ATLAS 2.0 is the practical, skills-first symposium where Africa’s lawyers, regulators, technologists, creators and entrepreneurs come together to engage on how AI gets governed across Africa, before the solutions and answers are imposed from elsewhere.
Date
24 October 2026
Saturday
Format
One-Day Symposium
08:30 – 17:30, reception to follow
Location
Nairobi, Kenya
ALN House
Who it's for
Non-specialists welcome
No technical background required
The Opportunity
Be in the room deciding how AI gets governed across Africa.
Agentic AI doesn’t just generate content, it acts. It searches, negotiates, files, transacts, and runs workflows on its own. Get there first, and you raise productivity, strengthen your institution, and help shape the sectors this is building. Get there without the legal groundwork, and you inherit the risk instead of the advantage. ATLAS 2.0 is where you build the second part.
ATLAS is ALN Academy’s flagship symposium on the future of law, technology and AI in Africa. ATLAS 2.0 makes the legal dimensions of agentic AI practical and accessible to non-specialists, anchoring its approach in three sectors already driving Africa’s next phase of growth: cloud, the creative economy and the circular economy.
You + The Machine. Human After All.
To get value out of ATLAS 2.0, you need to believe two things:
1. Agentic AI is moving faster than African regulation.
2. If we do not build the legal frameworks ourselves, we will be forced to operate under frameworks built in San Francisco or Brussels.
100+
Curated delegates, lawyers, regulators, technologists and creators building the trust, skills and legal frameworks that agentic AI demands.
Pan-African network
Convened by ALN Academy, across ALN’s legal network on the continent.
Already in motion
Multiple monthly fireside chats held each month, ahead of the October 24th date.
Sign up to attend, speak, partner, sponsor
Confirmed speakers, partners and sponsors attend at no charge.
Three Themes, One Room
Three economies are being rewritten. Choose your seat at the table.
Each theme is a room where Africa’s AI ecosystem is actually getting built — not talked about. Limited seats at each table. Help build the one that’s yours.
The Infrastructure Layer
Cloud Economy
“Where does African data legally live — and who can compel access to it?”
THIS IS THE ROOM FOR: Cloud providers, cybersecurity firms, telecom regulators and data-protection authorities shaping how Africa hosts and governs its own infrastructure.
The Ownership Layer
Creative Economy
“An agent negotiated your licensing terms before you woke up — who owns the deal?”
THIS IS THE ROOM FOR: Rights bodies, media platforms, creative guilds and artists’ collectives shaping how ownership and royalties survive generative tooling.
The Accountability Layer
Circular Economy
“A supply-chain agent just decided what gets repaired, resold, or scrapped.”
THIS IS THE ROOM FOR: ESG funds, recyclers, manufacturers and sustainability certifiers whose green claims need to hold up in court, not just in a deck.
Why Attend
By the end of the day at the ATLAS 2.0 Symposium, you'll be able to do this.
Get the one distinction — automation vs. agentic — that most people in your field still can’t explain clearly.
No law degree required — leave able to hold your own in a room full of regulators.
Stop guessing whether your AI deployment is a legal problem waiting to happen. Know how to check.
Stop reading think-pieces about AI’s impact on Africa’s economy and hear it from the people building it.
Help write the rules instead of waiting to be governed by ones you had no say in.
Experience
Built in the room. Yours to keep.
This is where you do the work, not just watch it get explained. Accountability, data use, IP, cloud procurement, human oversight — you’ll work each one live, checklist in hand, until it’s not abstract anymore. Walk out with:
AI Agent Risk Checklist
A step-by-step screen for any AI agent before you deploy it.
AI Contract Questions Guide
The questions to ask a vendor before you sign.
Sector Risk Maps
Cloud, creative and circular — mapped risk by risk.
Ten Principles for Trusted Agentic AI in Africa
The ATLAS Call to Action, launched on the day.
Africa can shape agentic AI.
Who Should Attend?
ATLAS 2026 is built for practitioners, not just specialists:
Registration Fees
Secure Your Place
Standard: Student
KES 2,000
- Valid student ID required
- Valid between 26 Sep – 17 Oct 2026
Standard: Professional
KES 3,000
- Open to all other delegates
- Valid Between 26 Sep – 17 Oct 2026
Early Bird: Student
KES 1,499
- Valid student ID required
- Valid Until 25 Sep 2026
Early Bird: Professional
KES 2499
- Open to all other delegates
- Valid Until 25 Sep 2026
At the Gate: Student
KES 2,500
- Valid student ID required
- Valid From 18 Oct & on the day
At the Gate: Professional
KES 3,500
- Open to all other delegates
- Valid From 18 Oct & on the day
Sponsor ATLAS 2.0
Put your name where Africa's AI rules get written.
ATLAS 2.0 is a room full of the people who’ll carry these frameworks back into their institutions. Sponsor the room, and that’s the group that remembers your name.
Headline Partner
Own the day
What it is
Top billing across the stage, website and every piece of pre- and post-event content, plus a speaking slot in the opening session.
Why it's worth it
Put your name on the day Africa’s legal, tech and policy leaders start building the rules for agentic AI together — and be the name they remember when they do.
Theme Sponsor
Own a conversation
What it is
Your brand attached to Cloud, Creative, or Circular economy — signage, materials and the moderator introduction carry your name.
Why it's worth it
Pick the track closest to your business and own that specific conversation, with visibility at the forefront all day.
Delegate Experience
Own the details
What it is
Branding on badges, the delegate toolkit, or the reception — touchpoints every attendee uses all day.
Why it's worth it
Quiet, repeated visibility with the room most likely to remember who made the day run well.
Also open: in-kind sponsorship — production, branding, merchandise, catering, media support.
Institutional Partners
Don't watch the agenda get set. Set it.
Our partnership model is focused on co-authorship. If your institution has real expertise in cloud governance, IP and creative rights, or circular economy accountability, we want you shaping the track, not just watching it from the audience.
Headline Partner
From KES 100 000 · One slot
A speaker of your choosing opens the symposium with a ten-minute address on the main stage before the first keynote. Your logo sits beside ours on the main stage backdrop, so it appears in every photograph and every plenary recording. We will feature your name in each of the emails we send out before the event and in the follow-up, with the email campaign comprising over 4,000 emails in total. Eight delegate passes, an insert in every delegate toolkit, your logo on the cover of the post-event report and a vendor booth.
Theme Sponsor
From KES 70 000 · Three slots, one per track
Your track is printed in the programme, on the room signage and on the website as “The Cloud Economy Track, presented by [Company].” The moderator names you opening and closing each of its sessions, your banners stand at that room’s entrance all day, and your logo opens each recording from it. Four delegate passes and a vendor booth.
Delegate Experience Sponsor
From KES 40 000
Choose the lanyards and badges that all two hundred delegates wear from morning to evening; the toolkit each person takes home, with your logo on the cover and an insert of yours inside; or the evening reception, with your signage at the entrance and a two-minute welcome from your team. Two delegate passes and a vendor booth.
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