About API Events
Africa's leading B2B event and thought leadership platform for real estate investment, development, and hospitality.
Purpose & Mission
15+ years of delivering high-impact investment platforms across African real estate & hotels.
Our Mission
To drive investment, development, and sustainable growth across Africa’s major real estate and hospitality markets through targeted executive platforms.
Track Record
Over 15+ years of driving foreign direct investment and domestic capital allocation for senior C-suite attendees and institutional partners continent-wide.
Our Purpose
Facilitates strategic business relationships, delivers crucial local and global market intelligence, and increases built environment market transparency.
Value To Leaders
Synonymous with dealmaking, networking, and formalizing African property markets for institutional investors. Our gatherings are focused and deliver results.
A Platform For Scale & Access
Connecting leaders to high-value opportunities through targeted regional and Pan-African gatherings.
Key Operating Jurisdictions Across Africa & Beyond
Billions of USD $ Driven Over 15+ Years
API Events has contributed to driving billions in direct investment across the value chain of Africa’s property and hotel sectors. As these markets rapidly mature, they offer unique opportunities for securing long-term yield and investor value. To navigate these complex landscapes, prospective investors require market transparency, trusted local networks, and partners who can move projects from concept to execution.
Why Attend & The Value In Your Market
Meet and engage with vetted investors, project partners, and senior industry professionals.
Position your executive leadership alongside premier companies and market thought leaders.
Explore innovative investment methodologies and emerging capital perspectives.
Gain global best-practice insights directly applicable to local real estate markets.
Be inspired by local and offshore market leaders actively expanding into growth sectors.
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Who Attends: The Decision Makers
A highly specialized audience of capital providers, project creators, and technical advisors shaping African real estate.
Pension Funds (e.g., GEPF), Sovereign Wealth Funds, and Endowments.
Principals from real estate private equity firms, asset managers, and Listed REITs.
Senior leaders from major Commercial Banks (Standard Bank, Absa, Nedbank, KCB) and DFIs (IFC, Proparco, IDC, DEG, AFDB).
Private capital looking for direct equity deployment in high-growth asset classes.
CEOs and Development Directors active across residential, commercial, retail, and industrial sectors.
Executives from leading global hotel groups (Radisson, Accor, Hilton, Marriott) and major logistics brands.
Innovators and tech entrepreneurs transforming property management, finance, and construction tech.
Directors from top-tier research, strategic advisory, and real estate consultancy firms.
Leading design, construction, and engineering experts delivering institutional projects.
Lawyers, corporate finance advisors, and IFC EDGE certified green building experts.
WHO ATTENDS OUR EVENTS?
API Events’ reputation for business attracts global, regional, and local leaders seeking to invest and do business from over 30 countries and around 1350 companies annually.
