AFRICA SUMMITS AT A GLANCE
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| Newsroom & Tech |
Audience Development
How African newsrooms can smartly embrace digital products while navigating the tech companies that inspire and create those products
Modern newsroom
AI + workflows
Mobile + video + messaging apps
Understanding audiences using data
Every newsroom is now a tech company. Few are resourced like one (especially in Africa).
The technology reshaping journalism — AI, LLMs, streaming audio and video, immersive formats — was not built with African newsrooms in mind. Yet African newsrooms must master it anyway, often faster and with fewer resources than anyone else.
The INMA Africa Newsroom & Tech Summit cuts through the noise. Which products genuinely fit African audiences and which are Silicon Valley solutions in search of a problem? When does mobile beat Web — and what do consumption patterns actually tell us? How do you extract value from the AI platforms without surrendering your journalism to them?
Expect a keynote on AI followed by case studies from media companies across the continent breaking down what's working, what isn't, and whether the juice is worth the squeeze. Practical, candid, and built for newsroom leaders who need to make product decisions this year — not someday.
Speakers
Oyetunji Abioye
Editor
The Punch
Nigeria
Rianette Cluley
Media Project Manager
Briefly News & TUKO.co.ek
Harry Misiko
Managing Editor, Content Strategy
Nation Media Group
Kenya
Penlope Nankunda
Content Manager – Digital
Vision Group (New Vision)
Uganda
Rowan Polovin
Newsroom/Product Leader
Daily Maverick
South Africa
Innocent Unah
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
BusinessDay
Nigeria
Sonali Verma
Newsroom Innovation Initiative Lead
INMA
Canada
Key themes
Reinventing the newsroom: Building agile, digital-first editorial teams, and smarter workflows.
Smarter journalism: Using AI and technology to improve reporting, verification, video, and productivity.
How we use tech for distribution: Reaching audiences through search, social, WhatsApp, newsletters, video, and emerging platforms.
Growing audience engagement: Shifts from the transactional feel of “engagement” to something more durable, and sets up loyalty/habit/retention content naturally.