Sparkle’s webinar for SMEs themed, “Simplifying Support for Small Businesses”, sheds light on how digitization and smart use of data can help SMEs transform their business and improve access to capital. More than 95% of registered businesses around the world are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Africa is no different. According to the World […]
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NECLive Returns In-Person with Economic and Social Development Through Entertainment Taking Center Stage
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Leading communications advisory and media company, ID Africa, has announced that the ninth edition of the annual entertainment conference, NECLive, will be held on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, in Lagos, Nigeria. This year’s edition of NECLive, one of Africa’s biggest and longest running gatherings of entertainment and creative industry professionals, will return in-person for the […]
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Ayeni Adekunle – ICCO Global Summit 2021 Panel Session: Balancing free speech, dangerous speech, free media, and misinformation
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Moderator: Jodie Ginsberg, CEO, Internews Speakers: Patrick Penninckx, Head of Information Society, Council of Europe; Elena Fadeeva, CEO and Founder, FleishmanHillard Vanguard; Sally Lehrman, Founder, The Trust Project Jodie Thank you, and welcome to this session on free speech, dangerous speech, free media, and misinformation in which our panelists will attempt to solve in 45 […]
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Thank you very much [for the introduction]. It is great to be with all of you. Embracing the future is what we are talking about. I’ve rushed over here from a meeting with the Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and I must say without exaggeration I have been privileged to have met many world […]
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Preaching the Gospel of Africa: Opportunities for Global Communication Professionals. By Femi Falodun.
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On October 17, 2021, I joined the world’s leading PR and communications experts from over 30 countries to attend the ICCO Global Summit in London. The experience was made even more special because BHM, ID Africa’s sister company, was participating as Africa’s first platinum sponsor of the event, and I was also going to be […]
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What do public relations agencies have in common besides the effects of COVID-19? High employee turnover. While the world is dealing with Coronavirus, the ICCO World PR Report 2020 showed that the global PR industry is also dealing with a pandemic of its own – loss and scarcity of skilled talent. Based on the conversations […]
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Moliehi Molekoa – ICCO Global Summit 2021 Panel Session: What can we do to accelerate pace of change?
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Speakers: Sue Hardwick, Co-Founder, Global Women in PR; Melissa Arulappan, Head of Corporate Communications, IQVIA; Anna Gefert, Managing Director, HERA Communication Strategies; Heather Kernahan, CEO, Hotwire Angela In this new hybrid working environment, what can we do to accelerate the pace of change? So, we’re doing a hybrid event of course here. So, hybrid discussion. […]
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Africa used to be mostly recognized by its wildlife and images of elephants, lions and giraffes grazing in the East African safari. Today, the most powerful representation of Africa on the global stage is its creative artforms––fashion, entertainment, sports and the sheer force of its people’s creative energy. More specifically, African music has (re)penetrated global […]
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Enitan Kehinde – ICCO Global Summit 2021 Panel Session: Skills For The Future: Retaining Talent And Developing Star Players
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Moderator: Nick Band, Founder, Berlin PR Speakers: Maxim Behar, CEO, M3 Communications Group; Barbara Phillips, Director, Brownstone Communications; Owen Cullen, Managing Director, Cullen Communications; Enitan Kehinde, General Manager, BHM UK. Nick Well, this panel today is going to be discussing one of the burning issues of our generation really, is how to retain and it’s […]
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Speakers: Femi Falodun, CEO, ID Africa; Jessica Hope, Founder and CEO, Wimbart Moderator Okay, welcome back everyone for their final stretch of sessions for this afternoon. And next we have Africa challenges and opportunities. So welcome to the stage, Femi Falodun, CEO of ID Africa, and Jessica Hope, co-founder and CEO of Wimbart Femi Alright, […]