Save the Date! Africa Law Tech Festival 2025! It’s almost time for another exciting Africa Law Tech Festival! We are thrilled to announce our upcoming event and can't wait to connect in person once again with policymakers, technologists, startups, lawyers, bar associations, academia, and civil society groups from across Africa for two days of enriching discussions and networking. Join us in Nairobi, Kenya, on 15th and 16th July 2025. Venue and registration details will be announced in January 2025. Stay tuned and mark your calendars for an event you won't want to miss!

From 23rd to 28th June 2025, Qhala will be convening Africa AI literacy week, featuring a hackathon, workshops and other sessions. Find out more here.

From 3rd to 4th June 2025, the Center for Intellectual Property and Information Technology is to convene the 2nd edition of the Conference on the state of AI in Africa whose theme is—“Shaping Responsible and Ethical AI Governance Policy and Regulation in Africa.” The event is set to take place in Nairobi, Kenya.

The African Observatory on Responsible AI in partnership with the Ethics Lab UCT is offering an online course on AI ethics and policy in Africa, set to run from 22nd April to 29th May 2025. The course is limited to 30 people and costs R 5000.

On 3rd and 4th of April 2025, Rwanda Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in partnership with the World Economic Forum is set to host the Global AI Summit on Africa. The event’s theme is “AI and Africa’s Demographic Dividend: Reimagining Economic Opportunities for Africa’s Workforce.” The event is to be guided by seven thematic pillars: people, infrastructure, data, AI models, AI applications, entrepreneurship and governance.

On 27th March 2025, Knowledge Innovations will be convening the Ghana AI Summit and Awards night, under the theme—“harnessing AI for sustainable development: hype or reality?” at the Kofi Annan ICT Center.

AI agents & automation in legal practice webinar On 27th March 2025, Robin Muthomi, lawyer and legal technologist is set to conduct a webinar covering the topics: evolving legal roles, harnessing AI agents, automation essentials and ethical and confidentiality considerations.

ITU in partnership with AFRALTI are set to run a course on Digital transformation in the public sector. Registration opened on 13th November 2024 and ends on 26th January 2025. Application requirements are on ITU’s website including an undergraduate degree in a relevant field or a minimum of 3 years experience in the digital transformation sector. 30 applicants will be selected and granted free training, accommodation, meals and excursions supported by the Global Gateway initiative of the European Union. Modules include introduction to digital transformation, human centric digital services and data management and digital technologies.