KAIICO 2024

The KAIICO Steering Committee and KCIDA will organize various pre-conference
forums that will culminate to the main conference. These will include:
i. A stakeholders’ forum in Kakamega with focus on the business community and
MSMEs from Kakamega, Vihiga, Trans Nzoia, Busia and Bungoma.
ii. Breakfast meeting with diplomatic missions and private sector players in
Nairobi
iii. A Kakamega Innovation Day to identify unique projects to be showcased at the
conference

The four-day high-level conference will consist of a tour to various tourist
attraction sites and presentations in plenary and sector-specific sessions as
broken down below:
a) High-level interactive segments with all the delegates
b) Plenary sessions that will involve key note addresses and invited experts’ presentations.
c) Government to private sector sessions and private sector to private sector sessions
d) Panel discussions with foreign missions and development partners
e) One-on-one match making meetings between pre-qualified investors and project sponsors to discuss and announce deals which may have been in the pipeline
f) KAIICO Pitch Fest- Innovative start-ups in Kakamega will be given an opportunity to pitch their projects to a plenary of investors, customers and potential partners

1. H.E the Governor will lead high-level delegates in a tree planting exercise at Kakamega forest before visiting key tourist attraction sites in Kakamega on the
first day of the Conference (19th March 2024). Subsequently, more visits will take place during and after the conference.
2. One high level (invites only) cocktail event (19th March, 2024) will be held with key note speeches by H.E the Governor, colleague governors, significant private
sector actors and development partners
3. One Gala Networking Dinner and Cultural Fiesta for all delegates on 22nd March, 2024 at the closing event.

Alongside the meetings, industries/companies, technology developers, research &
development practitioners, SMEs, MSMEs and development actors will be invited
to display their companies and organizations, showcase equipment, materials,
services, innovative findings, new knowledge and other practices relevant to
addressing economic growth and wealth creation in the context of the event’s
theme and sub-theme.

We are reaching out to organizations that we can partner with to make KAIICO 2024
the biggest and most successful regional investment conference in Kenya and
beyond. As a sponsor of the conference, you will get an opportunity to position
your brand at the forefront and engage with a highly targeted audience of
corporate leaders, top government executives, innovators, global industry leaders,
policy makers, entrepreneurs and customers.

This stage will include aggressive follow-up on investment leads generated during the conference and receiving post-event reports from various partners.