Igbo in the Digital Age (Virtual Roundtable)
Igbo in the Digital Age
Making Our Language Visible, Audible, and Accessible
Featuring Nollywood legend Pete Edochie and Igbo music sensation Ugoccie.
Imagine asking Siri to play your favorite Igbo song, only to discover it cannot understand you. Or creating a video in Igbo and realizing the technology that automatically captions dozens of other languages cannot caption yours.
For more than 30 million Igbo speakers, these aren't hypothetical problems. They raise a much bigger question:
Will Igbo have a place in the digital future?
On November 21, we're bringing that conversation to the forefront.
Special Guest Features
Pete Edochie | Nollywood Legend & Cultural Icon
One of Africa's most celebrated actors, whose remarkable career has helped bring Igbo culture and storytelling to audiences across generations, lends his influential voice to the movement for Igbo language inclusion.
Ugoccie | Singer, Songwriter & Igbo Music Artist
One of the exciting voices in contemporary Igbo music, bringing a creator's perspective to the conversation about language, cultural expression, and the challenges of navigating digital platforms that do not adequately support Igbo.
The Igbo in Tech Roundtable
Hosted by TokataHQ, this 90-minute virtual roundtable brings together Igbo creators, AI and technology professionals, researchers, and community voices to explore why Igbo remains missing from so many everyday technologies—and what it will take to change that.
What to expect:
Perspectives from influential Igbo cultural voices and creators.
Conversations about the economic and cultural impact of digital language exclusion.
Insights into how technology companies approach language inclusion.
An opportunity to ask questions, share experiences, and contribute to the conversation.
This is more than a conversation about preserving our language. It's about ensuring Igbo is heard, understood, and supported in the technologies shaping our future.
Event Details
Saturday, November 21, 2026
12 PM EST | 9 AM PST | 5 PM GMT | 6 PM WAT
Virtual | 2 hours
Registration is required. Event access details will be shared with registered attendees.
About TokataHQ
TokataHQ is a nonprofit working to get Igbo properly supported across the digital products people use every day.
Through research, community mobilization, and direct engagement with technology companies, we're working to get Igbo included in speech recognition, automatic captions, transcription, voice interfaces, and other technologies.
Our language deserves to be heard. And its digital future is a conversation we all have a stake in.
Join us and invite your friends, family, and community.
Register now. Be part of #PutIgboInTech.