Falling Walls Lab Zimbabwe

Moved to 1st August. Same venue. Same time.

An estimated 65% of mining haul truck accidents come down to operator fatigue. Melindah's retrofit - smart glasses, auto-braking, alerts - catches it before drowsiness wins.

Fewer than 5,000 certified drone pilots exist across all of Africa, and the hardware is almost entirely imported. Muzomuhle is building carbon-fibre drones made in Zimbabwe.

Disaster planning in Africa is usually reactive, mapped after the flood, not before. Mufarowashe uses AI to design settlements that survive what's coming.

Zimbabwe holds the world's 7th-largest lithium reserves and almost none of the value stays home. Alice is working to change that.

Sugarcane waste is usually burned or dumped. Malvern turned it into the anode of a lithium-ion battery.

Only ~44% of Zimbabwe has reliable electricity access. Rooftop solar could help but most panels just sit there, missing the sun's arc all day. Cyril built a tracker using soft robotics to chase the light.

Zimbabwe loses ~262,000 hectares of forest a year. Most reforestation fails anyway, degraded soil kills young trees before they take root. Catherine's fix starts underground.

In parts of Zimbabwe like Gokwe & Matebeleland, extreme fluoride in water is the dental and skeletal health risk. Audrey built a ceramic filter cheap enough for the households that need it most.

Zimbabwean labs pour hazardous wastewater straight down the drain - no cheap way to treat it exists. Tafadzwa built one: a gravity-fed filter, no power needed.