Boardroom Governance
Summit 2026

Innovate. Lead. Govern. GET YOUR PASS 7th October, 2026
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THEME: Board Committees:
From Oversight to Impact

Innovate. Lead. Govern.

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About the Summit

The Boardroom Governance Summit brings together top-tier board members, corporate executives, governance professionals, regulators and thought leaders from across Africa and beyond.

Panel Discussions

Engage in critical boardroom conversations with industry leaders.

Inspiring Keynote Speakers

Hear powerful insights from visionary governance experts.

Networking

Connect with top executives, board members and policy influencers.

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The Convener

Message From The Convener

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the Boardroom Governance Summit — a platform created to foster critical dialogue, share insights, and strengthen corporate governance practices across Africa. As we navigate an era marked by disruption, innovation, and growing stakeholder expectations, it is imperative that boardrooms evolve — not just to meet compliance standards, but to lead with integrity, foresight, and impact. This summit is designed to bring together seasoned leaders, emerging thinkers, regulators, and professionals committed to raising the bar of accountability and strategic leadership. Thank you for being part of this movement. I look forward to the connections, conversations, and commitments that will shape better boardrooms and, ultimately, better organizations.

Prof. Douglas Boateng

Convener, Boardroom Governance Summit

Boardroom Trends Shaping 2025

Key insights from top executives

Explore how evolving governance practices are redefining leadership in Africa and beyond.

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Before I commit, can you just tell me plainly what this summit is?

The Boardroom Governance Summit is Africa’s pioneering boardroom-focused event, and the largest gathering of its kind in Ghana. Once a year, we bring together more than 1,000 board chairpersons, directors, chief executives, C-suite leaders, regulators, and policymakers at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra, to confront the real issues shaping modern boardrooms. Not the polished, theoretical version you find in textbooks and training slides, but how governance actually plays out under pressure.

The theme is Committees of the Board, From Oversight to Impact. Most boards treat committees as a compliance formality, a box ticked between meetings. We are challenging that directly. Can your Audit Committee, your ESG Committee, your Finance Committee actually move the needle on organisational performance, or are they simply producing minutes nobody reads? If you carry board responsibility, or hope to one day, this is not optional listening.

We open with a keynote from a prominent national or industry leader. Past keynote speakers have included the current Chief of Staff at the Office of the President of Ghana, the previous Minister for Finance, and the Chief Executive Officer of the State Interests and Governance Authority. This year’s keynote speaker is even more distinguished, and will be officially unveiled soon. From there, we move into three major panel discussions, each designed to challenge conventional boardroom thinking rather than simply confirm it.

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