Innovation Week Tanzania
Edition 11 · 12 – 16 May 2025

IWTz2025Innovation for a Resilient and Inclusive Future

4,760registrations
622participating organisations
41sessions held
57.5% / 42.5%men and women
Edition
11th edition
Dates
12 – 16 May 2025
Where
JNICC, Dar es Salaam
Organised by
Jointly hosted by UNDP, Vodacom and COSTECH, featuring the Future Ready Summit

The week in brief

The eleventh edition ran for five days at JNICC under the theme Innovation for a Resilient and Inclusive Future, jointly hosted by UNDP, Vodacom and COSTECH and featuring the Future Ready Summit.

Sessions covered AI policy and learning, e-mobility, the forestry value chain, capital raising for startups, regulation for early-stage businesses, business and human rights in digitalisation, and a ministerial roundtable on innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Reports and documents

ReportInnovation Week Tanzania and Future Ready Summit 2025 reportPDF · 2.9 MB
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Moments from IWTz2025

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Agenda

What was on in 2025

Monday 12 May

  • Bridging Policy and Practice: AI Innovation for Tanzania's Future

Tuesday 13 May

  • #YouthIgnite Student Founders Fellowship: Building Innovation Ecosystems in Higher Learning Institutions
  • Mind the Gap: Redefining ESO Value Across Startup Growth Stages, FUNGUO Innovation Programme

Wednesday 14 May

  • Capital Raising Masterclass for Startups
  • Unlocking eMobility in Tanzania: Innovation, Policy and Partnership for a Resilient and Inclusive Transport Future

Thursday 15 May

  • Catalyzing Innovation in the Forestry Value Chain
  • Ministerial Roundtable Dialogue on Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Building a Future-Ready Tanzania

Friday 16 May

  • Catalyzing Tanzania's Startup Economy: Shaping the Regulatory Environment for Early-stage Businesses
  • Leveraging AI for Learning and Career Growth
  • Human Rights Compliance in Business Operation: Case of Digitalization
Voices

Speakers at IWTz2025

H.E. Alexander Stubb
Keynote

H.E. Alexander Stubb

President of the Republic of Finland

Photo: Jaan Kynnap, CC BY 4.0. Background removed and cropped.
John Rutere
Keynote

John Rutere

Deputy Resident Representative, UNDP Tanzania

Rosalynn Mworia
Keynote

Rosalynn Mworia

Managing Director, Mwananchi Communications Limited

With thanks

Partners of IWTz2025

Partners over the years

As named in the official IWTz2025 report: organisers, sponsors and media partners.

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