Connecta · Hall 4 · 8-10 November 2026
Build something with AI before you leave.
A working floor inside Connecta, free with your pass. Sit at a PC set up with AI tools, follow a short session with an engineer beside you, and walk out with something you built yourself.
Engineering tomorrow's intelligence
A floor for making, not watching.
Most of Cairo ICT shows you what AI can do. The AI Innovation Factory hands you the tools. Sit at a station, follow a short session and build one real thing: a study helper, a customer-reply bot, a small agent that does a task for you. Engineers from Mercatura Forum are on the floor to help.
No coding needed. Bring your curiosity.
Inside the Factory
Walk the floor.
Five stops, one floor. Scroll, or pick a stop, and BOT-01 shows you round.
Factory desk
Start here.
Show your pass and tell us what you want to make. We point you to a free PC or the next session with open seats. Booked a class? The group leader shows one QR code and we walk everyone to their seats together.
Good to know: Sessions fill up: check the board at the desk for what is on next.
PC stations
Sit down and build.
Every station is set up with the AI tools we teach, so you start building, not installing. Engineers walk the floor: raise a hand when you are stuck.
Good to know: These are shared PCs: never type a password you care about.
Stage sessions
One build, start to finish.
Each session takes one project from a blank screen to a working result. You make the calls: what to build, what good looks like, what to fix. The AI does the typing.
Good to know: The day’s sessions are on the board at the desk and on this page before the show.
Class seating
Bring your whole class.
Schools and universities book a session for a group. Seats are held together, the session is pitched at your students’ level, and the whole group checks in with one QR code.
Good to know: Arrive 15 minutes before your slot. School groups stay with their own teachers.
Startup showcase
Show what you built.
Founders, students and engineers with an AI idea or product apply for a slot to present to the hall. We read every application and confirm your time by email.
Good to know: No fee, and we take no stake in your idea.
The whole floor
Five stops. One pass.
Come in for ten minutes or stay all day. Every stop is open to every pass holder.
On the stage
What you could build.
Each session takes one project from a blank screen to a working result. The timetable, with levels and languages, is published here before the show.
- Build your first AI agentAn agent that reads a set of files and does one job: answers questions about a course, or sorts and replies to messages.Beginner to intermediate
- Prompts that workA tested prompt pack for one task. Write it, run it, compare the results, fix it.Beginner
- AI for your studiesA study helper that turns your notes into a summary, flashcards and practice questions, and how to check its answers.Beginner
- AI for small businessProduct descriptions, customer replies in Arabic and English, and a weekly sales summary from a spreadsheet.Beginner
- No-code app in a sessionA small working web app built with AI help, shareable by link before you leave.Beginner to intermediate
- AI for creators and gamersCharacters, level ideas and short game scripts, and what you may and may not reuse.Beginner
- Ask your dataUpload a sample spreadsheet and get charts and answers in plain language.Beginner
- Spot the fakeA 15-minute drop-in: tell real from AI-made images, voices and text, and learn the checks.Everyone
Choose your way in
Three ways in.
Walk in
Take any free PC, or join a session that has open seats. No booking needed: your Connecta pass is all it takes.
Book for your class
For schools and universities: seats held together, one QR code at the desk, and a session pitched at your students’ level.
Present your idea
For founders, students and engineers building with AI: apply for a slot on the Factory stage. We read every application.
of Egypt’s working-age people used generative AI in the first quarter of 2026, close to a million more in one quarter.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute, AI Diffusion Report, Q1 2026 (modelled estimate)
AI specialists to be trained under Egypt’s National AI Strategy 2025-2030. The Factory is a first step anyone can take.
Egypt National AI Strategy 2025-2030, via OECD.AI
AI Innovation Factory 2025
Last year, they built.
Do I need to know how to code?
Can I just turn up?
How do class bookings work?
Who can present at the startup showcase?
What should I bring?
Who runs the Factory?
Your first build is waiting.
Sunday 8 to Tuesday 10 November 2026, 10:00 to 21:00, daily. Hall 4, Egypt International Exhibition Center (EIEC), New Cairo.
One pass, every zone
