Main Themes

WEIF 2022 will address the main theme “Achieving the SDGs through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Investment Post COVID 19” and will encompass a number of sessions; mainly,

  • Ensuring and sustaining Entrepreneurial Resilience Post COVID 19

  • Transforming Resilient Sustainable Financial Inclusion
  • Developing conducive ecosystems for entrepreneurship and innovation / Digital Transformations
  • Role of educational institutions, think tanks and research centers in unleashing entrepreneurship and innovation

  • Reviving Trade and Heritage towards Sustainable Development

  • Green Industry and Blue Growth

  • SME Coalition for Africa

  • Social entrepreneurship and corporate responsibility in the new reality

  • Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurs


It is was also agreed that the Union of Arab Banks will organize a 4-hour symposium/workshop on financial inclusion in a digital economy. The event will bring about private banks and developmental funds in addressing tools, mechanisms and joint cooperation towards financial literacy and economic empowerment in Africa and the Arab Region.