WAYEDS 2026

The Women & Youths Enterprise Development Summit (WAYEDS) 2026 is a landmark three-day enterprise development and economic empowerment platform bringing together ambitious women, young entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors, policymakers, development institutions, financial institutions, innovators, and ecosystem partners from across Nigeria and beyond.

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Under the theme “Empowering Enterprises, Transforming Futures,” WAYEDS 2026 is designed to move beyond conversations and create practical pathways for women and young people to start, strengthen, scale, finance, digitize, and sustain enterprises that create jobs, generate wealth, and contribute meaningfully to Nigeria’s economic transformation.

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Through high-level keynote sessions, business masterclasses, policy dialogues, investment and funding conversations, exhibitions, networking opportunities, market linkages, and enterprise-focused engagements, the Summit will connect participants to the knowledge, capital, markets, technology, partnerships, and opportunities required to build competitive and sustainable businesses.

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WAYEDS 2026 recognizes that Nigeria’s greatest economic opportunity lies not only in its natural resources, but in the enterprise, creativity, resilience, and productive capacity of its people. By equipping women and youths with the tools and networks to convert ideas into viable enterprises and enterprises into scalable businesses, the Summit seeks to strengthen the foundation for inclusive economic growth and a more prosperous future.

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This is where potential meets opportunity.

​Where ideas become enterprises.

​Where enterprises become engines of growth.

 

Join us at WAYEDS 2026 and be part of a movement transforming potential into enterprise, enterprise into opportunity, and opportunity into lasting economic impact.

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