Akwa Ibom Tech Week 2025 became the most internationally positioned edition yet.
2,500+ Paid Attendees
22+ Specialized Sessions
36 Expert Speakers
18 Featured Innovators
22 Exhibitors
Dedicated Women in Tech Day
But beyond metrics, 2025 produced export-ready outcomes.
Winner of the Ibom Air Innovation Prize 2025.
What they built:
Impact:
Global Leap:
Awarded a fully sponsored trip to the 2026 Global Web Summit in Qatar, funded by Lumo Hubs.
This created another opportunity where an Akwa Ibom startup transitions directly from a regional innovation challenge to a global technology summit stage. That is ecosystem exportation in action.
Without intervention, 523 African languages risk extinction by 2100.
USEM AI is building:
Impact:
This is not just a startup. It is linguistic sovereignty through technology.
PowerLabs delivers:
Impact:
PowerLabs demonstrates how climate technology can originate from emerging ecosystems and compete globally.
African SMEs account for: 90% of businesses, 60% of GDP
Straqa provides:
Impact:
Jemfave addresses:
Impact:
PowerLabs demonstrates how climate technology can originate from emerging ecosystems and compete globally.
The dedicated Women in Tech Day moved beyond symbolic inclusion.
It delivered:
Impact:
Akwa Ibom’s innovation future is intentionally inclusive.
Across three years, Akwa Ibom Tech Week has catalyzed:
Talent Acceleration
Job Creation
Capital Attraction
Ecosystem Identity Shift
Akwa Ibom has moved from: “Technology consumer” to “Technology producer and exporter”
Akwa Ibom Tech Week aligns with:
This is not a conference. It is regional economic transformation infrastructure.
Sponsors & Partners included:
Showcased ventures included:
Each represents a vertical in the global tech economy: Fintech, Defense Tech, EdTech, Climate Tech., GovTech, SME Infrastructure, Language AI.
Akwa Ibom is building a diversified innovation portfolio.
The most powerful metric is not attendance. It is belief.
This is psychological infrastructure.
The bridge has been built.
The ecosystem has been activated.
The world has begun to notice.
Akwa Ibom State is emerging as:
From 2023 to 2025, Akwa Ibom Tech Week has proven that global relevance can rise from local conviction.
The next chapter is not participation. It is global competitiveness.
| Event / Session | Resource Link |
| Conference Day 1 | View Photo Album |
| Conference Day 2 | View Photo Album |
| Innovation Challenge 2025 | View Photo Album |
| Devfest Uyo (Album 1) | View Photo Album |
| Devfest Uyo (Album 2) | View Photo Album |
Ibom Innovation Network is a community of innovators who drive the technology ecosystem in Akwa Ibom State. We represent residents practicing tech in the state and indigenes operating in the tech space across Nigeria and in diaspora. We focus on Innovation, Technology Development, Entrepreneurship, Capacity Building and Policy Advocacy.
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