NAIROBI, Kenya, August 17 – H.E. Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, will headline the PMI Global Summit Series Cape Town, taking place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) from 14–15 September 2026. Hosted by Project Management Institute (PMI) Sub-Saharan Africa, the Summit will convene leaders from government, development banks, technology, energy and infrastructure under the theme Africa Delivers M.O.R.E. Together.
Mene’s participation gives particular resonance to this year’s theme. Few initiatives embody the idea of Africa delivering together more powerfully than AfCFTA. Its ambition to create a more integrated continental market has the potential to fundamentally reshape how African economies trade with one another. Africa’s integration will depend on how well we connect our markets, move goods and people, power our economies and make it easier to do business across borders.
Behind all of this is the ability to deliver, having the right institutions, skills and project capability to turn continental ambition into real progress. These questions will sit at the heart of the Cape Town Summit.
The programme will extend that conversation into some of the most consequential areas of Africa’s development. Mteto Nyathi, Chair of Eskom, will bring his extensive leadership experience to a conversation on delivering energy access, while Olugbenga Agboola, Founder & CEO, Flutterwave, will contribute to discussions on the financial and digital systems required to unlock African trade. Infrastructure will feature prominently, with Willem Botha, Head of Projects at Zutari, among the leaders examining the projects required to build a more connected and increasingly borderless continent.
As artificial intelligence reshapes industries and economies globally, Ziaad Suleman, CEO for South Africa and Botswana at Cassava Technologies, will lead a case-study conversation on Building Africa’s Own AI Future, exploring the infrastructure, capability and ecosystems Africa will need not merely to consume AI technologies, but to participate meaningfully in building the next digital economy.
The programme will also feature leading voices including Karin van Rooyen of PM.Ideas and Sabrina Walter, founder of Women For Change and one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2026, alongside leaders and practitioners from across the continent who are driving meaningful change through projects and transformation.
“Africa is not short of ambition. You can see it in the African Union’s Agenda 2063 flagship projects and in the bold development visions of countries across the continent,” says George Asamani, Managing Director, PMI Sub-Saharan Africa.
“What matters now is delivery. That is why we are bringing together people with real experience of delivering complex projects and transformation to share what they have learned, what works, what doesn’t and what they would do differently. We want project professionals to leave Cape Town with practical approaches, methodologies and insights they can take back to their organisations and apply to the projects they are delivering. That is what Africa Delivers M.O.R.E. Together is about – learning from one another and strengthening our collective ability to turn Africa’s ambitions into results.”
The Summit’s opening panel, The African Integration Story: Progress, Partnership, and Possibility, will bring together leaders working at the intersection of policy, investment and delivery.
Joining the conversation will be Dagmawit Moges Bekele, Director, Peace Fund Secretariat at the African Union Commission, Rudi Dicks, Head of the Project Management Office in the Private Office of the President of the Republic of South Africa; and Dr Matthew Prempeh, former Minister for Education and former Minister for Energy in Ghana. The discussion will be moderated by Armand Nzeyimana, Director, Development Impact & Results at the African Development Bank.
Together, they will examine Africa’s integration journey, what the continent has learned about turning shared ambitions into action, and the partnerships and delivery mechanisms needed to accelerate progress.
The session Establishing and Strengthening PMOs in the Public Sector brings together some of the practitioners working inside the machinery of government delivery.
Sitati Olando, Acting Head of Kenya’s Government Delivery Unit, Stella Maris Nambaziira, Head of PMO at the Uganda Revenue Authority, Ben Peters, Director of the Corporate Project, Programme and Portfolio Management Office at the City of Cape Town; and William Mpye, Head of the Enterprise Programme Management Office at the South African Revenue Service, will share perspectives on building and strengthening delivery capability within public institutions. The session will be moderated by internationally recognised PMO expert Americo Pinto.
The significance of the conversation extends well beyond the project management profession. Across the continent, governments are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that policies, budgets and development plans translate into tangible improvements in people’s lives. Delivery units and PMOs are increasingly becoming part of the institutional architecture through which governments coordinate priorities, monitor implementation and improve accountability for results.
“Project management is ultimately about closing the distance between what we say we want to achieve and what people actually experience,” adds Asamani. “Having the right strategy and investment is important, but delivery is what turns those plans into progress. That requires people with the skills and capability to make things happen.”
That emphasis on execution runs throughout the Summit programme. The Cape Town gathering builds on the momentum of last year’s Summit in Kigali, which brought together more than 1,000 project professionals, industry leaders and government officials to share ideas, experience and practical approaches to delivering projects with greater impac
