Where Global Capital Meets East Africa’s
Greatest Opportunities.
25 -29 November 2026
Nairobi & Selected Counties
The Kenya Trade & Investment Roadshow 2026, hosted by Equity Group Holdings, offers investors exclusive access to Kenya’s highestpotential value chains, connecting global capital with the businesses driving East Africa’s economic transformation. Discover investment, sourcing and partnership opportunities across specialty coffee, premium tea, leather and leather manufacturing, natural cosmetics, advanced manufacturing and agribusiness through high-level government engagement, curated B2B meetings and immersive visits to production facilities, processing plants, cooperatives and export hubs. Meet the producers, manufacturers, exporters and industry leaders shaping the future of African trade, and position your business at the gateway to one of the continent’s fastest-growing and most competitive markets.
The main programme is open to every delegate. Meetings are scheduled in advance from the mandate you submit at registration.
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25th
Wednesday
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ARRIVAL · EVENING
Welcome Networking Cocktail
The delegation meets for the first time in Nairobi, alongside Kenyan business principals, sector associations, and senior
Equity
leadership. Delegates receive their personalized meeting schedules for the days ahead.
• Delegate registration, briefing pack, and market orientation
• Introductions to Kenyan counterparties matched to your mandate
• Address by Equity Group leadership on the mission's commercial agenda
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26th
Thursday
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FULL DAY
Business Forum, Exhibition & Matchmaking
The centerpiece. A morning of substance policy, capital, and sector outlooks, followed by an afternoon of scheduled one-to-one
meetings. The exhibition runs alongside throughout, so you can walk the floor between appointments.
- Business Forum - keynote addresses and sector panels on Kenya's investment climate, incentives and priority industries
- Exhibition - Kenyan manufacturers, processors, exporters and service providers presenting products, capacity and certification
- B2B matchmaking - pre-scheduled meetings with screened counterparties seeking partners, capital, distribution or offtake
- B2G matchmaking - direct sessions with investment promotion, revenue, standards, land and sector regulators
Signature ceremonies for agreements concluded during the mission
- Participation from global and pan-African leaders.
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27th
Friday
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FULL DAY · SECTOR TRACKS
Field Visits
Delegates travel in curated groups to industrial parks, special economic zones, ports and logistics hubs, production facilities andinfrastructure projects selected to match the sectors named at registration. Site management and project sponsors host each visit, with time set aside for the questions that belong off the record.
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SATURDAY |
MORNING & AFTERNOON
Value Chain Visits
A day spent following a product from source to shelf. Delegates join the chain that matches their interest and travel it end to end the
growers or producers, the processing and finishing plants, the aggregators, the quality and certification bodies, and the export gateway.
It is the fastest way to understand where the margin sits, where the bottlenecks are, and where an investor or an offtaker can enter.
- Leather · Tea · Coffee · Cosmetics and essential oils · E-Mobility and Creative Economy
- Producer, processor and exporter meetings arranged along the route
- Commercial briefings on volumes, standards, certification and logistics
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SATURDAY
EVENING
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BLACK TIE · BY INVITATION
Concluding Gala Dinner, Fashion Show & Concert
The mission closes as it should — with the country's creative economy on full display. A gala dinner brings the delegation together with
Kenyan business leaders and government principals, followed by a runway showcase of Kenyan designers working in leather, textile
and craft, and a live concert from some of the region's finest performers.
The creative sector is not an entertainment interlude. Fashion, music, film and design are among Kenya's fastest-growing export
industries, and the evening is designed to introduce delegates to the talent, the houses and the intellectual property behind them.
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SUNDAY
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DEPARTURES
Onward Meetings & Optional Experiences
Delegates wishing to extend a conversation are supported with follow-up meetings in Nairobi. For those with time before departure,
optional experiences can be arranged on request — from Nairobi National Park to coastal and safari extensions.
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