EMAICON 2026 · Arusha
Call for Speakers
Share research, practice, or a panel with researchers, founders, students, and policymakers at the fifth edition.
Opens1 September 2026
Closes30 September 2026
Notifications16 October 2026
What the three days cover
Day 01 · 26 November
Foundations, research & systems thinking
Where African AI sits today: foundational research, breakthrough papers, and systems thinking for our own contexts.
Keynotes
Research
Welcome dinner
Day 02 · 27 November
Builders, agents & edge deployment
A builder’s day. Workshops on agents, edge AI, multimodal systems, and shipping models that work in the field.
Workshops
Hackathon
Demos
Day 03 · 28 November
Governance, policy, SDGs & the pan-African table
AI governance, public-sector use, AI4SDGs showcases, and a pan-African working session on what we build next.
Policy
SDGs
Closing dinner
Fit your proposal to the day it serves. Formats include keynotes, sessions, panels, workshops, and fireside chats. The programme team reviews every proposal.