The room · Nairobi
What the day looks like.
Rooftop, laptop in, Codex installed, Kenyan operator class around the table. The August 3 vision in three frames.
Lift is the Phase 2 East Africa core room — the East Africa anchor, sister to Lagos in West Africa. 150 Kenyan creators and early-stage founders walk in with the idea and walk out with the AI operating system that runs their business. Sunday, August 3, 2026. One day on the LaunchPad rooftop. The first OpenAI-named room in East Africa.
Lift is Phase 2 — the regional expansion. Cape Town proves the format, Nairobi anchors East Africa, Lagos anchors West Africa, the Summit convenes them all.
The Cape Town flagship. One room. Operator class onboarded onto Codex. The format that every Phase 2 room replicates.
Two core rooms covering East Africa and West Africa. Nairobi anchors East. Lagos anchors West. Both are commitments, not add-ons.
The continental summit. Every operator from Phases 1 and 2 lands in one room. The crown of the year.
Rooftop, laptop in, Codex installed, Kenyan operator class around the table. The August 3 vision in three frames.
Everything you need to picture Nairobi · Aug 3 in your head before reading the run-of-show.
Sky-view rooftop in the iHub corridor. Access-controlled, exclusive day-hire. East Africa's tech capital, on the roof, in one room.
Names that pull Nairobi's creator and operator class into the room. The headline draw is HINDZ. The credibility anchor is the homegrown tech-founder bench.
@HINDZSIGHT · instagram.com/hindzsight
The cultural draw. 810K YouTube subscribers across 632 videos. Builds at the intersection of expression, wellness, and creative identity — the exact lens the operator-class in Nairobi tunes into. His tagline says it: "The highest form of nutrition is in our expression."
On stage at Lift, HINDZ frames the day for the room. Why being a creator in Africa right now is the moment. Why Codex on your laptop is the move. Then a sit-down with Jillian Wolf on camera for the success-story series.
Co-founder of Ushahidi (the crisis-mapping platform born in Kenya, deployed globally) and BRCK (rugged internet hardware for emerging markets). TED speaker, World Economic Forum, the African technologist Western tech press already trusts. Brings instant credibility to the operator panel.
Founder of Nailab, Kenya's first tech incubator. Has built and mentored hundreds of Kenyan startups since 2010. The bridge between the panel and the room — knows every founder in Nairobi who shows up with a laptop.
Speakers in conversation. Confirmed names land 30 days out from the August 3 date.
Hour-by-hour of the August 3 edition in Nairobi. Same cadence as the Cape Town room, scaled to a 150-person Kenyan cohort.
Jillian Wolf moderates the East Africa edition.
One assistant per ten attendees in the build-your-own AIOS workshop.
Marcus Pobe (Ghana-based film crew) on site for the day. Recap film, social cut, photo album, success-story interviews.
Akil "Wolf" Wade flies in for the day to host.
Every operator walks out with a co-branded item. Every moment gets filmed. Every asset gets distributed.
LaunchPad rooftop in Westlands · 150-cap exclusive hire · AV, Kenyan local artist, creator panel, Marcus Pobe film crew flown in from Ghana, and 150 co-branded gift sets. Plus Codex credits to all 150 attendees, covered directly by OpenAI. The first OpenAI-named activation in East Africa.
Lift is the East Africa core room — the first OpenAI-named activation in Nairobi, sister to Lagos in West Africa. The ask funds the LaunchPad rooftop, the talent, the Marcus Pobe crew flown in from Ghana, and the 150 co-branded gift sets. Lift is the smallest core room because LaunchPad runs lean and the production stack is tight — not because the region matters less.
| Line | Cost |
|---|---|
| Akil compensation (host fee) | $10,000 |
| LaunchPad rooftop venue (150-cap, exclusive hire) | $3,000 |
| AV / production | $500 |
| Kenyan local artist (one set) | $1,000 |
| Kenyan IG creator speakers (2 to 3) | $1,000 |
| Gifts × 150 (clothing + Kenya gift) | $2,000 |
| Photo / video capture (Marcus Pobe or local Nairobi crew) | $1,500 |
| Catering + drinks | $500 |
| RSVP funnel + community manager slice | $500 |
| Total | $20,000 |