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LIFT 2.0: The Power of Diaspora Networks
Building Bridges, Creating Legacies · August 16, 2025 · BMO Centre
LIFT nearly doubled in its second year. More than 140 founders, investors, professionals and allies filled the BMO Centre for talks, panels and workshops on scaling diaspora businesses and building legacies beyond one generation.
- Attendees
- 140+
- Attendee rating
- 4.6 / 5
- Summit editions
- 2
Highlights.
- Scale Your Business with AI
- Ubuntu in Business: Partnership Secrets
- $12M in Funding Secrets
- From HR to Gemstone Empire: The GRIP Framework
- Why the Nigerian diaspora sends $2B home and why we are not building together in Canada
- Efosa Obano: the best time to be an African-owned business is now
What attendees said.
Great presentation, very engaging, great panel. I would come to another event. Thank you for the experience and information that was shared.
It was really an amazing summit with so much insight and useful information.
Watch the conversations.
Scale Your Business with AI
Ubuntu in Business: Partnership Secrets
$12M in Funding Secrets
From HR to Gemstone Empire: The GRIP Framework
Nigerian Diaspora Sends $2B to Nigeria
Efosa Obano: African-owned business
Moments from the room.
1 album · 12 photographs
August 16, 2025
LIFT 2.0
Photographs from LIFT 2.0, supplied by FilAfrik.
9 of 12 photographs