We held a much successful second annual AmCham Business Summit themed “Partnering for Prosperity,” on November 4 – 5, 2019. The 2019 Summit focused on providing a platform for direct business to business engagement enabling partnerships to develop and transactions to take place to expand markets and catalyse business growth; the key to job creation and economic prosperity.

The Summit attracted over 600 participants representing 230 companies and including 105 Government representatives from the U.S., Kenya and across the East Africa region.

The Kenyan government representation was led by H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta, who also served as the Chief Guest for the Summit and included Cabinet and Principal secretaries and eight County Governors. The U.S. government representation was led by the Assistant Trade Representative for Africa Connie Hamilton, and included the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Middle East & Africa, U.S. Department of Commerce, Seward “Skip” Jones as well as U.S Ambassador to Kenya, Kyle McCarter.

The Summit program featured 75 speakers in 15 program sessions as well as business-to-business matchmaking sessions during which 291 B2B meetings took place.