Nairobi Tech Events: What's Happening This Week (OCt 19–26, 2026)
Nairobi's tech events this week cover AI, blockchain, open source, and mobile development, with workshops and meetups from October 19–24.
Nairobi's tech events this week cover AI, blockchain, open source, and mobile development, with workshops and meetups from October 19–24.
The IMF expects Kenya's economy to grow faster next year, although its projections remain below those of the Central Bank of Kenya.
Microsoft employees in Nairobi were informed of plans to close the company's engineering centre on October 12. Microsoft says its wider Kenyan operations will continue as it restructures globally.
Nairobi's tech calendar this week features cybersecurity hackathons, AI workshops, blockchain events, and developer meetups from October 14 to 17.
Kenya has approved a new way for investors to participate in the Nigerian refinery's $1.6 billion IPO. But the KES 107,000 minimum investment is only one of several differences between buying shares in Nigeria and investing through Nairobi.
Flexpay says Naivas used police to pursue a disputed payment after their five-year partnership collapsed. It also claims the supermarket owes it more than KES 24 million in loyalty rewards.
Kenya's letter lets Circle Gas apply to sell carbon credits abroad, but its cash forecast counts none of the upside.
Andela’s study shows AI training helped Kenyan developers improve their Codex assessment scores from 69% to 81% in two weeks.
Tavus says 26 of 54 testers took its new AI for a human on a live video call. It is a vendor study with a small sample, but if you accept video as ID, read this.
Google released Gemini 4 Argon and says it leads its rivals on most benchmarks. The strongest part, its ability to find and fix software vulnerabilities, is not available to the public. It goes to vetted cybersecurity teams through a programme called Fairwind, which Google says has more than 650 partners.
Nairobi’s tech calendar this week spans startup funding, AI, cybersecurity, databases, game development, climate tech and community meetups.
The $7 billion valuation sits below the $8–9 billion reported before pricing, and the retail offer is open only to people physically in the UK
Seven Kenyan women-led startups receive KES 9 million in grants after Strathmore's Women in Tech Accelerator. Meet all seven winners.
Safaricom and Pesapal are expanding M-PESA payment options at physical merchant outlets in Kenya through new QR code and contactless... Source
Meta opened AI Academy Kenya with This Is Digital. Two startups win about KES 650,000 each. Applications close 30th September.
Former CBK governor Patrick Njoroge wants Kenya's law to pay M-Pesa users interest on wallets. Comments close 9th October 2026.
Google says LLM-jacking is spreading. One April case shows how far an attacker can get from a single leaked GitHub token.
Africa Tech Festival 2026 returns to Cape Town in November, putting AI, data centres, cloud infrastructure and connectivity high on the agenda for its 29th edition.
Kenyan businesses running customer care on the WhatsApp Business Platform will begin paying for service messages from October 1st, with Meta set to charge roughly Sh0.52 per delivered message after the first 1,000 free service messages each month.
Kenya detected 72.16 million DDoS threats in the year to June 2026, more than double the previous year's figure, according to the Communications Authority.
This week's events cover AI, startups, quantum computing, Python, and tech communities across Nairobi. Founder sessions, hackathons, conferences, and hands-on workshops are happening between September 30 and October 4.
Starlink had 27,616 Kenyan subscribers in June, up 58.5% in a year, just days before pausing sign-ups in seven counties.
The International Business Training College (IBTC) has expanded its data centre workforce development programme to Kenya
Latitude59 is returning to Kenya for the fourth consecutive year, applications are open
Kenya’s proposed payments bill could open up the financial data held by banks, M-Pesa and other providers, creating new room for fintechs to build services around information that has traditionally stayed inside individual platforms.
Safaricom went from fifth place in 2014 to Kenya's first million-subscription internet provider, with more than Faiba and Zuku combined.
Minisend is official payment partner of Africa Blockchain Festival 2026 in Nairobi
KCB Group is seeking a 22.23% stake in Pesapal, with Tanzania’s competition regulator revealing the size of the previously undisclosed investment. The deal is still under regulatory review, while the purchase price remains undisclosed.
Airtel Money is targeting a London IPO at a valuation of up to $9 billion. Existing shareholders are seeking at least $800 million, while Airtel Africa remains the majority owner.
After a decade focused on expanding women’s access to technology, She Code Africa is placing greater emphasis on…