters within the fruit and vegetables ecosystem interested in participating can complete online forms via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wDEBnGNUjxbLQQ3MN8gW4KIjtlejTh-FoqUCUIx3Yo0/edit.

The FEMITECH conference is focused on female tech practitioners and aspiring females in Tech. The conference aims to inspire and empower women in this industry and create a supportive community to help them achieve their goals.

Speakers at the conference include Fatoumata Doro- MD for Vilsco Ghana Group, Ing. Dr. Lucy Agyepong -Associate Dean of Engineering, Academic City University College, Suzanne Diop, Head Of Nestle Business Services For Sub Saharan Africa, and the Keynote address by the Honorable Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful.

According to Kobi Hemaa Osisiadan-Bekoe, Director of Corporate

A airs and Media Relations at the Ghana India Ko Annan ICT Center, women have been breaking barriers and pushing boundaries in tech for centuries, but yet still, women are underrepresented in tech.

“At the Females in Tech Conference, we bring together women from across the tech industry to share their stories and experiences. We will discuss various topics, from leadership and career development to diversity and inclusion. There will also be networking opportunities, allowing women to connect and learn new skills." She added

The event, organised in partnership with the Ministry of Communications & Digitalisation and the

National Information Technology Agency (NITA), will be held at the Ko Annan ICT Centre auditorium opposite the Council of State Building near Parliament house will inspire a new generation of females in tech.

The Ghana-India Ko Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (GI-KACE), is an agency under the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation mandated to provide training, consultancy, research and development in ICT and electronic-related elds. For over two decades, the center has provided specialized training to various groups and helped organisations increase their performance and productivity.