Corporate Registers Conference to Focus on Leveraging Modern Tech to Drive Business Growth

Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) is set to host the 16th Corporate Registers Forum conference from November 9-11.

The Bureau says the conference will be virtual due to Covid-19.

Under the theme 'Ease of Doing Business: The role of Corporate Registries', the conference will bring together government agencies and their officials responsible for the administration of body corporate registers for example register of companies.

The conference will also feature several panel discussions and presentations covering topics such as how blockchain and artificial intelligence can help registries to support businesses, challenges faced by corporate registries in supporting economic recovery in a post-COVID-19 environment among others.

URSB Registrar General Mercy Kainobwisho said such international conferences provide an opportunity to showcase the country’s capabilities to the rest of the world.

“The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) hosts the Business, legal documents and company register, Intellectual property register for trademarks, copyrights, patents and industrial designs, Insolvency and Liquidation as well as the Security Interest in Movable Property register," she said.

"As a Government agency, we will make use of the conference to sufficiently showcase our capacity in managing the stated registries as well as highlight Uganda’s potential to the rest of the world.”

The aim of the Forum is to provide members with the opportunity to review the latest developments in corporate business registers internationally and exchange experiences and information on the present and future operation of corporate business registration systems and securities registries.

The forum first met in Auckland in 2003 and was hosted by the New Zealand Companies Office. The 2003 meeting was an opportunity for corporate registries from thirteen jurisdictions to meet.

The initial name given to this group was the Asia-Pacific Corporate Registries Forum.