AI and Youth Futures Summit
A premier 3-day summit-style Action Week centering African youth voices on how artificial intelligence will shape employment, digital sovereignty, and the future of the continent.
Youth Agency & Macro Strategy
Centering how young African engineers, creators, and advocates navigate the shift toward automation while preserving cultural context and economic sovereignty.
Registration Live & Open
Join attendees across 12 African nations. Free entry for student organizers, developers, and researchers.
Claim Luma TicketThree Days • Three Structured Panels
The Future of AI and Work in Africa
This session focuses on the shifting employment landscape for the next generation of African youth. Panelists will unpack new emerging career paths, explore how vital sectors like agriculture will be transformed or endangered by automation, and map out accessible AI safety pathways. The discussion will also tackle the realities of the gig economy and the specific structural barriers young people must cross to secure their places in the future workforce.
Balancing AI Innovation and Responsibility
This panel dives into the tension between rapid innovation and ethical alignment. We will explore how youth-led initiatives are building AI tools for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and critique whether a massive influx of funding for AI adoption risks sidelining safety frameworks. The session will also address digital sovereignty and what homegrown accountability looks like when developers leverage foreign foundation models like ChatGPT to build local applications.
What Young People Want to See Changing in Africa’s AI Space
Our final panel centers on the vision, expectations, and demands of the continent’s youngest stakeholders. Speakers will bring fresh, youth-driven perspectives to macro-level frameworks like the AU 2063 agenda and the Smart Africa project. Panelists will explicitly define what a good future looks like for them, outlining the concrete structural, regulatory, and ecosystem changes they want to see enacted across Africa's AI landscape.
Reserve Your Free Seat for the Youth Futures Summit
Get access to all three panel recordings, speaker presentation decks, and the summit Discord/WhatsApp community channels.