Mon 8 Feb
Opening Night
Doors open. Hype reel and theme reveal on the Main Stage. A surprise headline fireside, the opening toast and a soft-close drinks-and-intros in the foyer. One stage, one room, one beginning.
The shape of the days
Mon 8 Feb
Doors open. Hype reel and theme reveal on the Main Stage. A surprise headline fireside, the opening toast and a soft-close drinks-and-intros in the foyer. One stage, one room, one beginning.
Wed 10 Feb
All six stages live from morning. Sector talks, workshops, demos, live podcast tapings and the weird stage. At sundown the Strip lights pink and Night One begins — hosted experiences across restaurants, rooftops and lounges.
Thu 11 Feb
Second day on all six stages, closing keynote on the Future of Work, then the walk to the Festival footprint. Closing Night is the showcase — sector dinners, the Dealroom After-Dark, and the Skyline farewell.
Eight verticals in scope
No two same-sector talks run concurrently. Delegates physically walk between stages — the walk is the networking.
Foundation models, applied intelligence, the African data layer.
Payments, lending, capital markets and the rails underneath.
Contracts, compliance and access-to-justice tooling.
Vertical SaaS, infrastructure and the new B2B playbook.
Revenue operations, CRM intelligence and the tooling that turns pipeline into predictable growth.
Brand, growth and the measurement that holds it up.
Real estate, construction and the built-environment stack.
Distributed teams, automation and what work becomes next.
Six stages
Main Stage
Keynotes, headline panels, opening and closing — the room everyone returns to.
Hands-on
Working studio for students and founders. Capped, sign-up only, no spectators.
Salon & fireside
Cabaret seating, two leather chairs, the conversational stage where firesides land.
Demos & teardowns
Sector talks, build demos and product teardowns by the people who shipped them.
Live from PinkTag
Live-recorded episodes with an intimate seated audience. Content that lives on.
The weird one
Pitch & Roast, Reverse Panel, Confessions, Dealroom — the formats people WhatsApp about.
"Six is the largest number that still lets a delegate sample four sessions in a morning without missing transit. The mingling is engineered, not hoped for."
From the programme memo
Formats on the floor
Three founders pitch; a panel of operators give brutal-but-loving feedback.
Anonymous-question format. The audience drops Qs into a box, the host reads them.
An engineer ships a feature live, narrating the decisions as they go.
The audience IS the panel. One expert host fields and synthesises.
Speed-format. Investors at tables, founders rotate every six minutes.
Sector experts at small tables. Walk-up Q&A, no appointment needed.
Two operators trade jobs for twenty minutes and report back what they learned.
Night Networking Festival
Two evenings of hosted experiences across restaurants, rooftops, speakeasies, cigar lounges and gallery spaces — every venue within ten minutes' walk. Engineered serendipity: investors with founders, media with sponsors, exhibitors with buyers.
Investor-only speakeasy. Discreet, gated, the room where the term sheets start.
Speed-format investor × founder, twelve shortlisted founders, branded scorecards.
Open-air mixer with food trucks, brand activations and the Strip lit pink end-to-end.
Quiet filing room for media. Fast Wi-Fi, an espresso bar, daily briefing slot.
Four hosted tables — one per vertical pairing. Engineered seating, no podium.
DJ set and dancing 220 metres up. The goodbye, then the soft close.
Speaker names, session titles and the minute-by-minute run-sheet drop for ticket holders roughly four weeks before the event. We protect the detail to protect the experience — and to keep a few surprises on the Main Stage.