Lighting Africa facilitated and/or participated in a variety of business development events over the last two years, including conferences, workshops and trade events. These range from a 2009 Workshop on Product Quality Assurance, to conducting the 2nd International Business Conference and Trade Fair in Nairobi, Kenya, in May 2010. The conference assembled over 600 participants and more than 50 exhibitors displaying state-of-the-art off-grid lighting products. 85 percent (or 485 conference participants) reported high satisfaction with the conference, side events, and trade fair.  

Lighting Africa team members attended/spoke at a variety of other key events including the Africa Rural Electrification Initiative Workshop, June 9-12, 2009, in Maputo, Mozambique which included a Lighting Africa session; Light+Building 2011 Fair in Frankfurt, Germany; the GEF/UNEP en.lighten project steering committee meeting for their energy efficient lighting market transformation project (includes off-grid); and the Asia Development Bank’s (ADB) Clean Energy Forum, which involved a working group discussion on the organization’s Lighting Up Asia program.