ASFA 2019 Fashionpreneur brings together all fashion stakeholders in Uganda

Denzel Shantel October 26, 2019 3:03 pm

Abryanz Style and Fashion Awards is an event held annually in Kampala to celebrate Africa’s leading players in the fashion, style and beauty space. The Awards show celebrates and acknowledges African Fashion Industry Stake holders including Fashion Designers, Models, Icon, Media Influencers amongst others.

The fashionpreneur summit is an interactive business workshop focussed on the role of fashion, and the creative industry in shaping the economy. Attendees receive expert tips on how to monetize their project, seek funding, market their brands, manage finances and more from a panel of business and creative professionals.

In a global world of changing dynamics, today’s youth is independent, stylish, invigorated and empowered. This year’sASFAs will celebrate the role that youth play in influencing change and on their integral exertion to the world of fashion. Every year, the ASFAs are kicked off with a diverse theme that becomes an imperative element to the main event. This year, the launch comes back with a quintessential edge through the “ASFA Fashionpreneur Summit 2019” with the theme “HOW YOU CAN LET THE STAR IN YOU SHINE”.

The ASFA Fashionpreneur Summit 2019 is a great platform that will motivate young aspiring youth in the fashion industry to find their creative and entrepreneurial fervour.

Key fashion industry stakeholders will share their source of inspiration, discuss the challenges they face as fashionpreneurs, and speak on their experiences while debating the solutions to empower the next generation offashionpreneurs.

TOPICS

The summit focuses on inspiring action and fuelling creative fires spanning in the fashion industry and how it relates not only to youth’s economic opportunity but also macro-economic growth. We at the ASFAs have seen the power through which fashion brings all people under one roof to celebrate that, which brings us together.

• How to realize the full potential in marketing your brand

• Legal perspective of a business

• Process of maintaining, evolving a fashion business and development of one’s creativity.

• Using Technology to transform your business.

• Choosing Pageantry to impact society and promote a nations tourism.

• The importance of CSR in business.

• Using social media influence to grow and build your personal brand.

• Using fashion as a tool to impact lives.

• Building fashion brands that create economic success.

PANELISTS

Our panel discussion will be vibrant with hot topics from success stories, stories of challenge and solutions that can provoke the transformation that is needed. The Summit brings together the voices and insights of a diverse range of fashionpreneurs luminaries from the fashion industry and across the professional spectrum.

• Mitchelle Omamteker – Executive Director MalengoFoundation

• Sonia Karamagi – Senior Marketing Manager StandbicBank

• Teddy Ruge – Co founder/Hive Colab

• Gloria Wavamunno – Founder Kamapala Fashion Week (KFW)

• Bettinah Tianah – Media Personality

• Oliver Nakakande – Miss Uganda 2019-2020

• Humphrey Nabimanya – Founder Reach a Hand Uganda

• Fatumah Asha – Fashion Designer

• Alexander Kibandama – Partner,Ortus Africa

• Agaba Tumisiime – Moderator