While this the 1st HBCU | PAGTIC, this is the 12th Pan African Global Trade and Investment Conference overall. The focus of the Atlanta HBCU | PAGTIC conference presentations and workshops will be the expansion of multilateral trade programs between Africa and the Pan African Diaspora that provide the following benefits:
- Create educational and cultural exchanges between public and private educational institutions in African and the Pan African Diaspora.

- Generate increased bilateral investment in economic development in Africa and the Pan African Diaspora where infrastructure and business development would provide needed improvements.

- Create opportunities for marketing corporate and small businesses products and services in developing African Nations and the Pan African Diaspora

- Create businesses and jobs in Africa and the Pan African Diaspora in the leisure and business travel market​

- Establish trade and commerce between businesses in the Pan African Diaspora and their counterparts in Africa.

- Promote and support existing programs and institutions that promote and provide effective and fair business, educational and cultural relations between Africa & the Pan African Diaspora.