Africa's Creator Economy Has Arrived.
This Is Where It Goes Next.

Secure Your Seat at DCAS 2026

Small Screen, Big Economy

One thousand creators, filmmakers, brands, and industry leaders. One day. Lusaka, July 2, 2026.

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From Africa to the World

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The stories, the IP, and the business strategies that will define the next decade of African content.

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Venue

MULUNGUSHI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE
Plot 8025, Great East Road, Lusaka, Zambia

Date:

June 29 – 1st July, 2026

DCA 2026 MAIN (2000 x 1500 px) – DCA 26M

Theme: Small Screen, Big Economy

The African creator economy is no longer emerging. It has arrived.

The Digital Creator Africa Summit, 1st July 2026 aims to explore how vertical storytelling, AI filmmaking, and mobile-first content are shaping the future of Africa’s creator economy.

Bringing together creators, filmmakers, brands, and industry leaders, the summit focuses on turning digital storytelling into sustainable economic opportunities across the continent.

Africa’s Biggest Gathering of Content Creators

CREATOR

You’ve built the audience. DCAS 2026 is where you build the business.

DIGITAL FILM MAKER

Vertical storytelling, AI production, and microdrama are creating a new industry. Get inside it.

BRANDS

African creators reach audiences that traditional media cannot. DCAS 2026 is where brand budgets meet creator talent.

Why Attend?

Actionable Strategies
Build the Business, Not Just the Content

Learn directly from African creator-founders who have made the jump from content to company. Real revenue models. Real numbers. Strategies you can implement the week after you leave Lusaka.
EXPERT SPEAKERS
Speakers Who Have Actually Done It

Funke Akindele on building audiences that last. Omoni Oboli on the journey from creator to media empire. Malik Afegbua building a vertical film live on stage with AI. Katharina Link on where Africa’s creator economy is heading next. These are not panels. They are masterclasses.
NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
The Deals Start in Lusaka

DCAS 2026 brings together the brands, platforms, commissioners, and investors who are actively looking for African creator talent. The connections you make on July 2 do not end when the lights go down. They become the business.

Meet the Speakers

Inspiring Voices. Bold Ideas. Game-Changing Insights.

Meet the Speakers

Inspiring Voices. Bold Ideas. Game-Changing Insights.

Full speaker programme confirmed. More announcements coming — follow @digitalcreatorafrica for updates.

Opening Keynote

AUDIENCE FIRST — Funke Akindele opens DCAS 2026 with the conversation every African creator needs to have: how do you build an audience that becomes a community, a business, and a legacy?

Africa’s AI Storytelling Moment

LIVE AI FILMMAKING DEMONSTRATION — Malik Afegbua builds a complete vertical film on stage, from a single audience prompt to a finished screened cut. Every step of the AI production pipeline, live, in front of one thousand people.

Microdrama & Vertical Content Session

MICRODRAMA AND AFRICA’S NEW STORYTELLING ECONOMY — African microdrama is operational. The question now is how fast, at what scale, and on whose terms. The builders of Africa’s vertical industry on the commissioning deals, the platforms, and the economics that matter.

Brand Partnerships & Monetization

FROM CREATOR CONTENT TO GLOBAL IP — Creator-owned IP. Franchises and formats. Film, TV, and microdrama convergence. The panel for African creators who are building media companies, not just content calendars.

The Room Is Almost Full

One thousand seats. Africa’s leading creators, filmmakers, brands, and industry leaders. One day in Lusaka that will shape the next decade of African content. The Lusaka Declaration. The launch of VEX Africa. The Night of Creators.Secure your place at DCAS 2026.

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