[🇺🇸/EN] 2026: Back in Motion

We're on a mission to implement our new structure (see our previous post). One where market-based solutions - professional training, impact investing, and applied R&D - reinforce each other and contribute to delivering our impact mission (rather than rely on stretched or unpredictable nonprofit resources). With this new direction and our financial and administrative foundation rebuilt through 2024–2025, this year has moved quickly toward that goal.

• January 2026: Our FDFP accreditation was formally renewed in Côte d'Ivoire, re-establishing employer training-cost reimbursement pathways for our corporate clients — the milestone that closed out our two-year rebuild.
• April–May 2026: We finalized a strategic collaboration with SAP, a 4-week pro bono Social Sabbatical engagement via Pyxera Global, to define our go-to-market strategy and structure our enterprise service catalogue. That engagement has since evolved into an ongoing SAP Advisory Council relationship. Read more →
• May 6, 2026: We officially launched our professional training offerings in Abidjan. Read more →
• June 2026: Odomitchi Anikpo spoke on the "Success Stories" panel at African Digital Week Read more →
• June 2026: Adei Institute was represented at VivaTech in Paris by Founder & Executive Director Odomitchi Anikpo, joining the Ivorian Delegation in the Côte d'Ivoire Institutional pavilion, visited by President Macron. Read more →
• National broadcast coverage: Adei Institute's VivaTech presence was also featured on Brut and RTI (Côte d'Ivoire's national evening news). See the full coverage roundup →
• July 2–3, 2026: Adei Institute exhibited at Africa CIO Tech Days. Read more →
• August 2026: Adei Institute extended its long-standing engagement with the DC impact-investing community — a connection dating back to meeting Anna Fagan Mabrey of Calvert Impact at SOCAP 2019 — into a new Baltimore chapter, the Impact Investing Industry Happy Hour, co-organized with Dana Cole of Impact Hub. DC's standing as a hub for impact investing and social entrepreneurship keeps Adei Institute in regular contact with long-term supporters like FINCA Ventures, Mercy Corps, and Cross-Boundary, beyond major annual gatherings like SOCAP. Photo →

What's Next

We continue to build toward a clearer, more sustainable model. We construct our formalized structure with Adei Technology Group as now the parent entity housing our three pillars — Adei Institute (talent and training), Adei Capital (our impact investing arm), and Adei Consulting (AI/Data lab and Advisory).

Thank you to everyone who stayed engaged through a quieter stretch. There's a lot more coming.