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Business Exchange Floor
Discover businesses, products and opportunities across nine sectors and participating countries.
Graça Machel Trust · Women Creating Wealth
From capability
to commerce.
Connecting women entrepreneurs to markets, capital and opportunity at the WCW Business Exchange 2026.
12–13 November 2026The Canvas Riversands, Johannesburg, South Africa
The Business Exchange
Where business capability meets commercial opportunity.
For ten years, Women Creating Wealth has supported women entrepreneurs to strengthen their businesses. The next step is clear: capability must connect to customers, procurement, appropriate finance, distribution, partnerships and regional markets.
This is not a speech-led conference. It is an active commercial environment designed for discovery, relevant conversations, practical connection and meaningful follow-through.
What to expect
Two days built around doing business.
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Sector Opportunity Engagements
Focused conversations shaped by the shared commercial needs of participating entrepreneurs.
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Partner Clinics
Engage partners bringing procurement, finance, distribution and market-access pathways.
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90-Day Follow-Through
Continue conversations online and track opportunities progressed after Johannesburg.
A connected marketplace
Bring a clear ambition. Bring a credible offer.
Prepared entrepreneurs meet organisations with real pathways to customers, procurement, finance, distribution and regional markets.
GMT Online Marketplace
Business discovery before, during and after Johannesburg.
Profiles, products, catalogues, commercial asks and offers support discovery before the event, lead capture on the floor and the 90-day Deal Conversion process afterwards.
Create or access your GMT Online Marketplace account to register for the Business Exchange, complete your business profile and prepare for event opportunities.
12–13 November 2026 · The Canvas Riversands, Johannesburg
Move from capability to commerce.
Tickets are R2,500 per person for South African entrepreneurs and delegates, and US$150 per person for entrepreneurs and delegates from Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia. Register online and contact your respective Women Creating Wealth Country Coordinator for information on how to pay.
New to the GMT Online Marketplace? You will first be asked to create your Marketplace account. Once your account has been created, follow the Marketplace instructions to complete your Business Exchange registration.