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Aerospace & defense
Dubai-Based Great Minds Event Management Launches Global Summit on Intelligent & Autonomous Defence Systems, Supported by 18-Member Global Advisory Board UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, October 26, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / -- Dubai-based Great Minds Event Management has announced the launch of the Intelligent & Autonomous Defence Systems Summit (IADSS) Global Summit Series, to be hosted in strategically selected countries acr
Oct 26 · 09:05·EIN Presswire
Investing & markets
Unlock's industry-leading ninth transaction, and its second of 2026, draws repeat demand from institutional investors. TEMPE, Ariz., Oct. 26, 2026 -- Unlock Technologies (Unlock), a financial technology company that offers home equity agreements (HEAs), has closed its eighth...
Oct 26 · 09:05·PR Newswire
Food & drink · Biotech & pharma
The Sodium Benzoate Market is growing steadily as food, drug and beauty makers need safe ways to keep products fresh. It was valued at US$ 157.06 million in 2025. It is expected to reach US$ 231.40 million by 2034. That ...
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Oct 26 · 09:04·PR News Releaser
Travel · Fashion & luxury
Sennza Media Loadit Laundromat Following reader questions, Australian lifestyle Magazine Sennza Media are to commence publishing a series of in-depth features on laundromats to answer them. SYDNEY , NSW, AUSTRALIA, October 26, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / -- Sennza Media is an online magazine website managed by Australian Bloggers on lifestyle matters, travel and fashion for the discerning blog reader on the web. The si
Oct 26 · 09:02·EIN Presswire
Aerospace & defense · Cybersecurity
Former French Army Digital Transformation and Cyber Defence Leader joins 18-member Global Advisory Board of experts from 13 countries. FRANCE, October 26, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / -- Brigadier General Olivier Kempf (Retd), former French Army digital transformation officer and senior NATO strategic adviser, has been selected to serve on the Global Advisory Board of the Intelligent & Autonomous Defence Systems Summit
Oct 26 · 09:01·EIN Presswire
Food & drink · Consumer goods
The Sodium Ascorbate Market is on a steady growth path as wellness, food and beauty brands look for affordable vitamin C solutions. It was valued at US$ 1.53 billion in 2025. It is expected to reach US$ 2.3 billion by ...
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Oct 26 · 09:01·PR News Releaser
SaaS · Real estate
Africa’s exponential growth in family offices and UHNW individuals is raising new questions on succession planning, generational wealth transfer and investment diversification, as these influential sources of capital (including the first generation of African post-independence and post-liberalisation founders), seeks to hand over the baton. On 10 November in Nairobi, the inaugural Future Capital & Legacy Forum places these topics at centre stage in an exclusive, peer-to-peer setting.
Family offices and UHNW individuals are becoming one of the most influential sources of capital in the world. Deloitte states that globally, family offices control assets valued at US$3.1 trillion (projected to reach US$5.4 trillion by 2030), while Africa’s UHNW population rose 23.7% to 3 440 in 2025 – the fastest of any region.
A wave of the continent’s post-independence entrepreneurs are preparing to hand over their wealth to the next generations, facing the challenges of effective succession planning, diversification away from core operating businesses and multi-jurisdictional tax and legal considerations.
“Wealth preservation is one of the most pertinent issues facing Africa’s growing cohort of UHNW individuals and family offices, but it often fails due to poor succession planning and governance, amongst other issues. It is in this context that the inaugural Capital & Legacy Forum was created,” said Murray Anderson, Commercial Director at API Events, which will host the event at KOFISI Kaskazi.
The forum will provide an exclusive space for wealth principals, family office directors and chief investment officers from across the region, together with the trustees, lawyers, tax advisers and private bankers who serve them.
The event was founded in partnership with private wealth experts DeaconCapital and Suntera Global.
“Together with our expert partners, we’re excited to create an exclusive platform for the frank and insightful conversations desired by these individuals and other influential private wealth players from across Africa. Most wealth conferences are built around products. The Capital & Legacy Forum is structured around people, decisions and what really lasts and drives economies,” Anderson said.
Harnessing capital, preserving wealth, and building brands
The panel discussions, fireside chats and one-on-one insights for the event focus on four key, hands-on themes:
1. Harnessing Capital for Opportunity & Growth
How do you put capital to work with purpose, at home and globally? Tackling real allocation questions, from balancing liquidity, preservation and growth to deploying opportunity capital, and asking where the next $10M should actually go, and examining how private equity and family offices can overcome the friction between them and partner to build and fund growth.
2. From Wealth Creation To Wealth Preservation
Creating wealth and keeping it are different disciplines. The event explores the structures, governance and succession thinking that protect it.
3. Building Brands and Businesses That Endure
Africa is no longer only a source of raw materials. It is a place where brands, ideas and enterprises are created and exported to the world. Hear from the leaders building these brands about what it takes to move from made in Africa to desired globally, and to build something that outlives its founder.
4. The Next Generation
Capital is only as durable as the people who inherit it. From heirs to stewards, the event examines how families prepare the next generation for ownership, decision-making and responsibility, and what legacy means beyond money.
“The Capital & Legacy Forum brings to the table many of the practical issues families face as their wealth becomes more complex, from investment and structuring to international mobility, governance and preparing the next generation. These are increasingly important conversations for families and businesses thinking about how wealth is managed over the long term,” said John McDonald, Director of Nairobi and UK-based independent wealth advisory firm Waugh McDonald.
Saif Ahmedi, Partner – Senior Relationship Manager at DeaconCapital Asset Management added:
"We're pleased to be partnering with API Events for this inaugural event, which we believe will occupy an important space in the conversations around protecting generational wealth in Africa. Family offices and high net worth individuals have a unique set of needs and this event presents a prime opportunity for peer-to-peer conversations and first-hand perspectives from their journeys of exploring wealth preservation and investment."
Event details
Date: 10 November
Venue: KOFISI Kaskazi, Nairobi
Website and Registration: https://apo-opa.co/4AeK9Cr
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of API Events.
Enquiries:
dale@apievents.com
Murray Anderson
murray@apievents.com
About API Events:
Africa Property Investment (API) Events is Africa's leading B2B event and thought leadership platform for real estate investment and hotel development. Each year, its conferences, tours and experiences convene the most senior investors, developers, operators and capital providers in African real estate, create meaningful discussions and hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of opportunities for attendees and partners.
The group’s high-impact events (across Africa and beyond) span capital-raising, deal-making, retail, multi-family, mixed-use, commercial and industrial, hospitality and lodging, and emerging asset classes.
Oct 26 · 09:00·APO Group
Finance · SaaS
African Collaborations Group (ACG) (www.ACGafrica.com), the leading strategic project origination and collaboration platform focused on the industrialisation of sport in Africa through the origination of bankable sport and entertainment district ecosystems, today announced the appointment of Rick Taylor to its Advisory Board.
Rick Taylor is one of Africa's most experienced tourism strategists, with more than three decades of expertise in destination development and business events, also known as MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Events and Exhibitions). As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Business Tourism Company, a Cape Town-based international consultancy, he has led more than 100 tourism advisory, strategy and training projects worldwide and has been the strategic architect of national destination strategies and Convention Bureau projects across Africa, including in South Africa, Namibia, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Senegal, Cameroon, Zambia, Togo and Mozambique.
Rick was the architect of Africa's first Convention Bureau in Cape Town, which has maintained the #1 position in Africa in the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) city ranking for more than two decades. Since then, he has devoted his career to positioning business events as a strategic pillar of tourism, investment and socio-economic development across the continent.
The global business events sector has now surpassed pre-pandemic levels, reaching an estimated USD 1.5 trillion, yet Africa hosts only around 3% of the world's association meetings. Rick has spent his career addressing this structural gap by helping countries build the strategies, institutions, infrastructure and international positioning required to compete for a greater share of the global business events economy.
A defining feature of Rick's approach is what he calls "Lalibela thinking" — a 50- to 100-year perspective that sees MICE not simply as an events industry, but as long-term economic infrastructure capable of driving investment, tourism, job creation, skills development and poverty alleviation. His work has helped shape business events infrastructure, convention bureaus and national MICE strategies across Africa.
His appointment to the ACG Advisory Board reflects a core ACG conviction: that large-scale sport and entertainment districts must be conceived from the outset as integrated economic ecosystems spanning sport, entertainment, hospitality, tourism and business events. Convention Centres, conference facilities and other business events infrastructure are essential components of such districts. They can generate high-value activity on non-match and non-concert days, strengthen year-round hotel and hospitality demand, and connect the district to the wider tourism and business travel economy of its host country.
Rick therefore brings to ACG a rare combination of strategic and practical expertise: deep knowledge of African destination development; pan-continental relationships with tourism ministries, national tourism organisations and other public-sector stakeholders; hands-on experience in establishing Convention Bureaus and business events infrastructure; and a long-term perspective on the role of business events in African socio-economic development. These capabilities are directly relevant to ACG's work in originating and structuring large-scale sport and entertainment district projects across the continent.
"Rick Taylor is one of the most respected voices in African business tourism, and his career has literally built the Convention Bureau architecture that powers business events across the continent. His appointment reflects a foundational conviction at ACG: that sport and entertainment districts are not stadiums and concert halls standing alone, but integrated ecosystems that generate value across sport, entertainment, hospitality and business events. Sport, entertainment and convention infrastructure is district infrastructure. His presence on our Advisory Board significantly strengthens ACG's capacity to originate projects that combine these dimensions from the outset," said Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard (www.Pompigne-Mognard.com), Founder and Executive Chairman of ACG.
The ACG Advisory Board provides strategic guidance as ACG originates and structures large-scale sport and entertainment district projects across the continent, aligning governments, development finance institutions (DFIs), investors, sport bodies and infrastructure partners to support the development of financially sustainable, mixed-use district ecosystems.
Africa's sport economy is projected to reach $20 billion by 2035, yet the continent continues to lack the integrated district ecosystems required to support large-scale development. ACG addresses this gap by originating bankable sport and entertainment district projects, moving beyond single-venue development models towards mixed-use, revenue-generating and financially sustainable district ecosystems.
Through its collaborative model, ACG convenes governments, PPP authorities and regulators, development finance institutions, private investors, developers, designers and engineers, legal and transaction advisors, operators, sport federations and leagues, event promoters, media and broadcast partners, academic institutions and host communities, creating structured pathways from concept to feasibility, bankability and delivery.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Collaborations Group (ACG).
Media contact:
marie@apo-opa.com
About African Collaborations Group (ACG):
www.ACGafrica.com) is the leading strategic project origination and collaboration platform focused on the industrialisation of sport in Africa through the origination of bankable sport and entertainment district ecosystems. By convening governments, private-sector partners, development finance institutions, sport and entertainment stakeholders, and academic institutions, ACG creates structured pathways that transform concepts into investable and deliverable district projects across the continent.
Oct 26 · 09:00·APO Group
Gaming
Narrative incremental title already out and at 25,000 sold units. BIG DIG, a narrative incremental game where you help Mayor Dog win the election by digging out a highway to connect the Animal Republic has released! Since release earlier this week, BIG DIG has sold over 25,000 copies while earning a 95% positive rating!...
Oct 26 · 09:00·Games Press
Media · Food & drink
Leavin' it all Behind debuts today on radio and streaming I'm kinda broke, would you like to buy me a drink? DIONYA IS LOOKING TO ONCE AGAIN BE ONE OF THE TOP 5 INDIE ARTISTS ON THE CHARTS Leavin’ It All Behind was inspired by those nights when life feels overwhelming and you just need to forget the growing pile of bills, hit the dance floor, and use your charm to get some free drinks.” — Dionya Marie NASHVILLE, TN,
Oct 26 · 09:00·EIN Presswire
In the wire
From a Queens neighborhood staple to a global bagel sensation, the 45-year-old family institution rises to the occasion at Citi Field on November 15th Key Takeaways Utopia Bagels will receive the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award at New York BagelFest on Sunday, November 15th, at Citi...
Oct 26 · 09:00·PR Newswire
Industrial · Logistics
UTRECHT, Netherlands, Oct. 26, 2026 -- Medline celebrates its 10th year of partnership with Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP), marking a decade of continued work on responsible business practices, ethical manufacturing and supply chain integrity. Maintaining...
Oct 26 · 09:00·PR Newswire