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Keynote Fire side chat | Regional Anchor Partnership: Forging a Nigeria Morocco Axis for Digital Synergies and 4IR

20 Jan 2026
How can sustainable industrial automation and responsible artificial intelligence forge a path to Africa's economic growth?
  • Policy and Infrastructure : The necessity of developing local, ethical AI governance frameworks to build public trust and facilitate cross border data colla boration in Africa
  • Smart Automation and upskilling for Industry 4.0 : Strategizing the adoption of smart factory automation (4IR technologies) in manufacturing and public services to boost produc tiv ity without exacerbating youth unemployment
  • The Power of Local Data: Why indigenous data & local LLMs are key to building accurate, inclusive, and culturally relevant AI solutions across Africa?
  • Africa’s 4 th Industrial Revolution Journey : Leveraging legacy industrial infrastructure as a unique advantage to leapfrog directly to smart manufacturing, robotics, and 3D printing
  • Collaborative Governance : How Nigeria Morocco can create scalable models for infrastructure sharing, talent exchange, and localized content development, s etting the pace for pan African digital integration
  • Exploring the unique opportunity for synergistic digital cooperation between West Africa's economic giant (Nigeria) and North Af rica's aspiring AI and Data Center Hub (Morocco)
  • Confirmed
Chairperson
Sangeeta Laudus, Former Capital Markets Lawyer, Strategic Advisor - Bright Tide, UK
Speakers
Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CCIE, Director General - National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Nigeria