This year’s Pan African Al and Innovation Summit (PAAIS 2026) will focus on reimagining education from mere literacy to digital skills and innovation.
Building on the outcomes of the inaugural PAAIS 2025 hosted in Accra, the 2026 summit is being repositioned as a delivery-oriented platform, shifting from awareness creation to measurable economic outcomes.
A press release from Mr Felix Donkor, the Summit Lead, copied to the Ghana News Agency on Friday, said the summit served as a bridge between vision and the realisation of youth potential.
By participating, organisations would gain access to a hands-on digital learning ecosystem during the summit, which be a converging point where policy, infrastructure, and youth empowerment would turn vision into practice and prosperity.
“PAAIS 2026 is designed to help bridge that divide by creating structured linkages between local innovators, regional employers and global investors,” the release said.
It said following recent directives from the Minister of Education, the country was shifting from the “chalk and talk” era towards a future defined by ethical AI, robotics, and responsible innovation.
Africa’s youthful population remained one of its greatest economic assets, yet a persistent gap continued to separate talent from opportunity, it noted.
“The data suggests that if we do not rewrite our educational and digital history now, we risk missing the Intelligent Age. We’ll miss the new wave of innovation and technology as a nation and a continent,” the release added.
The summit is slated for September 22-23, 2026, at the Kempinski Hotel, Accra.
