“Shaping The Next Generation of Founders, Enterprise Leaders and Value Creators”
From Education to Enterprise Activation
Every movement prepares delegates for the next—from education and mindset to practical access and action.
A Generation Ready to Build
Seeing What Is Possible
Building the person before the enterprise
Turning social challenges into impact
Confronting barriers
Understanding institutions and systems
Moving from information to opportunity
From the stage to the stands
Delegate arrival, registration, seating, exhibition opening, technical checks, VIP reception, networking and media preparation.
Prepare every delegate, institution and exhibition partner for the official opening.
Prayer · National Anthem
The official programme opens with prayer and the National Anthem. Those leading these formalities are appointed separately and are not programme speakers.
Open with dignity, order and national purpose.
President, THE FORGE
Dalitsani Banda
The President welcomes delegates, establishes the significance of TFC•26, introduces THE FORGE and its team, and frames the conference journey.
Define why TFC•26 exists and what the day must activate.
Concise partner remarks affirm commitment to a generation that uses education to build value, opportunity and community.
Position partners as contributors to the opportunity ecosystem.
A Mandate to Build
The Guest of Honour officially opens the conference, connects youth potential to national development and formally declares THE FORGE established.
Give the platform a national mandate to build.
A Live Demonstration of African Game Development and Digital Creative Innovation
Edwin Mekaddishkem Kapesa
A practical live demonstration of what African young people can build through creativity, technology, culture and enterprise.
Make possibility visible through a real African technology enterprise.
Jasper Kasamba
A focused challenge to move beyond credentials and recognise personal agency, capacity and possibility.
Shift from qualification-led identity to builder-led identity.
The first of exactly two exhibition movements: a controlled visit for the Guest of Honour, THE FORGE leadership and selected VIPs.
Create a focused connection between institutional leadership and exhibitors.
Building Influence, Leadership and Impact in the Real World
Dixon Young Mutambo (“Governor”)
A practical perspective on carrying leadership, influence and responsibility beyond campus life.
Translate student leadership into real-world service and impact.
Preparing Yourself for the Opportunities That You Want
Franklin Nkhowani
An examination of the personal preparation required before opportunity, leadership and enterprise can be sustained.
Place character, readiness and self-development before ambition.
Building the Character, Discipline and Purpose to Create Lasting Impact
Bosworth Bulawayo
A call to build the discipline and purpose required for success that lasts and serves others.
Ground achievement in character and enduring responsibility.
Braving the Odds, Building a Career in Technology
Alinase Nyirenda
A direct account of navigating barriers and building a consequential career in technology.
Expand confidence, representation and participation in the digital economy.
Through Youth and Development Work
Melody Chisanga
A practical exploration of building youth and development systems that endure beyond a single intervention.
Connect enterprise thinking to sustainable community impact.
Turning Social Challenges into Sustainable Impact
Wendy Simakoma
A founder’s view of turning urgent social challenges into sustainable, scalable solutions.
Move delegates from observing problems to designing useful solutions.
Informal Networking · Exhibition · Connection
A genuine lunch period. Informal connection and exhibition engagement may occur organically; this is not a structured networking session.
Allow restoration and open connection before the afternoon programme.
Charlton Namatama Moono
A concise reality check on the structural barriers that student founders must understand and overcome.
Name the barriers clearly before presenting institutional pathways.
The Courage, Conviction and Action Behind Every Founder
Lesa Jr. Lesa
A founder-focused call to act with courage and conviction before every condition feels perfect.
Turn readiness anxiety into disciplined action.
Across one day, TFC•26 brings together voices from entrepreneurship, technology, leadership, community development, social impact, innovation and the enterprise ecosystem.
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Inside Chroma Pixel Games — A Live Demonstration of African Game Development and Digital Creative Innovation
Building Sustainable Community and Impact Systems — Through Youth and Development Work
Beyond Success — Building the Character, Discipline and Purpose to Create Lasting Impact
Build Before You’re Ready — The Courage, Conviction and Action Behind Every Founder
Beyond The Campus — Building Influence, Leadership and Impact in the Real World
Becoming Before Building — Preparing Yourself for the Opportunities That You Want
Women in Tech — Braving the Odds, Building a Career in Technology
Building Solutions That Matter — Turning Social Challenges into Sustainable Impact
Your Qualifications Do Not Define You
Structured Barriers Facing Student Entrepreneurship in Higher Learning Education
Knowledge becomes useful when delegates can see the system, understand the pathway, meet the people behind the opportunity and leave with a next step.
Opportunities, systems and pathways for future value creators
A practical institutional opportunity address focused on the relevance of the SEC to aspiring founders, enterprises and future value creators.
From academic learning to innovation and enterprise
The university presents pathways into innovation, entrepreneurship, enterprise development, research, institutional support and practical engagement.
Idea → Formal Enterprise → Compliance → Growth
A practical route from an idea to business formalisation, compliance and sustainable growth.
Enterprise development and empowerment pathways
A practical introduction to enterprise-development support, empowerment pathways and relevant opportunities.
Four focused access addresses · 5 minutes each
Each confirmed contributor answers five questions: Who are we? What do we offer? Who can access it? How do you access it? What should you do next?
Call to Action
A clear challenge that moves delegates from hearing about opportunity to choosing and pursuing a practical next step.
TFC•26 Exhibition & Institutional Access · Hear → Understand → Connect → Access
The second and final exhibition movement gives delegates time for direct institutional engagement, questions, opportunity discovery, enquiries, relationship building and practical next steps.
Conference Synthesis · Appreciation · Closing Remarks · Official Close
The room reconvenes for conference synthesis, appreciation, final institutional acknowledgement where appropriate, closing remarks and the official close. Any closing lead is appointed separately.
Confirmed institutions and exhibitors, organised for direct discovery.
official partnerCapital markets, investment knowledge and investor-readiness pathways.
Student enterprise, innovation and university support pathways.
institutional participantBusiness registration, formalisation and compliance pathways.
institutional participantEconomic empowerment and entrepreneurship support.
official partnerTax information and enterprise compliance.
institutional participantTechnology, innovation and startup support.
Participation to be confirmed
Participation to be confirmed
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