Programmes/Events

Programs/Events

AfriLabs helps tech hubs and their communities share knowledge, collaborate, achieve human resource and financial sustainability, and partner with the key stakeholders to build the African tech and innovation ecosystem by delivering the following programs:

AfriLabs Annual Gathering

The Annual Gathering is a unique opportunity for members and other stakeholders to convene, learn the latest hub insights, and build partnerships between and with hubs.

Policy and Advocacy

AfriLabs supports initiatives like the i4Policy to encourage the creation of more enabling policies for the growth of entrepreneurship and innovation across Africa.

Capacity Building Webinars (Amazon Web Services)

AfriLabs partnered with Amazon Web Services to host 2 Love Startups Webinars. The purpose of the webinars was to inform innovation hubs in the AfriLabs network about the Amazon Web Services Plus packages that could benefit the startups in their communities.

AfriLabs Learning Week

AfriLabs Hubs Learning week took place from the 28th of August to the 1st of September 2017 and it comprised of 5 virtual workshops on capacity building in the form of webinars for hub managers. The Hubs Learning week is part of the Manjaro Virtual Learning Platform Initiative and is sponsored by MAVC.

AfriLabs Regional City Meet ups

The AfriLabs Regional City Meet-Ups were interesting and interactive days of networking, sharing ideas, learning more about AfriLabs and Co-Creating; developing projects that foster collaboration and develop the tech ecosystem in Africa.

Microsoft-AfriLabs Training for Startups

Microsoft in collaboration with AfriLabs hosted a free technical training for startups on the 8th of April, 2017 at the Leadspace Co-working space in Yaba, Lagos state, Nigeria. It was focused on the use of Microsoft’s Azure and BizSpark platforms and how they can be used to improve technology based businesses.

Supersize the Valley 2017

AfriLabs partnered with 1% Club to organize the ‘Supersize the Valley conference’ which is an initiative of The Next Economy program for startups. The conference sought to cause a mindset shift from individuality to an ecosystem approach to developing the economy and growing the ecosystem. Hence the theme ‘Changing the Paradigm: From Individual to Ecosystem’.

SPIDER ICT4SI West Africa Workshop 2017

AfriLabs partnered with the pan-African ICT 4 Social Innovation Network, founded by SPIDER & iHub Kenya to organise a West African worskshop in collaboration with the Management Sciences for Health (MSH/IdeaLab). The aim of the workshop was to provide a platform for cross sector collaboration to discuss key issues in health, education and rights to identify key partnership opportunities within the West African sub region.