Charles will be a main speaker at “The international Conference on Public Procurement and Innovation in Africa” to be held in Pretoria, South Africa during November 13 – 15, 2023. It includes a smaller Workshop and a Formal Conference with 200 participants.

The conference will aim to:

• Raise awareness of the linkage between public procurement and innovation among all relevant local stakeholders (in both the private and public sectors).

• Create the basis upon which policy and law reform can be spearheaded to facilitate the use of public procurement as an innovation policy tool.

• Enable South Africa and other African countries to draw on experience in other systems that have used public procurement as an innovation policy tool more extensively.

• Generate a basis for increased scholarship on public procurement and innovation in Africa.