Nkechi Ali-Balogun, Principal Consultant/CEO, NECCI
Brands
The NECCI Public Relations Roundatble will be holding it’s annual conference on Thursday, October 29, 2020 at the prestigious Eko Hotel & Suites, Lagos.
This year’s marks the 20th
edition and due to the ongoing social distancing, the event will be held both
physically and live-streamed across various digital platforms. The
3-hour event will kick off at 10.00am prompt.
The theme of this 20th
edition is ‘RAISING THE VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDING CLARION - The Role of Public
Relations in Growing the Enterprise Base through Venture Capital Funding.” According
to the Convener Nkechi Ali-Balogun, Principal Consultant/CEO, the theme will
expound the new frontier of enterprise development through venture capital
funding, especially with a focus on the part of Nigeria’s demography that has
the least access to funding from the capital market, namely women and youth. It
will define applicable means for venture capital funding targeted at upstarts,
idea-driven innovative ventures and small businesses within the Nigerian
economy. More importantly, she said it will highlight the role of public
relations in driving funding for business upstarts as the most viable means to
building and sustaining an enterprise base for Nigeria. She believes that this will be a wake up call
that will temendously boost
the acceleration of the creation of this fund for sustainable economic growth and job creation. In alignment
with the roundtable’s advocacy for youth inclusion, she further stated that emerging entrepreneurs and
students in tertiary institutions would be supported with the provision of data
to attend the conference.
Confirmed and renowned speakers, Prof.
Joseph Nnanna, Chief Economist, Development Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Biodun Adedipe,
Chief Consultant, B. Adedipe Associates Limited (BAA Consult), His Excellency,
Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra State and a host of others.
The NECCI PR Roundtable, a not-for-profit
event, designed to foster global competence using strategic communication has evolved over the years to
become an epoch event where communicators deliberate on topical issues to bring
about a paradigm shift in governance and economic reforms. Attendees are
general stakeholders within economic and social sectors targeted by the current
theme, traditional public relations executives, publicists and general
strategists, corporate communication executives as well as business development
executives.
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