PAID Summit 2019
The Pan-Africa Interior Design Summit
2019
WANT TO BUILD YOUR INTERIOR DESIGN BUSINESS?
Building an Interior Design Business in Africa can be challenging.
We can help
Our experts have years of experience building successful Interior Design businesses and they share their strategies for dealing with:
Finding Clients
Would you like to get high-paying clients who are desperately looking to work with someone like you?
Becoming an expert
What if you could become known as the "go-to" expert in your niche?
sourcing unique items
How about insights on how to source items around Africa?
Here's What People are Saying About the PAID Summit
"I want to use this medium to appreciate and commend your effort. It has been a great experience so far. The panels, the lectures, your apt response, the speakers so far everything encompassing has been awesome.
This summit is a wake up call for me and has cased some conscious diligent work in me to be a better person in my career path."
Tunbiti Olu-Joshua
"Thank you Osaru, for being the voice of so many designers and asking all the right questions on "How to make Money Stay".
I just kept nodding in Agreement
Complete Wood Designs
"OMG... these sessions are awesome, Thank you so much for this inititative... I'm very good at researches and there are legit some points here I'm yet to come across anywhere.
I'm relatively new in the industry and I will appreciate meeting other designers... if there is a community, I want in (lol). I quite my 9-5 for this passion and I'm determined to grow it."
Adaeze Ekeopara
"Great Job Osaru, you and Lara are super stars!
You don't know what you've done to my confidence in this business"
Temitope Kolawole
The Hosts
Lare Lape Cameron-Cole
Lara Lape Cameron-Cole is an entrepreneur, working in the creative industry as co-founder of CC Interior Limited, a multiple award-winning interior Design business. CaxtonAlile Living and Apparel Partners Limited, an apparel manufacturing company. She is also a consultant within the Apparel Manufacturing space. She has a master’s degree from the University of Arts, London College of Fashion in Fashion Entrepreneurship focusing on Apparel Manufacturing and a bachelors’s degree from Howard University, Washington, D.C
Osaru Alile
Osaru Alile is a high-spirited vibrant young women. An interior Design Professional, Product Designer and Social Entrepreneur. She holds an AA & BFA in Interior Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in NYC – She is the co-founder of CaxtonAlile Living. A pro-African creative force producing amazing light fixtures and home decor products all hand crafted here in Nigeria using locally sourced materials.
Our Sponsors
Our Speakers
The Schedule
Day 1
History of Interior Design in Africa
Elements & Principles of Interior Design
Interior Design Styles
Day 2
Transitioning into Interior Design
The Business of Interior Design
Interior Design Niche
Day 3
History of Interior Design in Nigeria
Employment & Employability
Interior Design Specialties
Day 4
45 Habits of Successful Businesses
The Magic of Sourcing
Upholding African Culture Through Interior Design
Freebies
Paris Forino Tour
Mancini Duffy Tour