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LIFT 1.0

Where LIFT began · December 28, 2024 · North London Optimist Community Centre

Attendees listening at the inaugural LIFT 1.0 forum in London

The first LIFT Business Summit brought 75 African and Black diaspora founders and professionals together in London, Ontario around one conviction: we grow further when we grow together.

Founders and professionals
75
The first edition of an annual summit
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The story.

Before the panels, the Pitch Lab and the summit halls, LIFT was a simple question: what would happen if African entrepreneurs in London stopped building alone? Seventy-five people answered it by showing up. They traded contacts, honest advice and encouragement, and they left asking when the next one would be. Every LIFT since has been built on that first room.

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From the table to the community.

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The next connection starts here.