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Mentoring
Mentoring & expert access.
Direct access to Navon's global network of practitioners — guest lectures, mentorship and knowledge transfer into your faculties.
→Navon Futures is our commitment to the full deep tech ecosystem — not a product line, not an add-on. It is everything that comes after the compute: investing in capacity, talent and the utility of what we build, and connecting Africa to a rare global network of leading technologists.
Africa does not have a shortage of ambition, talent, or ideas. It has a shortage of the infrastructure, networks, and pathways needed to turn those things into products, policies, and industries. Navon Futures is our response to that gap — and our responsibility to close it.
Navon Futures convenes world-leading technologists across artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cybersecurity and sovereign infrastructure — and brings that expertise directly to Africa.
AI, computer science and data systems — guest expertise, knowledge transfer and research collaboration.
Advanced computing, engineering simulation and robotics — applied to real deep tech problems.
Telecommunications, systems engineering and large-scale infrastructure design.
Quantum computing, data science and advanced networking — active in Navon's quantum research.
We work with universities as long-term partners — building research capacity, opening talent pipelines, and turning academic work into products, spinouts and industries.
Direct access to Navon's global network of practitioners — guest lectures, mentorship and knowledge transfer into your faculties.
→Structured placements at Hells Gate and across the partner network — a real route from student project to industry career.
→Introductions into Navon's enterprise and government customers — research problems sourced from the real economy.
→Support taking research IP out of the lab — from disclosure and protection to licensing and go-to-market.
→Compute, infrastructure and network access for university spinouts building deep tech on the continent.
→Joint research with UCL, ETH Zürich, UPM and UPC — on top of the sovereign infrastructure your institution already runs.
→We are the people building it. Enterprises work with Navon Futures to learn from the technologists actually shipping deep tech infrastructure — and to build the talent and capability to run it themselves.
Briefings, workshops and working sessions led by Navon's network of leading technologists — not generic training decks.
→Applied R&D and prototyping on sovereign compute — turning a business problem into a working deep tech capability.
→A direct line to the engineers, researchers and operators coming through the Navon Futures network.
→With Mastercard, Navon Futures brings world-leading technology practitioners together with African business leaders — connecting the people building the frontier with the people deploying it across the continent.
Sessions are recorded and shared, so the knowledge reaches beyond the room.
Watch the recordings ↗Sovereign technology decisions require sovereign knowledge. Navon Futures gives governments independent access to the expertise needed to make them — and safe environments to test before they commit.
Independent guidance on building and procuring sovereign cloud without creating decade-long vendor dependencies.
→Access to quantum-safe and zero-trust expertise for national infrastructure and sensitive data.
→Direct relationships with Navon's network of technologists across AI, quantum and sovereign infrastructure.
→Sandboxed, sovereign environments to test AI and deep tech policy and tooling before national rollout.
→Navon Futures is open to universities, enterprises and governments building Africa's deep tech future. Tell us what you're working on — we'll connect you to the network.