Building Trust | Enabling Trade | Growing the Diaspora Economy
Saturday, 24 October 2026 | 
08:30 – 16:00 SAST | Venue: GIBS Business School, Joburg | Delegate Pass: R1000 Per Person. Includes Access To All Sessions, Lunch, and Tea Breaks.
One room. 50 to 70 business owners, founders, and decision-makers.
One agenda: turning diaspora connections into real commerce.
Every session tackles a real problem. Broken trust, informal agreements, deals that fall apart because there is no system behind them. And every session ends with something delegates can act on before they leave the room.
This is not a networking event. It is an activation.
Zimbabweans in South Africa
Remittances sent home in 2025
Attended our inaugural Indaba
Delegates, curated for quality
You have built something real, across construction, logistics, IT, retail, or professional services. Now you need verified partners, access to bigger clients, and a way to transact safely at scale. This day is built for you.
Zimbabweans under 35 in business and tech. Come ready to learn from people who have done it and to meet the partners who can help you do it too.
You have a full-time job and a business on the side. You are the pipeline for tomorrow's entrepreneurs. Come for the tools, the contacts, and the platform to make that move properly when the time comes.
Fintech providers, accountants, lawyers, and compliance professionals who work with diaspora SMEs. The room will be full of your clients. This is where you meet them.
Heads of Zimbabwean professional associations and community organisations. This is the business conversation your community has been waiting to have.
WHAT WE WILL COVER
Sessions are built around the real challenges diaspora businesses face every day. No generic content. No motivational filler.
Where we are, where the opportunity is, and why the time to formalise is now.
What procurement teams actually look for before they engage an SME vendor.
Unpaid invoices, broken deals, and how escrow and verification change the equation.
Compliance, POPIA, CIDB, and the certifications that open the right doors.
How diaspora SMEs can bridge the funding gap using the right fintech tools.
Investment opportunities in Zimbabwe and how to build across borders from where you are.
Barriers, breakthroughs, and what it takes to lead and grow a business as a woman in the diaspora.
Diaspora business owners who scaled beyond survival share what they would tell themselves ten years ago.
A real track record that shows who you are and what you do and grows with every transaction. Not a listing. A business identity that works for you.
Matched before the session by industry and what you are looking for. Not a pile of cards from people you will never call. Real introductions with a reason behind them.
Formalisation, capital access, corporate procurement, and safe transactions. Speakers are briefed to be specific and plain. No motivational filler.
Session Sponsor
R10,000 to R15,000
4 sponsorship slots available
Priority sectors
To talk about sponsorship, email support@shokaconnect.com
On 24 October 2026, we change how diaspora business gets done.
Delegate Pass: R1,000 per person · Questions? support@shokaconnect.com