YALI Network Nigeria presents
The 2026 theme
September 10 – 13, 2026
Free for verified YALI delegates · 700+ delegates expected · Lagos · Sept 10–13, 2026
AIDIFILN brings together the people who already lead Nigerian communities — civic actors, social entrepreneurs, educators, organisers, public servants — for four days of getting fluent, getting connected, and deciding together how AI and digital systems get built around the people we serve.
Dates
Sept 10 – 13, 2026
Venue
Lagos · venue TBA
Delegates
700+ expected
Reach
All 36 states + FCT
What's already shifted. The National AI Strategy was published in August 2024. The Data Protection Act has been law since July 2023. 3MTT has put 360,000+ Nigerians into technical training across all 774 LGAs, on the way to three million. Awarri's government-backed LLM speaks Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Pidgin and Ibibio. OPay clears nine million transactions a day. The infrastructure is being poured — fast.
What that means for civic leaders. Welfare decisions, credit scores, classroom assessments, healthcare triage, voter information, identity systems — increasingly mediated by models and platforms whose defaults nobody in your community signed off on. Inclusion isn't a value statement anymore; it's a design choice someone is making whether you're at the table or not.
Why this summit, this room. Civic actors, social-impact founders, educators, community organisers, public servants — the people Nigerians already trust — getting fluent enough in AI and digital systems to lead them, challenge them, procure them, regulate them, and build with them. Not to become engineers. To stop being end-users of decisions made elsewhere.
What leaves the room. Named commitments. Working partnerships across civic, tech, policy and capital. A 12-month follow-through plan owned by YALI Network Nigeria. Not a tote bag of slides.
Sources: FMCIDE National AI Strategy (2024) · NDPA 2023 · 3MTT programme data (FMCIDE, 2024) · DataReportal Digital Nigeria 2024 · Awarri / NITDA (2024).
Women, youth, persons with disabilities, rural communities, frontline organisers — leadership that looks like, and answers to, the Nigeria it serves.
Past the demos. Real deployments solving civic and social-impact problems at Nigerian scale — health, education, livelihoods, governance, climate.
Every track closes with named commitments, working partnerships, and a 12-month follow-through plan. No exceptions.
Civic actors, social-impact founders, educators, organisers, public servants — registration is open. Verified YALI delegates attend free; everyone else pays the ticket price.
Keynotes, parallel sector rooms, hands-on workshops, a hackathon and a closing showcase — in Lagos (venue announced soon). Speaker lineups land closer to event.
Thu · Sept 10, 2026
Pick up your badge, swag and track briefing pack. Meet your YALI cohort lead.
YALI Network Nigeria leadership opens the summit, followed by the headline address on AI and inclusive leadership.
Working dinner with sponsors, alumni and invited dignitaries — name-tagged by track.
Seven sector rooms. Each one ends with named commitments — not closing remarks. Pick the one you can move.
Track 01
Care gaps don't close themselves. This room maps the AI tools, data and partnerships that get Nigerian innovators from a working pilot to a national-scale public-health win.
Sample sessions
Track 02
Smallholder farmers feed Nigeria, but the data, capital and cold-chain don't reach them. This room names the tools and financing models that make agriculture the next growth engine — not the next casualty.
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Track 03
100 million young Nigerians need to be ready for an AI-shaped economy yesterday. Practitioners share what's actually moving the needle in classrooms, bootcamps and on-the-job learning — and what to stop funding.
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Track 04
Lagos is Africa's fintech capital. The next chapter — embedded finance, agency banking, credit for the underbanked — gets written here, with the founders and regulators in the same room.
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Track 05
Grid power isn't coming fast enough. This room covers off-grid solar, productive use of electricity, and the policy levers that turn a just transition from a deck slide into a delivered MW.
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Track 06
Rules decide who AI works for. Lawmakers, civil society and technologists sit at the same table to draft AI policy and digital-rights frameworks Nigerians can actually defend.
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Track 07
Nollywood, Afrobeats, Nigerian fashion and gaming already export. The work now is keeping the IP, the distribution and the AI tooling in Nigerian hands — and getting paid like it.
Sample sessions
700+ delegates from all 36 states. 7 sector rooms. National and diplomatic press. Pick a tier — or tell us the outcome you want and we'll build the package around it.
₦2.5M
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Three minutes to fill. 48 hours to a human reply. No deck downloads required.
Convening Partners
36 states and the FCT — tap any hub to learn more about its work in your region.
Registration, sponsorship, media accreditation, partnerships — drop a note and we'll route it to the right person the same day.
