Event Calendar
Conversations & Connections hosts a series of curated gatherings throughout the year, designed to encourage thoughtful dialogue and meaningful engagement.
Our events include:
● Breakfast Briefings
● Closed-door Roundtables
● Flagship Conversations & Connections events
● Private Salons and Dinners
● Partner-led Conversations
Each gathering is intentionally designed — with attention to room size, guest mix, and conversation flow — to ensure depth, quality, and relevance.
February
Conversations & Connections Network presents: Future Ready 2026, Reset, Reflection & Financial Empowerment.
Featuring:
Self Reflection
Global Trends
Economic Outlook
Financial Empowerment.
Venue: Bashir Adeniyi Center for International Trade & Investment within Nigerian Institute for International Affairs (NIIA)
In partnership with BACITI NIIA, Wema Bank
Date: 26th February
Time: 10am prompt
March
C&C NETWORKING BRUNCH & UNVEILING
A carefully curated gathering of senior professionals, institutional leaders, entrepreneurs and partners.
Featuring:
Intentional Networking
Strategic Dialogue
Relationship building
Platform unveiling
Key guest conversationalists.
10th March 2026 || 12:00pm WAT
The Dani Restaurant
Delborough Hotel,
Victoria Island, Lagos
Q1: NETWORK
March
MULTIFACETED:
Why Range Is the Advantage (Virtual Masterclass)
MULTIFACETED explores how diverse skills, experiences, and perspectives can be transformed into strategic advantage in today’s evolving professional and business landscape.
As careers and enterprises become increasingly non-linear, leaders are required to navigate complexity, transitions, and multiple identities
20th March
Time: 6.30pm WAT
Cost: ₦150,000
Venue: Virtual
Nairobi
The C&C Business & Culture Exchange Tour to Rwanda and Kenya is a curated cross-border engagement designed to combine commercial exploration, cultural intelligence, and structured learning.
A key feature of the tour is a real-world academic and leadership experience at the University of Kigali, where participants will engage in facilitated learning sessions focused on regional business dynamics, innovation, governance, and development pathways.
Participants who complete this component will be awarded a Certificate of Participation, reinforcing the tour’s learning and professional development value.
The programme provides direct exposure to:
Business and investment ecosystems
Policy and institutional environments
Innovation hubs and growth enterprises
Cultural heritage and social contexts
Through structured visits, academic engagement, and curated networking, participants gain practical insight into East Africa’s markets, partnership pathways, and regulatory landscapes.
Beyond market access, the tour strengthens participants’ cultural fluency, leadership capacity, and cross-border competence—essential for sustainable regional engagement.
This initiative reflects C&C’s commitment to translating conversation into lived experience and long-term strategic opportunity.
Cost: TBA
Q2: BUSINESS AND CULTURE EXCHANGE TOUR - EAST AFRICA
Kigali
June
Bridging Influence Event: Law, Trade & Strategic Partnerships Between the UK and Nigeria
C&C Publication: H1 Newsletter release.
The United Kingdom and Nigeria share one of the most significant bilateral relationships across trade, investment, law, culture, and diaspora engagement. As global economic dynamics evolve, there is increasing need for structured dialogue between policymakers, business leaders, legal experts, and investors to unlock emerging opportunities and strengthen collaboration between both markets.
Private sector platforms play a critical role in bridging institutional engagement and commercial outcomes by creating trusted environments for dialogue, partnership exploration, and relationship building.
The Conversations & Connections Network convenes influential leaders across sectors through curated, high-level salons designed to stimulate thought leadership, strategic partnerships, and actionable outcomes. This event will bring together distinguished policymakers from the United Kingdom, senior business executives, legal leaders, and institutional stakeholders to explore practical pathways for strengthening UK–Nigeria collaboration.
Date: Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Time: 12:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Venue: Dani Restaurant, The Delborough Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos
Host: Conversations & Connections Network
Event Partner: The Delborough Hotel
Strategic Partner: British Nigerian Law Forum
July
Masterclass: Topic TBD.
August
Mid-Year Review with Partners and Sponsors.
Q3: Leadership Engagement
September
Masterclass: Topic TBD.
November - Lagos
Discover the World Showcase is a flagship international platform curated by Conversations & Connections (C&C).
The showcase will bring together countries, institutions, businesses, and senior African decision-makers in a curated environment to explore opportunities in Trade.
The emphasis is on intentional engagement, strategic dialogue, and long-term partnership building. We aim to prioritise quality of access over scale, creating space for meaningful conversations.
The vision is to create a credible, repeatable showcase for global engagement within Africa.
Q4: Discover the World Showcase
October
Third-Party Partnership Events
Q4: Partnerships & Close-out
December
Christmas Dinner: Annual leadership gathering.
C&C Publication: H2 Newsletter release.
Join the Conversation
If you are interested in attending a future event, exploring membership, or partnering with Conversations & Connections, we would love to hear from you.
