VarsityMentor to Organize GenAI Education Summit in Lagos to Reimagine Computer Science Education

VarsityMentor, a leading non-profit dedicated to empowering university students, will organize a three-day Generative AI Education Summit in Lagos.

This high-impact event is part of the broader strategic mandate funded by the GenAI in CS Education Consortium that was created by University of San Diego.

The summit which will be held from February 18 to 20, 2026, is aimed at bridging the digital gap, leading African universities into the evolving world of Artificial Intelligence and modernizing Computer Science (CS) curricula across the continent for the AI-driven future.

The summit will bring together academic faculty from multiple African universities and visionary tech professionals and founders.

Founder of VarsityMentor and a UX Researcher at Google, Obinna Anya, said: “Our vision is to raise a new generation of African graduates who are not just consumers of technology, but the architects of the global AI revolution.”

The summit will be anchored on three core objectives: Curriculum Co-Creation which entails Hands-on design sessions where faculty and industry leaders will rebuild CS modules to include AI-driven development and ethics; Policy Alignment, that is engaging the Ministry of Education officials from various African countries, to ensure that new educational standards are scalable and recognized at a national level; and Talent Pipeline Development to create direct links between universities and the burgeoning African tech ecosystem to foster internships and job placement.

The summit will also feature a panel highlighting prominent tech founders, hosted by Valerie
Ehimhen, a Technical Program Manager in Google Quantum AI, and co-founder of PETGA Initiative.

Valerie Ehimhen stressed: “The industry is moving at a pace that traditional curricula often struggle to match. By bringing founders and faculty into the same room, we are ensuring, that the next generation of African engineers is equipped with the exact skills —specifically in GenAI and systems thinking—that the market is demanding right now.”

Building on the need for technical rigor, Adekunle Adeyemo, a Software Engineer and
long-time global lead of the Africans@Google employee resource group, emphasized the
importance of infrastructure and reliability in education, noting that scaling the African tech
ecosystem requires more than just access to new tools; it requires a robust foundation of
systems-level thinking and reliability.

According to the Media Consultant to VarsityMentor, Sir Peter Osamgbi, the event will be attended by computer science faculty, curriculum leads, department heads, ministry of
education reps and CS education innovators from 27 African universities across Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Malawi and Ethiopia.

This upcoming summit marks a strategic evolution for VarsityMentor, which is deepening the proven precedent set by its two previous large-scale conferences.

Those earlier events focused specifically on student empowerment and professional readiness; this current mandate shifts the focus upstream to the institutional level, ensuring that the very foundations of African computer science education are aligned with the AI-driven future.

VarsityMentor is a nonprofit educational organization founded in 2021 and a digital network of African tech professionals in the diaspora committed to tackling the problem of graduate unemployment in Africa.

The organization connects university students in Africa with vetted African professionals and allies for mentoring, skills development and career pathway guidance.