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Mentoring
Mentoring & expert access.
Direct access to Navon's global network of practitioners, with guest lectures, mentorship and knowledge transfer into your faculties.
→Navon Futures is our commitment to the full deep tech ecosystem. It is not a product line or 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.
Guest expertise, knowledge transfer and joint research from technologists at top global institutions.
Practitioners shipping AI, compute and security at scale, applied to real deep tech problems on the continent.
Specialists in quantum, post-quantum cryptography and high-performance systems, active in Navon's own research.
Advisors on data sovereignty, infrastructure standards and the regulation shaping deep tech in emerging markets.
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, with 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, with 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 Navon's global network of technologists, on top of the sovereign infrastructure your institution already runs.
→Navon Futures is built by the people actually shipping deep tech infrastructure. Enterprises work with us to learn from those technologists 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 and we'll connect you to the network.