• Goals and ambitions for 2020
• Nigeria’s Industrial Development Plan
• Nigeria’s free trade zones and the 2020 vision
• Lagos state development

Followed by Q&A session

Speaker: Gbenga Kuye, Managing Director, Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA)

• Lekki Free Zone – status of the development
• Opportunities in Lekki Free Zone
• Infrastructure development
• Incentives

Followed by Q&A session

Speaker: Chen Xiaoxing, Managing Director, Lekki Free Zone Development Company

• The benefits of free trade zones
• How to avoid the pitfalls of free trade zones
• Learning from the free trade zone experience of other markets
• The role of free trade zones in global logistics and supply chains

Followed by Q&A sessions

Speaker: Nasser Al Madani, Assistant Director General, Dubai Airport Freezone

Speaker: Jørn Rene Nielsen, Former Executive, Dangote Industries

Speaker: Michael Wong, Sector Leader Finance and Private Nigeria, World Bank

• Harnessing the opportunities of a rapidly growing economy
• What is needed to do business in Nigeria
  
• How UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) can help you

Followed by Q&A session

Speaker: Simon Brown, Senior Manager for East & West Africa, UK Trade & Investment

• Economic diversification in Nigeria
• Skills development as Nigeria moves up the value chain
• The role of Lekki Free Trade Zone in Nigeria’s growth plans

• Tax and incentives
• Regulations
• Opportunities 
• Nigeria as a route into the wider region
  
• Political stability and the long-term

Speaker: Olayode Delano, Partner, Akindelano Legal Practitioners

Speaker: Titus Edjua, Director, Africa Group, Clifford Chance LLP 

Speaker: Tara O’Connor, Managing Director, Africa Risk Consulting 

Speaker: David Smith, Chairman, British African Business Alliance