On stage
Speakers & mentors
Shola
Abuja Champion
Kehinde
Abuja Champion
Shafar Michael Akinbolu
QA Automation Engineer, software engineer & technology educator · Taokudi QA Academy
Olumide Adaramoye
Cresens Digital
The Trust Economy
The Abuja Summit is the day the whole theme of NSTW 2026 takes the stage, regulators, ministers, and the profession's biggest names, in one room. What you pay is closer to a market-day ticket. What you get is not.
At 10:00am on October 23rd, someone stands on a stage in Abuja and says the sentence that gives this whole week its name: The Trust Economy. Every other day of NSTW 2026 is downstream of that moment. This is where it's said first.
Twenty minutes later, the people who actually regulate the systems 200 million Nigerians run on are sitting in front of you, answering questions live, not issuing a statement, not routing you to a press office. By 2:20pm, a different panel is asked the harder version of the same question: what actually happens when those systems go down.
This is the day Abuja hosts the national conversation on quality engineering, not a recap of it, written up after the fact. If you want to know what the regulators actually think, this is closer than you'll get anywhere else this year.
Whether you're here to hear it from the regulators directly, to launch your own career alongside a book written about doing exactly that, or just to be in the room when the week's whole argument gets made out loud. This is the day, and this is the room.
An exclusive hour for Executive delegates, seated with speakers, regulators and partners before the day opens. Executive tier only.
The Trust Economy takes the stage, the address that gives the week's theme its national platform.
Regulators and industry leaders on what it actually takes to guard the systems 200 million Nigerians run on.
An hour of hands-on, small-room sessions, the part of the day you leave with a skill, not just notes. Standard and Executive tiers.
The national launch of Building Your Career Like a Product, first copies presented on stage, followed by signing.
A working lunch, eat, then sit down one-on-one with a mentor for a focused, structured conversation. Speed Mentorship: Standard and Executive tiers.
The afternoon's national address a second angle on trust, from a different voice on the same stage.
A closer look at operational resilience, what happens when the systems go down, and what it takes to bring them back.
Back-to-back short talks from practitioners doing the work, AI product testing among them, sharp, specific, no padding.
Talent and the career economy, closing the loop on what trust requires from the profession itself, not just its products.
One last voice before the day closes, chosen to send the room out with something to act on.
Scholarships, recognitions, and the national photo, the Summit closes together, on the record.
No stage, no schedule, just the room, open, for whatever conversation hasn't happened yet.
Regular Ticket
₦5,000
Full summit access at the lightest price, open to anyone.
Standard Ticket
₦25,000
For testers and technology professionals who want hands-on learning, deeper access and practical resources.
VIP Ticket
₦75,000
For professionals who want premium access, proximity to speakers and strategic networking in the room.
It happens in Lagos, on Day Six, a separate city, a separate evening, a separate ticket. If you're only in Abuja for the Summit, you are not getting a smaller version of NSTW 2026. You are getting its flagship day, in full. Everything on this page, the stage, the workshops, the mentorship, the free book in your tier, the CV Book placement, is complete on its own. Nothing here is a preview of something better happening somewhere else.
Opt in and your profile joins the directory sponsor companies draw from when hiring, the single highest-value outcome for anyone job-hunting in the room.
Not a press release, live answers, live panels, in the room with you.
Building Your Career Like a Product launches on this stage, the same afternoon you're in the room.
Recognition tied to the national programme, not a generic attendance slip.
Watch an AI product get tested live on stage, not described in a slide.
Shola
Abuja Champion
Kehinde
Abuja Champion
Shafar Michael Akinbolu
QA Automation Engineer, software engineer & technology educator · Taokudi QA Academy
Olumide Adaramoye
Cresens Digital
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