Businesses to storm Accra for IPMATIIC Africa 2014

Businesses to storm Accra for IPMATIIC Africa 2014

By Mohammed Awal

Dr. Shelly Amos

Businesses across the world are expected to participate in the upcoming International Project Management, Trade, Investment and Industrial Conference (IPMATIIC) Africa 2014, slated to take place in Accra, Ghana, from19th to 21st May.

The Chairman of Shelley’s Group of Companies, Ambassador Dr. Shelly Amos, whose firm is collaborating with Ghana's Ministry of Trade to organise the event, noted that businesses from Africa, Asia and Latin America among others would participate at the maiden event.

IPMATIIC Africa “was aimed at unveiling, unraveling, reawakening our minds to the potential of African worth in human capital, natural resources and how these could be harnessed through project management and best practices to give us total industrial independence” he told journalists at the launch in Accra.

The Project Director, IPMATIIC Africa 2014, Chinnedu Onuaha noted that it was evidential that Africa has not “maximized her available opportunities as far as international trading and industrialization are concerned”, stating that IPMATIIC Africa would unveil the platform of un-harvested trade, investment and industrial opportunities available to be harnessed.

“As a gathering of over 500 delegates from all walks of life and of  course leaders with varied wealth of experience from the length and breadth of Africa and the rest of the world, there would be  a mega brainstorming where ideas would be shared and acquired.”

A representative from the Ghana Investment and Promotions Centre (GIPC), Mr. Charles Poku-Mensah, said the GIPC fully support the conference adding that they are committed by mandate to create congenial environment for investment in Ghana, facilitate and promote these investments, as well as, formulate policies to regulate and protect them leading to the economic growth of Ghana and by extension Africa.

“With a complete reorientation of our mindset and focus as a people, we should be able to achieve the African industrial economic framework which will lead us to industrialization independence,” added GIPC.