An experience at the 12th ASEA conference

It's a rare opportunity to see students called from University to have an experience with diginitories,honourable members,chief executives of all stock exchange companies in not only East Afirca but the whole of Africa. I glady mingled with top exective officers of private companies and rubbed shoulders with corporate magisrates of leading brokerage firms in Africa. It included not only the true African breeds but an exotic mixture of likely investors I should say,I met one exhibitor from the United Kingdom and we shared alot about the technologies used for share trading. Not much I could say because I had only limited time to spend with them since there was a cocktail at 6:00pm, I missed that to attend my evening lectures,besides I was registered as an exhibitior and I was locked form meeting the big men. Any way soon enough I was whisked away back to my exhibition stall. Little did I know that the high profile digintories would engage with me at the stall. With a smile and embraced knowledege of custmoer care services, I worked hard to pull them to stall for corporate chat especailly the foreiegn type I wanted to make them feel at home in a close African continent where we shared everything apart from our distant locations.There I met a Ghanian diginitory,he seem to want to interact with me so I hit the road soon we exchanged cards. Of course it was my boss's card I exchanged.I remembered the theme of the conference which was lavishly opened by his excellency the President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at the serena confernce, "Transforming African economies through the capital markets",not exactly but it awas something like that.
To this day I ponder in my head as to whether as Uganda or Ugandans we really benefited through the Uganda securities exchange which hosted the confernce. During the conference I overheard some one say that a friend form a certain country came and the best she knew she could do for her self was to interact and net work with people from countries she has never gone to most of all enjoy her time at the conference thats what matters because none knows whether what they discussed will be implemented or left for the next generation to build from.