The North has alwaysfed the nation.
AAIS 2026 is where its farmers, cooks, and innovators come to learn, to be seen, and to build enterprises that last.
1,000+ participants · 250 agripreneurs trained · 5 agribusiness clusters
Brilliance shouldn't stay small.
Too often the great farmer never reaches a buyer. The gifted cook never becomes a business. The young woman with a plan has nowhere to take it. AAIS 2026 exists to change that. This is not a conference about agriculture. It is a movement for the people who live it.
Three ways the region shows up.
Culinary Skills Competition
Northern kitchens take the national stage, turning recipes into recognition and businesses.
Pre-Summit Training
A five-day intensive that turns 250 producers into market-ready enterprises.
Summit Day
One thousand voices in one room, where the region meets investment, policy, and each other.
Built for the people who grow, raise, and make.
Producers ready to scale
Across horticulture, livestock, fishery, food processing, and animal husbandry.
Cooks and food entrepreneurs
Ready to turn a recipe into a brand.
Cooperatives and aggregators
Seeking markets and bargaining power.
Women-led and youth-led ventures
Who sit at the centre of this Summit.
Investors, partners, and policymakers
Looking for what comes next in the North.
You leave with more than a memory.
Real skills, a cluster of peers who become your network, visibility in front of buyers and investors, and a clearer path to finance and markets.
Five days that turn producers into businesses.
Intensive, hands-on training across five agribusiness clusters, with a cross-cutting curriculum in branding, packaging, and sales. You leave with a product, a plan, and a pitch.
Northern kitchens, national stage.
Two days that celebrate the region's food, reward its best cooks, and show how a kitchen becomes a livelihood.
Transforming ideas, fueling agribusiness.
A high-impact platform for agritech founders, youth innovators, and food entrepreneurs to pitch groundbreaking solutions to investors, industry experts, and government stakeholders.
Leadership that takes this seriously.
Stand with the region's builders.
AAIS 2026 is convened by the Office of the Technical Adviser to the Vice President on Women, Youth Engagement and Impact, in partnership with Mealtym, alongside partners who believe in Northern enterprise.
Your place in this is waiting.
Whether you grow it, cook it, fund it, or shape the policy around it, there is a seat for you on 5 September.