The Africa Innovation Tournament
Re-Skill Africa's discovery engine.
The Africa Innovation Tournament (AIT) is where we find our next enterprises. Through this discovery and enterprise-creation engine, we identify exceptional problem-solvers, ideas, and founders who progress through Venture Labs and eventually build the productive enterprises that make new demand.
A doorway to be walked through — where doctrine becomes deployment.
The doctrine's compounding engine begins here.
AIT runs in parallel to Skildustry's enterprise pathways as a discovery mechanism for the next generation of Skildustry founders and enterprises.
Winners exit AIT into Venture Labs — our enterprise-formation studio that shapes them into commercially credible businesses. The Venture Lab graduates become Skildustry enterprises in their own right — holding their own cohorts, generating their own demand, and contributing to the portfolio of the wider doctrine.
Enterprise Creation
Doctrine becomes deployment
The tournament portfolio.
Del-York Creative Academy Innovation Tournament
01Del-York Creative Academy Innovation Tournament
For creative technologists, production talent, and emerging studios competing on live production briefs. Winners exit into studio, screen, and platform deployment pathways within the Del-York production network and its partners.
02iDICE Female Hackathon
A women-focused hackathon deploying female founders and technical talent into digital ventures across South-East Nigeria — Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo. Delivered within the iDICE Skills-to-Jobs mandate held by Del-York Group.
03ConstruPreneur Tournament
For construction enterprise founders, tradespeople, and supervisory talent competing on live construction and enterprise briefs. Winners exit into contracted work and enterprise formation pathways. The BuildHer track advances women through every level of the construction value chain — from trades and supervision to enterprise ownership.
On the horizon.
South-East Regional AIT
Sequenced ahead of the national flagship — building the regional pipeline that feeds the continental tournament.
National Flagship AIT
The continental stage. The definitive tournament where Africa's best problem-solvers and founders compete on the national platform.