The International Tea & Technology Expo

Three days of floor time in front of buyers who came to Nairobi specifically to source.

The expo runs alongside the summit and opens fully on day three. It is not a general trade fair — the audience is the delegate list, which means the people walking your stand are the buyers, investors and processors who registered for the forums.

What can be exhibited

Class 1 Tea products
Black, green, orthodox, speciality, purple, blended and branded lines. Finished goods and bulk.
Class 2 Processing equipment
Withering, rolling, oxidation, drying, sorting, grading and packing machinery.
Class 3 Agricultural technologies
Inputs, irrigation, mechanised plucking, soil and yield analytics, traceability systems.
Class 4 Logistics services
Freight, warehousing, cold chain, customs and export documentation.

Why exhibit at this one

Most tea trade shows put you in front of the tea trade in general. This one is built around a single corridor — Kenya to China — at a moment when that corridor is unsettled. Kenyan exports to China fell 51% in the first quarter of 2026, while national policy targets a large increase in green and orthodox production and China holds a zero-tariff door open.

Sources: The Kenyan Wall Street, Q1 2026 · China Daily, 21 July 2026

If you sell into that gap — machinery that moves a producer from bulk black into orthodox, traceability that satisfies a Chinese importer, freight that shortens the route — the people making those decisions are in the building for three days.

What comes with a stand

Expo dates: 21–23 April 2027, full floor opening day three
B2B matchmaking: Included — see matchmaking
Stand sizes and layout: to be entered
Rates: to be entered
Build and fit-out rules: to be entered
Allocation opens: to be entered

On the blanks above

Stand rates and floor plans are not published because they have not been set. Registering interest as an exhibitor puts you on the list that gets them first, before the public announcement.

Enquire about a stand

Stand sizes, rates and what each includes are set by the secretariat and issued on enquiry.