Speaker Prospectus · 2026

Take the stage.

PinkTag is the room shaping the next decade of African technology — and the responsible integration of next-generation tools into the continent's most pressing problems. If you are doing the work, we want you on the stage.

Six stages · one ecosystem

Choose the room that fits the work.

cap · 800–1,200

Main Stage · The Foundry

Keynotes, founder firesides, Showcase finals.

cap · 120

The Lab

Working sessions: founders × investors × students.

cap · 80

The Workshop

Hands-on technical: code, infra, AI tooling.

cap · 30

The Exchange

Invitation-only — capital meets founders, off the record.

cap · 150

Podcast / Vodcast Media Room

Tech for development — donors, NGOs, founders, government.

cap · 150

The Pit

Founder pitches, live feedback, office hours.

Eight conversations · one stage

The sectors we are programming.

Artificial Intelligence

Beyond the hype: deployment, ethics, the African use case.

Fintech

Rails, regulation and the cross-border thesis.

LegalTech

Justice at speed — and the lines we will not cross.

MarTech

Brand in the age of generative everything.

SaaS

Building global software from an African base.

Humanitarian Tech

Built with care. Measured by outcome.

Standards · not requirements

What we are looking for.

01A point of view earned by doing the work — not summarising someone else's.
02Specificity over abstraction. Name the problem, the bet, the trade-off, the outcome.
03Comfort with the harder questions — ethics, harm, accountability, what you got wrong.
04Bold ideas, critical research and the patterns shaping what comes next.

2026 line-up

Coming soon

The 2026 line-up is still being curated.

We're finalising the speakers, sectors and stages with the same care that goes into every part of PinkTag. Check back at the end of June 2026 for the first wave of reveals.