African Conferences, May 1st - 9th
Event happening all over Africa between the 1st to 9th of May 2026
GITEX FUTURE HEALTH Africa 2026
4th - 6th May 2026 - Casablanca, Morocco
About the Event
GITEX Future Health Africa is the continent's premier healthcare innovation summit, bringing together policymakers, technologists, clinicians, investors, and global health leaders to accelerate Africa's digital health transformation. Held under the theme "Digitising Africa's Healthcare Future: Essential Care Advancing With AI," the 2026 edition takes place in Casablanca, Morocco — a strategic gateway to Africa's rapidly expanding health market.
The event serves as both a trade exhibition and a high-level conference, showcasing cutting-edge medical technologies, AI-driven health solutions, diagnostic equipment, medical devices, and digital infrastructure — all tailored to the unique needs and opportunities of the African continent.
Objectives
- Drive the adoption of AI, blockchain, and deep tech to modernise African healthcare systems
- Facilitate cross-border collaboration between governments, health institutions, startups, and private sector innovators
- Connect investors and development finance institutions with high-impact healthtech startups
- Shape policy frameworks for a pan-African digital health ecosystem
- Spotlight Morocco and Africa's broader healthcare growth potential, including a projected $259 billion market opportunity across the continent
Conference Programme
The three-day agenda is structured around focused forums:
- Day 1 – GITEX Future Health Executive Summit: Financing health sovereignty and multilateral policy alignment across Africa
- Day 2 – Digital First Hospitals Forum: Next-generation hospital design, AI diagnostics, core digital infrastructure, and operational resilience
- Day 3 – Intelligent Care Forum: Data governance, ethical AI, patient experience intelligence, and human-machine collaboration in care delivery
Key Features
- Exhibition floor covering medical devices & equipment, laboratory technology, imaging & diagnostics, disposables, orthopaedics, and AI-driven digital health solutions
- Innovation Lab featuring a dedicated startup zone, the Supernova Pitch Competition, and an Investor Programme connecting founders with leading funds
- World-class speakers including the WHO Director-General, Morocco's Minister of Health, and senior executives from global health organisations
- Buyers Programme connecting international exhibitors with qualified healthcare procurement professionals
- Workshops and breakout sessions on the most pressing challenges in African healthcare
Who Should Attend
Hospital executives and clinicians, health technology companies, government and regulatory bodies, investors and development finance institutions, startups and entrepreneurs, pharmaceutical companies, and NGOs working in global health.
Registration & Participation
Open to visitors, exhibitors (enterprises and startups), speakers, press, and sponsors. Registration is live at GITEX Future Health
Trialogue Business Governance Conference
5th - 6th May 2026 - Johannesburg, South Africa
The Trialogue Business in Society Conference is the premier industry event showcasing new and innovative thinking on the ‘S’ in ESG. Delegates are predominantly representatives of companies and nonprofit organisations, and the aim is to enhance knowledge and foster collaboration that helps business perform more sustainably in society.
This year’s conference will take place on Tuesday 5 May and Wednesday 6 May 2026, with Masterclass Monday on 4 May, at The Wanderers Club in Illovo, Johannesburg and online.
The overall theme of the conference is ‘Voices. Values. Vision‘, and topics include the role of business in society, stakeholder and community engagement, amplifying community voices, trends in CSI, education and more. A high 88% of delegates rated the 2025 conference 8 or above out of 10, with 99% saying they would recommend it to others.
International Conference on Medical Intelligence (MedAI 2026)
5th - 6th May 2026 - Casablanca, Morocco (at GITEX)
Organised by the Mohammed VI Foundation for Sciences and Health (FM6SS), MedAI 2026 is an international academic and professional conference dedicated to advancing trustworthy and impactful AI in medicine and healthcare. It brings together researchers, clinicians, and innovators from around the world to share original work and explore the frontiers of medical AI.
The conference covers eight research tracks spanning AI for medical imaging and diagnostics, clinical decision support, precision medicine, telemedicine, robotics and smart biomedical devices, health system digitalisation, ethical AI and data security, and emerging technologies in healthcare.
The event is chaired by senior figures from Morocco's Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Higher Education, and UM6SS, with keynote speakers drawn from leading research institutions in Morocco, France, and beyond.
Participation is open to researchers, clinicians, and industry professionals. Both paper submissions (including research, case studies, and industry projects) and general registrations are accepted via the official MedAI registration portal.
World Sustainability Forum – GLF Africa 2026
6th May 2026 - Nairobi, Kenya
LF Africa 2026: Stewarding Our Rangelands is a high-level hybrid summit held at the CIFOR-ICRAF Campus in Nairobi, coinciding with the UN International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. The event focuses on protecting the world's rangelands—which cover 54% of the Earth's land area—from the threats of climate change, conflict, and underinvestment to secure the livelihoods of 1.2 billion people.
GLF Africa 2026 returns with a special edition to bring pastoralists and rangeland ecosystems from the margins of global discourse to the center of climate action. Rangelands are vital landscapes that support 60% of global food production and are essential for tourism, conservation, and biodiversity. However, half of these lands are currently under threat. This summit serves as a global platform to advocate for pastoralist communities, exploring sustainable grazing practices, land rights, and nature-based solutions. By gathering over 8,000 participants in person and online, the forum seeks to mobilize investment and policy support to revitalize these often-forgotten landscapes. The event highlights the crucial role of pastoralists as stewards of the land, ensuring that their traditional knowledge and modern scientific innovations work together to build a resilient future for Africa’s vast drylands.
In alignment with the African Union’s Agenda 2063, this event is most closely affiliated with Goal 7: Environmentally sustainable and climate resilient economies and communities. By focusing on the restoration of rangelands and the preservation of pastoralist livelihoods, the summit directly addresses the AU’s mandate to protect Africa's natural capital and enhance food security through sustainable ecosystem management.
