Second edition
Creating Nigeria’s Playbook
Local solutions, global standards. Nigeria's architecture, engineering and construction industry, and the technology reshaping it, in one room for one day.
- Date
- 21 Nov 2026
- Venue
- Regal Hall, Ikeja
- Seats
- 1,000
- Admission
- Free
21 November 2026. Lagos, Nigeria
2026 sponsorship is open
What we'll cover
4 tracks across one day. Sessions and speakers for each are announced closer to 21 November.
Speakers
Announced track by track between now and 21 November.
The 2026 line-up is still being confirmed — the cards below are placeholders.
The shape of the day
Sessions from the ConTech 2.0 content architecture. Speakers and times are announced between now and 21 November.
- 01
Problem
What is broken?
- 02
Insight
What can we learn?
- 03
Solution
What can technology change?
- 04
Capital
What makes it bankable?
- 05
People
Who will build and adopt it?
- 06
Action
What happens next?
Opening & industry reality
4 sessions
- Opening
Opening Visual Story / State of Nigerian Construction
Set urgency; capture the audience’s biggest problems.
- Keynote
The Nigerian Playbook: From Local Problems to Global Solutions
Define the theme and what “local solutions, global standards” means.
- Keynote
What It Costs to Build & Manufacture in Nigeria
Materials, manufacturing, standards, quality, counterfeit risk and cost.
- Industry panel
The Problems We Keep Paying For
Identify unresolved problems that represent real opportunities.
Trust, adoption & leadership
3 sessions
- Keynote
Educating the Market
Trust, communication, buyer education and changing how Nigerians buy and build.
- Fireside
Why Good Technology Still Fails in Construction
Adoption, leadership, ROI, people, process and change management.
- Leadership panel
The Women’s Playbook: Building, Leading & Scaling
Practical leadership lessons and the next generation of women in AEC and tech.
Innovation, capital & scale
4 sessions
- Live demos
Innovation Showcase
Problem → product → result. AI, BIM, automation, PropTech and other solutions.
- Keynote
Global Standards Start in the Books
Governance, reporting, process discipline, documentation and capital readiness.
- Keynote
Bankable by Design
Construction finance, procurement, lender and investor expectations, bankability.
- Investor clinic
Angel Capital for the Built Environment
What makes a ConTech idea credible and investable.
Future, talent & institutions
4 sessions
- Founder fireside
From Problem to Product
Validation, MVP, customers, pricing, traction, team and scaling.
- Future + demo
AI, BIM & the Next Construction Workflow
Make the 2030 workflow tangible through AI, BIM, data and automation.
- Future of work
The Talent Playbook
Skills needed for the future-ready digital built-environment workforce.
- Roundtable
Who Sets the Rules of a Digital Built Environment?
Professional bodies, standards, CPD, skills, policy and adoption commitments.
E. The climax: pitch · playbook · hub · commitment
The Next ConTech Giants
Startup pitch competition.
ConTech Playbook Volume 01
The book and the contributor model, announced.
ConTech Hub
The venture-building platform, announced.
From Conversation to Commitment
Close with concrete actions.
Content principle: Every major session leaves behind a lesson, framework, checklist, commitment, connection or pilot opportunity that can feed the ConTech Playbook and the post-event impact report.
Download the one-pager (PDF)Who's in the room
Four kinds of people who rarely share a room, and one day when they do.
Builders
Architecture, engineering, construction
Architects, engineers, contractors and project managers changing how the work gets done.
Strategists
C-suite and developers
Developers, investors and executives deciding what gets built and with what.
Innovators
Founders and engineers
The people building the software and hardware the industry is starting to buy.
Shapers
Policy and academia
Regulators, researchers and educators setting the terms everyone else works to.
What 2024 looked like
Figures and photographs from the first ConTech Nigeria.
1,500+
Attendees
25+
Speakers
10+
Industry partners
5+
Campuses visited
Regal Hall, Ikeja
Mainland Lagos, with parking on site.
Regal Hall
Plot A3C Ikosi RoadOregun, Ikeja
Lagos, Nigeria
- Doors
- 9:00 AM
- Date
- Sat 21 Nov
Three ways in
The day is free. Merch is optional, and sponsorship is how a company gets a stand on the floor.
General admission
The whole day, at no cost. Register once and the same ticket gets you into the room and the recordings afterwards.
- Every session and keynote
- The exhibition floor
- Session recordings after the day
Free
Always has been
Register nowTicket + merch
Everything above, plus ConTech merch picked at registration and collected at the venue on the day.
- Face cap ₦7,000 · Bucket hat ₦8,000
- Tee shirt ₦12,000 · Water flask ₦13,000
- Sweatshirt ₦20,000 · Hoodie ₦25,000
From ₦7,000
Added at registration
Pick your merchSponsor & exhibit
Put your products and services in front of the people specifying and buying them, with a stand on the floor and your name on the day.
- Exhibition stand
- Branding across the event
- Introductions to the room
Talk to us
Packages on request
Become a sponsorOr earn it: bring 25 colleagues and the merch is on us. See the referral leaderboard
See you on 21 November
Registration takes a minute and costs nothing. Bring the person on your team who keeps saying the industry needs to catch up.