In Canada, more specifically in Quebec, the Economic Club of Quebec is a group of entrepreneurs from the highest levels of the business world and finance as well as industry, government, institutional and commercial. The Club wants an important forum for discussions on a wide range of topics of interest to savvy business people.

Being apolitical, non-partisan, the club is an exclusive trading place for its members. Mainly from higher decision-making echelons of the business community, finance and related professions, members represent a diversity of views. The main motivation Club is to be a credible and structured forum where selected leaders, both in Quebec and abroad, may address the members and their guests.

From 12 to 14 October 2016, the Quebec City International Forum will be conducted by the Economic Club of Quebec. B2B forum in which important actors of the public and private sectors participate with decision makers from the sectors: transport, logistics, construction, tourism, food processing, energy, environment, health, telecommunications, mobility etc.

The President of the Economic Club of Quebec, Pierre Drapeau, recently attended the 2016 KINFOR Democratic Republic of Congo in order to lay the foundations of a long collaboration between the Club and Africa Rise. "We are really excited about this partnership because few international organizations that have the capacity to deliver B2B events with concrete results. "Mr. Drapeau said recently. Mr. Drapeau will also participate in the April 2016 Africa-Belgium Business Week.

"My staff and I are absolutely delighted with the meetings held in Kinshasa and hopefully conclude our first commercial agreements within a few weeks. Our vision is to reach an agreement by ten years between Canadian entrepreneurs and hundreds of economic policy makers of Africa Rise business network, "he added.