Launching at the summit
The Jiinue Business Accelerator Platform
Kenya's enterprise assessment and investor-matching platform — launching live from the summit stage at 10:30 on Thursday 15 October 2026, introduced by the Principal Secretary, State Department for Science, Research & Innovation.
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The Jiinue Business Accelerator Platform
Jiinue assesses a business, then matches it with the investors, lenders and service providers most likely to actually back it — built to shorten the distance between a business that is ready to grow and the capital that could get it there. The platform is live today at jiinuehub.com; the summit stage is where it's introduced to the room, not where it begins.
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Start on Jiinue HubOn the agenda
Introduced live, 10:30 on Thursday 15 October 2026
Juapath Research study
Prof. Njenga Munene, Vice Chancellor, Zetech University
Jiinue Business Accelerator platform
Prof. Abdulrazak Shaukat, Principal Secretary, State Department for Science, Research & Innovation, Kenya
SLP Project
Tom Owour, Mission Leader, Children's Mission Africa
Africa SME Summit 2027 — accelerating sustainable business growth and cross-border trade through AI and technology adoption
Jenny Jakobsson, Co-Founder, Sustainable World Corporation
Faculty
The mentors and instructors behind each module
Faculty are announced as the programme is confirmed — the mentors and instructors leading each module will appear here with their roles and organisations.
Sessions
What the programme actually covers
Capacity-building runs as modules on Jiinue Hub itself — the published list of sessions will appear here once the first cohort's modules are set.
Graduants
Businesses that complete the Accelerator
Nobody has graduated yet — Jiinue launches from the summit stage on Thursday 15 October 2026. The first cohort’s graduates, and the businesses they run, will be celebrated here once they complete the programme.
Certification
What completing it earns you
Certification happens on the platform itself. Complete your assessment and capacity-building modules on Jiinue Hub, and your certificate of completion is issued from there — there's no separate process to chase.
Get certified on Jiinue HubAfrica SME Award winners
Announced live, 16:30 on Thursday 15 October 2026
The winners are announced from the stage in front of the entire summit, at the emotional high point of the programme. Naming rights place a partner's brand permanently against Kenyan enterprise achievement — the most photographed, most reported moment of the day.
Winners are named from the stage at the ceremony itself — this section lists them, with their businesses, once they’re announced.
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Ole Sereni, Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday 15 October 2026.