Ethiopian Airlines, RwandAir and LIFT Airline are the among the latest key operators to sign up to GHI’s Digital Reconnect Africa virtual event on February 16.

Hurry, you have just one week left to join them by registering for your pass and joining the debate on how stakeholders deliver a safe and effective restart.
GHI’s Digital Reconnect Africa is a digital alternative to our African Stakeholders' Conference and will combine a premium One-to-One Meetings service with keynote conference seminars.
Our goal is to provide a conduit for stakeholder collaboration at a critical time for the region.
Keynote sessions at the One Day virtual event include:
- Pharma: Delivering the Covid vaccine in Africa: With the pharmaceutical manufacturing sites for the COVID vaccines located in Europe, the Americas and Asia, how do we ensure African nations aren’t forgotten when it comes to roll out? And what are the cold chain storage solutions essential for effective delivery? Emanuel Chaves, Vice-President, ACI Africa; Lukasz Skorupa, Group Head of Commercial, National Aviation Services; Sanjeev Gadhia, CEO, Astral Aviation
- Digitisation: How can tech solutions boost our ability to make more from less in a protracted period of reduced volumes created by COVID? Henry Obare, Head of Information Systems Development, Kenya Airways
- GSE: Equipment strategies to counter the COVID-19 crisis: What adaptations can handlers make to their GSE strategies to mitigate the aftershocks of reduced volumes and longer turnaround times?
- Innovation to combat Covid-19: Exploring the measures put in place by airline association, AFRAA, for the sustainability of the aviation industry in Africa and recovery from the devastating effects of COVID-19. Gaoussou Konate, Consulting Director Technical and Operations, African Airlines Association
- Cargo: The African cargo opportunity: While pax demand has slumped, Africa’s air cargo demand is up almost 10% year-on-year. This session will investigate the opportunities for African aviation operators to capture cargo capacity. Panellists: Bob Gurr, Chief Commercial Officer, Swissport; David Bunting, Managing Director- EMEA, JBT Aerotech; Sanjeev Gadhia, CEO, Astral Aviation