The PBF is charged by the ANC to organise business programmes alongside the national conferences of the movement.
It hosts a series of networking engagements during these conferences. These normally consist of a presidential gala dinner on the eve of these conferences; a series of business breakfasts, most noteably with the economic cluster ministers as keynote speakers; the availability of a business lounge; as well as facilitating a business exhibition area where businesses are able to display and promote their products and services in addition to using the platform to interact with the key policy makers of the country.