On December 1-2, 2010, the US Department of State and the US-Algeria Business Council will host the US - Maghreb Entrepreneurship Conference in Algiers, Algeria. The US - Maghreb Entrepreneurship Conference is the first follow-on conference in the Maghreb following the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship hosted by President Barack Obama in Washington, DC, in April 2010.

The US - Maghreb Entrepreneurship Conference will bring together business leaders and young entrepreneurs from Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. The conference will also feature business leaders of the North African Diaspora, along with U.S. business leaders and entrepreneurs.

The conference will include moderated discussions on key issues and challenges for advancing entrepreneurship, including: lessons learned from the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, improving access to capital, enabling small and medium sized business, catalyzing youth entrepreneurship, perspectives from U.S. and Maghreb business leaders, promoting cross-border business partnership initiatives, transatlantic business networking, incubating innovation and technology, and exploring business opportunities in the creative industries. The conference will also provide capacity building for entrepreneurs through a number of skills training workshops and networking opportunities.

The 2010 US-Maghreb Entrepreneruship Conference is an invitation-only event. All participants must be pre-registered through the US-Algeria Business Council and no non-registered guests will be admitted. For more information about this conference or to register, please contact the: