Symposium: Africa’s AI Future: Unlocking Generational Prosperity [Lagos]

​Africa’s AI Future: Unlocking Generational Prosperity

​Across Africa, a quiet revolution is taking shape. From Lagos to Nairobi and Accra to Kigali, a new generation of innovators are using AI and technology to reimagine industries, create jobs, and solve real problems that matter to their communities.

​But behind the progress lies an important question: can AI truly help Africa build generational prosperity, or will it deepen existing divides?

​As global AI investment accelerates, Africa stands at a crossroads. We have the youngest population in the world, immense data diversity, and limitless creative energy, but we also face real challenges in infrastructure, inclusion, and capacity.

​AI Salon Lagos invites you to pause, reflect, and explore how Africa can shape its own AI future, one built on collaboration, creativity, and shared prosperity.

​Together, we’ll explore:
• Prosperity through innovation: How can AI power inclusive growth, job creation, and new industries that reflect local realities?
• Infrastructure and governance: What will it take to build a strong foundation for Africa’s AI future, from data and compute to connectivity and ethics?
• From extraction to ownership: How can Africans lead in designing, building, and benefiting from AI solutions rooted in local value?
• Education, equity, and empowerment: How do we prepare the next generation not just to use AI but to build and own it?
• Culture as capital: How can Africa’s heritage, languages, and philosophies inspire a distinctly African approach to AI?

​What to expect
This isn’t a lecture. It’s an intimate and interactive conversation. A gathering of thinkers, builders, educators, policymakers, and dreamers sharing ideas, asking tough questions, and imagining better futures together.

​Africa’s AI moment is here. Let’s make sure prosperity isn’t left to chance but built through collaboration, creativity, and collective vision.

​Hosted by
Francis Sani
Victor (O) Babatunde
Gbolaro Victoria
Oluwarotimi Odediran
AI Salon
Oasis School of Philosophy