Brandtech Group AI for Good Scholarship to Attend the One Young World Summit 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: August 2, 2026

Applications are open for the Brandtech Group AI for Good Scholarship to Attend the One Young World Summit 2026. AI is one in all 5 plenary challenges for the One Young Summit in Cape Town this yr. The Summit will discover how AI can energy alternatives for the subsequent era, reshape the world of labor, providing each challenges and alternatives for the subsequent era.

Following the success of the final two years, The Brandtech Group is teaming up with One Young World to launch the 2026 Brandtech Group AI For Good scholarship. The scholarship seeks to determine and elevate 5 unimaginable younger African leaders for the sustainable and accountable use of AI.

Background

Artificial Intelligence (AI) improvement is shifting at a fast scale. It is quick remodeling each facet of our lives and society. It is enjoying a better function in the manner authorities engages younger individuals, bettering healthcare and studying methods, redefining the workforce and growing productiveness. AI just isn’t additionally with out challenges, AI-related infrastructure is linked to greenhouse gasoline emissions and e-waste; and AI is misused to unfold misinformation and picture-based mostly abuse, but, younger leaders are working to be certain that AI is used to sort out social and environmental points, slightly than exacerbate them 

Young individuals are at the core of the AI transformation and are utilizing AI to sort out a few of the world’s most urgent political, financial, social, environmental and well being challenges. AI is more and more changing into used as a central software in tackling the local weather emergency by revolutionising the manner we protect our surroundings, it’s being deployed to strengthen healthcare methods by enabling the fast and value-environment friendly prognosis of historically underserved sufferers, and AI programmes are being deployed to detect and eradicate on-line hate or misinformation. However, with the rising transformation in each sector that AI has introduced, Africa, with the quickest rising youth inhabitants, remains to be behind in AI improvement and deployment. 

Benefits

Selected The Brandtech Group AI For Good Sholars will obtain: 

• Access to the One Young World Summit 2026 in Cape Town from 3 – 6 November. 
• Hotel lodging in Cape Town between 2 and 6 (inclusive) November. 
• Return air journey. 
• Catering, which incorporates breakfast, lunch and dinner. 
• Ground transportation between Summit venues in Cape Town. 
• Access to Pencil AI. Pencil is the world’s No. 1 generative AI SaaS platform for manufacturers. Its Pencil Pro generative AI product is tailor-made particularly for world manufacturers and revolutionises artistic manufacturing, distribution and efficiency prediction. 
• Lifelong membership of the One Young World Ambassador Community. 
• Join the distinctive Brandtech AI for Good Alumni community 
• Access to the One Young World Action Accelerator and professional-led mentor periods to assist flip their inspiration into motion. 
• Access to the One Young World Global Kickstart programme designed to present delegates with enhanced management expertise and ideas alongside experience round the Summit’s essential themes. 

Eligibility

Candidates have to be: 

• Young leaders aged 18 to 30 at the time of the One Young World Summit 2026. 
• Nationals and residents of any African nations with demonstrated AI options in Africa. 
• Demonstrated capability for management and selling the accountable use of AI.
• Track file of producing impactful and revolutionary options utilizing AI to deal with a number of of the above 5 pillars ( functions from candidates whose causes could not precisely match one in all the 5 pillars shall be thought-about if utilizing AI positively and responsibly to drive your work).
• Understanding of key native and/or world points. 
• Willingness to interact with fellow scholarship recipients and Brandtech Group employees/administration who’re additionally attending the Summit. 

They will not be in a position to settle for functions from those that shall be aged underneath 18 at the time of the Summit. The One Young World crew will contemplate candidates who’re older than 30, pending demonstration of applicable private affect, initiative, and willingness to interact. 

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Brandtech Group AI for Good Scholarship.