AfriLabs is revolutionizing the African innovation and technology ecosystem with its 8th Annual Gathering, taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from Wednesday the 11th of October to Friday the 13th of October 2023.
This year’s gathering and theme “Accelerating Africa’s digital economy; by the strength of our community” provides attendees with access to investor networks and key stakeholder groups which include high level startups, academics, media partners, developmental organizations and titans of industry.
The AfriLabs Annual Gathering is a transformative event in Africa’s tech and entrepreneurial ecosystem, uniting visionaries, governments, startups, investors, policymakers, and world-class thought leaders to drive sustainable growth and innovation on the continent.
These champions will provide activities such as panel discussions, master classes, workshops, focus group discussions, training, showcase of best practices and co-creation sessions throughout the event.
Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops, and networking, participants nurture new ideas, partnerships and aspirations for sustainable interventions. This catalytic event propels Africa’s journey towards a prosperous future, empowering communities, creating jobs, and uplifting lives through the power of technology, collaboration, inter-government relationships, entrepreneurship and policy.
The one of a kind global event, celebrates African ingenuity offering a world-class platform for collaboration and co-creation of solutions for the diverse socio-economic for challenges across the continent. Emphasizing inclusivity and creativity, the Gathering inspires and showcases multi-faceted innovations to generate a positive global impact.
Organizations involved include; VC4A, Smart Africa, GCA, Industry night, Office of Global Partnership, Nobody’s listening, Clintonel, Film Hedge, 360 Creative Hub, Assembly Hub, Plural, Clean technology Hub, Grid Innovation, NCIC, Digifemmes, Acelera Angola, Fie_Labs, Zixtech, TechQuest Stem, ispaceghana, Snake Nation, The Scathcompanies, Atsur and many more.
All these reputable organizations and hubs take interest and specialize in the areas of climate change and climate
adaptation, creative and technology intersection, policy and data driven Africa, gender inclusion, and finally Hubs solutions and sustainability.
This is a great chance for stakeholders across different sectors to come together under one roof not only to exchange knowledge but also witness first-hand how collective action can help shape this continent’s future into a fully digitized Africa by 2030.
The AfriLabs Annual Gathering 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda, presents a unique opportunity to leverage the AfriLabs vast network of African technology and innovation ecosystem.
Participants will get a chance to connect with over 400 member hubs from 227 cities in 52 African Countries with a combined one million plus individual community network members.
Don’t miss out on your chance, register here to participate.
About AfriLabs
AfriLabs is a networking organization that supports over 400 Innovation Centres across 52 African countries, the organization was founded in 2011 to build a community around the rapidly emerging technology hubs in Africa.
Our mission is to support innovation hubs and their communities to raise high potential entrepreneurs that will stimulate economic growth and social development in Africa.
We achieve this through capacity building, financing, networking, access to market, talent, learning & development, fellowships & internships, policy advocacy, providing insightful and reliable data.
About the AfriLabs Annual Gathering
The AfriLabs Annual Gathering is the largest convention of brilliant African innovation hub leaders and ecosystem builders on the continent.
Over the years, it has served as an avenue where all actors in the innovation community ranging from hubs, startups, academia, investors, corporates and development agencies come together to understand various perspectives across several sectors.
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