 As part of her first position at the nation's creative industry, major stakeholders have met to discuss sustainable business models as well as the future of African music globalization. The event was put together by the African creative market in partnership with Paramount Africa and was themed supporting the globalization of African music. Our correspondent Paul George reports. This gathering has young chief executives, entrepreneurs and other attendees. The interest here is how Nigerians can get more partnership to monetize and sustain their acts globally. They all shared their experiences in an interactive panel session. A lot of people are interested and truly many people have been talking about you know how we can continue to grow the economy within the creative sector and now that we're here and we've created the platform more and more partners are coming on board and we're very grateful to our partners. We're very youth focused. Our youth are very talented but they need training. The convener Enya Lawal speaks on the need for partnership to foster growth. Essentially we are if we grow the creative economy it means you know Africa is sustained in that way as you know music is doing well for for Africa and it is one way for ensuring that you know our youth continue to sustain themselves. In terms of what's in it for us we are building a force and growing our general economy within Africa and we're getting better for it. The keynote speaker US Consul General in Nigeria will Stevens raise out the support for Nigeria. He says his country has built capacities of different organizations in the country. The US mission here in Nigeria has invested in a variety of ways. So first of all we've supported organizations like Africa Creative Markets for many years. We support the African International Film Festival each year financially as well as a partner and then we've funded programs such as One Beat Next Level which are programs that train young artists and help find the next new pipeline of great performers and get them the training they need and connect them with partners here in the United States. However will Stevens says the US is ready to continue to partner and support Nigeria's creative industries. We're going to get it right we have to be partnering on all levels and one of the great things about working in Nigeria is the incredibly deep people-to-people relationships. There's over half a million Nigerians who are Nigerian Americans live in the US they're incredibly well educated well connected. Those connections those cultural ties are what form the very basis of a partnership and so when we support music we support film you're furthering those ties and something I'm really deeply proud of. Issues on intellectual property rights management and artistic collaborations with international counterparts also took center stage. Meanwhile other stakeholders are confident that the Nigerian music industry has come to stay. We are focusing for the second year focusing on intellectual property and enforcing intellectual property I would say and also enabling the creative industry with technology is if you're informed. So that's why we're happy to be collaborating with African creative markets this year to have right conversations that keep our mind open and prepared for the influx of the entertainment that's going to be coming this way. I tell you guys fine we have collaborations now with international acts there's an affluent category that's been created at the VMAs. Too many times the focus is on the talent on the performers on the key players people have to realize that behind every Trubaba behind every whiskey you know behind every burnaboy it's a whole gamut of professionals. To consolidate on the inroads Nigerian artists are making globally the organizers called for government support for sustainability. Paul George plus TV news.