The largest pan-industry commodity leadership conference in the continent, the International Commodity Summit 2025 (ICS2025), will be held from 11 to 14 March at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), where over 10,000 delegates will gather to chart the future of African and global trade.
Organised as a forum for strategic deal-making, innovation, and policy dialogue, ICS2025 will drive Africa to new heights of global value chains in commodities.
ICS2025 is not another conference, organizers say, but a tipping point for inclusive, resilient, and future-looking economic transformation in Africa.
The summit will have priority themes energy, mining, agriculture, infrastructure, and digital trade with clear short-term priorities to address such as climate-resilient value chains, sustainable extractives, blockchain integration, and regionalization of the supply chain.
Its emphasis is on linking African producers with global consumers directly and eliminating the intermediaries and creating long-term trading relationships by encouraging transparency and innovation.
Speakers like Victor Matfield, Adv. Mtho Xulu, and Dr. Rutendo Hwindingwi will host sessions on geopolitics, trade disruption, and making Africa more competitive in the world.
Aside from keynote panels, the summit will also have deal-making rooms, exhibitions, and networking sessions to provide a platform for public and private sector collaboration.
The conference also coincides with new efforts on U.S. export trade policy to South Africa, which include reducing regulatory barriers and opening the way for trading in clean energy and strategic minerals.
These reform efforts add additional strategic momentum to ICS2025’s mission of expanding African access to the global market as well as supply chain resiliency.
Positioning Cape Town as a continental trading hub, ICS2025 is a manifestation of South Africa’s increased leadership in commodity trading.
The results of the summit are expected to spark intra-African trade, attract foreign investment, and fuel the long-term evolution of the continent from raw material exports towards value-added industrial development.
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