Pakasa Forum to climax Global Entrepreneurship Week

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Following the recent partnership between Vision Group and Enterprise Uganda, the 2025 Pakasa Forum/ Conference, scheduled for November 22, 2025, will serve as the climax event for Uganda’s 2025 Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) activities.

The Pakasa Forum, which will be at Enterprise Uganda’s newly constructed multibillion-shilling training facility in Luzira, opposite Butabika Hospital, will be held under the theme, Opportunities and Ideas for Growing Businesses.

The Global Entrepreneurship Week will run with a series of activities under the theme: Together We Build — Fuelling Uganda’s Tenfold Growth.

Uganda is one of the most entrepreneurial nations on earth. However, it is also common knowledge that the average Ugandan business does not make it to its fifth birthday, which justifies the need for business development services.

WHAT IS GEW?

The GEW is the world’s largest annual entrepreneurship festival, spearheaded by the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN). With a presence in 200 countries, GEN has an overarching goal to make it easier for anyone, anywhere, to start and scale a business.

In the past year, GEN has supported 2.24 million entrepreneurs by facilitating deeper cross-border collaboration amongst stakeholders, including founders, investors, policymakers and ecosystem leaders.

This year, the GEW Uganda Conference will be bigger and better. As Uganda’s official partner, Enterprise Uganda, in collaboration with GEN Uganda, shall host the GEW Uganda Conference from November 20-22 at the Business Development Service Centre of Excellence at Butabika.

Enterprise Uganda is a public-private institution mandated to provide business development services.

In the 24 years since its founding, Enterprise Uganda has touched the lives of over 220,000 entrepreneurs across Uganda. The GEW Uganda Conference 2025 is built upon the belief that learning and innovation are the key to maximising the business potential and success of all Ugandans.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This conference is your chance to join 2,000 other entrepreneurs to share real stories, practical skills and powerful connections at Uganda’s biggest annual entrepreneurship conference.

Show up to gain the tools, mentors and networks that can turn your idea into a real business.

Our sessions shall also include information relevant to businesses of every size: micro, small, medium and large. Nobody is left behind.

To top it off, you have the opportunity to learn directly from Uganda’s most successful entrepreneurs. Best of all, attendance is free.

To stay in tune with our economic realities, we align our teaching with the Tenfold Growth Strategy. The strategy is a government goal to grow our economy 10 times bigger, aiming at $500b by 2040.

The private sector is one of the key drivers of this goal through micro, small, medium and large enterprises. Not only do successful enterprises build individuals and families, they also build communities and the nation at large.

Before the climax GEW event of Pakasa Forum on November 22, there will be specialised sectoral conferences on November 20-21 on agro-industrialisation, tourism, minerals, oil and gas, as well as science, technology and innovation.

November 20 shall feature exciting panels on topics including Seizing Opportunity, The Tourism Gem, What’s Next for Exporters? and Fiction vs Facts: Where is the Money in Agribusiness?

The November 21 event shall include panels like Compliance: Handling Uganda National Bureau of Standards Protocol, The Mineral: Oil and Gas in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Learning AI for Business, Building the Real Estate Business, Family Business: Mother and Son Dialogue and Tapping Potential: Young Entrepreneurs.

The GEW climax will be the Pakasa Forum on day three (November 22), an entrepreneurship initiative by Vision Group, a valuable partner.

The 2025 Pakasa Forum will involve the sharing of vital information on the Government’s key priority sectors and interventions in the Tenfold Growth Strategy, what successful entrepreneurs share in common, most rewarding business opportunities in Uganda’s economy, the importance of formalising businesses, financing opportunities for enterprises, tax incentives enterprises need to utilise, and inspiring stories from successful entrepreneurs.