Adaptation Investment Summit for Africa 2026 (AISA 2026)
Led by Trade Catalyst Africa, policymakers, investors and financial institutions all focused on one of the most crucial questions for climate financing: How do we actually get climate adaptation finance where it’s needed most?
Drawing on AnyWay Solutions’ practical experience using advanced technologies and data to design climate-resilient road infrastructure, and focusing on the importance of feeder and farm-to-market roads for agri-food corridors in Africa and the need for adaptation funding to flow to this local level
Panellist: Caylee Talpert
Caylee Talpert has spent her career working in emerging markets at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship and development. Her work has spanned diverse sectors, from banking and consumer goods to agriculture, government, and infrastructure, across both Africa and Southeast Asia. She leads Corporate Growth at AnyWay Solutions, a company specializing in technology-driven solutions for climate-resilient infrastructure in LMIC countries. Prior to that, she served as Chief Business Officer (CBO) of &frnds, a high-tech company focused on emerging markets. Her work has taken her from enabling all Rwanda’s citizens to access e-government services through their mobile phones, to providing the technology platform for an agency banking network serving over 4 million low-income customers in Indonesia, to building a distribution network that served over 150,000 micro-retailers across South-East Asia. Caylee has worked closely with some of the world’s largest consumer goods companies (e.g. Coca-Cola, Unilever, P&G), financial institutions (e.g. IFC/World Bank, Asian Development Bank, local banks) and technology companies (e.g. Microsoft, Mastercard) as well as non-profits, startups, mobile operators and government ministries. Caylee holds an MSc in International Development from the London School of Economics (LSE), an MA in Politics and Sociology from Hebrew University and a business degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and teaches courses on entrepreneurship at the Technion Institute of Technology and Hebrew University.
