Event Schedule

Africa Media Festival > Event Schedule

TIME

SESSION

LOCATION

8:00 - 17:00

Media Ecosystem Tour (Click Here)

Baraza Media Lab

TIME

TOPIC

THEMES

ROOM

FORMAT

SPEAKERS

ORG.

TITLE

8:00 - 9:00 am

Arrival and Coffee


9:00 - 9.15 am

Welcome, Purpose Setting, etc (includes housekeeping, protocols, Agenda overview, tools, etc)

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3

Maurice
Otieno

Baraza Media Lab

9:15 - 9.30 am

Keynote 

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3


Christine
Mungai

Baraza Media Lab

9:30 - 9.45 am

Keynote 

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3


Eliud
Owalo

Ministry of ICT

Cabinet Secretary

9.45 - 10.00 am

Transition time

10:00 - 11:00 am

State of Africa’s newsroom: What’s going right and what’s going wrong in African journalism

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3


Abdul
Noormo-
hamed

Luminate

VP, Africa

10:00 - 11:00 am

Exhibition Room

Kilimanjaro 1

Panel

Charles
Onyango-Obbo

Africapedia

Journalist I Writer I Futurist I Curator

10:00 - 11:00 am

PRX<>BML: Podcasting Hackathon

Kifaru

11:00 - 11:45 am

Morning Coffee and Networking

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

Mainstreaming Gender in the News

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

The next African blockbuster: making African film and TV thrive

Elgon 1

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

Web 3.0, AI and machine learning for African media & creatives: the good, the bad and the ugly

Elgon 2

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

Lean Data practices for media and creatives

Elgon 3

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

PRX<>BML: Podcasting Hackathon

Kifaru

12:15 - 14:15 pm

Lunch and Networking

14:15 - 15:15 pm

Podcasting’s brave new world: the promise of the podcast to tell new stories, build audiences and restore trust

Kilimanjaro 1 & 2

14:15 - 15:15 pm

Journalist Safety Stakeholders Roundtable

Elgon 1

14:15 - 15:15 pm

Tuning back in: Countering the cycle of toxic news through constructive and explanatory journalism

Elgon 2

14:15 - 15:15 pm

Beyond “telling the African story”: A paradigm shift in speaking Africa to Africa, and the world

Elgon 3

14:15 - 15:15 pm

PRX<>BML: Podcasting Hackathon

Elgon 3

14:15 - 15:15 pm

Exhibition Room

Kilimanjaro 3

15:15 - 16:00 pm

Evening Tea

16:00 - 17:00 pm

The diversity dividend: beyond representation for women, people living with disabilities & marginalised communities

Kilimanjaro 1 & 2

16:00 - 17:00 pm

Exhibition Room

Kilimanjaro 1

16:00 - 17:00 pm

PRX<>BML: Podcasting Hackathon

Kifaru

17:00 - 17:30 pm

Quick Feedback, Online polls on big questions, what to expect the next day, Closing Remarks

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3


17:30 - 18:30 pm

John Allan Namu, Moderated by: Stephen King. Book Launch.

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3

18:30 pm - Late

Partner Networking Event/ Live perfomance

Kilimanjaro Foyer

TIME

SESSION

LOCATION

8:15 - 9:00 am

Arrival and Coffee


9:00 - 9:15 am

Welcome, review of day 1, feedback from participants, etc

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3


9:15 - 9.30 am

Keynote One

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3

9:30 - 9.30 am

Keynote Two

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3


9:45 - 10.00 am

Transition time

10:00 - 11:00 am

Yes we can: Lessons on business model innovations amid economic scarcity & political repression

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3


10:00 - 11:00 am

Exhibition Room

Kifaru

10:00 - 11:00 am

PRX<>BML: Podcasting Hackathon

Elgon 3

11:00 - 11:45 am

Morning Coffee and Networking

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

Story brainstorming: The stories we’re missing in our media landscape

Kilimanjaro 1 & 2

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

How best can CSOs and media work together?

Elgon 1

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

The growing sophistication of misinformation and how media can counter it

Elgon 2

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

GENDER ROUNDTABLE on 2nd day

Mt. Kenya

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

Town Hall: Mental Health in Media and creative space

Networking Terrace

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

PRX<>BML: Podcasting Hackathon

Kifaru

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

Exhibition Room

Kilimanjaro 1

12:45 pm - 14:15 pm

Lunch and Networking

14:15 pm - 15:15 pm

How we did it: Five case studies in great African journalism]

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3

14:15 pm - 15:15 pm

Cooperating across languages: stories and perspectives from Francophone, Lusophone and Arabic Africa

Elgon 1

14:15 pm - 15:15 pm

Comedic effect: Memes, satire, and collaborative possibilities in content creation

Elgon 2

14:15 pm - 15:15 pm

Hacking reach for public interest media

Elgon 3

14:15 pm - 15:15 pm

PRX<>BML: Podcasting Hackathon

Kifaru

14:15 pm - 15:15 pm

Exhibition Room

Kilimanjaro 1

15:15 pm  - 16:00 pm

Evening Tea

16:00 pm - 17:00 pm

Exhibition Room

Kilimanjaro 1

16:00 pm - 17:00 pm

Cracking the digital economy: Media sustainability in a post-Covid world

Elgon 2

17:00 pm - 17:30 pm

Podcasting Hackathon Presentations

Kilimanjaro 2 & 3

17:30 pm - 18:30 pm

Closing Remarks

Kilimanjaro 1 & 2

18:30 pm - Late

Partner Networking Event/Live perfomance

Nairobi Street Kitchen

SESSION

LOCATION

Pop Up Garage Event (Click Here)

Baraza Media Lab