--- title: "Conference" site: "The Enzi Prize" url: "/conference.html" canonical_url: "https://enziprize.org/conference.html" last_updated: "2026-09-22" type: "reference" summary: "The Enzi Prize Stage. Lagos, October 28, 2026. National Theatre. A working conference for practitioners building AI for and from Africa. Part of Moonshot 2026 by Tech Cabal." --- # Conference > The Enzi Prize Stage. Lagos, October 28, 2026. National Theatre. A working conference for practitioners building AI for and from Africa. Part of Moonshot 2026 by Tech Cabal. The Enzi Prize Stage # Lagos. October 28, 2026. National Theatre, Lagos. One day, one stage, one question: what does AI built at African economics actually look like? [Register](#registration) [Speak or nominate a speaker](mailto:hello@enziprize.org?subject=Speak%20or%20nominate%20a%20speaker) **DEF CON** meets Africa. 01 ## A working day, not a conference track. The Enzi Prize Stage opens on the first day of Moonshot 2026, Tech Cabal's flagship conference at the National Theatre in Lagos. Six sessions, shaped with the people building the thing rather than the people opining about it. The room is practitioners: engineers shipping models, researchers publishing them, founders deploying them, and the operators and policymakers who decide what runs at national scale. Builders, not observers. The prize launches from this stage. Teams that register here begin building the day it closes. DateOctober 28, 2026 VenueNational Theatre, Lagos ProgrammeFive stage sessions plus roundtable and mixer Part ofMoonshot 2026, October 28 to 29 CapacityLimited. Priority to early registrants. 02 ## Get in the room. Attend the stage. Practitioners who want to be there for the launch. Registration runs through Moonshot 2026 and includes access to the full two-day conference. Limited capacity, priority to early registrants. [Register to attend →](https://mainstack.com/p/moonshot-by-techcabal-2026/tickets) Compete. Engineers, researchers, and builders assembling a team. Register for early access to the challenge briefs, the shared GPU pool, and the benchmark leaderboard. You do not need to be in Lagos to enter, but the briefs drop on stage first. [Register your team →](https://enziprize.org/waitlist.html) Speak. We are building the programme from the community. Nominate yourself or someone whose work belongs on this stage. Sessions are working sessions: demos, results, and arguments, not keynote victory laps. [Propose a session →](mailto:hello@enziprize.org?subject=Propose%20a%20session) Partner. Organizations funding the purse, the infrastructure, or the ecosystem. Founding Partner seats carry governance participation and are capped at four. [Partner with us →](https://enziprize.org/partner.html) Questions on any of these: [hello@enziprize.org](mailto:hello@enziprize.org) 03 ## The programme is being built. Speakers are confirmed on a rolling basis through September and October. The stage is curated for people with results to show: model builders, infrastructure operators, researchers working on African-language and low-resource systems, and the policymakers who decide what gets deployed. Announcements go out to registrants first. [Get speaker announcements](mailto:hello@enziprize.org?subject=Speaker%20announcements) [Propose a session](mailto:hello@enziprize.org?subject=Propose%20a%20session) 04 ## Three rooms, one day. The Mixer · October 27, evening The night before. Speakers, government representatives, partners, and the teams who travelled in. Smaller room, no stage, no programme. This is where we become friends and family even before the event. The Prize Stage · October 28, daytime Five sessions. At the National Theatre, open to all Moonshot registrants. The prize launches here and the challenge briefs go live from this stage. The Roundtable · October 28, after the stage Invitation only. A working session on what it takes to build sovereign AI capacity: benchmark design, compute access, procurement, and the policy that has to move alongside. Partners hold a seat. Chatham House rule, one page of conclusions published afterwards. Oct 27 · eveningMixer · Invitation only Oct 28 · dayPrize Stage · Moonshot registrants Oct 28 · afterRoundtable · Invitation only Invitations to the mixer and roundtable go out from mid-September. If you think you should be in either room, tell us why: [hello@enziprize.org](mailto:hello@enziprize.org) 05 ## Backed by people who build. The Enzi Prize is backed by organizations that would rather see the cost of intelligence fall than wait for someone else to lower it. Headline Sponsor Talent Nation Headline Sponsor More sponsors announced as commitments confirm. [See the prospectus](https://enziprize.org/partner.html) [Talk to us](mailto:hello@enziprize.org?subject=Sponsorship) ## Be in the room where it starts. October 28. National Theatre, Lagos. Limited capacity. [Register](#registration)