Something exciting is coming to Jinja City!
Off-grid innovation meets Roadway transformation. Join five days of practical demonstrations, business connections and live experiences exploring the technologies and ideas shaping more resilient communities and sustainable enterprise.
5 Days Of Festival Experiences
Live Demonstrations & Product Showcases
Business, Investor & Community Connections
INNOVATION, SKILLS & CULTURAL EXPERIENCES
Powering homes, businesses and communities. Discover solar home and commercial systems, batteries, hybrid storage, mini-grid concepts, productive-use equipment, clean cooking, energy-efficient appliances, energy services, installation and maintenance.
Exploring the future of movement. Discover electric motorcycles, bicycles, three-wheelers and other vehicles; charging and battery swapping; assembly and components; financing and fleet solutions; repair and maintenance; road safety; digital mobility and roadway technologies.
Practical solutions for productive, resilient communities. Explore solar irrigation, water harvesting and storage, water treatment, efficient water management, climate-smart and precision agriculture, urban growing, food processing, solar drying and post-harvest solutions.
Building for a changing future. Discover sustainable construction, resource-efficient and off-grid buildings, bamboo applications, resilient roadways, drainage, water-sensitive settlements, urban greening and circular construction materials.
Ideas, skills and enterprise in action. Explore youth-led solutions, prototypes, technical and vocational skills, green manufacturing, digital enterprise, product development, makers and business opportunities.
From live demonstrations and practical ideas to enterprise conversations and the closing live band show, discover what brings the five festival zones together.
Ideas. Demonstrations. Conversations. Opportunities.
The Open Stage is the festival’s central, cross-cutting programme, connecting exhibitors, experts, innovators, institutions, businesses and visitors through practical learning, live demonstrations, business conversations, innovation showcases and entertainment.
OffGrid Hacks highlights practical ingenuity and problem-solving across the festival’s relevant zones. It explores locally relevant ways to address challenges in energy, clean cooking, water, mobility, food production, housing, repair, reuse and infrastructure.
From responsible cultivation and processing to products, construction applications, skills and enterprise, Bamboo-to-Business explores the opportunities created by bamboo.
Primarily in Zone 4 — Green Infrastructure & Urban Resilience, with links to Zone 5 — Youth Innovation, Skills & Green Enterprise.
Close the five-day festival with the Cindy Sanyu Live Band Show at Jinja Showgrounds on Sunday, 29 November 2026. Admission to the live band show is separate from daytime festival admission.
This ticket admits the holder to the live band show only. It does not include daytime festival admission.
Separate admission for the daytime festival on 29 November, including one entry into the Day 5 raffle.
Raffle winners: Daily raffle prize winners will also receive complimentary admission ticket(s) to the Grand Finale show, subject to the published raffle terms and confirmed allocation.
Get Grand Finale Show TicketsWhether you want to discover practical solutions, showcase a product, build partnerships, develop skills or connect with new audiences, UORF brings people and ideas together through five days of live experiences.
Ticket links open the festival ticketing page; check the available ticket categories before purchasing. Raffle-entry purchasing will be linked once a public purchase URL is confirmed.